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Design Emergency: Building a Better Future
Alice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli, two of the world's most influential design figures, meet the visionary designers whose innovations and ingenuity give us hope for the future by redesigning and reconstructing our lives, enabling us to thrive
Design Emergency tells the stories of the remarkable designers, architects, engineers, artists, scientists, and activists, who are at the forefront of positive change worldwide. Focusing on four themes - Technology, Society, Communication, and Ecology - Alice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli present a unique portrait of how our great creative minds are developing new design solutions to the major challenges of our time, while helping us to benefit from advances in science and technology.
Book Details
- Publisher: Phaidon Press
- Publish Date: May 25th, 2022
- Pages: 320
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.40in - 5.80in - 1.10in - 1.50lb
- EAN: 9781838664275
- Categories: • Essays
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About the Author
Alice Rawsthorn is an award-winning design critic and author whose latest books include Design as an Attitude and Hello World: Where Design Meets Life. Based in London, she wrote a weekly design column for the New York Times for over a decade.
Paola Antonelli is a celebrated curator of contemporary architecture and design based in New York at The Museum of Modern Art. Her recent endeavors, include the online project Design and Violence and the exhibition Broken Nature.
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What people are saying
We are the RSA. The royal society for arts, manufactures and commerce. We are committed to regenerate our world through collective action. 📽️ 👉https://t.co/qVRc7hAM9r
The Student Design Awards Ceremony is happening this Wednesday! Award-winning design critic, author and co-founder of Design Emergency, @AliceRawsthorn will be giving the keynote address. 🎨📏🔍 Book your tickets now @RSADesignAwards https://bit.ly/3Og50gq
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Among the world’s most influential design leaders, Paola Antonelli of MoMA will share insight from her latest book, Design Emergency + do a book signing. Join us on May 15th at #ICFF. View the full ICFF Talks schedule: http://da-is.us/3cgKQlm @icff https://t.co/EtblrgEreN
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Design Emergency: Building a Better Future. "Alice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli present a unique portrait of how our great creative minds are developing new design solutions to the major challenges of our time." https://t.co/RgctVd6FCD
Praise for this book
'In most books, the questions are usually more important than the answers, but in this book the answers are just as important as the questions' - Irma Boom, graphic designer
'Uplifting' - Elle Decoration
'Best Design and Architecture Books of 2022' - Domus
'A must-have book' - Fast Company
'Full of insight ... reading this book may give you hope that we can get through them.' - AD Pro
'A labor of love that began as an Instagram feed of life-allaying solutions during the pandemic and bloomed into an atemporal celebration of human optimism, ingenuity, and passion at their most practical and most buoyant.' - Maria Popova, The Marginalian
What people are saying
We are the RSA. The royal society for arts, manufactures and commerce. We are committed to regenerate our world through collective action. 📽️ 👉https://t.co/qVRc7hAM9r
The Student Design Awards Ceremony is happening this Wednesday! Award-winning design critic, author and co-founder of Design Emergency, @AliceRawsthorn will be giving the keynote address. 🎨📏🔍 Book your tickets now @RSADesignAwards https://bit.ly/3Og50gq
your daily design dose. this is the official DesignApplause twitter account. #architecture #design👏
Among the world’s most influential design leaders, Paola Antonelli of MoMA will share insight from her latest book, Design Emergency + do a book signing. Join us on May 15th at #ICFF. View the full ICFF Talks schedule: http://da-is.us/3cgKQlm @icff https://t.co/EtblrgEreN