Design Emergency: Building a Better Future Phaidon Book
About the book Design Emergency tells the stories of the remarkable designers, architects, engineers, artists, scientists, and activists, who are at the forefront of positive change worldwide. Focusing on four themes - Technology, Society, Communication, and Ecology - Alice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli present a unique portrait of how our great…
About the book
Design Emergencytells the stories of the remarkable designers, architects, engineers, artists, scientists, and activists, who are at the forefront of positive change worldwide. Focusing on four themes - Technology, Society, Communication, and Ecology - Alice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli present a unique portrait of how our great creative minds are developing new design solutions to the major challenges of our time, while helping us to benefit from advances in science and technology.
About the author
Alice Rawsthorn is an award-winning design critic and author whose latest books include Design as an Attitudeand Hello World: Where Design Meets Life. Based in London, she wrote a weekly design column for the New York Timesfor over a decade.
Paola Antonelli is a celebrated curator of contemporary architecture and design based in New York at The Museum of Modern Art. Her recent endeavors, include the online projectDesign and Violenceand the exhibitionBroken Nature.
