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Best podcasts about Alice Rawsthorn

Latest podcast episodes about Alice Rawsthorn

Design Emergency
Hilary Cottam on Redesigning Work

Design Emergency

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 23, 2025 31:23


What is a good working life in the 21st century? And how do we get there? In the latest episode of Design Emergency, our cofounder, Alice Rawsthorn, explores these issues with the pioneering social designer and social activist Hilary Cottam, who conducted five years of intensive research into how we could – and should – redesign all aspects of work, for her new book, The Work We Need: A 21st Century Reimagining..Hilary traveled throughout the UK and US – from the post-industrial cities of Barnsley and Grimsby in northern England, to Palo Alto, the tech capital of the US – to discover what workers and their employers thought of the logistics of their working lives, and how they can be redesigned to make them fit for purpose. Hilary also tells Alice how the “new industrialists”, the new generation of business leaders who recognise the urgent need for radical change, are already making progress...We hope you'll enjoy this episode. You can find images of the projects Hilary describes on our Instagram @design.emergency. Please join us for future episodes of Design Emergency when we will hear from inspiring global design leaders whose work is at the forefront of forging positive change. .Design Emergency is supported by a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Culture Shifts Magazine Podcast
Beyond Aesthetics: Alice Rawsthorn on How Design Can Solve Global Challenges

Culture Shifts Magazine Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 16, 2025 27:33 Transcription Available


To kick off our Solutions season – where we explore how to address today's most pressing challenges – I'm joined by Alice Rawsthorn, an award-winning design critic, acclaimed author, and co-founder of Design Emergency, an initiative investigating design's role in shaping a better future.In this episode, Alice talks about how design is evolving beyond aesthetics to become a force for systemic change, tackling issues like climate change, inequality, and humanitarian crises. She shares compelling examples of design initiatives that influence policy, social structures, and everyday life, emphasizing the need for collaboration, inclusivity, and empathy in shaping the future.Join us as we discuss how design can move beyond form to function as a driver of meaningful change.Subscribe to the Culture Shifts Podcast on your favorite platform, and follow us on Instagram, LinkedIn, Substack, or visit cultureshifts.net to stay connected.

Design Emergency
Hidden Heroines of Design

Design Emergency

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2025 24:59


Who are the Hidden Heroines of Design, the gifted, resourceful and determined women who have achieved so much in design, yet have never been given the recognition they so richly deserve? And why, do so many women, and people who are queer, trans or of colour, still find it so much harder to fulfil their design ambitions than their white cis-male peers?.To celebrate International Women's Day 2025, our cofounders, Paola Antonelli and Alice Rawsthorn, have each identified three Hidden Heroines of Design who have either been unfairly forgotten, or never fully acknowledged for their achievements. They include: a ceramicist who explored her cultural identity as a Chinese immigrant through her pots; a pioneering designer of social housing; the most influential female architect in 20th century India; and the woman who co-designed the first official US rape kit..We hope you will enjoy hearing their stories. You can find images of the work of our Hidden Heroines of Design on our Instagram grid @design.emergency. Please join us for future episodes of Design Emergency when we will hear from other global design leaders who, like these remarkable women, are forging positive change..Design Emergency is supported by a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Design Emergency
Julia Watson on Design and Water

Design Emergency

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 19, 2025 41:08


As the global water crisis and climate emergency intensify, how can design help us to tackle the devastating food shortages, storm surges, rising sea-levels and other problems we face? On this episode of Design Emergency, the Australian designer, ecologist and activist, Julia Watson, tells our cofounder, Alice Rawsthorn how indigenous communities in remote parts of our planet have developed ancient, nature-based design solutions to these threats..Julia shares examples of how natural water systems, many of them designed centuries ago, are already helping us to protect and replenish our dwindling water supplies, as well as to grow urgently needed crops on floating meadows and farms, and to establish natural fishing systems..Many of these projects are described in Julia's forthcoming book, Lo-TEK: Water, which will be published by Taschen in June as a follow-up to Lo-TEK: Design by Radical Indigenism, one of Design Emergency's favourite design books of recent years. In Lo-TEK: Water, Julia also explains how these traditional design solutions are being adapted to function on the vast scale we need to tackle the global water crisis, while stressing the importance of ensuring that the rights of the local communities who conceived them are always fully respected and protected..We hope you'll enjoy this episode. You can find images of the projects described Julia on our Instagram @design.emergency. Please join us for future episodes of Design Emergency when we will hear from inspiring global design leaders who, like Julia, are using their knowledge and skills to work to build a better future..Design Emergency is supported by a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Design Emergency
Paola Antonelli and Alice Rawsthorn on Design and Human Rights

Design Emergency

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 10, 2024 26:09


How can design help to defend and strengthen our human rights? And the rights of other species with whom we share our planet? At a time when rights and freedoms are under threat all over the world, Design Emergency's cofounders, Paola Antonelli and Alice Rawsthorn, are marking Human Rights Day 2024 with a special episode on practical ways in which design is helping to protect our rights in exceptionally vulnerable places..From an emergency treatment centre for people with disabilities in Gaza and a shelter for isolated elderly seniors in Ukraine, to floating sanitation systems to help Bangladeshi communities cope with severe flooding during monsoon season, and a project to help Sudanese refugees arriving in Chad to build sustainable homes in a traditional style for the region, all the projects discussed by Paola and Alice have already had positive impacts on human rights. Though they also share a cautionary tale of how-not-to-design a post-conflict reconstruction programme in a desolate area of Afghanistan haunted by years of war and poverty..We hope you'll find this episode interesting. You can find images of the projects described by Paola and Alice on our Instagram @design.emergency. Please join us for future episodes of Design Emergency when we will hear from inspiring global design leaders whose work is at the forefront of forging positive change..Design Emergency is supported by a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

#BEZPIECZNIK
S04E04 Odwieczny spór funkcja czy forma.

#BEZPIECZNIK

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 18, 2024 53:41


S04E04 Odwieczny spór funkcja czy forma. W czwartym odcinku podcastu rozmawiamy o tym, co jest ważniejsze w projektowaniu: forma dzieła czy jego funkcja i jej konsekwencje. Brzmi to trochę jak dyskusja o pierwszeństwie jajka czy kury. Jednak każdy praktyk i teoretyk projektowania stanął w swoim życiu przed tym dylematem. Razem z moją gościnią, Kasią Andrzejczyk-Briks, stwierdzamy, co oczywiste, że jedno nie istnieje bez drugiego oraz że z biegiem lat z fanatyczek funkcjonalizmu stałyśmy się jednak eklektyczkami. Moja rozmówczyni jest historyczką sztuki, kuratorką i wykładowczynią historii sztuki i designu w School of Form w Warszawie i Collegium da Vinci w Poznaniu. Kasia specjalizuje się też w analizie trendów i sygnałów zmian. Jest trenerką i współtwórczynią programu Dostępny Design, popularyzującego wiedzę o uniwersalnym designie i dostępności. W rozmowie nie zabrakło nawiązania do MSN-u oraz do naszej młodzieńczej fascynacji Bauhausem! Dobrego słuchania! Menu wiedzy:  książki o zagadnieniu funkcji i formy:  R. Arnheim, “Dynamika formy architektonicznej”, Wydawnictwo Officyna, 2016 E.H Gombrich “Zmysł porządku o psychologii sztuki dekoracyjnej”, universitas, 2009 W. Rybczyński, “Jak działa architektura. Przybornik humanisty”, Karakter, 2014 podcast o trendach: "Design Emergency", Paola Antonelli and Alice Rawsthorn

Design Emergency
Yvonne Jewkes on Design and Prisons

Design Emergency

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 13, 2024 39:45


How can design help to make our failing prisons fit for purpose? In this episode of Design Emergency, our cofounder, Alice Rawsthorn, discusses the design deficiencies of one of the most troubled areas of many societies, our prison systems, and what can be done to make them rehabilitative rather than brutalizing, with the British criminologist, Yvonne Jewkes..Yvonne, who is Professor of Criminology at the University of Bath, where she also teaches in the School of Architecture, has visited over a hundred prisons worldwide to assess why they are failing, how they can be improved, and what role design can play in that process. She has also advised on the design of new correctional facilities in the UK, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand..In her recently published book, An Architecture of Hope, Yvonne explores the challenges confronting our overcrowded, underfunded, often understaffed prisons, while drawing on her research and practical experience to assess: “What we can do to make prisoners feel like people again, rather than like prisoners?”.We hope you'll enjoy this episode. You can find images of Yvonne and the prisons she refers to in her interview on our Instagram @design.emergency. Please join us for future episodes of Design Emergency when we will hear from other inspiring global design leaders who, like Yvonne, are tackling complex challenges and forging positive change..Design Emergency is supported by a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Parola Progetto
Paola Antonelli: if you look at the world through design, you can never be bored

Parola Progetto

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2024 58:54


In this inaugural special live episode of Parola Progetto, recorded at Salotto in Brooklyn and presented in English, we are honored to host Paola Antonelli.As the Senior Curator of the Department of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the museum's Director of Research and Development, Antonelli brings a wealth of experience and insight. During our conversation, we delve into her distinguished career at MoMA, discussing the dynamics of success and rejection, the evolving role of curating, and how museums function as research and development hubs for society. Antonelli offers her perspectives on technology, artificial intelligence, and the future of design, highlighting the critical importance of thoughtful analysis and cultural awareness in these fields.The links of this episode:Salotto, a hub for cultural research and production run by NYC-based Italian creative professionals https://salotto.nycDesign Emergency, curated by Alice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli https://www.instagram.com/design.emergencyMoMA R&D Salons http://momarnd.moma.org/salons“Broken Nature: Design Takes on Human Survival”, curated by Paola Antonelli at La Triennale di Milano in 2019 https://triennale.org/en/events/broken-nature “Planet City” by Liam Young https://www.moma.org/collection/works/450744 “Pirouette. Experiments and Turning Points in Design” curated by Paola Antonelli at MoMA in 2025https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5756“ITEMS. Is Fashion Modern?”, curated by Paola Antonelli at MoMA in 2018https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/1638 "The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer" by Siddhartha Mukherjee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor_of_All_Maladies  

