2024

A History of Women in 101 Objects
Charleston Festival 2024, West Sussex, UK
27 May 2024
Alice will be in conversation with the German author Annabelle Hirsch on her book, A History of Women in 101 Objects, at the Charleston Festival 2024 in the historic farmhouse in East Sussex occupied by Vanessa Bell, Maynard Keynes and other members of the Bloomsbury Group.
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Francesca Coloni on design and the refugee crisis
Design Emergency podcast
03 April 2024
After eight years of field work on UNHCR's response to the refugee crisis, the Italian civil engineer-turned-humanitarian designer Francesca Coloni has run those operations globally. She tells Alice about UNHCR's responses to the mounting crises in Ukraine, Sudan and Uganda.
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Sentient Horizons 2024
ADI Design Museum, Milan, Italy
28 March 2024
Sentient Horizons is an annual series of debates in which Istituto Marangoni presents roundtable discussions on the impact of design's interaction with future technologies on our daily lives. Alice will participate in the 2024 programme at the ADI Design Museum in Milan.
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Design and Gender
Tecnologico de Monterrey Campus Querétaro, Mexico
20 March 2024
How have gender politics influenced design culture over time? How do they still determine the prospects for women designers, and the design of our daily lives? Alice will explore these issues in an online Creative Leaders talk at Tecnologico de Monterrey's Campus Querétaro.
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Hidden Heroines of Design
Design Emergency podcast
08 March 2024
Who are the hidden heroines of design? To celebrate International Women's Day 2024, Alice and her Design Emergency cofounder Paola Antonelli toast some of the inspiring and ingenious women designers whose achievements have yet to be fully acknowledged.
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Limbo Accra on Unfinished Buildings
Design Emergency podcast
07 February 2024
In this episode of the Design Emergency podcast, Dominique Saint-Frère and Emil Grip, cofounders of the spatial design and research studio Limbo Accra will tell Alice about their work in identifying, analysing and archiving unfinished buildings and how they are reinventing them.
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Design Emergency
Harvard University, Cambridge, US
25 January 2024
Alice will discuss the social, political and ecological design challenges explored by the Design Emergency project she co-founded in 2020 with Paola Antonelli of MoMA with the students on the Masters in Design Engineering course at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design.
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2023

Design Emergency and Biodesign
Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London, UK
01 December 2023
Alice gave a keynote on the evolution of biodesign in the context of Design Emergency, her collaboration with MoMA curator, Paola Antonelli, at the Bio-Calibrated: Tools and Techniques for Biodesign Practices symposium organised by CSM's MA Biodesign course.
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Claudia Chwalisz on design and democracy
Design Emergency podcast
29 November 2023
At a time when democracies are in crisis all over the world, Alice interviewed Canadian activist and author, Claudia Chwalisz, cofounder and CEO of the DemocracyNext research and action institute, on her campaign to use design to revitalise our democratic systems.
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Soane Medal Lecture
Sir John Soane's Museum, London, UK
28 November 2023
As chair of the jury for the Soane Medal 2023, Alice was in conversation with the winners, French architects Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal, at this special event at the Soane Museum after they delivered the Soane Medal Lecture 2023 as a manifesto of their design ethos.
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Aqui Thami on design and healing
Design Emergency podcast
01 November 2023
How can design help to heal the trauma of deeply vulnerable people? How can it help them to go on to lead healthy and productive lives? Alice interviewed the Indian artist, activist and social designer Aqui Thami on her work in this field in this episode of Design Emergency podcast.
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Design as an Attitude
Elisava, Disseny Hub, Barcelona, Spain
25 October 2023
Alice gave the opening talk of the 2023/24 Elisava Masters Talks organised by the Elisava School of Design and Engineering in Barcelona on Design as an Attitude. The talk will explore the practice and possibilities of design as an agent of change now and in the near future.
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Observations: Moments in Design History
NGV, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
21 October 2023
How does design evolve over time? How do those changes reflect broader political and cultural shifts? What impact do they have on us today? Alice participated in Observations 2023, the online seminar series of the NGV, the National Gallery of Victoria, in Melbourne.
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Women at Work
National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
20 October 2023
To celebrate the publication of Women at Work, 1900 to Now, a book published by the National Portrait Gallery on prominent British women and their impact on society, Alice discussed the underlying issues at the NPG with the curator Flavia Frigeri and art historian Jennifer Higgie.
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A Potted History of Conversations with Flowers
Kew Gardens, London, UK
04 October 2023
In this talk for Prada in the Marianne North Gallery at Kew Gardens, Alice and the design curator Libby Sellers discussed the diverse ways in which we have interacted with flowers and other plants starting with the mid-19th century craze for botanical gardens, like Kew.
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Poulomi Basu on Maya: The Birth of a Superhero
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
23 September 2023
Alice was in conversation with the transmedia artist, film maker and activist Poulomi Basu at the V&A on 23 September. They discussed Poulomi's work, its relationship to her activism, and the development of her new immersive installation, Maya: The Birth of a Superhero.
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Magdalene Odundo on pots
Design Emergency podcast
20 September 2023
The great ceramicist Magdalene Odundo tells Alice how and why she has devoted her working life to making formally exquisite, technically refined pots that are steeped in the politics of her cultural identity as a Black woman born in Kenya and based in the UK.
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Monsoon School - Women and writing
Sister Library, Mumbai - online
15 September 2023
Sister Library, the feminist library and cultural centre in Mumbai, has chosen writing as the theme of this year's Monsoon School. Alice was one of five women writers who were invited to share their experience of writing in diverse media with the Monsoon School students.
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Design as an Attitude
International Design Conference, Manila, Philippines
14 September 2023
What does design mean to us now? And in the near future? How can it help to tackle complex, often terrifying challenges like the climate emergency, refugee crisis, conflict and inequality? Alice described how attitudinal design is addressing this in the keynote talk at the IDC 2023.
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Yasmeen Lari on design and disasters
Design Emergency podcast
06 September 2023
How can design help provide urgently needed resources to people who have ben displaced by horrific disasters? In this episode of the Design Emergency podcast, Alice interviewed the pioneering humanitarian architect Yasmeen Lari about her work in disaster relief in Pakistan.
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Deema Assaf on greening the desert
Design Emergency podcast
03 August 2023
How can design help to repair the devastating ecological damage caused by centuries of desertification in countries like Jordan? In this podcast episode the Jordanian architect and urban forester Deema Assaf tells Alice how she is growing new forests to green the desert.
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By Design with Alvaro Barrington
Sir John Soane Museum, London, UK
18 July 2023
“It’s my way of learning and unlearning things I’m curious about and things I’ve been told," says the artist Alvaro Barrington of his work.. Born in Caracas, Venezuela, he has been based in London since 2005. Alvaro is to be interviewed by Alice in this Soane Museum talk.
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Design and Violence
Design Emergency podcast
12 July 2023
One of design's most important roles throughout history has been to protect us from violence. In this episode of the Design Emergency podcast, Alice and her fellow founder, Paola Antonelli, discuss what this means today, and how design can help us to identity and curb violence.
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Piet Oudolf on design and plants
Design Emergency podcast
21 June 2023
Meet the great Piet Oudolf the Dutch plantsman and garden designer whose tells Alice how his love of wild, naturalistic plants has transformed our perceptions of gardens and landscapes and helped to revive hundreds of long forgotten species on the Design Emergency podcast.
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By Design with Roksanda Ilincic
Sir John Soane Museum, London, UK
19 June 2023
Why did Roksanda Ilincic decide to focus on fashion? How did she define the distinctive style of her clothes? And create an equally singular brand? Alice interviewed the Serbian-born, British-based fashion designer Roksanda Ilincic in this By Design talk at the Soane Museum.
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By Design with Tom Stuart-Smith
Sir John Soane's Museum, London, UK
05 June 2023
Tom Stuart-Smith discussed his work in garden design with Alice at the Soane Museum including new gardens at Chatsworth in Derbyshire and The Hepworth Wakefield in Yorkshire and the masterplan for one of Europe's biggest new gardens at RHS Garden Bridgewater in Salford.
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Design as an Attitude
European Design Awards, Luxembourg
03 June 2023
The European Design Awards are held in a different city each year, and the 2023 awards and the accompanying European Design Festival were in Luxembourg. Alice spoke about the central themes of her book, Design as an Attitude, on the day of the award ceremony.
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Slava Balbek on designing for Ukraine
Design Emergency - podcast
24 May 2023
What are design's responsibilities in horrific wars like Vladimir Putin's heinous and illegal conflict in Ukraine? Alice discussed what designers could - and should do - during and after wars with the Ukrainian architect Slava Balbek in this episode of the Design Emergency podcast.
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The World Around
Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
20 April 2023
Alice spoke on the need for critical debate in design at The World Around, the 2023 edition of the annual summit at the Guggenheim Museum in New York on Architecture's Now, Near and Next. Among her fellow speakers were Deema Asaf, Tatiana Bilbao and Es Devlin.
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Prada Frames symposium - Materials in Flux
Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense, Milan, Italy
18 April 2023
Materials in Flux was the theme of the 2023 Prada Frames symposium at Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense in Milan. Curated by Formafantasma and Prada, the symposium explored the concept of waste as matter in transition. Alice spoke at two of the sessions on 18 and 19 April.
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Design Emergency
Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China - by Zoom
13 April 2023
Future Unknown is the theme of the 2023 International Education Forum organised by the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing. In this online lecture, Alice discussed the role of multi-platform projects like Design Emergency in shaping the future of design criticism and curation.
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Design in Times of Crisis
Legal Design Podcast
30 March 2023
What role can design play in the legal process? Can it help to make the justice system fairer and more efficient? And do the same for legal practice, while making new legislation is fit for purpose. Alice discussed these issues with Aysel Elif Yildirim on the Legal Design Podcast.
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Julia Watson on Indigenous Design
Design Emergency podcast
22 March 2023
How can we design safe, sustainable ways of living? In this episode of the Design Emergency podcast Alice talks to the Australian designer, academic and activist Julia Watson about the power and relevance of indigenous design and ancient nature-based technologies.
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Hidden Heroines of Design
Design Emergency podcast
08 March 2023
On International Women's Day 2023, Alice and her co-founder of Design Emergency, MoMA design curator, Paola Antonelli, celebrated design's hidden heroines, dynamic women whose design achievements have long been neglected, for the Design Emergency podcast.
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Nifemi Marcus-Bello on design and identity
Design Emergency podcast
08 February 2023
What role will design play in defining the future of Africa, our youngest continent? Alice interviewed the Lagos-based designer Nifemi Marcus-Bello about his work in developing new objects inspired by West Africa's design and making traditions, and its vernacular design culture.
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Young Climate Prize
The World Around, New York, US
04 February 2023
As part of the Young Climate Prize run by the architecture and design non-profit, The World Around, Alice gave a talk to the 25 under-25 winners. Each of them is being supported by TWA to develop ways of mitigating the impact of the climate emergency in their communities.
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Design Emergency - Building a Better Future
Creative Futures Week, Buckinghamshire New University, UK
30 January 2023
Alice, together with fellow speakers including Jay Blades and Matty Bovan, talked to the design students at Buckinghamshire New University about current and future changes in design practice and the new opportunities awaiting them in BNU's Creative Futures Week 2023.
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Design Support Talks for Ukraine
European Design School, Kyiv, Ukraine - online
19 January 2023
The Ukrainian design community's response to Putin's heinous invasion has inspired designers worldwide. Alice discussed design's role in addressing global crises and in helping to forge a better future in this online fundraiser organised by the European Design School in Kyiv.
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Insight into Design
Speakers for Schools Broadcast, UK
17 January 2023
Having participated in the Speakers for Schools programme for several years by visiting schools to discuss her career as a journalist, design critic and author, Alice described her experience to students from different schools in this talk for Speakers for Schools' Broadcast series.
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Design Emergency with Fabrizio Urettini
Design Emergency podcast
11 January 2023
How can the design community help to address the refugee crisis? The Italian art director, Fabrizio Urettini, tells Alice how he is running design and skills workshops for asylum seekers and migrants in the Italian city of Treviso in this episode of the Design Emergency podcast.
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2022

