Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that designers will play a vital role in shaping the future, emphasizing the importance of creativity and problem-solving.
Paola Antonelli's quote highlights the growing significance of designers in a world increasingly driven by innovation and technology. It posits that as we face complex challenges, the skills of designers—who blend creativity with analytical thinking—will be essential in developing solutions that are not only functional but also enrich our lives. Designers, through their understanding of aesthetics and user experience, can bridge the gap between technological advances and human needs, making them, in a sense, the intellectual leaders of tomorrow.
In practice
In a TED talk about the importance of creativity in technology, one might quote, 'Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future.'
People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It's not about giving shape to the shell and not giving a damn about the guts. Good design is a renaissance attitude that combines technology, cognitive science, human need and beauty to produce something that the world didn't know it was missing.
While an artist can choose whether or not to be responsive and responsible towards other human beings, by definition a designer must be.
Designers stand between revolutions and everyday life. They’re able to grasp momentous changes in technology, science, and society and convert those changes into objects and ideas that people can understand.
We live today not in the digital, not in the physical, but in the kind of minestrone that our mind makes of the two.
One reason to write a poem is to flush from the deep thickets of the self some thought, feeling, comprehension, question, music, you didn't know was in you, or in the world.
In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage.
Without touching my subject I want to come to the moment when, through pure concentration of seeing, the composed picture becomes more made than taken. Without a descriptive caption to justify its existence, it will speak for itself - less descriptive, more creative; less informative, more suggestive - less prose, more poetry.
But in Hiroshima, some people were wiped clean away, leaving only a wristwatch or a diary page. So no matter that I have inhibitions to fill all my pockets, I keep trying, hoping that one day I'll write a poem I can be proud to let sit in a museum exhibit as the only proof I existed.
It's true that none of my characters are admirable. But maybe I'm primarily a satirist, and a satirist needs to hold up what's not admirable.
Building upon the world we created with 'Avatar' has been a rare and incredibly rewarding experience. In writing the new films, I've come to realize that 'Avatar's world, story and characters have become even richer than I anticipated, and it became apparent that two films would not be enough to capture everything I wanted to put on screen.
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