Design Emergency
Philippe Rahm on Climatic Architecture

Design Emergency

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 1, 2024 39:00


How can architecture help us to address the escalating climate emergency? There are many ways it can do so: from ensuring that new buildings are designed to radically reduce carbon emissions during construction, to doing the same in terms of how they will function..The Swiss architect, Philippe Rahm, is at the forefront of this process through his experiments with what he calls climatic architecture, the theme – and title - of his latest book. In this episode of Design Emergency, Philippe tells our cofounder Alice Rawsthorn how he developed the concept of climatic architecture and is putting it into practice..Born in Switzerland, Philippe studied architecture there and in France, where he runs Philippe Rahm Architectes, which he founded ten years ago in Paris. His mission is to enable buildings to become more ecologically responsible by aligning them with their locations and climates to make the most of the light, humidity and other natural phenomena in order to minimise the use of fossil fuels in heating or cooling them..Philippe tells Alice how these principles have been applied to completed and ongoing projects including: Central Park in the Taiwanese city of Taichung, the entrance to Maison de la Radio et de la Musique in Paris, and, working in collaboration with OMA, the Scalo Farini project to redevelop two disused railway yards in Milan..We hope you'll enjoy this episode. You can find images of Philippe and his work on our Instagram @design.emergency. Please join us for future episodes of Design Emergency when we will hear from other inspiring global design leaders who are forging positive change..Design Emergency is supported by a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Design Emergency
Jeanne Gang on Architectural Grafting

Design Emergency

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 16, 2024 38:27


As architecture and construction are two of the biggest sources of carbon emissions on our planet, what can architects do to change this? In this episode of Design Emergency, the US architect, Jeanne Gang, tells our cofounder Alice Rawsthorn how she and her colleagues at Studio Gang in Chicago are designing new ways of reusing and repurposing existing buildings, as an ecologically responsible alternative to building new ones, through a process she calls “architectural grafting”..Jeanne is a prolific and ingenious architect whose work at Studio Gang includes: the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts and the Gilder Center for Science, Education and Innovation at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Among Jeanne's projects currently being designed or under construction, are the new US Embassy in Brasilia and the Global Terminal at Chicago O'Hare Airport..She describes the defining theme of her practice as being to make “architecture that strengthens kinship among people, their communities and the natural world”. All Jeanne's work is steeped in her research at Studio Gang, including an experimental project to protect the one billion-plus birds that die in the US each year after crashing into high-rise buildings, and as a Professor in Practice at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where her teaching focuses on the theories of reuse and resilience that she explores in her latest book, The Art of Architectural Grafting..We hope you'll enjoy this episode. You can find images of Jeanne and her work on our Instagram @design.emergency. Please join us for future episodes of Design Emergency when we will hear from more inspiring and ambitious global design leaders at the forefront of positive change..Design Emergency is supported by a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Design Emergency
Sinéad Burke on Design and Disabilities

Design Emergency

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2024 55:56


How can we make our lives fully accessible and inclusive? In this episode of Design Emergency, our cofounder Alice Rawsthorn explores this challenge with Sinéad Burke, whose mission is to campaign for inclusion and accessibility for everyone, for disabled people in particular..Having started out as a teacher in her native Ireland, Sinéad became increasingly involved in disability activism, determined to help fellow little people – she is who is 3 feet 5 inches tall - and everyone else in the 15% of the global population – more than 1 billion people – who lives with some form of disability..She does so as founder of Tilting the Lens, a consultancy with an all-disabled team, which advises organisations including Chanel, Gucci, Microsoft, NASA, Netflix and the V&A on how to embrace inclusivity. Sinéad herself champions the urgent need to make society fair and accessible through her roles as a member of the Irish Council of State; a former Miss Alternative Ireland; and as the cover star of not one, but two issues of British Vogue..We hope you'll enjoy this episode. You can find images of Sinéad and her work on our Instagram @design.emergency. Please join us for future episodes of Design Emergency when we will hear from more inspiring and ambitious global design leaders who are changing our lives for the better..Design Emergency is supported by a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts..Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Architecture&Anthropocene
Trailer - Gae Aulenti's Legacy

Architecture&Anthropocene

Play Episode Listen Later May 21, 2024 0:56


The exhibition at Triennale Milano 'Gae Aulenti (1927 – 2012)' is accompanied by a podcast series that explores her impact on architecture and design, and her legacy. The podcast, hosted by British design critic and author, Alice Rawsthorn, traces the evolution of Gae Aulenti through the voices of friends, curators and international architects who knew her personally or through her work. The five episodes focus on different aspects of her relationship with architecture, design, art and performance during the course of her career.

Design Emergency
Design and Workers' Rights

Design Emergency

Play Episode Listen Later May 1, 2024 30:54


Design has played a critical role in championing, developing and defending workers' rights throughout history. In this episode of Design Emergency podcast, cofounders Paola Antonelli and Alice Rawsthorn, describe design's impact on workers' rights and on the constantly changing nature of work over the years..As well as discussing the design of the symbols and actions – from the red flag, to the valiant Bryant & May Match Girls' Strike in East London - with which workers have campaigned for fair pay and decent working conditions, Alice and Paola will describe model workplaces, like that of the French fashion designer, Madeleine Vionnet in early 20th century Paris, and an innovative digital design and skills workshop for young people in rural Kenya. They will also show how design can help to improve the plight of care workers and the “invisible workers” whose contributions to our lives are unfairly overlooked..We hope you'll enjoy this episode. You can find images of the projects described by Alice and Paola on our Instagram grid @design.emergency. Please join us for future episodes of Design Emergency when we will hear from more inspiring and ambitious global design leaders who are changing our lives for the better..Design Emergency is supported by a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts..Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Prada Frames: Being Home
Alice Rawsthorn introduces the LIVING ROOM

Prada Frames: Being Home

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 29, 2024 5:19


The podcast "Prada Frames: Being Home" is a project produced by KoozArch in partnership with Prada, and curated by FormaFantasma for Prada. The episode is presented by KoozArch's chief editor Shumi Bose.Read the interview with the curators and the co-hosts of the symposium here: https://koozarch.com/interviews/before-being-home-doing-domesticity-at-prada-frames-podcast

Prada Frames: Being Home
Alice Rawsthorn introduces the LIBRARY

Prada Frames: Being Home

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2024 5:13


The podcast "Prada Frames: Being Home" is a project produced by KoozArch in partnership with Prada, and curated by FormaFantasma for Prada. The episode is presented by KoozArch's chief editor Shumi Bose.Read the interview with the curators and the co-hosts of the symposium here: https://koozarch.com/interviews/before-being-home-doing-domesticity-at-prada-frames-podcast

Prada Frames: Being Home
Alice Rawsthorn introduces the BEDROOM

Prada Frames: Being Home

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2024 5:11


The podcast "Prada Frames: Being Home" is a project produced by KoozArch in partnership with Prada, and curated by FormaFantasma for Prada. The episode is presented by KoozArch's chief editor Shumi Bose.Read the interview with the curators and the co-hosts of the symposium here: https://koozarch.com/interviews/before-being-home-doing-domesticity-at-prada-frames-podcast

Prada Frames: Being Home
Ep. 01 | Before Being Home: Doing Domesticity at Prada Frames

Prada Frames: Being Home

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2024 40:00


KoozArch inaugurates the first episode of the audio series dedicated to Prada Frames: Being Home with a conversation between KoozArch's founder Federica Zambeletti and the brains behind the brilliance: Prada Frames curators Simone Farresin and Andrea Trimarchi of FormaFantasma, and co-hosts Alice Rawsthorn and Natalia Grabowska.The podcast "Prada Frames: Being Home" is a project produced by KoozArch in partnership with Prada, and curated by FormaFantasma for Prada. The episode is presented by KoozArch's chief editor Shumi Bose.

Design Emergency
Francesca Coloni on the refugee crisis

Design Emergency

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2024 21:50


How can design help us to address such a tragic, terrifying global emergency as the escalating refugee crisis? What are the priorities for the humanitarian design teams striving to assuage such a catastrophe? What have they learnt from their practical experience in terms of what works, and what doesn't? In this episode of Design Emergency, Francesca Coloni, Chief of the Technical Support team in the Division of Resilience and Solutions of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)shares her experience of 20 years working on the frontline of the refugee crisis with our co-founder, Alice Rawsthorn.. Francesca explains how she and her UNHCR colleagues are determined to address the refugee crisis sensitively and flexibly by applying human-centred design solutions to meet the diverse needs of the millions of people forced to flee their homes in different places, while being as ecologically sustainable as possible. She also describes how UNHCR has developed bespoke strategies to best support refugees in the recent crises in Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, Sudan, Ukraine and elsewhere, and how it hopes to empower refugees to fulfil their potential, economically and culturally, to benefit their host countries in the future. .Thank you for joining us. You can find images of the impact of the refugee crisis on our Instagram grid @design.emergency. Please join us for future episodes of Design Emergency when we will hear from other global design leaders who, like the remarkable Francesca Coloni, are forging positive change..Design Emergency is supported by a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Design Emergency
Hidden Heroines of Design

Design Emergency

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2024 29:19


Who are the Hidden Heroines of Design, the gifted and ambitious women who have achieved so much in design, yet have never been given the recognition they so richly deserved? And why, at a time when there is widespread recognition of the need to ensure that every aspect of our lives is as divers and inclusive as possible, do so many women still find it much, much tougher to realise their design ambitions than their cis-male peers or, to be specific, their white cis-male peers?.In this episode of Design Emergency podcast, our cofounders, Paola Antonelli and Alice Rawsthorn, each identify three talented women designers who have either been unfairly forgotten, or never fully acknowledged for their achivements. Among them are the designers of one of the world's most popular board games and the first car specifically designed for women; the woman who transformed Chinese consumer culture in the 1980s; a legendary trans pioneer of video game design; a network of Palestinian women who are sustaining their rich artisanal history through their embroidery; and the dynamic editor-in-chief of Vogue Philippines, who is using the magazine to articulate her vision of her country's new Philippine identity..We hope you will enjoy hearing their stories. You can find images of the work of our Hidden Heroines of Design on our Instagram grid @design.emergency. Please join us for future episodes of Design Emergency when we will hear from other global design leaders who, like those remarkable women, are forging positive change..Design Emergency is supported by a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Design Emergency
Limbo Accra on unfinished buildings

Design Emergency

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 7, 2024 33:24


How can we make productive use of the unfinished buildings that litter our towns, cities and landscapes? In this episode of Design Emergency, Dominique Petit-Frère and Emil Grip, founders of Limbo Accra, a spatial design studio based in Ghana and the US, tell our cofounder Alice Rawsthorn about their mission to ensure that we make the most of the possibilities to reimagine, rebuild and reuse the thousands of concrete relics, which were abandoned before construction was completed..Unfinished buildings are a largely ignored, yet wasteful and damaging aspect of architecture and construction. Dominique, who was born in the US and is of Ghanaian and Haitian heritage, and Emil, who is Danish, recognised the scale of the problem after moving to Ghana in 2018 to open a studio in the capital, Accra. They explain to Alice how, having noticed the large number of abandoned, incomplete buildings in the city they have focused Limbo Accra on designing new ways to reinvent them. .Having started by transforming an abandoned site into a Ghana's first public skatepark, Limbo Accra began a long term research project to identify unfinished buildings throughout Ghana, and to compile a digital archive of them and the possibilities of completing their construction. This research is now being extended across West Africa and, eventually, to the rest of the continent..Thank you for listening. You can find images of Dominique, Emil and their work at Limbo Accra on our Instagram grid @design.emergency and https://www.limboaccra.online/. Please join us for future episodes of Design Emergency when we will hear from other global design leaders who, like them, are forging positive change..Design Emergency is supported by a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Design Emergency
Claudia Chwalisz on design and democracy