Design and Human Rights
Design Emergency podcast
07 December 2022
To celebrate Human Rights Day 2022, Alice and her fellow founder of Design Emergency, Paola Antonelli, hosted a special episode of the Design Emergency podcast focusing on design's role in championing human rights. What has worked? What hasn't? And why?
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Design Emergency with David Adjaye
Design Emergency podcast
23 November 2022
For the very first episode of the Design Emergency podcast, Alice interviews the brilliant Ghanaian-British architect, David Adjaye, about architecture's potential to forge positive change in Africa and his work at the forefront of the continent's dynamic new design community.
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By Design with Stephen Jones
Sir John Soane Museum, London, UK
14 November 2022
Stephen Jones is one of the greatest hat designers and makers of our time. In this By Design talk at the Soane Museum, he will tell Alice about his journey from London's post-punk scene in the early 1980s, to the acquisition of his hats for the collections of the V&A and Louvre.
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Design as an Attitude
Cross Innovation Day, Design Zentrum, Hamburg, Germany
11 November 2022
What does design mean today? How is it evolving? And how will it expand to address new challenges and opportunities in the future? Alice will discuss these key themes of her book Design as an Attitude, now published in a new edition, at Cross Innovation Day 2022 in Hamburg.
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Soane Medal 2022
Sir John Soane Museum, London, UK
08 November 2022
The Soane Medal is presented annually to an architect or designer who shares its namesake, John Soane's mission to encourage a better understanding of the central importance of architecture in people's lives. Alice will interview the 2022 Soane Medalist at the award ceremony.
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What's next for cultural journalism?
NRK, Norefjell, Norway
25 October 2022
Alice spoke to the culture journalists at NRK, the Norwegian state broadcaster, about the importance of cultural journalism and its role in raising awareness among the public and politicians of the potential of design, art and other cultural disciplines to address urgent challenges.
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By Design with Sophie Hicks
Sir John Soane's Museum, London, UK
17 October 2022
For the second of the new series of By Design Talks at Sir John Soane's Museum in London, Alice was in conversation with the architect Sophie Hicks, who has established an international reputation since founding her practice while a student at the Architectural Association.
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In Conversation with David Adjaye
JW3, London, UK
13 October 2022
Sir David Adjaye is one of the most influential architects of our time. He was in conversation with Alice in the JW3 Speaker Series to discuss the evolution of his work including his current projects: the National Cathedral of Ghana, to the Abrahamic Family House in Abu Dhabi.
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Design Emergency: Building a Better Future
Society 5.0 Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
13 October 2022
What is design's role in enabling us to ensure that Society 5.0 is fit for purpose? How can it interact with technology to achieve this? Alice discussed design's potential to help us to build a better future for us all and for our planet at the Society 5.0 Festival in Amsterdam.
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Design, health and gender inequality
European Parliament, Strasbourg, France
10 October 2022
Alice gave a presentation on design's role in eradicating inequalities - and in fostering equality and freedoms - in all aspects of women's health, sexuality and reproductive rights to the Committee on Equality and Non-Discrimination of the European Parliament in Strasbourg.
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Design Emergency
GDG Show, Schloss Pillnitz, Dresden, Germany
01 October 2022
The annual awards for Germany's design graduates were exhibited at the GDG Show at Schloss Pillnitz in Dresden. Alice presented prizes to the four winners and and discussed the impact of the Design Emergency project as the keynote lecture in the GDG Talks programme.
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DieDAS Walk + Talk 2022
Design Academy Saaleck, Naumburg, Germany
02 September 2022
Every year, Design Academy Saaleck organises the DieDAS Walk + Talk weekend summit on its campus in Naumburg, Germany. Alice will be a moderator at the 2022 summit which will explore how we can design and build the regenerative systems we need to secure a safer future.
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Design as an Attitude
The Conference, Malmo, Sweden
23 August 2022
How could - and should - design respond to emergencies: from the climate and refugee crises, to global pandemics and the collapse of social justice? Alice explained how she has addressed this in her books, Design Emergency and the new edition of Design as an Attitude.
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Where's the Design Emergency?
Ways With Words Festival, Dartington Hall, Devon, UK
17 July 2022
Where's the Design Emergency? Everywhere. Alice described how her new book co-written with Paola Antonelli, Design Emergency: Building a Better Future explores design's role in tackling crises and catastrophes at the Ways With Words Festival at Dartington Hall in Devon.
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Hella Jongerius on design values
Design Emergency - Instagram Live
05 July 2022
One of the most influential designers of our time, Hella Jongerius, identifies the design values that are critical to her work, and explains why they are so important to her and how they are reflected in her design projects in this Design Emergency interview with Alice.
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Sunday Papers Live
Cecil Sharp House, Primrose Hill, London, UK
03 July 2022
Alice gave a whistle stop tour to her book, Design Emergency: Building a Better Future, co-written with Paola Antonelli, at the latest edition of Sunday Papers Live in Primrose Hill. Among the other speakers were politician Ed Miliband, psychologist Julia Shaw and novelist Geoff Dyer.
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Design Emergency
RSA Student Design Awards, London, UK
29 June 2022
Alice gave the keynote speech at the Royal Society of Arts' Student Design Awards 2022 ceremony on her work with Paola Antonelli on the Design Emergency research project. Design for Social Impact is the theme of this year's RSA awards, the world's oldest student design prize.
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Design as an Attitude
Bump Festival, Kortrijk, Belgium
23 June 2022
What is Design as an Attitude? How is it practised? And how does it affect our lives? Alice marked the publication in June 2022 of a second edition of her 2018 book, Design as an Attitude, by discussing what it means and how it affects us at the Bump Festival 2022 in Belgium.
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Lesley Lokko on architecture's futures
Design Emergency, Instagram Live
15 June 2022
After years at the forefront of championing diversity and inclusivity in design and architecture, Lesley Lokko is now doing so as the founder and director of the new Africa Futures Institute in Accra, Ghana and as the first Black artistic director of the Venice Architecture Biennale.
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There will always be a design emergency
Salone del Mobile.Milano, Italy
09 June 2022
To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Salone del Mobile.Milano, Marva Griffin of Salone Satellite hosted a series of talks on defining issues in design. Alice discussed Design Emergency with her collaborator Paola Antonelli in There will always be a design emergency.
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Design Emergency: Building a Better Future
Prada Frames Milan, Italy
07 June 2022
Alice discussed the evolution of the Design Emergency project with her co-founder, Paola Antonelli of MoMA, at the Prada Frames symposium organised by Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin of Formafantasma during Milan Design Week 2022 to explore design and ecology.
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Design Emergency
Designboom, Milan, Italy
07 June 2022
To celebrate the launch of their book, Design Emergency: Building a Better Future, Alice and her co-author Paola Antonelli were in conversation with Designboom's co-founder and editor-in-chief, Birgit Lohmann, before a book signing during Milan Design Week.
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Daisy Ginsberg on design and biodiversity
Prada Frames, Milan, Italy
07 June 2022
As one of the first designers to experiment with synthetic biology, Daisy Ginsberg has been at the forefront of design's efforts to address the climate emergency by boosting biodiversity and designing not just for human beings but all the species with whom we share our planet.
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Design Emergency
DDC'22, Lisbon, Portugal - by Zoom
31 May 2022
As part of DRIW'22, Design Research and Innovation Week, in Lisbon, Alice discussed the evolution of Design Emergency as a design research platform and a collaboration between her and Paola Antonelli. She also traced its development from an Instagram platform to a book.
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Launching the Design Emergency book
Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
17 May 2022
Having started out as an Instagram research platform, the Design Emergency project, co-founded by Alice with MoMA's senior curator of design and architecture, Paola Antonelli, has explored many other media, and is now a book Design Emergency: Building a Better Future.
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Design as an Attitude
Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg, Germany
06 May 2022
Design as an Attitude is the title of a new course, taught by curator Amelie Klein, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg. Alice gave a lecture on her interpretation of Design as an Attitude in her namesake book whose second edition is published in June 2022.
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Taking a Stand for Ukraine
Service Design Network, New York - by Zoom
05 May 2022
Taking a Stand for Ukraine is organised by the Service Design Network to raise urgently needed funds for the Chefs for Ukraine programme run by the non-profit World Central Kitchen to provide food for Ukrainians. Alice spoke at the launch with Bruce Mau, Oleg Koss and Don Norman.
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Eva Feldkamp on redesigning design practice
Design Emergency - Instagram Live
29 April 2022
More and more designers want to address social, humanitarian and ecological issues, but many of them don't know how to do so. Eva Feldkamp tells Alice how she has devised a solution by founding All in Awe as a conduit between socially committed designers like her and the non-profits which need their skills, knowledge and networks.
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Slava Balbek on designing in Russia's war on Ukraine
Design Emergency - Instagram Live
31 March 2022
What is the reality of life for Ukrainian designers during Russia's heinous war on their country? Alice interviews Ukrainian architect, Slava Balbek, on his volunteer work to provide food and supplies to the militia and vulnerable citizens in Kyiv, and in designing temporary refugee housing.
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Hidden Heroines of Design
Design Emergency - Instagram Live
08 March 2022
To celebrate International Women's Day 2022, Alice and Paola Antonelli, senior curator of design at MoMA with whom she co-founded Design Emergency, each chose three women designers from different eras and different disciplines who, they believe, have been unfairly marginalised.
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Peter Bilak on design and endangered languages
Design Emergency - Instagram Live
25 February 2022
Some 7,000 languages are in use worldwide. Half of them are likely to be extinct by 2030. How can design help to save them? Alice interviews the type designer Peter Bilak on this on how he is using his skills and knowledge to create new fonts to preserve imperilled languages.
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Design as an Attitude
Dialegs / Dialogues, EASD Valencia, Spain
23 February 2022
Activism, Attitude, Action were the defining themes of the 19th edition of the Dialegs / Dialogues festival at EASD Valencia. Alice discusses the relevance of those themes to her book, Design as an Attitude, and explores how they are all being addressed in design today.
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Marina Tabassum on architecture of relevance
Design Emergency - Instagram Live
28 January 2022
The Bangladeshi architect Marina Tabassum tells Alice about designing emergency housing for people who urgently need it, in the Rohingya Refugee Camps in Ukiya and for those displaced by flooding in the Ganges-Bramhaputra basis, in this Design Emergency IG Live.
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2021

The TS Eliot Lecture with Es Devlin
Abbey Theatre, Dublin, Ireland - on YouTube
19 December 2021
Every year the TS Eliot Estate hosts a lecture at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin to mark Eliot's friendship with WB Yeats and his impact on contemporary culture. This year's lecture, which will stream on YouTube, will be given by the designer Es Devlin, who will be introduced by Alice.
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Emily Pilloton-Lam on design and empowerment
Design Emergency - Instagram Live
04 December 2021
How can design help young people to build the world they need and want? Emily Pilloton-Lam has empowered hundreds of girls and gender-expansive youth to learn design and making skills as founder of the free workshop program at Girls Garage in Berkeley, California.
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Iwona Blazwick at the Whitechapel
Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
01 December 2021
To celebrate the 120th anniversary of the Whitechapel Gallery, as the cultural hub of East London and one of the world's most influential art galleries, Alice will discuss its history and plans for the future with its director, Iwona Blazwick, to mark the 20th year of her leadership.
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Jan Willem Petersen on post-conflict reconstruction
Design Emergency - Instagram Live
26 November 2021
How effective is design? The Dutch architect Jan Willem Petersen told Alice how he investigated this by mounting a design research project to assess the efficacy of an ambitious and expensive post-conflict reconstruction program in the remote Afghan province of Uruzgan.
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Women in Design
Vitra Design Museum, Weil-am-Rhein, Germany - by Zoom
18 November 2021
Here We Are! is an exhibition of the Vitra Design Museum dedicated to the stories of women in design since 1900. Alice participated in a panel on the gender politics of design with the exhibition's curator Viviane Stapmanns and the designer and curator Matylda Krzykowski.
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Es Devlin on collective experiences
Design Emergency - Instagram Live
16 November 2021
What is the future of the collective experiences - the visits to theatres, festivals, concerts and debates - that meant so much to us before the Covid-19 pandemic and mean even more to us now. Alice discussed this with the designer Es Devlin on this Design Emergency IG Live,
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Design as an Attitude
TU Vienna, Austria - by Zoom
10 November 2021
What is the future of design? How can it fulfil its potential to tackle the major social, political, and ecological challenges of this turbulent time? Alice discussed this central theme of her book, Design as an Attitude, in a lecture at the TU Institute of Architecture and Design in Vienna.
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Beyond Scale
IE School of Architecture & Design, Madrid, Spain - by Zoom
02 November 2021
Beyond Scale is a series of lectures at the IE School of Architecture & Design in Madrid that explores the concept of scale beyond its role as a spatial dimension. Alice described the application of Design as an Attitude at very different scales in her lecture in the series.
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Rose Uniacke at Home
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK
01 November 2021
Alice was in conversation with the interior designer Rose Uniacke about the book she has published, on the restoration and reinvention of a mid-19th century mansion in Belgravia, originally the home and studio of the portraitist, James Rannie Swinton, into her family home.
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Design as an Attitude
Brunei Design Week, Brunei - by Zoom
16 September 2021
Design as an Attitude is the theme of Brunei Design Week 2021, which is organised by the University of Brunei Darussalam. Alice will give the keynote lecture on the opening day of BD2021 to discuss the impact of attitudinal design on current practice and future possibilities.
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A conversation with Raphael Chipperfield
Streaming on paus.tv
16 July 2021
To mark the screening of two new films directed by Raphael Chipperfield, Alice will be in conversation with him to discuss the making of Timepiece and Free Zoo, two shorts filmed in London during Covid-19 restrictions this spring. The films will stream on paus.tv until 18 July.
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Selly Raby Kane on design and identity
Design Emergency - Instagram Live
01 July 2021
The Senegalese designer, artist and activist, Selly Raby Kane, tells Alice how she uses her work in fashion, film, virtual reality and other media to explore and express her cultural identity and those of her city, Dakar, and her country Senegal in this Design Emergency IG Live.
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By Design with Ilse Crawford
Sir John Soane's Museum, London, UK
28 June 2021
As a designer, creative director and teacher, Ilse Crawford has championed a humanistic approach to design to foster our wellbeing, individually and collectively. Alice interviews Ilse about her work and its influence in this By Design talk filmed at the Soane Museum.
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Mohammed Fayaz on designing with Pride
Design Emergency - Instagram Live
17 June 2021
How can we design with Pride? Mohammed Fayaz addresses that question in an interview with Alice in this Design Emergency Pride Special to celebrate Pride Month 2021 by describing how his illustrations document the lives of fellow queer and trans people of colour.
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By Design with Erdem Moralioglu
Sir John Soane's Museum, London, UK
14 June 2021
The fashion designer Erdem Moralioglu tells Alice how he has defined a distinctive design language of empowered femininity by creating beautifully constructed clothes that make women feel glamorous, strong and confident in this By Design conversation at the Soane Museum.
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Design and Violence
Design Emergency - Instagram Live
11 June 2021
At an unprecedentedly violent time, when we face new threats, dangers and malign forces in so many areas of our lives, Alice will discuss design's complex, often ominous relationship to violence in this Design Emergency IG Live with her co-founder, Paola Antonelli.
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Design and Culture in Action
Royal Society of Arts, London - by Zoom
08 June 2021
The historian Charles Saumarez-Smith and graphic designer Harry Pearce discussed their long and productive working relationship on the design of a new visual identity for the Royal Academy and of Charles's books in an online talk hosted by the RSA and moderated by Alice.
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Francesca Coloni on design and the refugee crisis
Design Emergency - Instagram Live
28 May 2021
What is design's role in the global refugee crisis? Alice interviewed Francesca Coloni, the Italian engineer who has spent fifteen years working on design responses to this escalating global emergency for the Red Cross and UNHCR, in a Design Emergency IG Live.
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The Future of Design
MadBlue Summit 2021, Madrid, Spain - by Zoom
22 April 2021
What are the challenges and opportunities facing design as we emerge from the devastating Covid-19 crisis? Alice was interviewed by the art critic Carolina Grau at MadBlue 2021 on design's role in helping us to address critical ecological, economic, social and cultural issues.
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A History of Design Emergencies
Newport Preservation Society, Newport, USA - by Zoom
01 April 2021
One of design’s most important roles throughout history has been to help us to survive devastating crises, like Covid-19, and then to help us to redesign and rebuild our lives to make them fit for purpose, as Alice explained in this lecture on A History of Design Emergencies.
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A New Deal for Culture
UNESCO, Youth Forum, Parma, Italy - by Zoom
27 March 2021
Together with her fellow founder of Design Emergency, Paola Antonelli, Alice spoke on UNESCO's New Deal for Culture at this Youth Forum in Parma. They described how each of UNESCO's five priorities is addressed by a visionary design project featured on Design Emergency.
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Fritz Haeg on the future of the home
Design Emergency - Instagram Live
18 March 2021
How could - and should - you repair, restore and reinvent 35 acros of redwood forest on the Mendocino Coast of Northern California, previously occupied by a 1970s commune, into an entirely new type of home? Fritz Haeg told Alice how he has done so at Salmon Creek Farm.
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Seven Questions
ETH Zurich, Switzerland - by Zoom
03 March 2021
The Seven Questions lecture series is an ongoing project run by the architect Jan De Vylder at ETH Zurch. Three lecturers are invited to participate in each hour-long lecture and to answer seven questions of their choice in 20 minutes. Alice's questions were on defining design.
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Isabella Tree on Rewilding
Design Emergency - Instagram Live
26 February 2021
In this Design Emergency IG Live, Alice interviewed the author and conservationist Isabella Tree about the radical experiment in rewilding she began 20 years ago with her husband, Charlie Burrell, by allowing nature to take over their 3,500 acre farm at Knepp, West Sussex.
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Design and the Vaccine
Design Emergency - Instagram Live
11 February 2021
What is design’s role in the gargantuan challenge of vaccinating us all against Covid-19? What has worked? What hasn't? Alice discussed the pros and cons of design's response to the challenge of Covid-19 vaccination with Paola Antonelli in this Design Emergency IG Live.
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Design in a Pandemic
Beckmans College, Stockholm, Sweden - by Zoom
09 February 2021
"There will always be a design emergency" is the guiding principle of Design Emergency, the IG research platform co-founded by Alice and MoMA design curator Paola Antonelli. Alice will talk to the students at Beckmans in Stockholm about its origins and evolution.
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Design in a Global Pandemic
V&A Dundee, Scotland - by Zoom
04 February 2021
As part of the talks programme accompanying the V&A Dundee's Design in a Global Pandemic exhibition, Alice will describe how she and Paola Antonelli launched Design Emergency as a research platform to investigate design’s response to Covid-19 and other major crises.
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The Great Green Wall of Africa
Design Emergency - Instagram Live
03 February 2021
The Great Green Wall is an epic design endeavour to revitalise degraded land in the Sahel region of Africa by cultivating an 8,000 km strip of vegetation, roughly 15 km wide, across the southern edge of the Sahara Desert. Alice discussed it on this IG Live with Alex Asen.
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Design Emergency
The World Around Summit 2021
30 January 2021
Founded and run by curator Beatrice Galilee, The World Around organises annual summits on defining projects in architecture and design in the past year. Alice gave the opening talk on her collaboration with Paola Antonelli on Design Emergency at the 2021 summit.
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Generation Regeneration
Royal College of Art, London, UK - by Zoom
28 January 2021
What are the crucial challenges and opportunities for the next generation of designers, those who have studied during - and will graduate after- the Covid-19 crisis? Alice debated this with the public policy specialist Geoff Mulgan and Clive Grinyer, the RCA's head of service design.
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Irma Boom on the future of the book
Design Emergency - Instagram Live
21 January 2021
The future of the book was the theme of a Design Emergency IG Live conversation between Alice and Irma Boom, the greatest book designer of our time. They discussed how the printed book has survived so far in the digital age with reference to books that Irma has designed to do so.
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2020

