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Disability Inclusion
Design Accessibility
Refugee Crisis
Data Visualization
Architecture
Investigative Visual Journalism
UNHCR
Tilting the Lens
Citizens' Assemblies
Calculating Empires
Emergency Architecture
Cultural Diversity
Fragility
Architectural Process
Unfinished Buildings
Bedouin Culture
Sudan
Ukraine
Workers' Rights

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.

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How 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 future prospects? Maya Bird-Murphy, the Chicago-based architect and educator... more

Architecture’s traditional approach to disability revolves around “fixing problems” by securing adaptations that will allow disabled people to access the ideal world of full biocapacity. Architect and scholar David Gissen wants to “shift the conversa... more

In 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, safer, more sustainable future for Africa.

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One of the gifted young ... more

Infrastructure 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 infrastructure is soaring, Alice and Paola discuss why it is so important t... more

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Recent Guests

Maya Bird-Murphy
Chicago-based social designer and educator
Mobile Makers
Episode: Maya Bird-Murphy on Architecture and Communities
David Gissen
Architect, historian, theorist, professor of architecture, and director of the Ph.D. program at Yale University.
Yale University
Episode: David Gissen on the Architecture of Disability
Tosin Oshinówò
Nigerian architect and Chief Curator of the Shajar Architecture Triennial
Oshinówò Studio
Episode: Tosin Oshinówò on Designing Africa’s Future
Hilary Cottam
Pioneering social designer and activist
Episode: Hilary Cottam on Redesigning Work
Sadie Red Wing
Dakota Lakota graphic designer, researcher, and educator
Arizona State University, University of Minnesota
Episode: Sadie Red Wing on Indigenous design
Julia Watson
Designer, ecologist, and activist, author of 'Lo-TEK Water'
Taschen
Episode: Julia Watson on Design and Water
Pirjo Haikola
Designer, researcher, scuba diving instructor, and ocean advocate
Episode: Pirjo Haikola on Designing for the Ocean
Yvonne Jewkes
Professor of Criminology at the University of Bath and author of An Architecture of Hope
University of Bath
Episode: Yvonne Jewkes on Design and Prisons
Pau Garcia
Co-founder of Domestic Data Streamers
Domestic Data Streamers
Episode: Domestic Data Streamers on data and emotions

Hosts

Alice Rawsthorn
Co-founder of Design Emergency and a noted design critic and author, acclaimed for her insights into design's impact on society.
Paola Antonelli
Founder of Design Emergency, she is a prominent design curator and author known for her work in integrating design with social issues.

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4.9 out of 5 stars from 57 ratings
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#148
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Maya Bird-Murphy on Architecture and Communities
Q: Why did you decide to launch Mobile Makers?
Maya shares that her experiences in the traditional architecture field revealed a lack of engagement with social issues, prompting her to create Mobile Makers as a solution.
Maya Bird-Murphy on Architecture and Communities
Q: Could you begin by describing how you discovered design, and why you decided to focus on developing new approaches to design education?
Maya describes her upbringing in Oak Park, Illinois, surrounded by Frank Lloyd Wright buildings, which sparked her interest in architecture. She realized many communities lacked access to design awareness, influencing her decision to focus on architecture education.
Sadie Red Wing on Indigenous design
Q: What would be the first thing to get rid of in the traditional Western curriculum?
Starting the canon at the printing press should be eliminated to acknowledge other significant historical forms of design.
Sadie Red Wing on Indigenous design
Q: What happens when a student doesn't know where they're coming from?
They struggle with their identity, making it difficult to recover their history and cultural significance in design.
Sadie Red Wing on Indigenous design
Q: Can you define the idea of visual sovereignty?
It refers to how to visually communicate identity and nationality, particularly for indigenous peoples, and ensure their representation.

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