Design Emergency

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 29, 2023 46:19


At a time when democracy is under threat in many places, what can design do to defend it? How can it help to reinvent our democractic systems and make them fit for purpose?In this episode, author and activist, Claudia Chwalisz tells Design Emergency's cofounder Alice Rawsthorn why and how she is leading a global campaign to redesign democracy as founder and CEO of the international non-profit research and action institute, DemocracyNext.Born in Canada to a Polish family, Claudia has devoted the last decade to re-imagining democracy, first through her work at the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris and, for the past year, with her colleagues and collaborators at DemocracyNext.Claudia explains how DemocracyNext is championing citizens assemblies as inclusive and deliberative forms of decision making, like those that debated the legalisation of abortion and same sex marriage in Ireland, and assisted dying in France. She discusses the role of sortition (randomly selecting decision-makers by lottery) to making our democratic systems fairer, and describes why design is a crucial tool in this process..Thank you for joining us. You can find images of Claudia and her work on our Instagram @design.emergency. Please join us for future episodes ofDesign Emergency when we will hear from other global design leaders who, like Claudia Chwalisz, are forging positive change..Design Emergency is supported by a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts..Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Design Emergency
Aqui Thami on design and communities

Design Emergency

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 1, 2023 43:26


How can design help to heal fragile people, who have experienced abuse, poverty and oppression? In this episode, the Indian artist, activist and social designer Aqui Thami tells Design Emergency's cofounder Alice Rawsthorn how she does this by designing new opportunities for healing and learning for vulnerable women and girls, for and trans and queer people.Aqui has personally experienced violence and bigotry as a janjati, or indigenous artist, who was born in the Himalayas. She tells Alice how since moving to Mumbai on her own as a teenager, she has addressed this by designing and delivering safe spaces and other urgently needed resources for people living in Dharavi, which is one of India's biggest and most densely populated slums.As well as establishing Sister Library, South Asia's first mobile, community-owned and run feminist library there, Aqui co-founded the Dharavi Art Room to provide art, design and craft classes for local women and children. She also pursues her activism by designing and printing zines and fly posters as part of the Bombay Underground publishing movement.At a time when India, Mumbai and Dharavi are changing at frenzied speed, Aqui explains to Alice how she plans to continue to use design as an activist tool to empower her friends, neighbors and collaborators and to help them to preserve their communities.Thank you for joining us. You can find images of Aqui and her work on our Instagram grid @design.emergency. Please join us for future episodes of Design Emergency when we will hear from other global design leaders who, like Aqui, are at the forefront of positive change.Design Emergency is supported by a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Design Emergency
Magdalene Odundo on pots

Design Emergency

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 20, 2023 47:16


Magdalene Odundo has made some of the greatest pots of our time. In this episode of Design Emergency, she talks to our cofounder, Alice Rawsthorn, about how she discovered the joys and challenges of making ceramics and their symbolic value in expressing our cultural identities.Born in Kenya in 1950, Magdalene spent her childhood there and in India before moving to the UK to study art in Cambridge, where she flung herself into student debates on identity politics. She then studied at what is now the University for the Creative Arts in the Surrey market town of Farnham and at the Royal College of Art in London. As well as being formally beautiful, Magdalene's pots are rooted in her love of making and her understanding of the politics of her own identity, as Black African woman living in Europe, and her years of research into the ancient ceramic traditions of Africa, Asia and Central America.Magdalene tells Alice how she draws on that research to reinterpret historic forms, finishes and firing processes in her pots that evoke the drama and fragility of dance. Her ceramics belong to the collections of major museums, including the British Museum and V&A in London, the ArtInstitute of Chicago and The Met in New York. Yet she still lives and works in the same place in Farnham, where, after years of dedicated teaching, she has become Chancellor of the University for the Creative Arts.Thank you for joining us. You can find images of Magdalene and her work on our Instagram grid @design.emergency. And you can tune into this episode of Design Emergency and others on Apple, Spotify, Amazon and other podcast platforms. Please join us for future episodes when we will hear from other global leaders in different areas of design..Design Emergency is supported by a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Art Insiders New York Podcast hosted by Anders Holst
DESIGN - Interview with Paola Antonelli

Art Insiders New York Podcast hosted by Anders Holst

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 14, 2023 41:51


Paola Antonelli is the Senior Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, where she also serves as the founding Director of Research and Development. She has been described as "one of the 25 most incisive design visionaries in the world" by TIME magazine. In this interview Paola talks about her vision of what design is. She believes that design touches every aspect of society, and that design has a civic responsibility towards humanity and the planet. “Design is the enzyme that makes progress happen”. Her biggest ambition is to enhance people's awareness of design and to make sure the world understands that design is not only cute chairs, sleek products, and fetching logos. But objects are not irrelevant, the controversial acquisition of the @ sign to the MoMA collection shows that collecting is not about ownership per se, since the sign belongs to everyone.     We talk about some of the more impactful exhibitions she has organized at MoMA and the 40-plus Salons that she has organized, that will not only inform the museum and its program, but also inspire the wider conversation in the world outside. The Salons are available on-line and new Salons can be enjoyed through the museum's live streaming. Paola also explains the vision behind the Instagram/podcast based project Design Emergency together with design critic Alice Rawsthorn. On a more personal note, we also talk about curiosity and adventure as major driving forces in her life, her passion for traveling and love for New York. We also get Paola's take on how AI and Refik Anadol's work “Unsupervised” have influenced her perspective on MoMA's collection. Paola Antonelli © 2021 The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Photo: Peter Ross  

Design Emergency
Yasmeen Lari on design and disasters

Design Emergency

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 6, 2023 39:30


Few people have more experience of disaster relief than the great Pakistani architect Yasmeen Lari. In this episode, she tells Design Emergency's cofounder, Alice Rawsthorn, how she has dedicated nearly 40 years to helping people throughout Pakistan to rebuild their lives and communities after earthquakes, floods and other devastating disasters.Born in what is now Pakistan in 1941, Yasmeen became its first professional woman architect by starting a practice in Karachi. In 1980, she co-founded the Heritage Foundation of Pakistan to conserve the country's historic architecture and quit her practice in 2000 to focus on that work. Five years later, when millions of people were killed or displaced by the horrific Kashmir earthquake, Yasmeen travelled to the region to help local communities with repair and reconstruction.She tells Alice what she learnt from that experience and her subsequent work in disaster relief, why the conventional aid system has failed, and how she is developing a “humanistic humanitarian” model of helping people to help themselves and then helping others to do the same. Yasmeen also describes how the world's architectural practices could help to train the humanitarian architects of the future, as well as her current plans to build a million ecologically sustainable homes on floodplains across Pakistan and to design a floating village.Thank you for joining us. You'll find images of the projects Yasmeen describes on our Instagram grid @design.emergency. Please join us for future episodes when we will hear from more global design leaders who, like the remarkable Yasmeen Lari, are at the forefront of positive change.Design Emergency is supported by a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Design Emergency
Deema Assaf on greening the desert

Design Emergency

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 2, 2023 29:16


As the climate emergency intensifies, how can design help us to repair and revive our ecosystems? In this episode, Design Emergency's cofounder, Alice Rawsthorn, hears how the Jordanian architect Deema Assaf is using her design skills to develop new solutions to the severe ecological threats facing her country by reviving the beautiful forests, which once flourished throughout Jordan, but disappeared centuries ago leaving most of its land as desert.Jordan is one of the world's driest countries. Years of drought have left it with desert on 75% of its land and forests on just 1%. Deema, who practiced landscape architecture for ten years after graduating from the University of Jordan, was so concerned that in 2018 she founded the TAYYŪN research studio in Amman to develop ways of regenerating Jordan's arid land by turning it back into forests of native trees.Deema tells us how she cultivated her first forest five years ago, and how she and her colleagues are currently planting their fifth forest in Jordan. To support this work, they have embarked on a major research project to compile a database of native Jordanian trees and plants, as well as harvesting their seeds, and running community programmes to encourage more people to help their efforts to revitalise Jordan's stricken ecology.Thank you for joining us for Alice's interview with Deema Assaf. You'll find images of the projects Deema describes on our Instagram grid @design.emergency. And you can tune into this episode of Design Emergency and others on Apple, Spotify, Amazon and other podcast platforms. Please join us for future episodes of Design Emergency when we will hear from more design leaders who, like Deema, are tackling the major challenges of our time.Design Emergency is supported by a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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English Academic Vocabulary Booster

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 21, 2023 193:13


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Design Emergency
Paola Antonelli and Alice Rawsthorn on Design and Violence

Design Emergency

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 5, 2023 31:10


How can design protect us from violence? What can it do to identify new forms of violence, and old ones? Alert us to their dangers? Shield us from them? Repair the damage they cause? And prevent repetitions? In this episode, Design Emergency's cofounders, curator Paola Antonelli and author Alice Rawsthorn, discuss one of design's most important roles: defending us from violence.Paola and Alice discuss how design has done this throughout history, while noting that our vulnerability to violence is escalating at a time when our lives are increasingly turbulent, and violence is evolving at unprecedented speed with ever more ominous consequences. As well as considering how violence affects us in the form of wars, bigotry, the climate emergency, refugee crisis and abuses of technology, they identify ingenious design responses to those threats. From women's safe spaces in the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh and heartening symbols of collective pride like the rainbow flag, to an app that helps people to find safe routes through Indian cities, Paola and Alice describe how thoughtful and innovative design can – and does – empower us.Thank you for joining Paola and Alice's conversation on Design and Violence. You'll find images of the projects they describe on our Instagram grid @design.emergency. And you can tune into this episode of Design Emergency and others on Apple, Spotify, Amazon and other podcast platforms. Please join us for future episodes when we will interview more global design leaders at the forefront of forging positive change.Design Emergency is supported by a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Design Emergency
Piet Oudolf on design and plants

