{"podcast":{"title":"Design Emergency","slug":"design-emergency-5826807","podcast_index_feed_id":5826807,"rss_url":"https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/6376036839b22e00111c4121","website_url":"https://www.instagram.com/design.emergency/?hl=en","image_url":"https://assets.pippa.io/shows/cover/1668678490381-f05c1a3801c41a2e85f471d90025b9ca.jpeg","author":"Alice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli","episode_count":54,"summary":"Welcome to Design Emergency, where the design curator Paola Antonelli and design critic Alice Rawsthorn will introduce you to the inspiring and ingenious designers whose success in tackling major challenges – from the climate emergency and refugee crisis, to ensuring that new technologies affect us positively, not negatively – gives us hope for the future. Follow our Instagram @design.emergency to see images of all the design projects described in each episode. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/design-emergency-5826807"},"episode":{"title":"On Crafts","slug":"on-crafts","published_at":"2026-05-20T11:21:16+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/design-emergency-5826807/on-crafts","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/design-emergency-5826807","url":"https://shows.acast.com/design-emergency/episodes/6a0d992ccce5197f5e9baa6b","audio_url":"https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/6376036839b22e00111c4121/e/6a0d992ccce5197f5e9baa6b/media.mp3","summary":"In this episode of  Design Emergency , Alice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli explore how craft has evolved into a powerful force for social, cultural, and environmental change.  Design, art, and craft have had a long, complex relationship. For most of human history they were inseparable: the objects people made — textiles, sculptures, tools, paintings, ceramics, furniture — belonged to the same continuum of human creativity, skill, and material knowledge. Industrialization disrupted that balance, introducing divisions between art, design, and crafts, while often relegating crafts to the margins as decorative, domestic, and secondary to industrial production. Yet in recent years, amid ecological crisis, technological anxiety, and a growing desire for more meaningful forms of making, craft has returned with renewed urgency and visibility.  Through a series of parables spanning continents and generations, Alice and Paola uncover remarkable examples of crafts as catalysts for social and cultural change: Ethel Mairet’s radical weaving experiments in 19th century England; Ruth Clement Bond’s quilting initiatives among African American communities in the American South; Fernando Laposse’s collaborations with farming communities in Mexico; and Theaster Gates’s transformation of neighborhoods and communities in Chicago through repair, making, and collective labor. Set against a backdrop of environmental crisis, technological acceleration, and renewed interest in material knowledge, the episode celebrates the re-emergence of crafts as a critical language for thinking about identity, ecology, community, and the future of making. You can find images related to the projects and people discussed in this episode on our Instagram grid @design.emergency. Please join us for…","meta_description":"In this episode of Design Emergency , Alice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli explore how craft has evolved into a powerful force for social, cultural,…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2018,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/design-emergency-5826807/episodes/on-crafts/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/design-emergency-5826807/on-crafts.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}