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Alice Rawsthorn
Alice Rawsthorn is a design critic and author whose latest book Hello World: Where Design Meets Life explores design’s impact on our lives: past, present and future. She speaks on design at important global events including TED and the World Economic Forum’s annual meetings at Davos, Switzerland. Alice is chair of trustees of the Chisenhale Gallery and the contemporary dance group Michael Clark Company, and a trustee of the Whitechapel Gallery.
Alice Rawsthorn graduated in art history from Cambridge University. From 1985 to 2001, she was an award-winning journalist for the Financial Times, working as a foreign correspondent in Paris. Alice was director of the Design Museum in London from 2001 until 2006, when she became design critic of the global edition of the New York Times. Her latest book, Hello World: Where Design Meets Life, explores design’s influence on our lives.
We asked Alice Rawsthorn to to tell us about her relationship with Milan.