# Alice Rawsthorn

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Beyond Aesthetics: Alice Rawsthorn on How Design Can Solve Global Challenges

To kick off our Solutions season – where we explore how to address today’s most pressing challenges – I’m joined by Alice Rawsthorn, an award-winning design critic, acclaimed author, and co-founder of Design Emergency, an initiative investigating design’s role in shaping a better future. In this ep…

Hilary Cottam on Redesigning Work

What 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 the pioneering social designer and social activist Hilary Cottam, who conducted five years of intensive research into how w…

Paola Antonelli and Alice Rawsthorn on Design and Infrastructure

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 to improve the design quality of the data networks…

Maya Bird-Murphy on Architecture and Communities

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, tells Alice Rawsthorn how she is addressing thi…

Paola Antonelli and Alice Rawsthorn celebrate Women in Tech on Ada Lovelace Day

Every 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 programmer who collaborated with Charles Babbage on the design of his remarkable mechanical computer, the Analytical Machine…

The MOP Talks. David Chipperfield

Una conversación entre David Chipperfield y Alice Rawsthorn. El arquitecto reflexiona sobre la evolución de la práctica arquitectónica contemporánea y su creciente responsabilidad frente a los desafíos urbanos y sociales. La charla se centra en temas como la integración de la arquitectura moderna …

Paola Antonelli and Alice Rawsthorn celebrate the Hidden Heroines of Design on International Women’s Day 2026

Happy 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 of the incredible female designers, who, despite their talent and achievements, haven’t been given the recognition they r…

Irma Boom on the Future of Book Design

What 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 designer of our time, the brilliant Irma Boom. In this episode of Design Emergency, Irma tells our cofounder, Alice Rawsthor…

Paola Antonelli and Alice Rawsthorn on Crafts

In 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.  Design, art, and craft have had a long, complex relationship. For most of human history they were inseparable: the objects pe…

David Chipperfield on Architecture’s Priorities

What 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 to our cofounder, Alice Rawsthorn, about the urgent need to respond to architecture’s new priorities from an environmenta…