Watch the video of Paola Antonelli's keynote lecture at Dezeen Day
Our natural world is "fixable, but it will never be the same" said Paola Antonelli at our Dezeen Day conference. Watch Antonelli discuss design's response to impending extinction in the first movie from the event.
Antonelli, MoMA's senior curator of architecture and design, kicked off Dezeen's inaugural conference on 30 October with a keynote that addressed the inevitability of human extinction, and the importance of "thinking about our legacy".
"We will become extinct," she said. "We don't have control over that fact, but we have some control over the when and quite a bit of control over the how."
Anger can be a stronger engine than angst when it comes to humans taking action to ensure a better future for the planet, Antonelli said, praising teenage climate-activist Greta Thunberg's "sense of action". Paola Antonelli gave the keynote lecture at Dezeen Day
The other keynote speakers to follow during Dezeen Day, which was sponsored by Grohe and took place at at BFI Southbank, were speculative architect Liam Young and artist Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg.
Young argued that architects can have a greater influence on the future of urban environments if they apply their skills to designing video games and adopt film-making technologies, whilst Ginsberg said that a better future might be one without humans.
In her keynote, Antonelli introduced a number of projects from her Broken Nature exhibition at the Triennale di Milano earlier thi...
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