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Design emergency: Building a better future
Alice Rawsthorn & Paola Antonelli Phaidon Press, 2022 $50
“We are at a crossroads, where we urgently need our lives to be radically redesigned and reconstructed after the grief and turmoil of the Covid-19 pandemic,” write well-regarded art and design critics and researchers Alice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli in the introduction to Design emergency. What follows is a fascinating and absorbing read, in the form of interviews with designers, engineers, scientists, economists, architects, artists and others who all have their own relationship with design and who are delivering the kind of innovations needed to secure humanity's future.
To set the scene, Alice contributes a history of design emergencies, followed by Paola's review of design in the time of Covid-19: jarringly recent and resonant!…