Hans Ulrich Obrist on Edouard Glissant
Dublin Art Book Fair, Dublin, Ireland - by Zoom
02 December 2020
Among the artists, writers, curators and designers invited by Alice to suggest books for the Dublin Art Book Fair was the indefatigable Hans Ulrich Obrist. In this DABF talk, they discussed why he chose nine books by one of his key influences and inspirations, Édouard Glissant.
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Design and Hope
Design Emergency - Instagram Live
27 November 2020
Every design project sets out in the hope of changing something, regardless of what it may be. Alice and Paola Antonelli, her fellow co-founder of Design Emergency, identified the inspiring design projects that give them hope for a better future in this IG Live.
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Writing on design emergencies
M Pavilion, Melbourne, Australia - by Zoom
25 November 2020
Alice will discuss her collaboration with Paola Antonelli on the Design Emergency research platform to investigate design solutions to major crises with Kate Rhodes, curator of the RMIT Design Hub, for the M Pavilion 2020 programme of talks and exhibitions in Melbourne.
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Design as an Attitude
Dublin Art Book Fair, Dublin, Ireland - by Zoom
25 November 2020
As Guest Curator of the Dublin Art Book Fair 2020, Alice has chosen Design as an Attitude as the theme of events throughout the fair, which will be held at Temple Bar Gallery. Alice will speak on design's response to Covid-19 and to other challenges, crises and opportunities
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Eyal Weizman on design and justice
Design Emergency - Instagram Live
19 November 2020
Eyal Weizman, founding director of Forensic Architecture, told Alice how he has pioneered new ways of deploying design and technology to investigate human rights abuses, climate and war crimes, police brutality and other tragedies to secure justice in this Design Emergency IG Live.
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Ilse Crawford on comfort
Design Emergency - Instagram Live
13 November 2020
Long dismissed as quaint and old-fashioned, comfort is increasingly important to design, not only aesthetically, but in terms of its ethical and ecological impact. Alice discussed new and progressive interpretation of comforts with one of its doutiest design champions, Ilse Crawford.
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Design Emergency
Virtual Design Thinkers, Toronto, Canada - by Zoom
09 November 2020
Design has been one of our most powerful tools in the Covid-19 crisis, by developing innovations to improve the treatment of the coronavirus and to curb the pandemic. In this keynote, Alice will discuss the successes, failures and long term impact of design's response to Covid.
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Investigating a Design Emergency
Milan Design Film Festival, Milan, Italy - by Zoom
07 November 2020
Alice will be in conversation with Paola Antonelli, senior design curator at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, on their collaboration in co-founding Design Emergency to investigate design's response to Covid-19 and other global crises for the Milan Design Film Festival.
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Enzo Mari is Enzo Mari
Triennale Milano, Italy - Instagram Live
03 November 2020
Alice will be interviewed by Hans Ulrich Obrist, artistic director of Serpentine Galleries and curator of the epic Enzo Mari retrospective at Triennale Milano, about their podcast collaboration on Mari, her most recent book Design as an Attitude and the Design Emergency project.
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Design and collective responses to Covid-19
OECD, Paris, France - by Zoom
29 October 2020
Alice discussed her collaboration with Paola Antonelli of MoMA, New York on the Design Emergency research platform in investigating diverse global design responses to the Covid-19 pandemic at a virtual meeting of the OECD's Innovative Citizen Participatory Network.
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Dan Pearson on reconnecting with nature
Design Emergency - Instagram Live
29 October 2020
How can design help us to reconnect to nature, by protecting and improving biodiversity and arresting climate change? Garden designer, plantsman, landscape architect and writer, Dan Pearson, discusses these issues with Alice in a Design Emergency IG Live conversation.
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Design and collective responses to Covid-19
OECD, Paris, France - by Zoom
27 October 2020
Alice discussed her collaboration with Paola Antonelli of MoMA, New York on the Design Emergency research platform in investigating diverse global design responses to the Covid-19 pandemic at a virtual meeting of the OECD's Innovative Citizen Participatory Network.
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Disembodied Intimacy
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas - by Zoom
15 October 2020
At a time when the need to curb the spread of Covid-19 has forced many people to isolate themselves in quarantine and prevents others from freely interacting, is technology helping us, or aggravating the problem? Alice discussed these issues in a Nasher Prize Dialogue.
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Peter Barber on the future of housing
Design Emergency - Instagram Live
01 October 2020
The housing crisis is a critical problem. Alice interviewed the architect Peter Barber on his years of research into designing decent, affordable housing for people on low incomes and in precarious circumstances in this Design Emergency IG Live on the future of housing.
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Designing a sustainable future
Online Summit, Design Akademie Saaleck, Germany
19 September 2020
Tackling the climate emergency is a major challengesof our time. Unless we radically redesign and reconstruct our lives to be cleaner, greener and more sustainable, the consequences will be dire. In this talk, Alice explored how design can help us to secure a sustainable future?
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Es Devlin on redesigning collective experiences
Design Emergency - Instagram Live
17 September 2020
How can we redesign the collective experiences such as festivals, plays, gigs, dance and talks that we all enjoy so much? Es Devlin, the world's leading theatre designer, spoke to Alice about her experiments with new ways of delivering them in this Design Emergency IG Live.
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What is a design film?
Film My Design, Cairo, Egypt - on Zoom
11 September 2020
Film My Design is a film festival in Cairo that focuses on the relationship of film to design. Alice was invited to choose a film to be screened at the festival and plumped for Michelangelo Antonioni's ecological epic Il Deserto Rosso, She also gave a Zoom talk on "What is a design film?"
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MoMA Drop In - Design and Gender
Museum of Modern Art, New York - Instagram Live
10 September 2020
Alice discussed design's role in gender politics with Paola Antonelli, senior curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in this Drop In debate on Instagram Live. How does the gendering of design affect us? What are the priorities for change?
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Design Emergency
University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland
08 September 2020
What was design's response to Covid-19? How has it redefined public perceptions of design? What impact will it have on design practice? And on design's role in reconstructing our lives post-pandemic? Alice discussed all these issues and more in this SWPS University webinar.
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Sehat Kahani on the technology of health
Design Emergency - Instagam Live
06 August 2020
Alice was in conversation with Sara Saeed Khurram and Iffat Zafar, the dynamic doctors who have turned designers to create a telemedical network to radically improve access to - and the quality of - health care for people throughout Pakistan in this Design Emergency IG Live.
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Designing Social Distancing
Design Society, Shenzhen, China - on Zoom
01 August 2020
Every Saturday in August, Design Society, Shenzhen hosted a digital debate on the role and values of design. Alice spoke in the opening debate, chaired by Ole Bauman, with Joseph Grima of Design Academy Eindhoven and Richard van der Laken of What Design Can Do.
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Hilary Cottam on the Fifth Social Revolution
Design Emergency - Instagram Live
23 July 2020
What would a fairer, cleaner, safer, kinder, more prosperous society look like? And how can we create one? Pioneering social designer Hilary Cottam was in conversation with Alice about her ambitious new plan for the Fifth Social Revolution in this Design Emergency IG Live.
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Collaboration in the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic
Design Emergency - Instagram Live
16 July 2020
Collaboration has been a defining theme of many of the most successful design responses to Covid-19. Alice discussed the different forms of collaboration that have worked best in the crisis, and why, in this IG Live with her fellow founder of Design Emergency, Paola Antonelli.
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Mark Dalton on Unite Against Covid-19
Design Emergency - Instagram Live
02 July 2020
Which is the most intelligently designed Covid-10 public information campaign? The favourite contender is New Zealand's. Alice discussed the design of NZ's Unite Against Covid-19 campaign with its creative director, Mark Dalton, in this Design Emergency IG Live conversation.
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Information design in the Covid-19 crisis
Design Emergency - Instagam Live
25 June 2020
What are the best - and worst - designed public information programmes in the Covid-19 pandemic? Data dashboards? Data Visualisations? Data tracers? And data trackers? Alice and her fellow founder of Design Emergency Paola Antonelli share their choices in this IG Live.
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Designing for Covid-19 in Afghanistan
Design Emergency - Instagram Live
18 June 2020
Roya Mahboob, the Afghan tech entrepreneur and philanthropist, talks to Alice about the efforts of five teenage girls - all star roboticists - to design and build emergency ventilators during the Covid-19 lockdown in Afghanistan as the pandemic intensifies.
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The Great LFA Pub Quiz
London /Architecture Festival , London, UK - on Zoom
16 June 2020
How much do you know about the cultural life of London - past and present? Alice set the questions for the Art and Design section of the London Design Festival's Great LFA Pub Quiz. Her fellow question setters included broadcaster Robert Elms and architect Gurmeet Sian.
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Living in a Design Emergency
Pecha Kucha Inspire the World - London Calling, on Zoom
12 June 2020
Alice talked about Design Emergency, her collaboration with Paola Antonelli to explore design's response to the pandemic, in this Pecha Kucha Inspire the World event on Zoom, with fellow speakers including Kazuyo Sejima, Sam Jacob, Ab Rogers and Morag Myerscough.
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What is the symbolism of Covid-19?
Design Emergency - Instagram Live
11 June 2020
What are the defining symbols of the Covid-19 crisis? The ones that will form our collective memories after the pandemic? Alice discussed the symbolism of Covid in this Design Emergency IG Live conversation with her fellow co-founder of DE, MoMA design curator Paola Antonelli.
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Design Resonance in an Age of Crisis
Chatham House and London Design Biennale, Zoom conference
01 June 2020
How should our lives be redesigned after the Covid-19 crisis? How can we use design to ensure that our society, environment, health systems and economies are fit for purpose? Alice co-chaired a discussion on the future of design and health for the LDB and Chatham House.
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Antwerp's Covid-19 design collective
Design Emergency - Instagram Live
29 May 2020
One of the most ambitious collective efforts to tackle Covid-19 is the Creatives tegen Corona network of friends from Antwerp's fashion and design communities . Alice spoke to one of its co-founders, Dries Verbruggen of Unfold, about CtC's evolution and its plans for the future.
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What could we do now that we could not do before?
World Economic Forum, Zoom conference
28 May 2020
What could we do now that we could not do before? is the theme of a World Economic Forum "town hall" debate on the challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic and its aftermath to global arts and culture. Alice participated in the debate with artists, designers and museum directors .
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Design Hacking and Covid-19
Design Emergency - Instagram Live
21 May 2020
Hacking has emerged as an important strand of design's response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Alice discussed how and why designers have chosen to adapt and reinvent, rather than to design from scratch, on this IG Live with Paola Antonelli, her fellow founder of Design Emergency.
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Talk Art with Alice Rawsthorn
Talk Art QuarARTine podcast
18 May 2020
Alice is interviewed by actor Russell Tovey and gallerist Rob Diament in this episode of their Talk Art podcast series. Russ and Rob ask Alice about her work in writing on design, her pro bono governance roles in the arts and collaboration with Paola Antonelli on Design Emergency.
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Designing the spiky coronavirus blob
Design Emergency - Instagram Live
15 May 2020
The spiky blob designed by Alissa Eckert and Dan Higgins, medical illustrators at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, has become one of the most famous images in the world. Alice asked Alissa Eckert how it came about in this Design Emergency IG Live.
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Tea with Julia on Design and Covid-19
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Instagram Live
02 May 2020
Alice was in conversation with Julia Peyton-Jones in Tea With Julia on Instagram Live. Julia interviewed Alice about her Instagram series, Design in a Pandemic, and the plans for a new project on design's role in the Covid-19 crisis, a collaboration with Paola Antonelli of MoMA.
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Design in a Pandemic
Vitra Design Museum, Instagram Live
15 April 2020
The design community has risen to the challenge of Covid-19 by developing new ways of fighting the pandemic. Alice discussed design's role in this and past crises and how it can help to reinvent our lives in a Vitra Design Museum IG Live talk with its director Mateo Kries.
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What Design Can Do in Times of Corona
What Design Can Do - Instagram Live
07 April 2020
What Design Can Do, the Dutch design agency, is focusing its work during the pandemic on design's contribution to fighting Covid-19. It started with the first of a series of Instagram Live talks at 16h CET (15h GMT) on 7 April featuring Alice and WDCD's Richard van der Laken.
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Design as an Attitude
Bath Spa University, Bath, UK
04 March 2020
To celebrate the opening of the new Locksbrook Campus of the Design School at Bath Spa University, Alice spoke on the opportunities and challenges facing design and designers in the future, from addressing urgent social and ecological issues to interpreting new technologies.
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Design and Education
IFI Congress 2020, Dubai, UAE
26 February 2020
How should design education be redesigned to be fit for purpose for design today? Alice discussed this in a panel on the future of design education at the IFI World Congress in Dubai with Ashley Hall, Randy Howder and Rosanne Somerson, moderated by Daniel Joppert.
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By Design: Dan Pearson
Sir John Soane Museum, London, UK
24 February 2020
Dan Pearson is regarded as one of the UK's most prolific and influential garden designers and landscape architects. He spoke to Alice about his influences and the evolution of his work in this talk, which opened the 2020 programme of By Design talks at the Soane Museum.
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Design and Wisdom
Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana, Slovenia
07 February 2020
Alice participated in the closing event of BIO 26, the design biennial in the Slovenian capital, Ljubljana, by speaking on the key themes of Design as an Attitude. She also discussed design and wisdom in a panel that included Tina Gregoric, Matevz Celik and Aline Lara Rezende.
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Design as an Attitude
Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK
14 January 2020
Alice discussed the challenges and opportunities facing today's digitally empowered designers - from the climate emergency and refugee crisis, to rising inequality and helping us to apply new technologies constructively while avoiding their dangers - at Chelsea College.
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2019