Design Emergency

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 21, 2023 32:15


Having discovered the joys of gardening while selling Christmas trees at a garden centre, Piet Oudolf has become one of the most influential plantsmen and garden designers of our time. In this episode of Design Emergency, he tells our cofounder, Alice Rawsthorn, how his years of research into plants and their behaviour and love of wild gardens have revived obscure species and transformed our expectations of gardens and landscapes.Piet spoke to Alice from Hummelo in the eastern Netherlands where he lives, works and, together with his wife Anja, has established a living laboratory of plants to study for use in his designs, including those for Chicago's Millennium Park; Belle Isle in Detroit; and his most famous project, the High Line, the public garden on a disused elevated railroad in Manhattan which is visited by millions of people every year and has inspired scores of similar projects worldwide.The great garden designers of the past were renowned for creating visual spectacles and designed their planting schemes accordingly. But Piet is a leader of the New Perennial movement whose designs are determined by how plants evolve and respond to one another, often using wildflowers, grasses, long forgotten local species and those dismissed as weeds in naturalistic planting schemes that are designed to last year after year.Thank you for joining us for Alice's interview with the great Piet Oudolf. You'll find images of the gardens he describes on our Instagram grid @design.emergency. And you can tune into this episode of Design Emergency and others on Apple, Spotify, Amazon and other podcast platforms. Please join us for future episodes when we will interview other global design leaders who, like Piet, are at the forefront of forging positive change.Design Emergency is supported by a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Design Emergency
Slava Balbek on designing for Ukraine

Design Emergency

Play Episode Listen Later May 24, 2023 36:44


What are design's role and responsibilities in horrific wars like Vladimir Putin's illegal. conflict in Ukraine? How can designers help their countries during – and after – such terrible tragedies? In this episode, Alice Rawsthorn talks with a designer who is confronting all those challenges – and more – the Ukrainian architect and interior designer, Slava Balbek.As founder of Balbek Bureau in Kyiv, Slava runs one of Ukraine's leading architecture and design groups. When Alice first interviewed him for Design Emergency in March 2022, a few weeks after Putin's invasion, Slava and his colleagues were already running a community kitchen and delivery hub to support the local community in Kyiv and had launched a design proposal to build temporary housing for refugees returning to Ukraine after the war ends.Those projects have since accelerated, and construction has begun on a refugee settlement in Buca, near Kyiv. Slava describes how a 3D-printed school, designed by Balbek Bureau in Lviv, is also under construction, and the plans for a project designed to protect Ukraine's beloved historic monuments during the conflict. He also discusses the challenges of running an architecture and design agency during such a brutal war, and how he juggles those demands with his personal responsibilities as a military volunteer in the Ukrainian army. A few days after this Design Emergency interview, Slava returned to duty on the frontline.Thank you for listening to Slava's account of designing in a war zone. You'll find images of the projects he describes on our Instagram grid @design.emergency. And you can tune into this episode of Design Emergency and the others on Apple, Spotify, Amazon and other podcast platforms. Please join us for future episodes when we'll interview other design leaders who, like Slava, are helping to forge positive change. Slava Ukraini.Design Emergency is supported by a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Legal Design Podcast
Episode 57: Design in Times of Crisis with Alice Rawsthorn and Ayşe Elif Yildirim

Legal Design Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 29, 2023 41:44


Today, we have planned something extraordinary for you. We finished the last season with a little riddle and asked our audience to guess who was the Special Legal Design Santa in our season finale. We received some answers, thank you for those, and the promised prize was drawn. Our lucky winner is Elif Yildirim, a lawyer and legal design student from Turkey and we invited Elif to plan and co-host an episode with us and what an episode it turned out to be!  Alice Rawsthorn, a British Design Critic and author joined us to discuss about design as an attitude and how it can be incorporated into law. Alice talks about why great design is a human right and explains how we understand design and its potential in different fields of life and what is the level of importance to incorporate design into our responses in times of crisis, such as in the aftermath of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria. We also talk about how design, or design thinking, has increasingly gained popularity in different fields of professions, and law is just one of the examples. Alice explains if there are some “red flags” in this development. -- Alice Rawsthorn is an award-winning design critic and author, whose books include Design as an Attitude, Hello World: Where Design Meets Life and, most recently, Design Emergency: Building a Better Future, co-written with Paola Antonelli, senior curator of design at MoMA, New York. Alice's weekly design column for The New York Times was syndicated worldwide for over a decade. In all her work, Alice champions design's potential as a social, political and ecological tool that can help to foster positive change. Born in Manchester and based in London, she is a founding member of the Writers for Liberty campaign for human rights and of the advisory board of the Democracy Next research and action institute as well as a member of the UK government's Honors Committee for arts and Media. Alice and Paola are co-founders of Design Emergency, a podcast andmin research platform that investigates design's role in forging a fairer future. Ayşe Elif Yıldırım is a lawyer and academic and most recently a Visual Communication Design student. After traveling and living in many countries of Europe, she is now based in Ankara, Turkey. She has several academic degrees in different fields of law, most recently she was granted her Ph.D. degree with distinction for her doctoral research conducted under the scholarship of Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology in the field of Business and Human Rights. Always being interested in interdisciplinary fields of work that combine two distinct ways of thinking, Elif is now focusing on Legal Design and how we can use it to solve complex challenges we are facing in our contemporary world.

Design Emergency
Julia Watson on indigenous design

Design Emergency

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2023 43:54


How can we develop safe, sustainable ways of designing, making and building? In this episode, Alice Rawsthorn talks to Julia Watson, the designer, academic and activist whose years of research into the ancient nature-based technologies and sacred landscapes created by indigenous communities in remote parts of our planet promise to produce ingenious solutions to the devastating damage caused by the climate emergency.Raised in Australia and based in the US, Julia spent 20 years researching the diverse ways in which isolated communities have drawn on ancient wisdom and readily available natural materials to design ecologically responsible ways of living. Among them are the 6,000 year- old floating islands where the Ma'dan community dwells in Iraq's southern wetlands; and the living root bridges that defend the Khasi people against horrific floods in northern India. Julia describes how having shared her research in the book Lo-TEK: Design by Radical Indigenism, she is now designing systems and protocols to enable nature-based technologies to be deployed on larger scales in other places, while ensuring that the communities who conceived them are fairly paid.Thank you for listening. You'll find images of the projects described by Julia in this episode on our Instagram @design.emergency. And you can tune into this episode of Design Emergency and the others on Apple, Spotify, Amazon and other podcast platforms. Please join us for future episodes when we will interview other design leaders who, like Julia, are helping to build a better world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Design Emergency
Paola Antonelli and Alice Rawsthorn on the Hidden Heroines of Design

Design Emergency

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2023 32:12


Design has always been a man's world. A white cis-man's world to be precise. Thankfully, there have always been gifted and inspiring exceptions who have overcome the obstacles to make important contributions to design. This episode of the Design Emergency podcast celebrates some of the incredible women who have done so, as our co-founders, Paola Antonelli and Alice Rawsthorn pay tribute to the Hidden Heroines of Design..In this episode you'll hear the stories of seven exceptionally talented and determined women whose courage, skills and resilience enabled them to defy gender bias by developing remarkable design innovations that have changed millions of people's lives for the better. Among them are Letitia Mumford Geer, a US nurse who patented the design of the one-handed medical syringe in 1896, and Ann Macbeth, a British embroiderer who empowered working class women to use needlework to learn new skills and forms of self-expression in the early 1900s.Others include Colette Boccara, one of the most prolific industrial designers in late 20th century Brazil, and Yasmeen Lari, the first woman to practice architecture in Pakistan who has devoted the second half of her career to designing emergency housing and other forms of humanitarian support for the victims of floods and earthquakes. All of our Hidden Heroines of Design faced daunting challenges to achieve their goals, as have equally accomplished designers who are trans, queer, of colour or don't conform to the white cis-male archetype for another reason. We hope you'll enjoy hearing how they overcame them.Thank you for listening. You'll find images of the projects described in this episode - and the others - on our Instagram @design.emergency. Please join us for future episodes of Design Emergency when we will interview more remarkable design leaders who are helping to forge positive change in different fields and different parts of our planet.Presented by Paola Antonelli and Alice RawsthornGraphic design by Studio FrithRecording by Spiritland Productions Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Design Emergency
Nifemi Marcus-Bello on design and identity

Design Emergency

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 8, 2023 41:26


In this episode, Alice Rawsthorn interviews Nifemi Marcus-Bello, the Nigerian designer who is at the forefront of the dynamic new design culture now emerging in West Africa. Nifemi describes how he draws on his research into West African design and making – past and present – to develop new objects that reflect the region's cultural identity..Born in Nigeria, Nifemi was brought up there and in Zambia, before moving to the UK to study industrial design in Leeds. After completing his master's degree in 2013, he returned to Lagos and worked for the architect Kunlé Adeyemi there and then for MASS Design Group in Rwanda, before opening his own studio in the city in 2017.Nifemi has since designed objects that are steeped in West Africa's rich culture of making and improvisational design. Most are inspired by the vernacular products he sees in daily use on the streets of Nigeria and its neighbours, including Lagos water carts and Beninese bamboo blinds. His work is also influenced by historic West African artefacts, such as ancient Benin bronzes and 19 th century Igbo sculpture. Nifemi then collaborates with skilled local makers on fabricating his objects, which are smart, resonant, and engaging. At a thrilling time for designers throughout Africa, when many designers from the African diaspora are moving there, Nifemi's conversation with Alice paints a vivid and realistic picture of their impact on our youngest, most rapidly urbanising continent.You'll find images of the projects described by Nifemi in this episode on Design Emergency's IG grid @design.emergency. And you can tune into this episode of Design Emergency and the others on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, Acast, and other podcast platforms. Thank you for listening. Please join us for future episodes when we will interview other design leaders who, like Nifemi Marcus-Bello, are helping to build a better world in different fields and different parts of our planet. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Design Emergency
Fabrizio Urettini on design and the refugee crisis

Design Emergency

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 11, 2023 27:14


In this episode, Alice Rawsthorn interviews Fabrizio Urettini, the Italian art director, who has devoted the last six years to designing and delivering a remarkably imaginative and effective response to one of our biggest global challenges - the escalating refugee crisis. Helped by friends and fellow designers, Fabrizio has founded and run the Talking Hands workshops in the northern Italian city of Treviso where asylum seekers and migrants living temporarily in the area can learn design and making skills.Fabrizio tells Alice how hundreds of refugees and migrants have participated in the programme since he opened Talking Hands in a derelict army barracks in 2016. They have designed and made furniture, toys, and clothing for sale online and in local craft markets, and collaborated with nearby manufacturers and artisans, while learning new skills or enhancing old ones that could eventually help them to secure paid employment. As well as enabling asylum seekers and migrants to use their time in Treviso productively, Talking Hands runs language and literacy classes for them, and has had a significant impact on changing local perceptions of refugees..At a time when more than 100 million people, a historic record, have been forced to flee their homes due to conflict or oppression to seek asylum elsewhere in the global refugee crisis, Talking Hands demonstrates how designers and other creatives can help to foster positive change by empowering them to build productive lives in their new countries.You'll find images of the projects described by Fabrizio in this episode on Design Emergency's IG grid @design.emergency. And you can tune into this episode of Design Emergency and the others on Apple, Spotify, Amazon, Acast, and other podcast platforms. Thank you for listening. Please join us for future episodes when we will interview other global design leaders in different fields and different parts of our planet. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Design Emergency
Paola Antonelli and Alice Rawsthorn on design and human rights

