Designing a Graceful Ending: A Conversation with Design Luminary Paola Antonelli

• Published in: Architectural design Vol. 85; no. 4; pp. 20 - 25
• Main Author: Luebkeman, Chris
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, UK John Wiley & Sons, Ltd 01.07.2015; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Accessibility; Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg; Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg, Designing for the Sixth Extinction; Antonio Sant'Elia; Architecture; Conversation; Curators; Designing for the Sixth Extinction; Designs For An Overpopulated Planet: Foragers; Dunne & Raby; Dunne & Raby, Designs For An Overpopulated Planet: Foragers; Fritz Lang's Metropolis; Hella Jongerius; Human; London 2012 Olympic Stadium; Marc Andreessen; Markus Kayser; Markus Kayser, Solar‐sintered Bowl; Mitchell Joachim; Mosaic interface; Netscape; Ren Ri; Rendering; Research and development; Ridley Scott's Blade Runner; Solar-sintered Bowl; Terreform ONE; the Internet; Tim Berners-Lee; Tomáš Gabzbil Libertíny (The Honeycomb Vase 'Made by Bees'); Touch; University of Illinois National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA); World Wide Web
• ISSN: 0003-8504; 1554-2769
• DOI: 10.1002/ad.1920

In his bid to discover how design might shape the future, Guest‐Editor Chris Luebkeman went to speak to Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator of the Department of Architecture and Design and Director of Research and Development at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. A passionate advocate of the power of design, Antonelli describes to Luebkeman how design can be a fundamental tool for the future, having the potential to intercede with empathy and a human touch between raw new technological advances and future users, rendering innovative technologies useable and accessible, and ultimately enabling a graceful and poetic end to the world as we know it.