Design as an Attitude
Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
28 November 2019
Design's potential to address the climate emergency, refugee crisis, rising inequality and injustice, how to ensure that we make the most of advances in technology and other key themes of Design as an Attitude was discussed by Alice in this talk at CAFA in Beijing.
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A Short History of Design Criticism
Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
27 November 2019
How has design criticism evolved over time? What influence has it had over design culture? How has it related to critical discourse on art, architecture, literature. film and other cultural disciplines? Alice discussed these issues in a public lecture at CAFA in Beijing.
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Design and Gender
Tepidarium del Roster, Florence, Italy
08 November 2019
Alice explored design's role in helping us to overcome oppressive gender stereotypes and to embrace a new age of equality and fluidity, when our gender identities will become more fluid, complex and ambiguous at the AIAP Women in Design Award 2019 ceremony.
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Une ville a Chandigarh
Milan Design Film Festival, Milan, Italy
24 October 2019
As guest curator of this year's Milan Design Film Festival, Alice selected nine films to be shown including Antonioni's Il Deserto Rosso, Godard's One or Two Things I Know About her, Vertov's Man with a Movie Camera. She introduced Tanner's Une Ville a Chandigarh at the festival.
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Conversation with Rolf Fehlbaum
Milan Design Film Festival, Milan, Italy
24 October 2019
Rolf Fehlbaum, chairman of Vitra, was in conversation with Alice before the Milan Design Film Festival screening of Heinz Buetler's documentary, Chair Times: A History of Seating. The documentary traces the history of product design through Vitra's collection of furniture.
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Design as an Attitude
Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin, Germany
13 October 2019
Alice will discuss how design is responding to an age of intense economic, political and ecological instability by helping us to address major challenges in this talk on the key themes of her book Design as an Attitude for UdK at the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin.
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Design's new energy
Domusforum 2019, Milan, Italy
10 October 2019
At an intensely turbulent time when the design community faces greater challenges and opportunities than ever before, Alice explored a key theme of Design as an Attitude, the transformation of the practice and possibilities of design at Domusforum 2019 at Teatro Parenti.
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100 Years after the Bauhaus
Frieze, Regent's Park, London, UK
05 October 2019
What was the Bauhaus's impact on architecture in the 1920s? And what is its enduring influence a century after its foundation in Weimar? Alice was in conversation with the architect Farshid Moussavi on how the Bauhaus has affected her work in architecture and education.
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Woven Research
Lafayette Anticipations, Paris, France
06 September 2019
As the grand finale of Hella Jongerius's experimental textile workshops at Lafayette Anticipations in Paris, the Woven Research symposium assessed the project and the social and economic impact of textile production. Alice moderated talks by Anne Roehl and Pascale Gatzen.
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Design as an Attitude
Aspen Ideas Festival, Colorado, USA
25 June 2019
The annual Aspen Ideas Festival is one of the world's most important forums for debate on design and other creative disciplines. Alice explored the future of design through the key themes of her latest book, Design as an Attitude, at the Aspen Ideas Festival 2019.
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Africa's Creative Renaissance
Aspen Ideas Festival, Aspen, Colorado, USA
24 June 2019
Why has Africa emerged as such a dynamic and compelling creative and cultural scene in recent years? Alice discussed these issues at the Aspen Ideas Festival 2019 with Design Indaba's founder Ravi Naidoo, musician Blinky Bill and fashion designer Selly Raby Kane.
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Design as an Attitude
Museum Röhsska, Gothenburg, Sweden
13 June 2019
Alice discussed the challenges facing design now and in the future in a talk at the Röhsska museum of design and craft in Gothenburg, Sweden. Based on the key themes of Alice's latest book Design as an Attitude, the talk explored design's social, political and ecological roles.
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Eileen Gray and E.1027
International Literature Festival, Dublin, Ireland
23 May 2019
Designed by Eileen Gray as a retreat for herself and her lover, the architecture critic, Jean Badovici, E.1027 is one of the most beautiful and deeply personal houses of the modernist era. Alice traced its story in this talk, and how Gray's joyful and optimistic design led to tragedy.
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What Design Can Do
Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Mexico
08 May 2019
Following Alice's talk at the What Design Can Do conference on Climate Change in 2017, she was invited to speak again at What Design Can Do's inaugural event in Mexico City at which she and fellow speakers explored design's potential to tackle the major challenges of our time.
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On Novelty
MIART, Milan, Italy
07 April 2019
What is good design? How is our understanding of it evolving? And what role will novelty, innovation and newness play in design in the future? Alice discussed these issues with Ippolito Pestellini and Tony Chambers in a panel chaired by Hugo Macdonald at MIART in Milan.
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Design as an Attitude
Vitra Design Museum, Basel, Switzerland
14 March 2019
What is the future of design? How can it help us to address the major problems of this intensely complex and turbulent time? Alice explored these questions and other key themes of her book Design as an Attitude at the Vitra Design Museum at Weil-am-Rhein near Basel.
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Why is so much design so bad?
Brainstorm Design, Singapore
06 March 2019
At Fortune and Wallpaper*'s conference, Brainstorm Design 2018, Alice asked why 'good design' commands so much of our attention, when there are just as many, if not more examples of bad design. Alice explored yet more design flops and failures at Brainstorm Design 2019.
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Bad Design
Design Indaba, Cape Town, South Africa
27 February 2019
Pointless, lazy, thoughtless, insensitive, ominous, useless, untrustworthy and other forms of bad design - and why they can be so damaging, even destructive - was the theme of Alice's talk at Design Indaba 2019, the annual festival of design, innovation and creativity in Cape Town.
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By Design: Es Devlin
Sir John Soane's Museum, London, UK
18 February 2019
The designer Es Devlin explored the evolution of her work in designing sets and experiences for plays, operas, festivals, fashion shows and tours for Adele, Beyonce and Kanye West in conversation with Alice in this instalment of the By Design talks at Sir John Soane's Museum.
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Design as an Attitude
Stockholmsmässan, Älvsjö, Stockholm, Sweden
08 February 2019
During Stockholm Design Week, Alice discussed the key theme of Design as an Attitude, design's emergence as one of our most useful tools to tackle complex social, political, ecological, cultural and economic problems in the Stockholm Design and Architecture Talks series.
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By Design: David Adjaye
Sir John Soane's Museum, London, UK
21 January 2019
Alice interviewed the architect David Adjaye in By Design, a new series of talks in which Sir John Soane's Museum invites leading designers and architects to choose an object that they find particularly intriguing as the starting point for a discussion on their work and their vision of design.
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A Woman's Work
Japanische Palais, Dresden, Germany
18 January 2019
To coincide with the exhibition Against Invisibility: Female Designers of the Deutsche Werkstätten 1898 to 1938, the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Dresden organised A Woman's Work, a symposium on design's gender politics. Alice spoke on a panel on Enablers of Visibility.
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Design as an Attitude
V&A Dundee, Scotland
10 January 2019
How can design help us to address the challenges of such a turbulent time? Alice discussed design's role in defusing complex issues such as the refugee and environmental crises, rising inequality and intolerance and accelerating advances in technology at the new V&A Dundee.
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2018

Design as an Attitude
Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
10 December 2018
What is the future of design? Will it fulfil its potential to play a more powerful and expansive role in our lives by addressing major political, social, economic and environmental challenges? Alice discussed these issues with Paola Antonelli, MoMA's senior curator of design.
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By Design: Martino Gamper
Sir John Soane's Museum, London, UK
26 November 2018
Alice interviewed the designer Martino Gamper in By Design, a new series of talks in which Sir John Soane's Museum invites leading designers and architects to choose an object that they find particularly intriguing as the starting point for a discussion on their vision of design.
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Paul Smith on Anni Albers
Tate Modern, London, UK
17 November 2018
The Anni Albers retrospective at Tate Modern is its first major exhibition to be devoted to the work of a designer or craftsperson. Alice was in conversation with the fashion designer Paul Smith at Tate Modern on 17 November to discuss his fascination with Anni Albers's work.
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Design as an Attitude
Istanbul Design Biennial, Turkey
03 November 2018
Alice discussed the future of design, its role in gender politics and cultural identity, its relationship to technological change and major challenges such as intolerance, inequality and the refugee and environmental crises in this closing talk at the Istanbul Design Biennial.
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Next Design Perspectives
La Triennale, Milan, Italy
30 October 2018
At an extraordinarily turbulent time, when we face dramatic changes on so many fronts, Altagamma staged Next Design Perspectives, a conference exploring the future of design, at La Triennale in Milan. Among the speakers were Alice, Paola Antonelli and Formafantasma.
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Penny W. Stamps Distinguished Speaker Series
Michigan Theater, Detroit, US
25 October 2018
What is the future of design? Will it succeed in addressing the major social, political and ecological challenges of our time? Does design culture need to change to do so? Alice discussed these themes from Design as an Attitude in her Penny W. Stamps Lecture in Detroit.
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Design as an Attitude
Anthony Burgess Foundation, Manchester, UK
17 October 2018
As part of the Design Manchester 2018 festival, Alice discussed design's impact on our lives now and in the future with design Malcolm Garrett as a new generation of attitudinal designers use design to pursue their social, political, environmental and humanitarian concerns.
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Design and Craft: Friends or Foes?
Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK
16 October 2018
Every year the Bluecoat Display Centre in Liverpool invites a speaker to present the Robert Gardner-Medwin Lecture in honour of its founder on the change role of craft. Alice gave the lecture this year on the constantly evolving relationship of craft, design and art.
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Frieze Art and Architecture Conference
Royal Institution, London, UK
02 October 2018
Alice chaired the Frieze Art & Architecture Conference 2018 where leading architects discussed their work in designing for museums, galleries and collectors. The speakers included Shigeru Ban, Jamie Fobert, Richard Rogers, Kulapat Yantrasast and Andrea Zittel.
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100 years of Bauhaus
Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
27 September 2018
As a prelude to next year's celebration of the 100th anniversary of the opening of the Bauhaus, the Bauhaus museums and archives in Berlin, Dessau and Weimar organised a symposium on the school at the Akademie der Künste at which Alice discussed its cultural legacy.
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Design as an Attitude
Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, UK
22 September 2018
How will design evolve? Will it fulfill its potential to address major challenges: from the deepening environmental and refugee crises, to the rise of intolerance, inequality and injustice? Alice addressed these themes of Design as an Attitude at Chatsworth's Art Out Loud festival.
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Design and the Suffragettes
British Library, London, UK
20 September 2018
Design made a critical contribution to the success of the suffragettes' campaign for Votes for Women. Alice discussed the design and use of the ingenious colour coded visual identity devised by Sylvia Pankhurst for the WSPU, and its reinterpretation in this British Library lecture.
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Royal Academy - Festival of Ideas
Royal Academy, London, UK
08 September 2018
Alice interviewed the award-winning stage designer Es Devlin about her work at the Royal Academy's Festival of Ideas. They discussed Es's work in theatre, opera, dance, rock, pop and rap tours and fashion: trom the RSC and Royal Opera House, to Kanye West and Beyoncé.
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Edinburgh International Book Festival - Freedom Debate
Edinburgh International Book Festival, Edinburgh, UK
19 August 2018
The social designer Hilary Cottam organised a Freedom Debate at the Edinburgh International Books Festival where she and Alice discussed new forms of collaboration, a key theme of her book Design as an Attitude, with classicist Edith Hall and justice campaigner Nancy Loucks.
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Studio Formafantasma on Ore Streams
Serpentine Galleries, London, UK
12 July 2018
As part of the Radical Kitchen programme of talks and debates in the Serpentine Pavilion, Alice was in conversation with Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin of Studio Formafantasma to discuss Ore Streams, their design research project into the global trade in digital waste.
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Common Senses
Edinburgh Architecture Fringe, Edinburgh, UK
24 June 2018
The theme of the Edinburgh Architecture Fringe 2018, the Scotland-wide celebration of architecture, was Common Senses. Alice explored the theme in the Closing Lecture of this year's festival with the artist Jacqueline Donachie and the architect Stephanie Macdonald of 6a.
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Alice in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist
Foyle's, London, UK
20 June 2018
Alice was in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, dubbed "the curator who never sleeps" by The New Yorker, on the issues raised by Design as an Attitude, from design's future role in our lives, to its relationship to art, technology, craft and the politics of gender and cultural diversity.
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Design as an Attitude
Bristol Festival of Ideas, Bristol, UK
19 June 2018
Design is one of the most powerful forces in our lives, but is routinely misunderstood. In this talk for the Bristol Festival of Ideas, Alice marked the publication of her book Design as an Attitude by discussing design's potential as a force for good with the columnist Sarah Ditum.
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Design as an Attitude
Hay Festival, Hay-on-Wye, UK
29 May 2018
Alice gave a talk on her new book Design as an Attitude at the Hay Festival. From combatting climate change and managing the refugee crisis, to interpreting new technologies, Design as an Attitude explores the most important and exciting developments in contemporary design.
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Alice in conversation with Cathy Newman
Charleston Festival, East Sussex, UK
27 May 2018
Alice discussed her new book Design as an Attitude and design's potential to change our lives for the better with Channel 4 News presenter Cathy Newman at the Charleston Festival held on the Sussex farm where Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant lived in the early 1900s.
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Prototyping Ideas - Waste
Domus Academy, Milan, Italy
12 March 2018
A major challenge for design is how to manage waste responsibly. Alice moderated the final Prototyping Ideas event for Domus Academy at BASE Milano on the theme featuring Paola Antonelli of MoMA and Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin of Studio Formafantasma.
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Bad Design
Brainstorm Design, Singapore
07 March 2018
Bad design affects us as much, if not more than good design, but we rarely discuss it. Alice gave a keynote talk on why we should all learn more about bad design at Brainstorm Design 2018, organised by Time, Wallpaper* and Fortune during Singapore Design Week.
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Prototyping Ideas : Nurture
Domus Academy, Milan, Italy
15 January 2018
Nurture's changing role in design was the theme of this Prototyping Ideas event organised by Domus Academy. Alice moderated a discussion between fixpert Daniel Charny, historian Anthony Marasco and the artist, engineer and environmentalist Natalie Jeremijenko.
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Design as an Attitude
V&A Dundee, Scotland
10 January 2018
How can design help us to address the challenges of such a turbulent time? Alice will discuss design's role in defusing complex issues such as the refugee and environmental crises, rising inequality and intolerance and accelerating advances in technology at the new V&A Dundee.
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2017