Design Emergency

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 7, 2022 32:45


One of design's most important – and inspiring – roles throughout history has been to champion human rights. At a time when those rights are under threat in so many parts of our planet, we – Design Emergency's co-founders, design curator Paola Antonelli and design critic Alice Rawsthorn – decided to host a special episode to discuss design's record in helping to defend and strengthen human rights, and to prevent abuses of them. We've searched for design interventions in diverse areas of those rights, as defined by the United Nations as “rights inherent to all human beings, regardless of race, sex, nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, or any other status.” In this Design Emergency Human Rights Special, we consider design's power to raise awareness of crucial causes, including Black Lives Matter and the protests in Iran against abuses of women's rights. We also explore the complex politics of the design of human rights symbolism: from the Red Cross and Red Crescent; to China's fiercely contentious reinvention of the China Aid program. And we look at the design successes and failures in one of the greatest human rights challenges of our time, the escalating refugee crisis. Why has the design of refugee camps and shelters proved so problematic? And why are new solutions developed by the architect Marina Tabassum and her team in Bangladesh and the mostly self-taught designers and builders of the Nakivale Refugee Settlement in Uganda proving so effective? Finally, we ask how, as the climate emergency deepens, design can broaden its focus from “human” rights to include those of all the other species with whom we share our planet. You'll find images of the projects we describe in this Design Emergency Human Rights Special on our Instagram @design.emergency. Thank you for listening. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Design Emergency
David Adjaye on architecture in Africa

Design Emergency

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 23, 2022 34:32


We're off! Our interviewee for this first episode of the Design Emergency podcast is the Ghanaian-British architect, David Adjaye. As well as designing some of the most compelling buildings of recent years, including the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington D.C., David is at the forefront of the development of Africa's dynamic architecture scene. In this interview with Design Emergency's co-founder, Alice Rawsthorn, he discusses the challenges and opportunities of designing responsibly in the vast, complex, and intensely eclectic African continent. David – Sir David, as he is now – was born in Tanzania to Ghanian parents. The family lived in several countries during his childhood as his father was a diplomat, eventually settling in London where David studied architecture and founded his practice. Beginning by designing friends' houses, he moved on to cultural spaces including the NMAAHC and the soon to be completed Studio Museum in Harlem. Since 2000, he has conducted a personal research project into Africa's rich, but often ignored architectural heritage. David and his family are now based in the Ghanaian capital, Accra, where he leads a studio of over a hundred, mostly young, West African architects working on landmark commissions including the National Cathedral of Ghana and the Edo Museum of West African Art in Benin City. Tune in to hear him discussing those projects, and architecture's role in forging positive change in Africa. You'll find images of the projects David describes in this interview on our Instagram @design.emergency. You can also follow his research into African architecture on his Instagram @adjaye_visual_sketchbook, and find out more about his work at Adjaye Associates on its Instagram @adjayeassociates and its website www.adjaye.com. Thank you for listening. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Design Emergency
Design Emergency

Design Emergency

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 17, 2022 1:54


Design Emergency is a collaboration between the curator, Paola Antonelli, and writer, Alice Rawsthorn, to explore design's potential to help us to build a better future. On this podcast, you will hear from the designers, architects, engineers, and others, who, we believe, are at the forefront of progress in using design to forge positive change. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Media Evolution
Alice Rawsthorn – Design Emergency

Media Evolution

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2022 41:36


“Design is an agent of change which can help us make sense of what is happening and turn it to our advantage. Design has done this long before word has been invented to describe it.”How can we approach an everyday challenge as a design project? How can people use design for activism? What is the potential of design as a tool for societal change? How can people working as professional designers work with all of us as co-designers of the future?In her optimistic keynote session, Alice Rawsthorn describes multiple examples from her books “Design Emergency” and “Design as an Attitude'' that illustrate design as a way to respond to unforeseen circumstances and illustrate human tragedy. If design is being used responsively, empathically and intelligently, it can be a catalyst for positive change, reconstruct our lives and spark hope.One of her most recent examples is a group of graphic designers that are hacking road signs in the Ukraine to disrupt transportation - and world community awareness - of war. They repurposed highway signs to mislead Russian soldiers by showing the only destination as “the Hague” - the seat of the International Court of Crimes against humanity. 

RSA Events
Designing our futures: The 2022 RSA Student Design Awards

RSA Events

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 1, 2022 52:28


Design Emergency: How can design help us to build a better future?Join us for this special event celebrating the 2021/22 RSA Student Design Awards programme and the power of design to help us build a better future.The 2022 SDA keynote address will be delivered by award-winning design critic, author and co-founder of Design Emergency, Alice Rawsthorn.In her address, Alice will describe how she and MoMA design curator Paola Antonelli are using their research platform, Design Emergency, to explore the work of the global design leaders who are giving us hope by developing ingenious solutions to problems caused by the climate emergency, refugee crisis, abuses of technology and other complex challenges.Following the address, the RSA's chief impact officer Andrea Siodmok will present the 2022 awards, sharing an overview of each winning project, and inviting the people behind these inspiring ideas on stage to receive their awards.The RSA Student Design Awards is a global competition focused around a set of project briefs that challenge participants to tackle pressing social, environmental and economic issues through design thinking. Winners receive practical and financial support from the RSA and our partners, as well as the opportunity to join a remarkably diverse community of alumni.#RSAdesignBecome an RSA Events sponsor: https://utm.guru/ueembDonate to The RSA: https://utm.guru/udNNBFollow RSA Events on Instagram: https://instagram.com/rsa_events/Follow the RSA on Twitter: https://twitter.com/RSAEventsLike RSA Events on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rsaeventsoff...

BetterPod
Alice Rawsthorn & Peter Barber: Can design solve homelessness?

BetterPod

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2022 24:41


In the depths of the Covid pandemic, it could be hard to find good news. But design critic Alice Rawsthorn and MOMA curator Paola Antonelli saw hope in the practical solutions coming from the design community.They started an Instagram interview series in which they met designers tackling the biggest challenges of our times – from homelessness to climate change, and the refugee crisis to racism, misogyny, and the collapse of social justice. It was a huge hit with viewers, who were stuck at home and hungry for conversations about how the post-pandemic world could be improved for everyone. That series has now become a book – Design Emergency: Building a Better Future. It aims to offer inspiration by highlighting the people “at the forefront of practical and radical change”. Among those featured is Peter Barber, an architect with a progressive new vision about how to house people as they make their way out of homelessness.Rawsthorn and Barber joined Sophie Dimitrijevic and Laura Kelly for this week's BetterPod – The Big Issue's weekly interview podcast that asks how we can act today for a better tomorrow. Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Blueprint - Separate stories
Designers solving the world's intractable problems

Blueprint - Separate stories

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 10, 2022 15:53


Via their Instagram page Design.Emergency Alice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli have brought designers together to tackle some of the worlds intractable problems.

Blueprint for Living - ABC RN
Genealogy for homes, design to the rescue, Anna Wintour, and the history of the public loo.

Blueprint for Living - ABC RN

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 10, 2022 54:07


Via their Instagram page Design.Emergency Alice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli have brought designers together to tackle some of the worlds intractable problems. Journalist Amy Odell discusses her biography of the fashion industry's most powerful influencer Anna Wintour. New Zealanders have kicked off a citizen historian fad thanks to a new book from Dr Christine Whybrew of Heritage NZ called How to Research Your House. It helps you discover the genealogy of your home and uncover secrets of its past. Toilet, loo, powder room, the toot; no matter what you call it you use it everyday. In this week's Iconic Designs Colin Bisset casts his eye over the design evolution of the public toilet.

Time Sensitive Podcast
Paola Antonelli on Solving the World's Biggest Challenges Through Design

Time Sensitive Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later May 25, 2022 66:58


There is perhaps no one on the planet with a bigger-picture view on the impact of design—in all of its manifestations—than Paola Antonelli. As the Museum of Modern Art's senior curator of architecture and design as well as its director of R&D, Antonelli consistently expands notions and definitions of what might be considered “design,” and shows how, in no uncertain terms, design connects to practically everything we see, touch, hear, taste, smell, and do. With great passion and energy, she is the ultimate clear-eyed booster of this wide-ranging realm she holds dear. Antonelli's most recent output—the book Design Emergency: Building a Better Future (Phaidon)—is not only an outgrowth of her prolific 28-year career at MoMA (during which she has worked on related projects including the 2005 exhibition “Safe: Design Takes on Risk,” the 2015 book Design and Violence, and the 2019 Triennale di Milano exhibition “Broken Nature: Design Takes on Human Survival”), but also a result of the pandemic. During lockdown in spring 2020, Antonelli, together with the British design critic and writer Alice Rawsthorn, conceived and launched @designemergency on Instagram, a still-ongoing feed that highlights voices central to key global issues, all of them related to improving the world through design. The effort is yet another example of Antonelli's talent for synthesizing a vast array of provocative projects, designers, products, and ideas; bringing them to the forefront; and giving them much-needed attention. On this episode, Antonelli talks with Spencer about time as a frustration, the myth of speed, the importance of going with the flow, and the many design emergencies constantly taking place all around us.Special thanks to our Season 5 sponsor, L'ÉCOLE, School of Jewelry Arts.Show notes:Full transcript[04:15] Museum of Modern Art[04:15] @curiousoctopus[05:38] Objects of Design: From the Museum of Modern Art[06:09] “Machine Art”[12:54] “Humble Masterpieces”[15:44] “Mutant Materials in Contemporary Design”[17:42] “Design and the Elastic Mind”[25:14] “Neri Oxman: Material Ecology”[29:34] Design Emergency[29:34] Alice Rawsthorn[33:43] @design.emergency[45:18] “Items: Is Fashion Modern?”[47:02] The 3,000-Year History of the Hoodie[51:03] “Safe: Design Takes On Risk”[01:04:45] Design and Violence

The Grand Tourist with Dan Rubinstein
Paola Antonelli: A Curator on a Mission

The Grand Tourist with Dan Rubinstein

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 20, 2022 56:04 Very Popular


As one of the leading design curators in the world, MoMA's Paola Antonelli has consistently led the global conversation in her field. On this episode, Dan speaks with Antonelli about her new book with critic Alice Rawsthorn, “Design Emergency,” getting the job that would change the course of her life, and how design can truly build a better future. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

