Design Emergencies and the Power of Design. Interview with Paola Antonelli

Abstract

The interview with Paola Antonelli mostly focuses on the Design Emergency project she is curating together with Alice Rawsthorn as an experimental cultural initiative created in March-April 2020, during the first Covid-19 lockdown. By presenting the origin of the project and its main goals, she highlights the role of design in the pandemic and post-pandemic, and, more generally, in every crisis, when people need to adapt and deal with change. The presentation of some of the designers she met in this project concretely demonstrates the assumptions and approach: to make people understand the power and the importance of design.