A brief history of design writing
Hong Kong Design Centre, Hong Kong
09 December 2017
What impact has design writing had on design culture over the years? And where does it stand now? Alice related a brief history of design writing as the keynote talk in the Culture and the City session in the Hong Kong Design Centre's Business of Design Week 2018 conference.
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Design as an Attitude
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
11 November 2017
As part of the annual Design Canberra festival,. Alice gave a keynote lecture at the National Gallery of Australia on the role of experimentation and improvisation in design. The talk explored the history of design radicalism, and its current resurgence at a deeply turbulent time.
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Design Rewritten
Shine Auditorium, Canberra, Australia
10 November 2017
Design has adopted different meanings at different times and in different contexts, often becoming burdened by muddles, misunderstandings and clichés. In the opening talk at the Object Subject conference in Canberra, Alice explored the role of writing in demystifying design.
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Prototyping Ideas - Local
Domus Academy, Milan, Italy
30 October 2017
Alice moderated a debate between the architect Stefano Boeri, conceptual designer Jing He, designer and curator Matylda Krzykowski and social designer Laura Pana on the role of local in design in the second of four Prototyping Ideas events organised by Domus Academy.
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Good or bad design?
EDIT, Toronto, Canada
08 October 2017
On the closing day of EDIT, the festival of the future of design, innovation and technology organised by Design Exchange in Toronto, Alice gave a keynote talk on our constantly changing perceptions of what constitutes good and bad design, and how they are likely to evolve.
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Quiet please. I am analysing.
Serpentine Galleries Marathon, City Hall, London
07 October 2017
Every year, Serpentine Galleries stages a Marathon of talks, debates and performances by artists, writers, musicians and scientists. The 2017 theme, chosen by Raqs Media Collective, was Guest, Ghost, Host, Machine! or artificial intelligence. Alice explored design's role in AI.
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Frieze Art and Architecture Conference
Royal Institution, London
06 October 2017
Leading architects David Adjaye, David Chipperfield, Charles Renfro, Thomas Heatherwick and Amanda Levete discussed their work on MoMA, the V&A, Royal Academy, The Shed and other projects in the Frieze Art and Architecture Conference 2017, moderated by Alice.
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Chatsworth Festival 2017
Chatsworth House, Derbyshire, UK
23 September 2017
Art Out Loud was the theme of the Chatsworth Festival 2017 at which artists, designers and writers discussed their work in talks and debates. Alice interviewed the fashion designer Erdem Moralioglu on his inspirations, the evolution of his career so far and his future plans.
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Prototyping Ideas - Utopia
Domus Academy, Milan, Italy
04 September 2017
Domus Academy is organising a series of Prototyping Ideas events to be moderated by Alice at BASE Milano. The first event was on Utopia, and featured the designer Alexander Groves of Studio Swine, architectural historian Peter Lang and science fiction writer Bruce Sterling.
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Design and the Russian Revolution
British Library, London
27 June 2017
To coincide with a major exhibition on the cultural legacy of the Russian Revolution at the British Library, Alice explored its immediate impact and enduring influence on design, architecture and fashion from László Moholy-Nagy's work at the Bauhaus to today's social design projects.
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The Counterpoint Sessions
Whitechapel Gallery, London
22 June 2017
As part of its history of championing women artists, the Whitechapel Gallery is hosting The Counterpoint Sessions as networking events where women can discuss art and culture. Alice was in conversation with artist Anthea Hamilton at the second Counterpoint Session.
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The Great Architectural Bake Off
London Festival of Architecture, London
10 June 2017
One of the feistiest competitions in British architecture is the annual Great Architectural Bake Off in Fitzroy Square during the London Festival of Architecture. As she loves both architecture and cake, Alice was delighted to be invited to join the jury of this year's contest.
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What Design Can Do
Muziekgebouw, Amsterdam, Netherlands
23 May 2017
Every year the organisers of What Design Can Do choose a timely and important theme to be explored by the two-day festival in Amsterdam. The 2017 theme was Climate Change. Alice gave the opening talk in which she assessed the roles that design might play in arresting it.
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Conversations in Creativity
Blackburn Cathedral, Lancashire, UK
04 May 2017
To mark the first National Festival of Making in Blackburn on 6 and 7 May, Creative Lancashire hosted a series of Conversations in Creativity. Alice discussed the work of the designers Claire Norcross, Nicholas Roope and Samuel Wilkinson and their collaborations with Plumen.
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Design Now
Icon Design Talks, Milan, Italy
06 April 2017
Alice gave the opening talk in Icon Design Talks, a five-day symposium organised by Icon Design magazine during Milan Design Week in Fondazione Feltrinelli's new Porta Volta building designed by Herzog & de Meuron. Alice explored the key issues facing design today.
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Designing the surface
Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, Netherlands
23 March 2017
Alice discussed our changing perceptions of surfaces and their evolving role within design with the designers Jurrien Brouwers, Lucy Hardcastle and Chris Kabel in a debate moderated by Tamar Shafrir at Het Nieuwe Instituut during its exhibition on surfaces and finishes.
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Designers of what, when and why?
La Triennale, Milan, Italy
21 March 2017
Designers of what, when and why? was the theme of a debate organised by Domus Academy in Milan to explore the future roles of designers. Alice participated in the debate, moderated by design theorist John Thackara, with Arthur Huang and Brooke Roberts-Islam.
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The Colour of Pomegranates
Fashion in Film Festival, Curzon Bloomsbury, London
20 March 2017
To celebrate its tenth anniversary, London's Fashion in Film Festival screened Sergei Parajanov's remarkable 1969 film The Colour of Pomegranates. Alice introduced the screening of one of the compelling and idiosyncratic films made in the USSR, where it was banned.
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The making phenomenon
Maker Assembly Edinburgh, Scotland
03 March 2017
The resurgence of interest in making is to be discussed by Alice with Daniel Charny, co-founder of Fixperts, and Sarah Mann of the British Council in Maker Assembly Edinburgh, a day-long event organised by the British Council in collaboration with the Institute of Making.
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Can self-build save us all?
Rochelle School, London
18 February 2017
The design historian Emily King organised a symposium on the self-build phenomenon as part of her Frieze Academy series of talks and debates on Art, Design and the City. Alice discussed the pros and cons of self-building with the architect Paloma Strelitz, co-founder of Assemble.
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Utopia - Dystopia
A/D/O, Brooklyn, USA
27 January 2017
Alice gave a keynote talk on design's role in realising our utopian dreams and dystopian fears at the opening of A/D/O, a new project providing free work and meeting spaces, talks, debates, exhibitions and other resources for designers in a reconstructed warehouse in Brooklyn.
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2016

Roksanda Ilincic in conversation with Alice Rawsthorn
House of Voltaire, London
17 December 2016
Every two years the independent art space Studio Voltaire opens House of Voltaire, a pop-up shop selling works by artists and designers in central London. On the closing weekend of House of Voltaire 2016, Alice will be in conversation with fashion designer Roksanda Ilincic.
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In Conversation with Phyllida Barlow
Hepworth Wakefield, Yorkshire, UK
30 November 2016
Phyllida Barlow is one of four British artists shortlisted for the inaugural Hepworth Prize for Sculpture together with Steven Claydon, Helen Marten and David Medalla. Alice was in conversation with Phyllida at the Hepworth Wakefield where they discussed her work and future plans.
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Design as an agent of change
Cause2Create, Hackney Downs, London
12 November 2016
Alice discussed design's role as an agent of change in enabling us to address some of major problems of our time, from the refugee crisis to environmental degradation at the launch of Cause2Create, a new non-profit organisation, which aims to facilitate design for social change.
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Architecture on Film - Michelangelo Antonioni
Barbican Centre, London
09 November 2016
Alice introduced two films in the Architecture Foundation's film programme at the Barbican. One was directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, 1964's Red Desert. The other was La Cupola, Volker Sattel's 2016 documentary on the concrete dome that Antonioni built in Sardinia.
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Design Now
Art Institute of Chicago, USA
28 October 2016
What are the challenges and opportunities facing design now? And how will they evolve in the future? What does this mean for designers and the people who use their work? Alice discussed the status and possibilities of design today in this talk at the Art Institute of Chicago.
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Art vs. Design?
The Arts Club of Chicago, USA
28 October 2016
Art and design have had a constantly changing, sometimes combative relationship over the years. For this talk at the Arts Club of Chicago, Alice explored how the relationship of the two disciplines has evolved, where it stands now and how it is likely to change in the future.
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Saul Bass and Vertigo
HOME, Manchester, UK
16 October 2016
Saul Bass was one of the greatest film title designers in history, and his opening title sequence for Alfred Hitchcock's thriller Vertigo is among his finest work. Alice discussed Bass's legacy at a special screening of Vertigo at HOME as part of the Design Manchester festival.
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Es Devlin at the Miracle Marathon
Serpentine Galleries, London, UK
09 October 2016
Every year the Serpentine Galleries chooses a theme for its weekend Marathon of talks, debates, performances and screenings. This year's theme is Miracle. Alice was in conversation with theatrical miracle-maker Es Devlin on the second day of the Marathon at Second Home.
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Frieze Art and Architecture Conference
Royal College of Physicians, Regents Park, London
04 October 2016
Peter Zumthor, Michael Govan, Gabriel Orozco, Peter St John and other great architects, artists and curators participated in Frieze's first Art and Architecture conference, moderated by Alice, on Tuesday 4 October in one of Denys Lasdun's brutalist architectural gems by Regents Park.
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Design and Beauty
Wired Next Fest, Florence, Italy
17 September 2016
Beauty was the central theme of the Wired Next Fest festival at Palazzo Vecchio in Florence. Alice gave a keynote talk on design and beauty, exploring how our perceptions and expectations of design and beauty have evolved in recent years, and where they stand now.
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Design to the rescue?
London Design Biennale, Somerset House, London
15 September 2016
More than 30 countries participated in the first London Design Biennale at Somerset House on the theme of Utopia. At an exceptionally turbulent and perilous time when we face so many problems and threats, Alice explored the role of design in helping us to address those challenges.
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Design Today
Habitare, Helsinki, Finland
07 September 2016
Alice discussed the most important developments that are defining design now, and will influence it in the future in a talk on Design Today at the Habitare design fair in Helsinki. She visited Helsinki and explore the Finnish design scene as the first International Friend of Habitare.
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How do we need - and want - design to help?
One Design Week, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
18 June 2016
The theme of One Design Week in Bulgaria for 2016 was Can I help you? Alice addressed this question at the One Design Week Forum in Plovdiv by asking how we need and want design to help us tackle major issues from the environmental crisis to redefining our personal identities.
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Science by design
Cheltenham Science Festival, Cheltenham, UK
07 June 2016
How do design and science relate to each other? How has their relationship evolved over time? How is it likely to develop in future? And what type of innovations do we most need from these fields? Alice explored these questions at The Times Cheltenham Science Festival.
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Design and us
Design Museum of Barcelona, Spain
02 June 2016
Alice gave the opening talk at Barcelona Design Week 2016 on design's impact on our lives now and in the future. She discussed how design is changing our relationship to technology, politics, our personal identities and social, environmental and humanitarian concerns.
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Craft on an international stage
The New Craftsmen, London
06 May 2016
During London Craft Week, Alice moderated a discussion on the current craft revival. The panel including Annie Warburton of the Crafts Council and Guy Salter of London Craft Week discussed the growing interest in craft, its future and changing relationship with art and design.
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European Design Parliament
Milan, Italy
14 April 2016
Alice participated in a debate organised by Jan Boelen, director of Z33 in Hasselt, and Guus Beumer, director of Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, on the formation of a European Design Parliament to stimulate critical design discourse on the redefinition of design.
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TED2016
Vancouver, Canada
18 February 2016
Alice spoke on Design Dreamers, Rebels and Renegades at the TED2016 conference in Vancouver. She described how dreamers and radicals have enriched design culture. Among the other speakers at TED2016 were: Al Gore, Bill T. Jones, Chris Milk and Shonda Rhimes.
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Can design be genderless?
National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington DC, USA
27 January 2016
At a time when traditional definitions of gender are being replaced by an increasingly eclectic, fluid and singular concept of its role in defining our identities, Alice participated in a debate on the issue at the NMWA in Washington DC with the Australian designer Gabriel Maher.
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Design Manifesta 16
Danish Architecture Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark
14 January 2016
Change is the theme of the Manifesta 16 programme of talks and debates organised by the Danish Art Workshops at the Danish Architecture Centre. Alice is to discuss the important changes which will influence the course of design and making in the year ahead.
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2015