'By Design' by Sir John Soane's Museum in partnership with Luke Irwin
By Design Season Two - Interior Designer Ilse Crawford in conversation with Alice Rawsthorn

'By Design' by Sir John Soane's Museum in partnership with Luke Irwin

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2022 37:22


Interior designer Ilse Crawford In conversation with Will Gompertz. By Design, the sell out talk series created by Sir John Soane Museum in partnership with Luke Irwin, returns for its second season. The series in which leading designers discuss an object that has inspired them in some way, and through it discuss and dissect their own design practice returns as a collection of filmed conversations. Will Gompertz, Artistic Director at the Barbican, and Alice Rawsthorn, award-winning design writer and critic, will co-host the series exploring how design has impacted the lives of five internationally-renowned designers, framed around one item which has informed their careers The series includes international fashion designer Erdem Moralioglu, award winning architect Amanda Levete, and fine artist Phyllida Barlow. www.lukeirwin.com www.soane.org

'By Design' by Sir John Soane's Museum in partnership with Luke Irwin
By Design Season Two - Fine Artist Phyllida Barlow in discussion with Will Gompertz

'By Design' by Sir John Soane's Museum in partnership with Luke Irwin

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2022 43:03


Fine artist Phyllida Barlow In conversation with Will Gompertz. By Design, the sell out talk series created by Sir John Soane Museum in partnership with Luke Irwin, returns for its second season. The series in which leading designers discuss an object that has inspired them in some way, and through it discuss and dissect their own design practice returns as a collection of filmed conversations. Will Gompertz, Artistic Director at the Barbican, and Alice Rawsthorn, award-winning design writer and critic, will co-host the series exploring how design has impacted the lives of five internationally-renowned designers, framed around one item which has informed their careers The series includes international fashion designer Erdem Moralioglu, interior designer Ilse Crawford, and fine artist Amanda Levete. www.lukeirwin.com www.soane.org

'By Design' by Sir John Soane's Museum in partnership with Luke Irwin
By Design Season Two - Award Winning Architect Amanda Levete in discussion with Will Gompertz

'By Design' by Sir John Soane's Museum in partnership with Luke Irwin

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 10, 2022 51:35


Award winning architect Amanda Levete In conversation with Will Gompertz. By Design, the sell out talk series created by Sir John Soane Museum in partnership with Luke Irwin, returns for its second season. The series in which leading designers discuss an object that has inspired them in some way, and through it discuss and dissect their own design practice returns as a collection of filmed conversations. Will Gompertz, Artistic Director at the Barbican, and Alice Rawsthorn, award-winning design writer and critic, will co-host the series exploring how design has impacted the lives of five internationally-renowned designers, framed around one item which has informed their careers The series includes international fashion designer Erdem Moralioglu, interior designer Ilse Crawford, and fine artist Phyllida Barlow. www.lukeirwin.com www.soane.org

'By Design' by Sir John Soane's Museum in partnership with Luke Irwin
By Design Season Two - Fashion Designer Erdem Moralıoğlu in conversation with Alice Rawsthorn

'By Design' by Sir John Soane's Museum in partnership with Luke Irwin

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 10, 2022 41:36


By Design, the sell out talk series created by Sir John Soane Museum in partnership with Luke Irwin, returns for its second season. The series in which leading designers discuss an object that has inspired them in some way, and through it discuss and dissect their own design practice returns as a collection of filmed conversations. Will Gompertz, Artistic Director at the Barbican, and Alice Rawsthorn, award-winning design writer and critic, will co-host the series exploring how design has impacted the lives of five internationally-renowned designers, framed around one item which has informed their careers The series includes interior designer Ilse Crawford, fine artist Phyllida Barlow, and award winning architect Amanda Levete. www.lukeirwin.com

Designaholic
designaholic ep:22 — Kassim Vera

Designaholic

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 10, 2021 49:50


En este episodio JD platica con Kassim Vera, Jefe de Diseño y Multidisciplina en la Secretaría de Cultura del Gobierno de Jalisco sobre la importancia del diseño llevado a la ciudadanía.Kassim es Jefe de Diseño y Multidisciplina en la Secretaría de Cultura del Gobierno de Jalisco y Profesor de Diseño en el Tecnológico de Monterrey. Fue uno de los seleccionados por el British Council México y la University of the Arts London para cursar el primer Creative Leadership Programme en Reino Unido. Fundó Emerge MX, plataforma de crítica de diseño, en donde moderó discusiones públicas con personas como Alice Rawsthorn y Deyan Sudjic. Dirigió el Programa Académico de Campamento Feria de Diseño junto a Lorena Canales. Ha escrito para Mexico Design y form Design Magazine en Alemania, además de editar la primer publicación de BKT mobiliario urbano.Puedes Seguir a Kassim Verawww.instagram.com/kassimveraShow Notes y Links relacionados a este episodiohttp://designaholic.mx/episodios/kassim-vera/No te pierdas nuestros episodios, publicamos todos los Martes y Jueves a las 7pmSiguenos en: Instagram https://www.instagram.com/designaholic.mxFacebook https://www.facebook.com/designaholicmx/Twitter https://twitter.com/designaholicmx Suscríbete a nuestro newsletter semanal “Las 5 de la Semana” aquí: https://bit.ly/30yyPD0Nuestra página web es: http://designaholic.mxTambién te dejo mi cuenta personal donde además de publicar sobre mi estudio y los proyectos que hacemos, comparto mucho más sobre Arte, Arquitectura y Diseño. Instagram https://www.instagram.com/jd_etienneTwitter https://www.twitter.com/jd_etienne See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Serpentine Galleries
Back to Earth: 140 Ideas - Nahum

Serpentine Galleries

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2021 5:04


Back to Earth presents a new mini-podcast series inspired by the publication of 140 Artists' Ideas for Planet Earth, a collaboration between Serpentine and Penguin. Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist & Kostas Stasinopoulos, this book is part of Back to Earth, Serpentine's long-term project dedicated to the environment and the climate emergency. For this podcast series we've invited five artists from the book to share their contributions and take us on a journey through actions and thoughts their instructions might inspire. In this episode, artist and musician Nahum invites us to experience intimacy with our planet and our galaxy. Exploring earthbound existence, through visible and invisible connections, Nahum encourages listeners to open their mouths when it's raining, swallow a piece of cloud and travel to outer space. Back to Earth is curated and produced by Rebecca Lewin, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Lucia Pietroiusti, Jo Paton, Holly Shuttleworth and Kostas Stasinopoulos. Special thanks to Bettina Korek, CEO of Serpentine, Bloomberg Philanthropies and all the advisors Claude Adjil, Brian Eno, Alice Rawsthorn, Kevin Conroy Scott and Yesomi Umolu for their insightful advice on this book. This series of five artist episodes is produced by Deborah Shorinde for Reduced Listening, with music from Femi Oriogun-Williams.

Serpentine Galleries
Back to Earth: 140 Ideas - Maya Lin

Serpentine Galleries

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2021 4:30


Back to Earth presents a new mini-podcast series inspired by the publication of 140 Artists' Ideas for Planet Earth, a collaboration between Serpentine and Penguin. Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist & Kostas Stasinopoulos, this book is part of Back to Earth, Serpentine's long-term project dedicated to the environment and the climate emergency. For this podcast series we've invited five artists from the book to share their contributions and take us on a journey through actions and thoughts their instructions might inspire. In this episode, artist and environmentalist Maya Lin invites us to give half our yard back to nature and explores how implementing nature-based solutions in agriculture and forestry has a substantial effect in the climate emergency. Back to Earth is curated and produced by Rebecca Lewin, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Lucia Pietroiusti, Jo Paton, Holly Shuttleworth and Kostas Stasinopoulos. Special thanks to Bettina Korek, CEO of Serpentine, Bloomberg Philanthropies and all the advisors Claude Adjil, Brian Eno, Alice Rawsthorn, Kevin Conroy Scott and Yesomi Umolu for their insightful advice on this book. This series of five artist episodes is produced by Deborah Shorinde for Reduced Listening, with music from Femi Oriogun-Williams.

Serpentine Galleries
Back to Earth: 140 Ideas - Cauleen Smith

Serpentine Galleries

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2021 4:15


Back to Earth presents a new mini-podcast series inspired by the publication of 140 Artists' Ideas for Planet Earth, a collaboration between Serpentine and Penguin. Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist & Kostas Stasinopoulos, this book is part of Back to Earth, Serpentine's long-term project dedicated to the environment and the climate emergency. For this podcast series we've invited five artists from the book to share their contributions and take us on a journey through actions and thoughts their instructions might inspire. In this episode, filmmaker Cauleen Smith talks us through a summer cocktail recipe for colonizers, asks us to consider our direct relationship with our surroundings and encourages us to think about our own culpability, violence and extraction. Back to Earth is curated and produced by Rebecca Lewin, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Lucia Pietroiusti, Jo Paton, Holly Shuttleworth and Kostas Stasinopoulos. Special thanks to Bettina Korek, CEO of Serpentine, Bloomberg Philanthropies and all the advisors Claude Adjil, Brian Eno, Alice Rawsthorn, Kevin Conroy Scott and Yesomi Umolu for their insightful advice on this book. This series of five artist episodes is produced by Deborah Shorinde for Reduced Listening, with music from Femi Oriogun-Williams.

Serpentine Galleries
Back to Earth: 140 Ideas - Bhanu Kapil

Serpentine Galleries

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 7, 2021 5:37


Back to Earth presents a new mini-podcast series inspired by the publication of 140 Artists' Ideas for Planet Earth, a collaboration between Serpentine and Penguin. Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist & Kostas Stasinopoulos, this book is part of Back to Earth, Serpentine's long-term project dedicated to the environment and the climate emergency. For this podcast series we've invited five artists from the book to share their contributions and take us on a journey through actions and thoughts their instructions might inspire. In this episode, poet Bhanu Kapil shares a creative gesture to link cosmic energy to the earthly domain and an instruction for all those fighting for climate justice focusing on the question: What do you never want to experience in this space? Back to Earth is curated and produced by Rebecca Lewin, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Lucia Pietroiusti, Jo Paton, Holly Shuttleworth and Kostas Stasinopoulos. Special thanks to Bettina Korek, CEO of Serpentine, Bloomberg Philanthropies and all the advisors Claude Adjil, Brian Eno, Alice Rawsthorn, Kevin Conroy Scott and Yesomi Umolu for their insightful advice on this book. This series of five artist episodes is produced by Deborah Shorinde for Reduced Listening, with music from Femi Oriogun-Williams.

