Paola Antonelli is Senior Curator of Architecture & Design at The Museum of Modern Art, as well as MoMA’s founding Director of Research & Development. Her goal is to promote design’s understanding, until its positive influence on the world is universally acknowledged. Her work investigates design’s impact on everyday experience, often including overlooked objects and practices, and combining design, architecture, art, science and technology.
She has curated numerous shows, written several books, lectured worldwide, and taught in really good schools. After Items, her most recent show at MoMA on the 111 garments that changed the world, she is currently working on the next Triennale di Milano (2019), entitled Broken Nature; on the reinstallation of the collection in the new expanded MoMA (2019); on several new sessions of her MoMA R&D Salons; on a VR series entitled &Design; on two books–– a collection of essays on contemporary design and Design Bites, a book about foods from all over the world as examples of design.