Humans need to design a better future for the planet, and anger can be a good engine for that change, MoMA curator Paola Antonelli told the Dezeen Day audience.
It is important that humans make reparations for the damage that they have done to the planet and adjust our lives to be more responsible, said Antonelli during her Dezeen Day keynote.
"The future is not really terrifying," she said. "It just needs to be made better. Rather than angst, I wish we used anger."
We all have a role to play whether doing something very small, like picking up rubbish on the streets, or "flights of imagination" like Elon Musk's efforts to move to Mars, she explained.
Anger could be an engine for change
"The only way to live well is to be for others or amongst others," said Antonelli. "Anger could be a better engine to try and improve things in the future." "Greta is angry at the older generation, and that's fine. I think that sense of action is what is needed," she continued.
Paola Antonelli spoke at Dezeen Day
During her talk at Dezeen Day, Antonelli spoke about the Broken Nature exhibition she curated for the Triennale di Milano this year, which Dezeen founder Marcus Fairs described in his introduction as "epoch-defining".
"I was part of a groundswell," said Antonelli. "This was just one of many exhibitions, many artist projects, designers enterprises that deal with being more responsible towards the p...