Serpentine Galleries
Back to Earth: 140 Ideas - Tomás Saraceno

Serpentine Galleries

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2021 5:06


Back to Earth presents a new mini-podcast series inspired by the publication of 140 Artists' Ideas for Planet Earth, a collaboration between Serpentine and Penguin. Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist & Kostas Stasinopoulos, this book is part of Back to Earth, Serpentine's long-term project dedicated to the environment and the climate emergency. For this podcast series we've invited five artists from the book to share their contributions and take us on a journey through actions and thoughts their instructions might inspire. In this episode, Tomás Saraceno invites us to listen to the spider playing its web at night inside our homes. We are encouraged to move away from a fear of spiders (arachnophobia) and towards a love of spiders (arachnophilia), both here and in Webs of Life, presented by Serpentine and AcuteArt. With vibrations from the Arachnophilia community: Nephila senegalensis, Pardosa lugubris, Cyrtophora citricola, Habronattus dossenus from the Arachnophilia Archives recorded at Studio Tomás Saraceno. Back to Earth is curated and produced by Rebecca Lewin, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Lucia Pietroiusti, Jo Paton, Holly Shuttleworth and Kostas Stasinopoulos. Special thanks to Bettina Korek, CEO of Serpentine, Bloomberg Philanthropies and all the advisors Claude Adjil, Brian Eno, Alice Rawsthorn, Kevin Conroy Scott and Yesomi Umolu for their insightful advice on this book. This series of five artist episodes is produced by Deborah Shorinde for Reduced Listening, with music from Femi Oriogun-Williams.

Serpentine Galleries
Back to Earth: 140 Ideas - Introduction

Serpentine Galleries

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 18, 2021 5:13


A new mini-podcast series inspired by the publication of 140 Artists' Ideas for Planet Earth, a collaboration between Serpentine and Penguin. Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist & Kostas Stasinopoulos, this book is part of Back to Earth, Serpentine's long-term project dedicated to the environment and the climate emergency. Back to Earth invites practitioners to respond to the environmental crisis and in this publication, 140 artists, scientists, architects and more continue this work & come together to create a ‘do-it-yourself' guide on how to shape a more ecological, equitable future. The result is a compendium of recipes, sketches, photographs, essays, spells, and instructions that ask us to engage with the climate emergency in new and imaginative ways in our own lives. For this podcast series we've invited 5 artists from the book to share their contributions and take us on a journey through actions and thoughts their instructions might inspire. Bhanu Kapil shares instructions for mixed groups of artists, poets, activists and all those working for climate justice, Tomás Saraceno invites us to listen to the spider playing its web at night inside our homes, Cauleen Smith shares advice for urban farmers and a cocktail recipe for colonisers, Maya Lin explores what happens when we surrender our yards back to nature and Nahum invites us to swallow a piece of cloud and travel to outer space. Back to Earth is curated and produced by Rebecca Lewin, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Lucia Pietroiusti, Jo Paton, Holly Shuttleworth and Kostas Stasinopoulos. Special thanks to Bettina Korek, CEO of Serpentine, Bloomberg Philanthropies and all the advisors Claude Adjil, Brian Eno, Alice Rawsthorn, Kevin Conroy Scott and Yesomi Umolu for their insightful advice on this book. This series of five artist episodes is produced by Deborah Shorinde for Reduced Listening, with music from Femi Oriogun-Williams

Material Matters with Grant Gibson
Paola Antonelli on curating.

Material Matters with Grant Gibson

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 9, 2020 46:59


As regular listeners will know the idea behind the show is that I speak to a designer, maker, artist or architect about a material or technique with which they’re intrinsically linked and discover how it changed their lives and careers. However, every once in a while I mix the format up a bit and talk to someone who has an overview of the design world. This is one of those occasions.Paola Antonelli is senior curator at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in the Department of Architecture & Design, as well as the institution’s founding director of Research and Development. Over more than 25 years at the museum, she’s curated shows such as: Mutant Materials in Contemporary Design, Workspheres, and Design and the Elastic Mind. Most recently, she has been responsible for Broken Nature in Milan’s Triennale in 2019 and Neri Oxman: Material Ecology. She has lectured and given talks all over the world and picked up a fistful of awards, including 2020’s London Design Medal. In collaboration with writer Alice Rawsthorn, her latest project, entitled Design Emergencies, is a series of interviews on Instagram, which investigate design’s importance during the pandemic.In this episode we discuss: coping with the crisis at MoMA; why she co-created Design Emergencies as the virus took hold; falling into curating; the importance of rejection; creating the museum’s first-ever website; and how computer code is as fragile as ceramics. Find out more about MoMA hereAnd you can sign up to my newsletter hereSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/materialmatters?fan_landing=true)

Architecture&Anthropocene
Enzo Mari Costellazione – Episode 1 – Hans Ulrich Obrist

Architecture&Anthropocene

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2020 30:30


“Committed, passionate, ingenious, resourceful, elegant and utterly uncompromising, Enzo Mari is one of the most fascinating designers of our time.” Series host Alice Rawsthorn sits down with the curator of the Enzo Mari retrospective at Triennale Milano to discuss how he approaches an exhibition about “the many faces of Mari”.

Architecture&Anthropocene
Enzo Mari Costellazione – Episode 2 – Martino Gamper

Architecture&Anthropocene

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2020 35:32


“Committed, passionate, ingenious, resourceful, elegant and utterly uncompromising, Enzo Mari is one of the most fascinating designers of our time.” Series host Alice Rawsthorn sits down with London-based designer Martino Gamper, who remembers his uncompromising master Enzo Mari.

Architecture&Anthropocene
Enzo Mari Costellazione – Episode 3 – Paola Antonelli

Architecture&Anthropocene

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2020 26:21


“Committed, passionate, ingenious, resourceful, elegant and utterly uncompromising, Enzo Mari is one of the most fascinating designers of our time.” Design curator Paola Antonelli and Alice Rawsthorn discuss Mari’s influence on today’s understanding of design: from his project of the Milanese Panettoni to the masterpiece Proposta per un’Autoprogettazione.

Architecture&Anthropocene
Enzo Mari Costellazione – Episode 5 – Marva Griffin Wilshire

Architecture&Anthropocene

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2020 32:00


“Committed, passionate, ingenious, resourceful, elegant and utterly uncompromising, Enzo Mari is one of the most fascinating designers of our time.” Marva Griffin, Founder and Curator of SaloneSatellite and Director of Salone del Mobile’s International Press Office, discusses Mari’s role as an “outsider” of the design world with Alice Rawsthorn.

Architecture&Anthropocene
Enzo Mari Costellazione – Episode 6 – Stefano Boeri and Hans Ulrich Obrist

Architecture&Anthropocene

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2020 35:36


“Committed, passionate, ingenious, resourceful, elegant and utterly uncompromising, Enzo Mari is one of the most fascinating designers of our time.” Stefano Boeri, President of Triennale Milano, remembers his long-term friendship with Enzo Mari in conversation with Alice Rawsthorn and Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Architecture&Anthropocene
Enzo Mari Costellazione – Trailer

Architecture&Anthropocene

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 22, 2020 1:07


“Committed, passionate, ingenious, resourceful, elegant and utterly uncompromising, Enzo Mari is one of the most fascinating designers of our time.” Design critic and writer Alice Rawsthorn collaborates with Hans Ulrich Obrist, curator of the Triennale Milano’s Enzo Mari retrospective, on Enzo Mari Costellazione: a podcast in which Mari’s friends and collaborators share their memories and observations of the designer. Architect Stefano Boeri describes him as “a constellation”. Curator Paola Antonelli sees him as “the conscience of Italian design”. While designer Martino Gamper remembers Enzo Mari as having “insulted me in a way that I’ve never been insulted by another designer.” Marva Griffin Wilshire, founder and creator of Salone Satelline, defines him as “an outsider” whilst design duo Formafantasma unfolds the influence Enzo Mari had on their work about the “implication of production” in design processes. As Hans Ulrich Obrist discusses with Alice Rawsthorn: “the exhibition is an exhibition about the many Maris”. Enzo Mari Costellazione is brought to you by Triennale Milano Host: Alice Rawsthorn Sound editing and recording: Spiritland Productions Produced by Marco Martello and Martina Corbella

Strefa Designu Uniwersytetu SWPS
MASTERS: Design Emergency: creativity during pandemic - Alice Rawsthorn

Strefa Designu Uniwersytetu SWPS

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 14, 2020 64:39


What is Design Emergency? It is an Instagram platform created by two of the world's most important women of design: Alice Rawsthorn – design critic, author of the book "Design as an Attitude", who will be our guest, and Paola Antonelli – Senior Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design, and Director of Research and Development at Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City. During the meeting, Agata Bisping – a producer of design and architecture exhibitions and cultural events – will talk with Alice about unlimited resources, creativity and willingness to reach for new, surprising and innovative solutions. These innovations help protect us from the pandemic and prepare us to redesign and reconstruct our lives in the future. Alice and Agata will show specific examples of activities resulting from the cooperation of designers, who join forces in the fight against the pandemic, and its long-term – social, political, economic and ecological – consequences. Alice Rawsthorn an award-winning design critic and author, whose books include "Hello World: Where Design Meets Life" and, most recently, "Design as an Attitude". Her weekly design column for The New York Times was syndicated worldwide for over a decade. Born in Manchester and based in London, Alice is chair of the boards of trustees at The Hepworth Wakefield art gallery in Yorkshire and Chisenhale Gallery in London, and a founding member of the Writers for Liberty campaign for human rights. Alice has been awarded an OBE for services to design and the arts. She is a co-founder with Paola Antonelli of the Design Emergency project to investigate design’s response to the Covid-19 crisis and its aftermath. Agata Bisping hosts meetings and webinars on design-related topics, the originator of MISTRZOWIE/MASTERS interview series for Design Space of SWPS University.

