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Curator Paola Antonelli's open lecture: Broken Nature 20 September

The lecture will be on the relationship between design, nature and humanity.
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Please join us as Paola Antonelli, Curator in MoMA and XXII Triennale di Milano will hold an open lecture at Aalto University on Broken Nature, the theme of next year’s Triennale di Milano. Aalto University is organizing Finland’s participation in the 2019 Triennale di Milano, from March to September 2019.

While our natural world gets warmer and human relationships to the natural world have frayed or altogether severed, the upcoming 22nd Triennale di Milano will focus on how creative practices can design reparations for Broken Nature.

About Paola Antonelli

Paola Antonelli joined The Museum of Modern Art in 1994 and is a Senior Curator in the Department of Architecture & Design, as well as MoMA’s founding Director of Research & Development. With a Master’s degree in Architecture from the Polytechnic of Milan, Paola Antonelli has also earned Honorary Doctorate degrees from the Royal College of Art and Kingston University, London, the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, and Pratt Institute in New York. She has curated numerous shows, lectured worldwide, and has served on several international architecture and design juries. 

Her most recent exhibition, Items: Is Fashion Modern?, devoted to 111 items of clothing that have had a strong impact on the world in the past 100 years, opened at MoMA in October 2017. She is currently working on the next Triennale di Milano, on the book States of Design; and on a new Theory of Everything for design. 

Date: 20 September at 9:15-11:15

Venue: Lecture hall R001 / Y203a B at Otakaari 1,  Otaniemi, Espoo.

You are welcome to attend!

Read more:

XXII Triennale di Milano: http://www.triennale.org/xxii-triennale/

Twitter: @CuriousOctopus

Instagram: @paolantonelli and @brokennature

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