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In this talk Alice Rawsthorn explores how design is responding to complex social, political and environmental challenges. Investigating different aspects of contemporary design, from the deepening environmental/refugee crises and ominous new technologies, to reinventing dysfunctional social services.
Alice Rawsthorn is an award-winning design critic and the author of critically acclaimed books on design, including Hello World: Where Design Meets Life and, most recently, Design as an Attitude. Alice 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.