Designers need to change the model of leadership to create a more diverse and critical industry, says designer Nelly Ben Hayoun, who has directed the documentary I Am (Not) A Monster.
Speaking to Dezeen after the release of the film's trailer, Ben Hayoun said that the world's leading designers are largely not representative of the industry, particularly in terms of race and gender.
"In design, which is much the same as the technology industry and so on, you find that leadership doesn't represent the majorities," she explained.
"The discipline has to interrogate itself as to how we develop, how we think of leadership and how we bring in role models from the start, not only women, but also wider gender diversity, which is completely non-existent in the design industry," she explained. I Am (Not) A Monster explores politics in society
Set to be released later this year, I Am (Not) A Monster is the third feature-length film directed by the 33-year-old designer, who is on the judging panel for this year's Dezeen Awards.
It sees Ben Hayoun interview a number of subversive figures from all across cultural fields, ranging from theorist Noam Chomsky to Pussy Riot's Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and cyborg Neil Harbisson.
I Am (Not) A Monster is Hayoun's third feature-length film
Throughout the documentary, the London-based designer impersonates Hannah Arendt ? a 20th-century philosopher whose theories explored power and totalitarianism ? as she interrogates subject...