Paola Antonelli

Paola Antonelli (born 1963) is an Italian architect, curator, author, editor, and educator. She is the Senior Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, where she also serves as the founding Director of Research and Development. She has been described as "one of the 25 most incisive design visionaries in the world" by TIME magazine.[1]

Paola Antonelli
Antonelli at the Digital Life and Design Conference, Munich, 2008
Born1963 (age 59–60)
Sassari, Sardinia, Italy
EducationPolytechnic University of Milan (Architecture)
Occupation(s)Author, editor, and educator
Organization(s)Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York
TitleSenior Curator of Architecture & Design
Director of Research & Development

Early life and education

Antonelli was born in Sassari, Sardinia, Italy. She attended and graduated from the Politecnico di Milano university in Milan, from which she received a laurea degree in architecture in 1990. Notwithstanding of her training, she has never worked as an architect.[2][3]

Work and career

After university, Antonelli curated several architecture and design exhibitions in Italy, France, and Japan. She was a contributing editor for Domus magazine from 1987 to 1991, then from 1992 to 1994 she was the design editor of Abitare magazine. She has also contributed articles to publications such as the Harvard Design Magazine, Metropolis, I.D., Paper, Metropolitan Home, Harper's Bazaar, and Nest.

Lecturer

From 1991 to 1993, Antonelli was a lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles, where she taught design history and theory. In the spring of 2003, she started to teach a course of design theory at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She has also lectured elsewhere on design and architecture in Europe and the United States and served on several international architecture and design juries.[4][5]

Curator at The Museum of Modern Art

Antonelli joined MoMA in February 1994 as a curator in the Department of Architecture and Design. The first important exhibition at the museum curated by Antonelli opened in 1995 and was titled Mutant Materials in Contemporary Design. This was followed in 1996 by Thresholds: Contemporary Design from the Netherlands; Achille Castiglioni: Design! in 1997 (through 1998); Projects 66: Campana/Ingo Maurer in 1999; Open Ends and Matter (September 2000 – February 2001). Her 2001 exhibition Workspheres was devoted to the design of the workplace of the near future. In 2005 she curated the exhibition entitled Safe: Design Takes on Risk also at MoMA.

She curated the exhibition entitled "Safe" in 2005 based on her show at the International Design Conference in Aspen (August 20–23, 2003), similarly entitled "Safe: Design Takes on Risk." Other recent projects include a book about food from the world over, as examples of distinctive design, and a television program on design. As a curator, Antonelli has added various video games to the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art[6] and she has been attempting to include Boeing 747 in MoMA's permanent collection as well.[7]

Together with Jamer Hunt, Antonelli established an installation entitled Design and Violence which focuses on the physical representation of some of humanity's most prominent features, such as sex, aggression, and smelliness. One piece, for example, is a vial of synthetic sweat. Of the exhibit, Antonelli says, "We wanted objects that have an ambiguous relationship with violence." Each object—an outline of a drone, a self-guided bullet, a stiletto—is selected to highlight both the beneficial and also the destructive side of design. Design is so multidimensional nowadays, and Antonelli and Hunt aimed to represent this.[8]

In 2017, Antonelli and Michelle Millar Fisher curated "Items: Is Fashion Modern?", an exhibition that explores 111 items of clothing and accessories that have had a strong impact on the world in the 20th and 21st centuries[9] and taught a related massive open online course (MOOC) titled Fashion as Design.[10]

In an exhibit that featured video games such as Pac-Man, Tetris, and Minecraft, viewers are intended to actually play the games in order to showcase the interaction design of these products. The Guardian, for example, responded, "Sorry MoMA, Video Games Are Not Art".[11]

Recognition and awards

In 2014 Antonelli was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Royal College of Art.[12] She was recognized with an AIGA Medal in 2015 for "expanding the influence of design in everyday life by sharing fresh and incisive observations and curating provocative exhibitions at MoMA".[13]She was named one of the one hundred most powerful people in the world of art by Art Review and Surface Magazine.[14] She has also received honorary degrees from Kingston University in London, ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, and Pratt Institute in New York.[15] She has also received the following distinctions: 2006 National Design Award, Cooper Hewitt (Smithsonian Institution);[16] 2007 TIME magazine design visionaries;[17] 2010 Lucky Strike Designer Award (Raymond Loewy Foundation); 2011 Hall of Fame inductee, Art Directors Club (ADC); [18] 2019 American Academy in Rome honouree;[19] 2020 London Design Medal;[20] and the 2021 German Design Award Personality of the Year.[21]

Design Philosophy

Paola Antonelli's objective is to change the perception of design, making sure that people are aware of the importance of design in every day life. She believes that design is an incredible expression of human creativity and that designers should feel responsibility towards the users they create for. Without design, innovation would be futile, because no one would be able to use any new inventions. She is frustrated by the misconception that design is just styling and feels that it is her job to help people realize that it is so much more.[22]