MARKA 2015
Istanbul, Turkey
16 December 2015
Alice gave a keynote speech on the changing relationship between the luxury industry and the art world at the 2015 edition of MARKA, the marketing and branding conference in Turkey. She also participated in a Q&A with BJ Cunningham on the commercial power of design.
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Photography and things
Paris Photo, Grand Palais, Paris
14 November 2015
Alice participated in a debate on photography and objects at Paris Photo in the Grand Palais with the artist Richard Wentworth and academics Emanuele Coccia and Donatien Grau. When Paris Photo was closed after the 13/11 Paris terrorist attacks, the debate was webcast.
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Serpentine Marathon 2015
Serpentine Gallery, London
17 October 2015
For the Serpentine Marathon 2015, Alice discussed the transformative role of design in three aspects of our lives with three designers that work in those fields: personal identity with Gabriel Maher, society with Hilary Cottam and the environment with Christien Meindertsma.
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The future of European design
Prague, Czech Republic
23 September 2015
Alice gave a lecture in Prague on the challenges and opportunities facing European design. Organised by the NGO Czech Design, the lecture was part of a year-long programme of cultural events in the Czech Republic raising awareness of design and stimulating debate.
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Conversation with Yves Béhar
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
22 September 2015
How can design forge a better future? Alice discussed the challenges and opportunities presented to designers by ever-accelerating advances in technology with the Swiss-born, US-based designer Yves Béhar in a conversation at the V&A during the London Design Festival.
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What is design, and how is it changing?
Northmodern, Copenhagen, Denmark
15 August 2015
What is design? And how will it change in the future? Alice explored these issues in a talk organised by Design denmark. In her talk, she discussed the impact of digital technology on design and its practise, and the entrepreneurial opportunities it has created for designers.
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Conversation with Pablo Bronstein
Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
08 July 2015
The Grand Tour is an exhibition by the artist Pablo Bronstein at Nottingham Contemporary featuring objects he selected from the collection at Chatsworth in Derbyshire. Alice was in conversation with Bronstein to discuss his objectives for the exhibition, and its evolution.
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Culture Geek
Southbank Centre, London
17 June 2015
Every week Alice chooses a theme for her Instagram feed - such as feminism, water and disaster - and posts about a relevant design project each day. She discussed her use of Instagram at the annual Culture Geek conference on digital technology and the cultural sector.
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White-Collar Tales Film Night - Playtime
Royal Institute of British Architects, London
03 June 2015
During the London Architecture Festival, Alice introduced a screening of Playtime, the 1967 comedy directed by Jacques Tati, in a screening organised by Disegno magazine at the RIBA. Featuring Tati's hapless anti-hero, Monsieur Hulot, the film is a satire of 1960s modernism.
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Art and Design - to and fro
DOGA, Oslo, Norway
30 May 2015
The constantly changing relationship of design and art was the theme of Alice's talk at the Nordic Design Fair at DOGA, the Norwegian Centre for Design and Architecture in Oslo. She discussed how the balance between them has evolved over the years, and where it stands now.
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You've never had it so good
Royal Festival Hall, London
18 April 2015
As part of the Changing Britain Festival exploring the last 70 years of British history at the Royal Festival Hall in London, Alice participated in a debate, moderated by the historian David Kynaston, on the impact of changes in design and consumer culture on British life in the 1950s.
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Focus on Roland Barthes
MIA, Milan, Italy
11 April 2015
As 2015 is the centenary year of the birth of the French philosopher Roland Barthes, the Italian writer Gianluigi Ricuperati invited Alice and the curator Hans Ulrich Obrist to discuss his influence on them and his enduring impact in a panel discussion at the MIA art fair in Milan.
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Interior design: dead or alive?
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
14 March 2015
Ben Kelly, chair of interior and spatial design at the Universiry of the Arts, organised a symposium on the future of interior design at the ICA in London. Alice moderated a discussion between the artist Lucy McKenzie, designer Peter Saville and curator Andrew Wilson.
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Is design an art?
Architectural Association, London
17 February 2015
Alice discussed the constantly changing relationship of art and design with the architect Sophie Hicks in the first of a new series of public lectures, which inaugurated the AA XX 100 project to celebrate the centenary of women studying at the Architectural Association in 2017.
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Collecting design
Zona Maco, Mexico City, Mexico
07 February 2015
The collectors' market for design has changed dramatically in recent years, since the end of the 'design-art' bubble. Alice discussed its evolution with Liliana Ovalle and Regina Pozo in a debate organised by Cecilia Leon Dela Barra at the Zona Maco art fair in Mexico City.
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Design and gender identity
Whitechapel Gallery, London
05 February 2015
What is the role of gender identity in design? How is it evolving? And how has it been affected by the resurgence of interest in feminism and expansion of the transgender movement? Alice explored these issues with designer Gabriel Ann Maher and design theorist Mathilda Tham.
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2014

Ninety Minutes of Frame
Pakuis De ZWIJGER, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
18 December 2014
Alice gave a keynote talk on What we need - and want - from design at Future Proof, one of the Ninety Minutes of Frame events organised by Frame magazine in Amsterdam. Among the other speakers were Jeroen Junte, Chloé Rutzerveld, Koert van Mensvoort and Anna Lomax.
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Tomorrow's citizens: what do they want and need from design?
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
25 November 2014
Every two years, the Swedish Design Awards are organised in Stockholm by Svensk Form. Alice presented a prize from the international jury (of which she was a member) at the ceremony and gave a talk beforehand on the future priorities for design.
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Hello World: Where Design Meets Life
V&A Museum of Design Dundee, Scotland
28 October 2014
During the construction of the new V&A Design Museum in the Scottish city of Dundee, the Victoria & Albert Museum is organising a series of talks and debates on design. As part of this V&A Dundee project, Alice gave a talk on her latest book Hello World and the future of design.
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Social Design and Energy
Design Academy Eindhoven, The Netherlands
25 October 2014
Addressing the global energy crisis by striving to provide clean, affordable and sustainable sources of renewable energy is a major design challenge. Alice discussed the issue at a symposium on Social Design at Design Academy Eindhoven during Dutch Design Week.
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Serpentine Marathon: Extinction
Serpentine Gallery, London
19 October 2014
Every year on the closing weekend of Frieze Week, the Serpentine Gallery stages a two day Marathon of talks, screenings and debates. Alice discussed the theme of the 21014 Marathon, Extinction, with the Dutch book designer Irma Boom, who designed "Hello World".
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BIO 50: Ljubljana Design Biennial
Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana, Slovenia
18 September 2014
The Ljubljana Design Biennial is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a six month experiment in research-based design by multidisciplinary teams. Alice discussed the results with BIO50's curator Jan Boelen and design critic Justin McGuirk in a panel chaired by Vera Sacchetti.
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Why design is not - and shouldn't be confused with - art
Universal University, Milan, Italy
28 July 2014
In the approach to Expo Milano 2015, the Domus Academy, Bocconi University, Politecnico di Milano and Brera Academy staged the Universal University series of talks and debates at Expo Gate where Alice addressed the constantly changing relationship of art and design.
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University of the Arts Graduation Ceremony
Royal Festival Hall, London
17 July 2014
Alice spoke at the University of the Arts's graduation ceremony in the Royal Festival Hall, London at which she was awarded an Honorary Doctorate for services to design and journalism. Among the other honourees were the photographer Nick Knight and artist Mariko Mori.
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Design and Innovation
Futur en Seine World Digital Festival, Paris, France
13 June 2014
As a keynote speaker at the Futur en Seine World Digital Festival at the Conservatoire national des Arts et Métiers, Musée des Arts et Métiers in Paris, Alice explored design's relationship to imagination and innovation, central themes of Hello World: Where Design Meets Life.
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Megacities
MAK - Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
11 June 2014
To celebrate its 150th anniversary, the MAK, the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna, is to investigate its history and its impact on design, craft, art and making in Exemplary, a series of exhibitions and debates. Alice participated in Megacities, a discussion about the future of urbanism.
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Hello World: Where Design Meets Life
Malta Design Week, Valletta, Malta
18 May 2014
What are the challenges and opportunities that will define design in the future, especially for micronations like Malta? Alice addressed these issues and other key themes of Hello World: Where Design Meets Life in Valletta in the opening talk of Malta Design Week 2014.
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From Design to Design Thinking
Riga, Latvia
13 May 2014
Alice spoke at the opening event of Creative Action Week 2014 on 13 May in the Latvian capital, Riga, by discussing the transition from design to design thinking and its impact on our lives. She also discussed the role of design within society at an informal event that evening
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Curating Design
MIART, Milan, Italy
28 March 2014
Alice moderated a debate on the challenges and possibilities of Curating Design between Lilli Hollein, director of Vienna Design Week, and Guta Moura Guedes, co-founder and director of the experimentadesign festival in Lisbon, during miart 2014, the Milan contemporary art fair.
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A Conversation with Paola Antonelli
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
07 March 2014
To celebrate the publication of the US edition of "Hello World: Where Design Meets Life", Paola Antonelli, senior curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, discussed the book and its themes with Alice with a specially invited audience at MoMA.
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Martino Gamper and Haim Steinbach
Serpentine Gallery. London
05 March 2014
To mark the opening of two exhibitions at the Serpentine Galleries - one by the designer-maker Martino Gamper, and the other by the artist Haim Steinbach - Alice moderated a conversation between them on their shared interest in objects, collecting and the rituals of display.
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Hello World: Where Design Meets Life
University of Tallinn, Estonia
03 March 2014
How can design help us to improve our lives when we face dramatic changes of unprecedented speed and scale on so many other fronts? Alice explored these issues in a lecture at the University of Tallinn, organised by the British Council and the Estonia Design Centre.
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If You Build It, They Will Come
Tate Modern, London
10 February 2014
For the third and final If You Build It, They Will Come event organised by the Architecture Foundation at Tate Modern, Alice moderated a feisty discussion between the art and architecture critic Hal Foster and the architect Jacques Herzog on the future of museum architecture.
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2013

The Cathrine von Hauswolff Foundation
Stockholm, Sweden
16 November 2013
Cathrine von Hauswolff was a gifted Swedish design curator who died early this year. An award for design development has been founded in her memory to be given annually to someone who, like Cathrine, has championed design. Alice presented the inaugural award in Stockholm.
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Hello World: Where Design Meets Life
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
15 November 2013
Alice addressed the central theme of Hello World by exploring how design has influenced our lives so far, and whether it can fulfill its potential to become an even richer and more powerful force in future at Moderna Museet in Stockholm in a talk organised by Svensk Form.
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The Bigger Picture
Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts, London
12 November 2013
The Bigger Picture is a unit at Central Saint Martins art and design school where students can explore different ways of seeing the world. Alice participated in a three-day series of workshops there by giving a lecture about the changing relationship between design and art.
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Hello World: Where Design Meets Life
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
26 October 2013
At a time when advances in science and technology are accelerating and the environmental crisis is deepening, as is the gulf between rich and poor, designers face formidable challenges, which are key themes of "Hello World" and were discussed by Alice at the MCA in Sydney.
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Criticism in the digital age
Wheeler Centre, Melbourne, Australia
24 October 2013
Between the rise of new media and the shrinking of the old, cultural criticism is at a crossroads. Alice discussed the future of cultural criticism in the digital age in a panel held at the Wheeler Centre of Books, Writing and Ideas in Melbourne as part of the Melbourne Festival.
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Hello World: Where Design Meets Life
RMIT University Design Hub, Melbourne, Australia
23 October 2013
As part of the Melbourne Festival of the Creative and Performing Arts, Alice gave a lecture on the central themes of "Hello World: Where Design Meets Life", focussing on the future of design and our relationship to it, at the RMIT University Design Hub in Melbourne.
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Art and design in the 1960s
Cheltenham Literature Festival
11 October 2013
The 1960s was a period when art, design, literature and other cultural disciplines were in a state of flux reflecting and provoking broader changes in society. Alice discussed the evolution of art and design during the 1960s in a debate at the Cheltenham Literature Festival.
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Point Counter Point
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
10 October 2013
Alice gave a keynote lecture at the 2013 ATypl conference in Amsterdam. The theme of the conference was Point Counter Point to reflect the diversity of ideas in the history of type, typography and communication design, and the challenges facing those disciplines.
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Where Design Meets Life
The White Building, London
01 October 2013
The White Building in Hackney Wick is London's new centre for art, technology and sustainability, and a place where artists can experiment with technology. Alice discussed "Hello World: Where Design Meets Life" there in conversation with the curator and writer Omar Kholeif.
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Design Salon with Studio Formafantasma
MAK - Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
29 September 2013
During Vienna Design Week, Alice participated in a Salon organised by the MAK, the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna on the work of the Italian design group Studio Formafantasma with its co-founders Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin and the design gallerist Libby Sellers.
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Culture Now
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
20 September 2013
Alice discussed the scientific, technological, social, political and environmental challenges facing design and other themes of "Hello World: Where Design Meets Life" with Gregor Muir, director of the Institute of Contemporary Art, as part of its Culture Now series.
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RSA Student Design Awards
Royal Society of Arts, London
18 September 2013
How is the role of design evolving? And the role of the designer? Alice explored these issues, central themes of Hello World: Where Design Meets Life, in the keynote lecture at the launch of the 2013-14 Student Design Awards at the Royal Society of Arts in London.
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Wynkyn de Worde Society Lecture
The Art Workers' Guild, London
17 September 2013
Named after a journeyman who worked for William Caxton, the inventor of the printing press before becoming the first printer on London's Fleet Street, the Wynkyn de Worde Society invited Alice to give a lecture on the issues of communication design discussed in Hello World.
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INDEX: Design to Improve Life Awards
Elsinore, Denmark
29 August 2013
The INDEX: Design to Improve Life Award is the world's richest design prize, which gives €500,000 every two years to five projects that use design to enhance the quality of people's lives. Alice participated in the INDEX: 2013 award ceremony in the historic Danish city of Elsinore.
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Alvar Aalto Design Seminar
Jyväskylä, Finland
25 August 2013
The theme of the 7th International Alvar Aalto Design Seminar was New Wave as an homage to the Nouvelle Vague of auteur film makers that emerged in France during the 1950s. Alice's talk explored whether recent changes in design practise are producing a "new wave" in design.
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Designing a better world
Edinburgh International Book Festival
11 August 2013
Alice discussed one of the key themes of Hello World: Where Design Meets Life, the douty challenge and exciting opportunity of "Designing a better world" at the Edinburgh International Books Festival. She was in conversation with the graphic designer, Janice Kirkpatrick
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Why Design Matters
The School of Life, London
24 July 2013
Design is an inescapable force in all of our lives, which has immense power to determine what we do, how we feel, and if we succeed or fail. Yet it is so often misinterpreted and trivialised. Alice discussed why design matters for the School of Life with the curator Beatrice Galilee.
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In My Fashion - Suzy Menkes
Christie's, South Kensington, London
11 July 2013
Alice participated in a discussion at Christie's in London with her colleague, Suzy Menkes, fashion director of the International Herald Tribune, who was to auction her collection of 1970s and 1980s fashion there, including pieces by Ossie Clark and Yves Saint Laurent.
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New Designers
Business Design Centre, London
26 June 2013
Alice gave the opening talk at the preview of New Designers 2013, the UK's largest annual showcase of the work of young designers. Several thousand design graduates participated in the 2013 version of the New Designers exhibition at the Business Design Centre in Islington.
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Discovering Design
Wired NextFest, Milan, Italy
01 June 2013
Wired NextFest is a giant free festival in the Giardini Indro Montanelli in Milan, which is devoted to new and future directions in technology and design. The festival is organised by Wired Italia magazine, and Alice was in conversation with its editor-in-chief, Carlo Antonelli.
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Hello World: Where Design Meets Life
Hay Festival, Hay on Wye
25 May 2013
Alice discussed her book Hello World: Where Design Meets Life at the opening weekend of the Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts in conversation with the broadcaster Suzy Klein. She explored how our lives can be affected by changes in our perceptions of design.
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Design and Art: A conversation with Charles Saumarez Smith
Charleston Festival, Lewes, East Sussex
19 May 2013
What are the roles of design and art? How has their relationship evolved? Alice discussed these issues with Charles Saumarez Smith, chief executive of the Royal Academy, at the Charleston Festival held on the Sussex farm which was a meeting place for the Bloomsbury Group.
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Why design is not - and should not be confused with - art
Whitechapel Gallery, London
16 May 2013
The constantly changing, often problematic relationship between design and art is an important theme of Alice's new book "Hello World: Where Design Meets Life". She addressed their evolving roles in conversation with the design historian Emily King at the Whitechapel Gallery.
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Hello World: Where Design Meets Life
Bristol Festival of Ideas
11 May 2013
Alice is to participate in the Bristol Festival of Ideas by giving a talk at the Spike Island art centre on the key themes of her recently published book "Hello World: Where Design Meets Life". The talk will explore the changing impact of design on our lives now and in the future.
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Where Design Meets Life
Cheltenham Design Festival
14 April 2013
The Cheltenham Design Festival is a four-day annual festival of talks, debates and workshops on design. Alice spoke there with MoMA New York design curator Paola Antonelli on the central themes of "Hello World: Where Design Meets Life" and design's changing role in our lives.
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Design and Society
Royal Society of Arts, London
18 March 2013
Alice gave the inaugural Tindale Lecture, celebrating the work of the late Patricia Tindale, the first and last Chief Architect of the Department of Environment, at the Royal Society of Arts. The lecture explored an important theme of "Hello World" - design and its social responsibilities.
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Bath Literature Festival
Masonic Hall, Bath
09 March 2013
Alice is to discuss her new book Hello World: Where Design Meets Life at the Bath Literature Festival. Design is one of the most powerful forces in our lives - for better and worse. We can not escape it, even if we wish to. Hello World explores design's impact on us - past, present and future.
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Conversation with Richard Sennett
The School of Life, London
15 January 2013
Cooperation is the theme of Together, the critically acclaimed book by Richard Sennett, professor of sociology at the London School of Economics and at New York University. Alice discussed the issues raised by Together and his previous book The Craftsman with Sennett.
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2012

