Design Emergency
de Alice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli
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Welcome to Design Emergency, where the design curator Paola Antonelli and design critic Alice Rawsthorn will introduce you to the inspiring and ingenious designers whose success in tackling major challenges – from the climate emergency and refugee crisis, to ensuring that new technologies affect us positively, not negatively – gives us hope for the future.
Follow our Instagram @design.emergency to see images of all the design projects described in each episode.
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- Paola Antonelli and Alice Rawsthorn on Information Design · 32 min · Saison 7 Épisode 2In this new episode of Design Emergency, our cofounders, Paola Antonelli and Alice Rawsthorn, explore the rapidly expanding field of information design at a time when it is an…
- David Chipperfield on Architecture’s Priorities · 31 min · Saison 7 Épisode 1What are the most important challenges for architecture today? And what will they be in the future? One of the most influential architects of our time, David Chipperfield, talks…
- Francis Kéré on Building Stories · 33 min · Saison 6 Épisode 7Francis Kéré, architect, educator, builder, and one of the most compelling advocates for architecture as a force for dignity, participation, and social transformation. Kéré’s…
- Paola Antonelli and Alice Rawsthorn on Crafts · 34 min · Saison 6 Épisode 6In this episode of Design Emergency, Alice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli explore how craft has evolved into a powerful force for social, cultural, and environmental change…
- Irma Boom on the Future of Book Design · 47 min · Saison 6 Épisode 5What is the future of the printed book? Does it have one? And, if so what will it consist of? Who better to answer this than the woman who is inconstestably the greatest book…
- Paola Antonelli and Alice Rawsthorn celebrate the Hidden Heroines of Design on International Women’s Day 2026 · 31 min · Saison 6 Épisode 4Happy International Women’s Day! One of Alice and Paola’s favourite episodes of Design Emergency every year is the International Women’s Day Special in which they celebrate some…
- Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley on Biotic Architecture · 38 min · Saison 6 Épisode 3Architecture has long treated bacteria as an enemy to be controlled—dangerous foreign agents to be sealed out, sterilized, or erased. In their new book, We the Bacteria: Notes…
- Paola Antonelli and Alice Rawsthorn celebrate Women in Tech on Ada Lovelace Day · 26 min · Saison 6 Épisode 2Every year, the second Tuesday in October is designated as Ada Lovelace Day as a tribute to its namesake, Ada Lovelace, the 19th century mathematician and pioneering computer…
- Maya Bird-Murphy on Architecture and Communities · 25 min · Saison 6 Épisode 1How can we empower more people, particularly young people from disinvested communities, to engage with architecture, and to use it as a tool to improve their daily lives and…
- David Gissen on the Architecture of Disability · 37 min · Saison 5 Épisode 8Architecture’s traditional approach to disability revolves around “fixing problems” by securing adaptations that will allow disabled people to access the ideal world of full…
- Tosin Oshinówò on Designing Africa’s Future · 39 min · Saison 5 Épisode 7In this episode of Design Emergency podcast, the Nigerian architect, Tosin Oshinówò, tells our cofounder, Alice Rawsthorn, how design and architecture can help to forge a fairer…
- Paola Antonelli and Alice Rawsthorn on Design and Infrastructure · 36 min · Saison 5 Épisode 6Infrastructure is one of the most important areas of design, but is mostly ignored – until it goes horribly wrong. At a time when global investment in developing new forms of…
- Hilary Cottam on Redesigning Work · 31 min · Saison 5 Épisode 5What 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…
- Sadie Red Wing on Indigenous design · 36 min · Saison 5 Épisode 4One of the deepest, most often overlooked emergencies in the design world is the erasure of Indigenous knowledge systems—and the continued exclusion of Indigenous voices from the…
- Hidden Heroines of Design · 25 min · Saison 5 Épisode 3Who 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…
- Julia Watson on Design and Water · 41 min · Saison 5 Épisode 2As 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…
- Pirjo Haikola on Designing for the Ocean · 27 min · Saison 5 Épisode 1Coral are tough clients, as Pirjo Haikola knows well. The Finnish designer is renowned for her work on coral reef conservation and ocean biodiversity. Now based at the…
- Paola Antonelli and Alice Rawsthorn on Design and Human Rights · 26 min · Saison 4 Épisode 5How 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…
- Yvonne Jewkes on Design and Prisons · 40 min · Saison 4 Épisode 4How 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…
- Domestic Data Streamers on data and emotions · 34 min · Saison 4 Épisode 3Why should we care about data? Not only because “data is the new oil,” as British mathematician Clive Humby famously said in 2006, but also because data sets can contain the…
