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From the Ted Talk by Paola Antonelli: Treat design as art

Unscramble the Blue Letters


So, Safe is the last exhibition that I did at MoMA and it ended at the beginning of last year. It was about dgesin that deals with safety and deals with poetcriton. It's a long story because it started before 2001 and it was called Emergency. And then when 9/11 happened, I had a shock and I canceled the exhibition until, slowly but srluey, it came back — as a half-full glass instead of half-empty — and it was about protection and safety.

But it ranged from such ietms as a complete de-mining equipment to these kind of water-sterilizing straws, so it was really wide-ranging. It also had ... you know, Cameron and I worked a little bit together, and some of the entries that you see in his website were actually in the ebiioxithn. But what is itnetnsreig is that we don't need to talk about design and art anymore; design uses whatever tloos it has at its disposal in order to make a point. It's a sense of economy and a ssene, also, of humor.

Open Cloze


So, Safe is the last exhibition that I did at MoMA and it ended at the beginning of last year. It was about ______ that deals with safety and deals with __________. It's a long story because it started before 2001 and it was called Emergency. And then when 9/11 happened, I had a shock and I canceled the exhibition until, slowly but ______, it came back — as a half-full glass instead of half-empty — and it was about protection and safety.

But it ranged from such _____ as a complete de-mining equipment to these kind of water-sterilizing straws, so it was really wide-ranging. It also had ... you know, Cameron and I worked a little bit together, and some of the entries that you see in his website were actually in the __________. But what is ___________ is that we don't need to talk about design and art anymore; design uses whatever _____ it has at its disposal in order to make a point. It's a sense of economy and a _____, also, of humor.

Solution


  1. tools
  2. surely
  3. protection
  4. items
  5. exhibition
  6. interesting
  7. design
  8. sense

Original Text


So, Safe is the last exhibition that I did at MoMA and it ended at the beginning of last year. It was about design that deals with safety and deals with protection. It's a long story because it started before 2001 and it was called Emergency. And then when 9/11 happened, I had a shock and I canceled the exhibition until, slowly but surely, it came back — as a half-full glass instead of half-empty — and it was about protection and safety.

But it ranged from such items as a complete de-mining equipment to these kind of water-sterilizing straws, so it was really wide-ranging. It also had ... you know, Cameron and I worked a little bit together, and some of the entries that you see in his website were actually in the exhibition. But what is interesting is that we don't need to talk about design and art anymore; design uses whatever tools it has at its disposal in order to make a point. It's a sense of economy and a sense, also, of humor.

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