Liberatum Berlin
Berlin, Germany
01 December 2012
How has the internet influenced design? Alice is to explore this theme in a talk at the Liberatum festival in Berlin. How has the internet changed design practice - both in terms of the process and the range of work undertaken by designers - and our own relationship to design?
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Conversation with Stephen Jones
The Miu Miu, London
29 November 2012
Stephen Jones is one of the most gifted and original hat designers of our time. Alice talked to him about how he has modernised the hat and his collaborations with Raf Simons, Giles Deacon, Marc Jacobs and Rei Kawakubo at The Miu Miu, a pop-up club at the Café Royal in London.
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Venice Architecture Biennale Roundtable
La Biennale, Venice Italy
24 November 2012
The theme of this year's Venice Architecture Biennale, directed by the architect David Chipperfield, is Common Ground. On the closing weekend of the Biennale, Alice participated in a round table debate organised by David Chipperfield to discuss the issues raised.
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George Nelson Symposium
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
09 November 2012
To coincide with a retrospective of the work of the mid-20th century US architect and designer George Nelson, the Yale School of Architecture is to stage a symposium on his work and influence on 9 and 10 November. Alice will be participating in the symposium and giving the closing talk.
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Serpentine Gallery Marathon
Serpentine Gallery, London
14 October 2012
Every year the Serpentine Gallery stages a weekend marathon of talks and debates at the end of Frieze Week. This year's theme was memory as an homage to the Serpentine Pavilion designed by Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei. Alice spoke about memory and design.
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Beijing Design Forum
Park Hyatt, Beijing, China
29 September 2012
Alice moderated two debates - the first on design and culture, and the second on design and transportation - at the New York Times Beijing Design Forum during Beijing Design Week. The speakers included Michael Lynch on Culture and Carlo Ratti on Transportation.
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Aleksandra Mir's Triumph
South London Gallery, London
12 September 2012
Alice was in conversation with the artist Aleksandra Mir at the South London Gallery to discuss Triumph, a collection of some 2,529 trophies that she collected during the course of a year in Palermo, Sicily. Triumph was exhibited at the South London Gallery during the summer.
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Conversation with Irma Boom
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
23 August 2012
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is to re-open in spring 2013 after ten years of restoration with a new visual identity developed by the Dutch designer Irma Boom. Alice discussed the project and wider developments in museum identities with Irma Boom at the Rijksmuseum.
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Why We Write?
London College of Communications, London
04 July 2012
Alice gave the keynote lecture at Why We Write?, a biennial event organised by the London College of Communications' MA Design Writing Criticism course. She addressed both her personal reasons for writing about design, and the collective benefits of doing so.
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7 Kinds of Happiness: Design and Emotion
Sydney Convention Centre, Sydney, Australia
14 May 2012
Design's role with regard to personal happiness and our collective wellbeing was the theme of Alice's keynote lecture at the 7 Kinds of Happiness: Conversations on Design and Emotion organised by the Office for Good Design during the DesignEx exhibition in Sydney.
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The Book in the Digital Age
University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
07 February 2012
Alice gave a talk on The Book in the Digital Age at the opening of an exhibition on The Printed Book: A Visual History at the University of Amsterdam. The talk described how design ingenuity can give books a valuable and distinctive role in the digital era alongside newer media.
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2011

Aga Khan Architecture Award
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
18 November 2011
The Aga Khan Foundation liaised with the Architecture Foundation to host a debate on the Aga Khan Architecture Award at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. Alice participated as a member of the award jury with architects Farshid Moussavi and Mohsen Mostafavi.
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Serpentine Gallery Marathon
Serpentine Gallery, London
15 October 2011
Every year the Serpentine Gallery organises a two day marathon of talks during the Frieze Art Fair. The theme of the 2011 Marathon was "The Garden" inspired by the pavilion designed for the Serpentine by Peter Zumthor. Alice moderated the design talks at the Garden Marathon.
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Maharam at MoMA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
19 September 2011
Alice discussed developments in communication design and the issues which will determine its future in a conversation at the Museum of Modern Art, New York with Paola Antonelli, senior curator of architecture and design at the museum in an event organised by Maharam.
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Independence matters
Danish Design Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
05 September 2011
At a time of growing interest in design's potential to develop new solutions to seemingly intractable social problems, the Danish Design Center explored the rapidly expanding field of socially responsible design in the Independence Matters conference chaired by Alice.
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Ignite: Just Tell The Truth
Royal Opera House, London
03 September 2011
The film maker Mike Figgis curated Ignite, a three-day arts festival at the Royal Opera House exploring the theme Just Tell The Truth. Alice co-hosted the Ignite talks programme with Mike featuring Hans Ulrich Obrist, Alber Elbaz, Richard Wentworth, Vincent Walsh and Peter Blake.
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BAFTA Dressed by Design: Colleen Attwood
Somerset House, London
03 August 2011
As part of BAFTA's Behind the Screen talks accompanying the outdoor summer screenings at Somerset House, Alice moderated a discussion on costume design with the multiple Oscar-winning designer Colleen Attwood, who has designed costumes for over 50 films.
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Ferran Adria and elBulli Foundation
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
27 June 2011
Alice participated in a roundtable discussion on food, art and innovation as part of a programme of events exploring the Spanish chef Ferran Adria of elBulli's plans for the elBulli Foundation at Moderna Museet in Stockholm moderated by Daniel Birnbaum and Jan Aman.
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Life is Space
Studio Olafur Eliasson, Berlin, Germany
17 June 2011
Every year Olafur Eliasson invites 70 people from different disciplines to participate in Life is Space, a day of experiments at his studio in Berlin. Alice was a participant in Life is Space 2011, which included experiments with food, movement, observation, light and tickling.
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Visions of the future city - Anticitta
FESTARCH, Perugia, Italy
05 June 2011
The future of the city and how the phenomenon of Anticitta, or the "anti-city", is changing the city from within are the themes of FESTARCH, the international architecture festival founded by Stefano Boeri in Sardinia. Alice is to speak at the third edition of FESTARCH in Perugia.
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BAFTA Tribute to Ken Adam
Royal Institute of British Architects, London
04 April 2011
BAFTA, alias the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, hosted an tribute to the brilliant film production designer Ken Adam to celebrate his 90th birthday. Alice made a joint tribute to Adam with Julia Peyton-Jones. Their fellow speakers included Roger Moore and Anouk Aimee.
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Annual SVA MFA Design Fellowship Lecture
School of Visual Arts, New York, USA
30 March 2011
Alice discussed her work as a design critic and emerging issues in design in the Annual SVA MFA Design Fellowship Lecture at the School of Visual Arts in New York. She described how her work has evolved to reflect broader changes in design, technology and the media.
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Femme Fatale - Women of the World
Royal Festival Hall, London
12 March 2011
The South Bank Centre celebrated the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day with the first of the WOW - Women of the World festivals. Alice discussed how women's identities are reflected in what they wear with Linda Grant, Kathy Lette, Louise Chunn and Maggie Semple.
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The Future of Design
Design Wave, Berlin, Germany
20 January 2011
How can designers help to build a sustainable future? Make the world more inclusive? Regenerate economic growth to create a fairer society? Turn advances in science and technology to our advantage? Alice is to address these issues at the Design Wave symposium in Berlin.
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2010

I Don't Know Where I'm Going But I Want To Be There
Paradiso, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
18 December 2010
I Don't Know Where I'm Going But I Want To Be There is the title of a Graphic Design Museum Breda symposium on the ever-expanding definition of graphic design. Alice gave a keynote speech - by Skype as she was snowbound in London - on changes in design in general.
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World Economic Forum Summit on the Global Agenda
Dubai, UAE
29 November 2010
Alice participated in the World Economic Forum's annual Summit on the Global Agenda in Dubai. The summit identified the issues to be discussed at the WEF's Annual Meeting 2011 in Davos. Alice attended as a member of the WEF's Global Agenda Council on Design.
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Aga Khan Award for Architecture
Museum of Islamic Art, Qatar, Doha
24 November 2010
The Aga Khan Award for Architecture is given every three years to architectural projects that enhance the understanding of the Islamic world. Alice was a member of the master jury for the 2010 Award, which was announced at the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar.
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The New Aesthetics and Ecological Urbanism
Beijing University, China
30 October 2010
Alice delivered a keynote lecture on the future of sustainable design at The New Aesthetics and Ecological Urbanism Conference at Beijing University. The speech explored the growing importance of sustainable design, as well as future challenges and opportunities.
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Dialogue with Designers - Marc Newson
92nd Street Y, New York, USA
16 September 2010
To coincide with the opening of an exhibition of new projects, including his interpretation of Riva's famous Aquarama and Aquariva speedboats, at Gagosian Gallery in New York, Marc Newson staged a dialogue with Alice as part of the public lecture program of the 92nd Street Y.
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Design Thinking
Danish Design Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark
10 September 2010
What is design thinking? When is it likeliest to succeed? And fail? How should it be implemented? How will it evolve in the future? These and other issues were addressed in a symposium on design thinking, which was chaired by Alice at the Danish Design Center in Copenhagen.
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Art, Architecture and the new Whitechapel
Whitechapel Gallery, London
21 July 2010
How have architects responded to modern and contemporary art? And how have their responses evolved over the years. Alice addressed these themes and their relationship to the design of the new Whitechapel Gallery in a talk at the American Institute of Architects' Summer Gala.
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Talking Design - Frank Stephenson
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
09 July 2010
Having designed two of the most successful new cars of recent years, the new Mini and Fiat 500, the American designer, Frank Stephenson, is now developing luxury sports cars for McLaren, the Formula 1 racing group. He discusses his work with Alice in Talking Design at the V&A.
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Global Redesign Summit
Doha, Qatar
30 May 2010
The World Economic Forum pursued its Global Redesign project to reconstruct the global economy at a special summit in Doha. Alice attended as a member of the forum's Global Agenda Council on Design to discuss how design and design thinking can contribute to the project.
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Cumulus Design Conference
Genk, Belgium
26 May 2010
The future of design was the theme of Alice's keynote speech at the Cumulus Design Conference in Genk. Among the topics explored were the challenges and possibilities of rapidly expanding fields such as design thinking, social design, critical design and open source design.
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Talking Design - Alasdhair Willis
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
18 May 2010
Established & Sons has become a dynamic force in British design by commissioning iconoclastic pieces from designers such as Jasper Morrison, Zaha Hadid, Maarten Baas and the Bouroullec brothers. Alice discussed its development with co-founder, Alasdhair Willis.
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Design Trial - Chairless
La Triennale Design Museum, Milan, Italy
15 April 2010
Every year at the Milan Furniture Fair, Abitare puts a new product on Design Trial. This time, it was Chairless. Designed by Alejandro Aravena for Vitra, it is a skinny textile strap that supports your back and legs while you are seated on the floor. Alice played the role of public prosecutor.
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Design Talk - Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago, USA
23 March 2010
What can design offer us now, and in the future? How can it help to tackle the urgent issues of our time, from the environmental crisis and recession, to global poverty? Alice discussed these issues at the Art Institute of Chicago in conversation with its design curator, Zoe Ryan.
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Good Design Can Save The Planet
Ecobuild, London
03 March 2010
How can designers help us to live more responsibly - ethically and environmentally? Alice explored the challenges and opportunities of sustainable design at the Ecobuild conference. How are designers responding? What problems do they face? How can they be resolved?
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Decode - John Maeda
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
02 February 2010
One of the world's most influential digital artists and software designers, John Maeda, discussed the evolution of his work with Alice in a talk at the Victoria and Albert Museum as part of the Decode: Digital Design Sensations exhibition on the development of digital design.
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World Economic Forum 2010
Davos, Switzerland
27 January 2010
For the third successive year, Alice spoke at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos. She moderated thee debates during Davos 2010 - on sustainable design, the future of design and a Yale Ideas Lab - as well as speaking at a session on the principles of design.
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2009

