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Design Emergency

Alice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli

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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Episodes

58 episodes

  1. Hugh Herr on Designing Bodies 35:04
  2. Paola Antonelli and Alice Rawsthorn on Information Design 31:35
  3. David Chipperfield on Architecture’s Priorities 30:56
  4. Francis Kéré on Building Stories 32:54
  5. Paola Antonelli and Alice Rawsthorn on Crafts 33:38
  6. Irma Boom on the Future of Book Design 46:32
  7. Paola Antonelli and Alice Rawsthorn celebrate the Hidden Heroines of Design on International Women’s Day 2026 30:45
  8. Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley on Biotic Architecture 37:46
  9. Paola Antonelli and Alice Rawsthorn celebrate Women in Tech on Ada Lovelace Day 25:57
  10. Maya Bird-Murphy on Architecture and Communities 25:05
  11. David Gissen on the Architecture of Disability 36:34
  12. Tosin Oshinówò on Designing Africa’s Future 38:37
  13. Paola Antonelli and Alice Rawsthorn on Design and Infrastructure 35:47
  14. Hilary Cottam on Redesigning Work 31:23
  15. Sadie Red Wing on Indigenous design 36:20
  16. Hidden Heroines of Design 24:59
  17. Julia Watson on Design and Water 41:08
  18. Pirjo Haikola on Designing for the Ocean 27:24
  19. Paola Antonelli and Alice Rawsthorn on Design and Human Rights 26:09
  20. Yvonne Jewkes on Design and Prisons 39:45
  21. Domestic Data Streamers on data and emotions 34:06
  22. Philippe Rahm on Climatic Architecture 39:00
  23. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on Climate Action 31:12
  24. Jeanne Gang on Architectural Grafting 38:27
  25. Liam Young on building better worlds 38:09
  26. Sinéad Burke on Design and Disabilities 55:56
  27. Kate Crawford on Technology and Power 31:29
  28. Design and Workers’ Rights 30:54
  29. Francesca Coloni on the refugee crisis 21:50
  30. Abeer Seikaly on the Power of Memory 29:55
  31. Hidden Heroines of Design 29:19
  32. Sputniko! aka Hiro Ozaki on speculative design and visionary entrepreneurship 26:57
  33. Limbo Accra on unfinished buildings 33:24
  34. Anjali Singhvi on investigative visual journalism 37:04
  35. Olalekan Jeyifous on eco-fiction and world-building 32:48
  36. Claudia Chwalisz on design and democracy 46:19
  37. Omar Degan on architecture and fragility 30:23
  38. Aqui Thami on design and communities 43:26
  39. Veena Sahajwalla on turning waste into new materials 32:33
  40. Fernando Laposse on the materials of design 25:30
  41. Magdalene Odundo on pots 47:16
  42. Yasmeen Lari on design and disasters 39:30
  43. Deema Assaf on greening the desert 29:16
  44. Gabriel Fontana on redesigning sports 27:12
  45. Paola Antonelli and Alice Rawsthorn on Design and Violence 31:10
  46. Piet Oudolf on design and plants 32:15
  47. Federica Fragapane on information design 25:25
  48. Slava Balbek on designing for Ukraine 36:44
  49. Julia Watson on indigenous design 43:54
  50. Paola Antonelli and Alice Rawsthorn on the Hidden Heroines of Design 32:12