Talk Art
Alice Rawsthorn OBE (QuarARTine special episode)

Talk Art

Play Episode Listen Later May 18, 2020 71:37


Russell & Robert meet Alice Rawsthorn OBE, the award-winning British design critic and author. Based in London, she is chair of the boards of trustees at Chisenhale Gallery in East London and The Hepworth Wakefield art gallery in Yorkshire. Alice was awarded an OBE for services to design and the arts.We discuss growing up in Manchester, studying at Cambridge University, her role as design critic for New York Times with a weekly column that ran for more than a decade, her experiences as a Turner Prize judge in 1999 and as director of the Design Museum in London from 2001-2006. An influential public speaker and social media commentator on design, Alice has participated in important global events including TED and the annual meetings of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Her TED talk has been viewed by over a million people worldwide. We learn of her passion for the Michael Clarke Dance Company, the box furniture of Louise Brigham, the challenges and rewards from being a trustee of arts organisations and the specific challenges art spaces face during and post the current global pandemic.Finally we learn about @Design.Emergency, a new project set up by MoMA's senior curator of design Paola Antonelli with Alice to explore design’s role and impact on the COVID-19 crisis and its aftermath. Since the coronavirus outbreak began, designers and their collaborators have come up with ingenious solutions to help protect the public from the pandemic, improve treatment facilities and methods, and prepare us for the future. The duo plan to publish a book on Design Emergency, and are beginning the project with a series of weekly Instagram Live talks.Follow @AliceRawsthorn on Twitter, @Alice.Rawsthorn on Instagram. For images of all artworks discussed in this episode visit @TalkArt. We've just joined Twitter too @TalkArtPodcast. If you've enjoyed this episode PLEASE leave us your feedback and maybe 5 stars if we're worthy in the Apple Podcast store. Thank you for listening to Talk Art, we will be back very soon. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Miu Miu Musings
Miu Miu Musings – London

Miu Miu Musings

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 13, 2020 40:12


The first lunch debate was hosted at Spring, London on June 18th, 2019 by Penny Martin with speeched for and against the motion by the journalist Lauren Collins and the design critic and author Alice Rawsthorn. These were followed by a free-flowing debate among guests including Dina Asher-Smith, Dr Anastasia Dedyukhina, Bella Freud, Susie Lau, Russell Tovey, Kirsty Wark and Peter York on the impact of mobile phones in today's world.

Podcast for Samtidskunst
'Mod klokkerne - prolog' af Sonja LaBianca

Podcast for Samtidskunst

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 17, 2019 30:57


Metaforer, samtaler, poesi, fiktion, fakta og anekdoter om klokker. Indsamlet af saxofonist og komponist Sonja LaBianca. KILDER‘Church Bell at Night’, Samuel Barber; ‘The Bells’, Edgar Allan Poe; ‘Bells and Bellringing’, John Harrison; ‘Design Codes’, Alice Rawsthorn; ‘Ring them bells’, Bob Dylan; ‘Klokkeren fra Notre Dame’, Victor Hugo; ‘Glasklokken’, Sylvia Path; ‘Klokken’, HC Andersen; ‘Carillion’, Wikipedia‘Casting a Bell’, The Verdin Company; ‘The Stranger’, Orson Welles; ‘Mesterjakob’, Fransk middelalder munk; ‘Vejledning om Klokkeringning’, Kirkeministeriet; ‘Klokker’. Ordsprogogtalemåder.dk; ‘De der vandrede fra Omelas’, Ursula le Guin; ‘Bells’, Sonja LaBianca‘Ring my Bell’, Anita Ward MEDVIRKENDEHildegard Westerkamp, Deirdre Humphry, Heine Thorhauge Mathiasen, Signe & Lumi Lupnov, Henning Lundkvist, Alfonso Buil, Mai Dengsø, Præst Susanne Voss Pedersen, Cheryl Studer, Joanna Solvig Jansen, Tom O’Bedlam, Cæcilie Trier og Sonja LaBianca

POLI.RADIO
POLI.RADIO al Milano Design Film Festival - Alice Rawsthorn

POLI.RADIO

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 23, 2019 2:39


Milano Design Film Festival in pillole: Alice Rawsthorn. É stata descritta come “The best design critic in the entire world” e sarà la guest curator di questa edizione di MDFF! Scopritela con noi!

'By Design' by Sir John Soane's Museum in partnership with Luke Irwin

Multi disciplinary designer Martino Gamper explains how being asked to leave high school allowed him to find his passion, and innate talent, as a maker and designer. Martino Gamper’s practice spans design and art venues. Gamper has presented his works and projects internationally, Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London, V&A Museum, London, MIMOCA, Marugame, Japan, Palais De Tokyo, Paris, Museo del Risorgimento, Torino, Italy, The Modern Institute and the London Design Festival commission.

'By Design' by Sir John Soane's Museum in partnership with Luke Irwin

Es Devlin shares the alchemy involved in creating national experiences and group memory. Es Devlin is an artist and designer known for her recent large scale collective poetry work in Trafalgar Square: PLEASE FEED THE LIONS, 2018. Her stage sculptures include collaborations with Beyonce, Kanye West, U2, The Weekend, Adele, The Royal Opera House, The National Theatre and the London and Rio Olympic Ceremonies.

'By Design' by Sir John Soane's Museum in partnership with Luke Irwin

An intimate discussion about the power of spaces born of Adjaye’s own experience growing up. His brother who is a wheel chair user was regular unable to access buildings and this evolved to a personal crusade that national spaces should be for all. Sir David Adjaye OBE is an architect who's Smithsonian Institution National Museum of African American History and Culture, opened on the National Mall in Washington DC in fall of 2016, this opening was named Cultural Event of the Year by the New York Times. In 2017, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II and was recognised as one of the 100 most influential people of the year by TIME magazine.

Design Matters with Debbie Millman

Debbie talks to Alice Rawsthorn about the growing status of design.

TED Radio Hour
The Power Of Design

TED Radio Hour

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 23, 2018 60:01


Design is all around us, but much of it could be better, bolder, more elegant. This episode, TED speakers on the essence of good design in buildings, brands, the digital realm and the natural world. Guests include designer Tony Fadell, architect Marc Kushner, Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia, design critic Alice Rawsthorn, and science writer Janine Benyus. (Original broadcast date: May 20, 2016).

TED Radio Hour
The Power of Design

TED Radio Hour

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 7, 2017 58:54


Design is all around us, but much of it could be better, bolder, more elegant. This episode, TED speakers on the essence of good design in buildings, brands, the digital realm and the natural world. Guests include computer engineer Tony Fadell, architect Marc Kushner, Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia, design critic Alice Rawsthorn, and science writer Janine Benyus. (Original broadcast date: May 20, 2016)

Saturday Review
Spielberg's The BFG, Adam Haslett's Imagine Me Gone, Eggleston portraits, LaBute's Some Girls

Saturday Review

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 23, 2016 35:57


The biggest film maker in contemporary Hollywood takes on a much-loved story by a master story teller. Stephen Spielberg directs Roald Dahl's The BFG. Adam Haslett's novel Imagine Me Gone deals with an unhappy family trying to find happiness stability and normality. An new exhibition of photographic portraits by William Eggleston provides an insight into his home life. Previously untitled works have now had the sitters identified, lending a new twist to the pictures Some Girls by Neil LaBute is revived at London's Park Theatre. It's an examination of fragile male psyche with ulterior motives Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Sathnam Sanghera, Alice Rawsthorn and Barb Jungr. The producer is Oliver Jones.

Frieze
'The Expanded Gallery - Mass Forms for Private Consumption' (Frieze Talks London 2007)

Frieze

Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2016 65:32


Emily King (design historian, London); Marc Newson (designer, London); Peter Saville (designer and artist, Manchester); Francesco Vezzoli (artist, Milan); Chaired by Alice Rawsthorn (design critic, London) at Frieze London 2007

TEDTalks 예술
검은 수염, 나이팅게일 그리고 다른 반역의 디자이너들 | 앨리스 로손(Alice Rawsthorn)

TEDTalks 예술

Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2016 11:44


디자인 혁명에 바치는 찬사로서 앨리스 로손은 이를 일궈낸 디자이너들의 작품들을 조명합니다. 검은 수염, 나이팅게일과 같이 대담한 사고의 소유자였던 이들에서부터 현대 디자인의 선지자라 할 수 있는 버크민스터 풀러 등을 통해 로손은 역사상 가장 위대했던 디자이너들이 얼마만큼 전복적이었는지를 보여줍니다.

TEDTalks Arte
Piratas, enfermeiras e outros designers rebeldes | Alice Rawsthorn

TEDTalks Arte

Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2016 11:44


Nesta ode aos renegados do design, Alice Rawsthorn destaca o trabalho de heróis improváveis, de Barba Negra a Florence Nightingale. Fazendo um histórico desde esses pensadores ousados até os primeiros visionários contemporâneos, como Buckminster Fuller, Rawsthorn nos mostra como normalmente os maiores designers são também os mais rebeldes.

TEDTalks Art
Pirates, infirmières et autres designers rebelles | Alice Rawsthorn

TEDTalks Art

Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2016 11:44


Dans cette ode aux renégats du design, Alice Rawsthorn souligne les exploits de héros improbables, comme Barbe Noire et Florence Nightingale. Retraçant l'histoire du design, depuis ces penseurs de génie, et jusqu'aux visionnaires des temps modernes, tel Buckminster Fuller, elle démontre que les plus grands designers sont souvent aussi les plus rebelles.

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Piratas, enfermeras y otros diseñadores rebeldes | Alice Rawsthorn

TEDTalks Arte

Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2016 11:44


En esta oda a los renegados del diseño, Alice Rawsthorn destaca el trabajo de héroes inverosímiles, desde Barbanegra a Florencia Nightingale. Trazando una línea desde estos pensadores audaces hasta algunos visionarios modernos tempranos como Buckminster Fuller, Rawsthorn muestra cómo los diseñadores más grandes son a menudo los más rebeldes.

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Pirates, nurses and other rebel designers | Alice Rawsthorn

TED Talks Art

Play Episode Listen Later May 3, 2016 11:44


In this ode to design renegades, Alice Rawsthorn highlights the work of unlikely heroes, from Blackbeard to Florence Nightingale. Drawing a line from these bold thinkers to some early modern visionaries like Buckminster Fuller, Rawsthorn shows how the greatest designers are often the most rebellious.

Saturday Review
Hamlet, Sensorium, 45 Years, Les Murray, Ascent of Woman

Saturday Review

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 29, 2015 41:59


Benedict Cumberbatch's Hamlet has been much-anticipated and every ticket was sold out a year in advance; will our critics be dazzled or disappointed? Sensorium at Tate Britain in London is a new exhibition which aims to stimulate all our senses as we view a selection of paintings. Can they enhance or distract us from the gallery experience? Tom Courtenay and Charlotte Rampling star in 45 Years, a British film about a couple celebrating their wedding anniversary when a long-forgotten event disturbs their happiness. Poet Les Murray has been declared by The National Trust of Australia as one of the 100 Australian Living Treasures. Now 76, he has just published his latest collection: Waiting For The Past BBC TV has begun a 4-part series The Ascent of Woman, looking at the history of women from the dawn of civilisation to the modern day. Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Tracy Chevalier, Alice Rawsthorn and Kathryn Hughes. The Producer is Oliver Jones.

Frieze
Architecture and the Museum

Frieze

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 1, 2012 59:37


Zaha Hadid, one of the world’s leading architects in conversation with Alice Rawsthorn

Tate Events
M/M (Paris) Talk

Tate Events

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 15, 2006 78:36


M/M speak about their practice and collaborations, and their position between the art and design worlds with Alice Rawsthorn, design critic of the International Herald Tribune.