Talking Design - Graphic Thought Facility
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
08 December 2009
In the quarterly Talking Design series chaired by Alice at the Victoria and Albert Museum, she was in conversation with Paul Neale, Huw Morgan and Andy Stephens of Graphic Thought Facility, one of the most innovative and influential graphic design teams working today.
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The next promise of design
Boijmans Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands
29 November 2009
The most prestigious design award in the Netherlands, the biennial Rotterdam Design Prize is awarded to the Dutch designer who has produced the most inspiring work of the past two years. Alice gave the opening speech at the award ceremony in the Boijmans Museum.
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Konstantin Grcic
Serpentine Gallery, London
26 November 2009
Alice was in conversation with the acclaimed German designer, Konstantin Grcic, to coincide with the opening of his exhibition, Design Real, at the Serpentine Gallery in London. They discussed the development of Design Real and its vision of industrial design.
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World Economic Forum Summit on the Global Agenda
Dubai, UAE
20 November 2009
Alice participated in the World Economic Forum's Summit on the Global Agenda in Dubai. The summit identified the issues which are to be discussed at the WEF's Annual Meeting 2010 in Davos. Alice attended as a member of the WEF's Global Agenda Council on Design.
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The Future of Design
Architectural Association, London
27 October 2009
Alice is to discuss the future of design, and how the 20th century model is being redefined for the 21st century, at the Architectural Association in London. She will be in conversation with the curator and critic, Shumon Basar, co-director of the Architectural Association's Cultural Programme.
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Talking Design - Yves Behar
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
24 September 2009
During the London Design Festival, Alice was in conversation with Yves Behar as part of the Talking Design series at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Based in San Francisco, Behar has designed an electric motorcycle as well as the computer for the One Laptop Per Child project.
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Back to the Future of Design
Lisbon, Portugal
12 September 2009
Alice chaired a debate at the Experimenta Design Biennial in Lisbon on Back to the Future of Design. Programmer Ben Fry, architect Lindy Roy and curator Joseph Grima each identified one neglected development in design history and two themes that will define design in the future.
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Designing for Good
Copenhagen, Denmark
28 August 2009
Every year the INDEX prize is awarded in Copenhagen to celebrate the design project that has done the most to improve our quality of life. To celebrate the award, Alice moderated a discussion in which leading humanitarian designers will explore design's role in enhancing our lives.
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What is Good Design?
The School of Life, London
28 June 2009
At a time when the economic and environmental crises are deepening and social systems are breaking down, design is more important than ever. Alice delivered a Sunday Sermon at the School of Life on the need for a more intelligent, inclusive and fluid approach to design .
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Architecture and Art: Crossover and Collaboration
Tate Modern, London
22 June 2009
Alice chaired a conversation at Tate Modern on the interplay between art and architecture with the British architect, Jamie Fobert, and the Scandinavian artists, Elmgreen and Dragset. The debate was part of a series of discussions organised by the Architecture Foundation.
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Talking Design - Tim Brown
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
15 May 2009
This installment of the quarterly Talking Design series, chaired by Alice at the Victoria and Albert Museum, featured Tim Brown, ceo of IDEO, one of the world's most influential design groups. Tim discussed IDEO's work in redefining industrial design and in pioneering service design.
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Design in Crisis
Milan, Italy
23 April 2009
Design in Crisis was the theme of the Design Domino organised by Abitare magazine during the Milan Furniture Fair. Alice addressed the theme in a one-question-one-answer game with speakers including Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, Konstantin Grcic and Hans Ulrich Obrist.
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Objectified
Chelsea Cinema, London
16 April 2009
To celebrate the first London screening of Objectified, Gary Hustwit's documentary feature on industrial design and its impact on our lives, Alice participated in a discussion at the Chelsea Cinema with the designer, Marc Newson, and Jonathan Ive, head of design at Apple.
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The Glass House Conversation
New Canaan, USA
27 February 2009
The Glass House Conversations are inspired by the debates staged by Philip Johnson at his New Canaan home, one of the most famous houses of the 20th century. Alice was one of ten people who participated in the Glass House Conversation on Procession and Seduction.
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Talking Design - Tom Dixon
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
13 February 2009
As part of Talking Design, the quarterly series of conversations with designers that Alice is conducting at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, she was in discussion with Tom Dixon, one of the most influential product and furniture designers working in Britain today.
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World Economic Forum 2009
Davos, Switzerland
28 January 2009
Alice spoke at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The theme of this year's meeting was Shaping the Post-Crisis World. Alice moderated sessions on humanitarian design, changing concepts of good design and sustainable consumption.
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2008

Talking Design - BarberOsgerby
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
12 December 2008
Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby are among Britain's most accomplished and prolific furniture designers, developing elegant, witty and technically ingenious products for Cappellini, Established & Sons and Flos. They discussed their work with Alice at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
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Jurgen Bey
Somerset House, London
11 December 2008
Wouldn't it be nice... Wishful thinking in art and design was an exhibition at Somerset House in London that explores the blurring boundaries between art and design. Alice interviewed the Dutch designer, Jurgen Bey, about the evolution of his work and his contribution to the show.
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World Economic Forum Summit on the Global Agenda
Dubai, UAE
06 November 2008
Alice participated in the first Summit on the Global Agenda organised by the World Economic Forum in Dubai. The summit was convened by the WEF to plan the agenda of its Annual Meeting 2009 in Davos. Alice attended as a member of the Global Agenda Council on Design.
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Summer Davos - Annual Meeting of the New Champions
Tianjin, China
25 September 2008
Alice spoke at "Summer Davos", the Annual Meeting of the New Champions, which was organised by the World Economic Forum in the Chinese city of Tianjin to stimulate investment and innovation in emerging cities and regions. The theme was the "Next Wave of Growth".
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Talking Design - Peter Saville
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
19 September 2008
One of the most influential image makers of our time, Peter Saville designed iconic artwork for Joy Division and New Order at Factory Records in the 1980s and 1990s, and is now creative director of the city of Manchester. He talked with Alice at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
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Hayward 40th Anniversary Talk
Hayward Gallery, London
01 July 2008
The Hayward Gallery celebrated its 40th anniversary - and the London Architecture Festival - with a debate on its building's contribution to gallery architecture. Alice joined artist Antony Gormley and architect Dennis Crompton on a panel chaired by urban theorist Ricky Burdett.
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Flexibility - Design in a Fast-Changing Society
Turin, Italy
28 June 2008
To celebrate the opening of the exhibition, Flexibility - Design in a Fast-Changing Society at Ex-Carceri Le Nuove in Turin, Alice co-chaired a debate on the same theme with the exhibition's curator, Guta Moura-Guedes. The debate was part of Turin 2008 World Design Capital.
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Forum on Creativity
Stockholm, Sweden
17 May 2008
Alice chaired the biennial Forum on Creativity at the Konstfack University of the Arts, Crafts and Design in Sweden. Leading designers, including Ilse Crawford and Henrik Otto of Electrolux, discussed the theme: Does Creativity Beat Strategy or Strategy Beat Creativity?
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V&A Designer Conversation - Thomas Heatherwick
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
16 May 2008
In the second Designer Conversation at the V&A, Alice is to talk to the maverick designer-sculptor-engineer, Thomas Heatherwick, about his work, which ranges from the ingenious rolling bridge at Paddington Basin and spectacular sculptures, to a Buddhist monastery.
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The Lodger
National Film Theatre, London
13 May 2008
Alfred Hitchcock's first thriller, The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog, was screened at the BFI Southbank NFT 1 during the Fashion in Film Festival. Alice introduced the 1927 silent film, the story of a mass murderer who always struck on Tuesdays and always killed blondes.
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Modern - Belgrade Design Week
Belgrade, Serbia
08 May 2008
The theme of Belgrade Design Week 2008 is Modern. Alice is one of a group of international speakers who will explore the condition of design today after nearly a century of modernism. They will also which values design should - and shouldn't - take forward into the future.
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Abbott Miller
Central Saint Martins. London
28 April 2008
The graphic designer, Abbott Miller, discussed his work at Central Saint Martins in London in a talk moderated by Alice. A partner of the Pentagram design group in New York, Miller designs exhibitions, magazines and books for cultural institutions throughout the US.
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Contemporary Art Day
Osterley Park, London
26 March 2008
Alice chaired the Contemporary Art Day, an event organised in collaboration by Arts Council England with the National Trust, to encourage historic houses to exhibit contemporary arts and crafts. It was held at Osterley Park, an 18th century house designed by Robert Adam.
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V+A Talking Design - Marc Newson
Victoria + Albert Museum, London
01 February 2008
Alice began a quarterly series of Talking Design talks at the V+A with a discussion with the designer Marc Newson. One of the world's most influential industrial designers, thanks to his work for Qantas and Ford, Newson is also the reigning star of the "design-art market.
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World Economic Forum 2008
Davos, Switzerland
23 January 2008
At the World Economic Forum 2008 in Davos, Alice spoke at three sessions in the Values and Society programme. The theme of that programme is Understanding Future Shifts. She addressed the theme with reference to how changes in design will shape our lives in future.
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2007

The Turner Prize
Tate Britain, London
02 November 2007
Tate Britain staged a debate on the Turner Prize and its impact on the visual arts. Alice, who was a member of the Turner Prize jury in 1999, participated in the debate, which coincided with a Tate Britain exhibition exploring the history of the prize, The Turner Prize: A Retrospective.
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Double Face
Geneva, Switzerland
27 October 2007
Double Face was a colloquium on the evolving relationship between art and design organised by the Geneva University of Art and Design and Centre d'Art Contemporain in Geneva. It coincided with the opening of the exhibition Wouldn't it be nice...Wishful thinking in art and design.
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The Expanded Gallery
Frieze Art Fair, London
11 October 2007
Design and film have invaded traditional art spaces, but do they add cultural value, or are they simply expensive commodities? Alice chaired a debate on this at the Frieze Art Fair with the artist Francesco Vezzoli, curator Emily King, and designers, Peter Saville and Marc Newson.
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Stay forever and ever and ever
South London Gallery, London
24 June 2007
Andrew Renton, curator of the Stay forever and ever and ever exhibition at the South London Gallery, conducted a series of informal conversations with artists and critics on objects and memory during the afternoon of 24 June 2007. His conversation with Alice started at 4pm.
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Designing the $100 laptop
Basel, Switzerland
13 June 2007
Alice was in conversation with Yves Béhar, a designer of the XO1 $100 laptop, at Design Miami-Basel during the Art Basel art fair. Initiated by One Laptop Per Child, the $100 laptop is intended to transform the educational prospects of children throughout the developing world.
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International Design Forum
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
27 May 2007
The International Design Forum in Dubai is intended to improve the understanding of design and its potential to determine the future of the Arab region in terms of business opportunities, culture, politics and the environment. Alice chaired a discussion on Luxury and Design.
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Does Architecture Matter?
Southbank Centre, London
16 March 2007
As part of the Hayward Gallery's 100 Ideas series, Alice chaired a debate on Does Architecture Matter? with philosopher Alain de Botton, urban theorist Ricky Burdett, social entrepreneur Hilary Cottam, architect Jamie Fobert and Alejandro Zaera Polo of Foreign Office Architects.
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The Rise of the London Art Market
Tate Britain, London
09 February 2007
During Tate Britain's symposium on The Rise of the London Art Market, Alice chaired a discussion on The Frieze Effect with the art critic Louisa Buck, Georgina Adam of The Art Newspaper and Matthew Slotover, publisher of Frieze magazine and director of the Frieze Art Fair.
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2006

Good Taste, Bad Taste
Frieze Art Fair, London
12 October 2006
At the Frieze Art Fair 2006, Alice chaired a debate on Good Taste, Bad Taste? with Thelma Golden, director of the Studio Museum Harlem; the editor of Rolling Stone Italia, Carlo Antonelli; the writer and art critic Tirdad Zolghadar; and the clinical psychologist Darian Leader.
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Conversation with M-M (Paris)
Tate Modern, London
14 September 2006
Michael Amzalag and Mathias Augustyniak of M-M (Paris) are among Europe's most influential graphic designers. Alice moderated a discussion with them at Tate Modern to coincide with an exhibition designed by M-M of the work of the French artist Pierre Huyghe.
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My Kind of Town
Venice Architecture Biennale
09 September 2006
During the Venice Architecture Biennale, Alice chaired a debate organised by the British Council on My Kind of Town with philosopher Alain de Botton, developer Nick Johnson, writer and critic Sukhdev Sandhu and the architects, David Chipperfield and Rem Koolhaas.
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Francesco Vezzoli - Marlene Redux
Tate Modern, London
02 June 2006
Following the world premiere of Francesco Vezzoli's film, Marlene Redux: A True Hollywood Story (Part One), Alice participated in a discussion at Tate Modern with Tate curator, Achim Borchardt-Hume, art critic Tom Holert and the Whitney Museum curator, Chrissie Iles.
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Conversation with Barbara Kruger
Whitechapel Gallery, London
11 April 2006
The US artist Barbara Kruger was in conversation with Alice at the Whitechapel Gallery to discuss the evolution of her work and her film, Twelve. Made in 2004, Twelve was Kruger's contribution to the Whitechapel's A Short History of Performance IV season.
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Laszlo Moholy-Nagy's influence on design
Tate Modern, London
13 March 2006
As a designer, art director, teacher and writer, László Moholy-Nagy pioneered many of the theories and forms of practise that have since defined modern design. Alice discussed his enduring influence during Tate Modern's From the Bauhaus to the New World exhibition.
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