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Design Emergency: Building a Better Future

Author/EditorRawsthorn, Alice (Author)
Antonelli, Paola (Author)
Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd
ISBN: 9781838664275
Pub Date25/05/2022
BindingHardback
Pages320
Dimensions (mm)210(h) * 146(w) * 25(d)
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
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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.

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.

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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