Paola Antonelli, Curator of Architecture and Design for the MoMA commented on her recent show, Design and the Elastic Mind in Creativity Magazine.
 
"The most important juice that you can extract from Design and the Elastic Mind is that the best designers are great generalists that are able to call upon the people that they need to create a team. So they are really intellectual leaders, and their real specialization is seeing the goal and putting together the means that are needed for that goal."
 
She goes on to address what, in her opinion, designers do:
 
"...the toughest and most interesting aspect of any designer's job is synthesis. What I see designers doing is being those people that are able to provide a synthesis before things are started."
 
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