Design Emergency

Paola Antonelli, Alice Rawsthorn

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Booking Overview

Design Emergency is a design-focused show pairing real-world problem solvers with a future-oriented lens—climate, migration, and technology as design challenges. It’s a strong PR platform for design leaders (especially women) whose work translates into tangible social or environmental impact.

Metrics

Episodes: 55

Frequency: Irregular

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: <1k

Gender skew: Female

Location: USA

Instagram: 55.0k followers

Contact Information

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Host

Paola Antonelli - Introduced as a design curator for Design Emergency, co-presenting episodes that highlight designers tackling major challenges such as the climate emergency and refugee crisis, and encouraging resp...

Alice Rawsthorn - Introduced as a design critic for Design Emergency, co-presenting episodes that highlight inspiring and ingenious designers whose success addresses major challenges including the climate emergency ...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high
Typical Credentials:  
Established, globally recognized designers (e.g., studio-led or author/design-research leaders) whose work addresses high-stakes challenges such as climate, displacement/refugees, or technology’s societal impacts; often with notable practice in areas like craft, book design, architecture, or socially engaged design.
Required Achievements:  
Significant acclaim/recognition in their design field, Groundbreaking work in design approaches (e.g., new materials/processes or book design experimentation), Demonstrated social or environmental impact through design practice

Recent Guest Discussions

Irma Boom - Future Of The Printed Book; Book Design Functions/forms/tactility/scent/printing/papers; Design Career And Influences; Collecting And Researching Historic Books

Recent Topics

Design, Architecture, Sustainability, Technology, Publishing

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Design Emergency
:

Francis Kéré on Building Stories

June 16, 2026

Francis Kéré, architect, educator, builder, and one of the most compelling advocates for architecture as a force for dignity, participation, and social transformation. Kéré’s architecture begins with people and for a building to exist, it has to traverse a process of listening, learning, and designing and fabricating together with the public it is meant for.Born in Gando, Burkina Faso, and based in Berlin, Kéré first came to international attention through a school he designed for his home vi...

Paola Antonelli and Alice Rawsthorn on Crafts

May 20, 2026

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 people made — textiles, sculptures, tools, paintings, ceramics, furniture — belonged to the same continuum of human creativity, skill, and material knowledge. Industrialization disrupted that...

Irma Boom on the Future of Book Design

April 14, 2026

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 Rawsthorn, why the printed book is too important to join all the other analogue objects that have become extinct in the digital age.Irma has designed some of the most beautiful, intriguing, original and sur...

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