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.
So here I stand before you preaching organic architecture: declaring organic architecture to be the modern ideal and the teaching so much needed if we are to see the whole of life, and to now serve the whole of life, holding no traditions essential to the great TRADITION. Nor cherishing any preconceived form fixing upon us either past, present or future, but-instead-exalting the simple laws of common sense-or of super-sense if you prefer-determining form by way of the nature of materials.
People expect things from art that are horrible for us who make it! They put the things we make in these restrictive places called 'museums,' then don't want to hear another word from us.
The reality of a poem is a very ghostly one. It suggests, it suggests, it suggests again.
When I was working upon the ABC books, I wanted to show different ways that mainstream comics could viably have gone, that they didn't have to follow 'Watchmen' and the other 1980s books down this relentlessly dark route. It was never my intention to start a trend for darkness. I'm not a particularly dark individual.
I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.
I like to feel like you can bite my paintings. Not to eat them, to hurt them. I like to feel like I'm painting with my teeth.
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