Alice Rawsthorn

UK-based critic Alice Rawsthorn, curator Helen Nisbet and museum director Martin Clark on what they’re looking forward to in the year ahead

‘Boom obsesses over every element of design – including the textures and scents of her books, as well as their appearance’

In a quiet mountain town in Trentino, Italy, the duo Brave New Alps is providing skills and support to precarious migrant communities

How designers are exploring the subject’s elemental role as an agent of political and social change

Alice Rawsthorn on the Italian design duo’s response to ecological and political concerns

How should designers respond to disaster?

How technology has shaped our expectations of desirable design

How technological developments are changing our relationship to control 

Charles and Ray Eames, Rem Koolhaas and Christien Meindertsma: Alice Rawsthorn shares her highlights from 2015

In a new occasional column, frieze asks a respondent to nominate the objects, people or ideas that have influenced them

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