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"Design is one of the most powerful forces in our lives, and has never been more exciting. At a time when so many aspects of our lives are changing at relentless speed on an unprecedented scale, design is increasingly seen as a means of helping us to benefit from the opportunities created by those changes, and to avoid the dangers. Public interest is soaring as a new generation of designers is using advanced technologies to pursue their political and environmental objectives in increasingly ambitious projects, as well as to reinvent the objects and spaces we use every day. Conceived as a subjective field guide to design, Alice Rawsthorn's "Design as an Attitude" demystifies the field, explores the most dynamic developments in contemporary design, and assesses their impact on our lives now and in the future, acting as a comprehensive survey of design today"--
About the author
Alice Rawsthorn es una galardonada crí tica de diseñ o y escritora, cuya columna semanal en el The New York Times se ha distribuido a otros medios de todo el mundo, que llevan má s de una dé cada publicá ndola. De 2014 a 2017 escribió tambié n la columna " By Design" para la revista frieze. Entre sus anteriores libros publicados está el aclamado por la crí tica Hello World: Where Design Meets Life. Rawsthorn, nacida en Má nchester y residente en Londres, da charlas en eventos internacionales como los TED y la reunió n anual del Foro Econó mico Mundial en Davos. Preside la junta directiva de las galerí as Chisenhale Gallery de Londres y The Hepworth Wakefield de Yorkshire. Es cofundadora de la campañ a Writers at Liberty, que aboga por los derechos humanos, y le otorgaron la Orden del Imperio Britá nico (OBE) por sus servicios en el diseñ o y las artes.