Publications

Contributions
  • Mutant Materials in Contemporary Design (1995)[23]
  • Achille Castiglioni: Design! (1997)[24]
  • From Pyramids to Spacecraft[25]
  • Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects[26]
  • "Achille Castiglioni"[27]
  • "Satyendra Pakhalé Cultural nomad: From Project to Products"[28]
  • "Japanese Design"[29]
  • "Modern Contemporary"[30]
  • "Design the Elastic Mind"[31]
  • "Modern Contemporary; Art at MoMA Since 1980"[32]
  • Hella Jongerius – Misfit (2011)[33]
  • Pasta by Design – Forward[34]
  • Workspheres: Design and Contemporary Work Styles[35]
  • Margaret Helfand Architects – Introduction[36]
  • On the Table – On the American Table[37]
  • Safe: Design Takes on Risk – Grace Under Pressure[38]
  • Droog Design – Spirit of the Nineties[39]
  • No Discipline – Preface[40]
  • Items: Is Fashion Modern?[10]
  • "Satyendra Pakhalé Culture of Creation"[41]
  • Design Emergency (with Alice Rawsthorn)[42][43]

See also

References
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  5. "London Design Biennale Jury". London Design Biennale. 2019-04-04. Retrieved 2022-10-22.
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  21. "German Design Awards 2021: "All Eyes On" – Presentation of this year's winning projects and the "Newcomer of the Year"". Retrieved 2022-10-12.
  22. Burke, Anthony (4 December 2013). "Paola Antonelli interview: 'Design has been misconstrued as decoration'". The Conversation. Retrieved 30 October 2021.
  23. Antonelli, Paola (May 25 – August 27, 1995). Mutant Materials in Contemporary Design. The Museum of Modern Art. ISBN 0870701312. Retrieved April 11, 2015.
  24. "Achille Castiglioni: Design! | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2022-10-12.
  25. Vittori, Arturo; Vogler, Andreas (2012). From Pyramids to Spacecraft (3rd ed.). Bormarzo, Italy. pp. 14–15. ISBN 978-3-00-026959-2. Retrieved 11 April 2015.
  26. Antonelli, Paola (2011). Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects. The Museum of Modern Art. ISBN 9780870707964.
  27. Antonelli, Paola; Guarnaccia, Steven (2000). Achille Castiglioni. Maurizio Corraini srl. p. 162. ISBN 88-87942-02-1.
  28. Antonelli, Paola (2002). Satyendra Pakhalé Dal progetto al pradotto. Editoriale Modo, Milano, Italy. p. 256. ISBN 88-7419-002-6.
  29. Sparke, Penny (2009). Japanese Design (1st ed.). New York: The Museum of Modern Art. pp. 7–8, 143. ISBN 9780870707391.
  30. Varnedoe, Kirk; Siegel, Joshua; Antonelli, Paola (January 30, 2001). Modern contemporary: art at MoMA since 1980. New York, New York: Museum of Modern Art. ISBN 0-87070-021-9.
  31. Antonelli, Paola (May 12, 2008). Design and the Elastic Mind. New York, New York: Museum of Modern Art. ISBN 978-0-87070-732-2.
  32. Antonelli, Paola (September 28, 2000). Modern Contemporary. New York: The Museum of Modern Art. p. 3. ISBN 0870700227.
  33. Antonelli, Paola; Schouwenberg, Louise; Rawsthorn, Alice (16 February 2011). Hella Jongerius - Misfit. Phaidon Press. pp. 233–234. ISBN 978-0-7148-5987-3.
  34. Legendre, George L. (2011). Pasta by Design. New York, New York: Thames & Hudson Inc. p. 007. ISBN 978-0-500-51580-8.
  35. Antonelli, Paola (2001). Workspheres. New York: The Museum of Modern Art. ISBN 0-87070-013-8.
  36. Antonelli, Paula (1999). Margaret Helfand Architects: Essential Architecture. New York: The Monacelli Press. pp. 006–011. ISBN 1-885254-93-8.
  37. Robbins, Mark (1999). On the Table. Columbus: Wexner Center for the Arts. ISBN 1-881390-20-9.
  38. Antonelli, Paola (2005). Safe: Design Takes on Risk. New York: The Museum of Modern Art. ISBN 0-87070-580-6.
  39. Ramakers, Renny; Bakker, Gijs (1998). Droog Design: Spirit of the Nineties. 010 Publishers. ISBN 9789064503016.
  40. Arad, Ron (2009). No Discipline. Paris: The Museum of Modern Art. ISBN 978-0-87070-759-9.
  41. Antonelli, Paola (2019). Satyendra Pakhalé Culture of Creation. nai01 Publishers, Rotterdam, NL. p. 448. ISBN 978-94-6208-514-5.
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