UT School of Architecture Spring 2021 Lecture Series: “There Is Always a Design Emergency” with Paola Antonelli

Paola Antonelli is Senior Curator at The Museum of Modern Art in the Department of Architecture & Design, as well as MoMA’s founding Director of Research & Development. Her most recent exhibition, Neri Oxman: Material Ecology, opened at MoMA in February 2020. She is currently working on an iteration of Broken Nature that will be on view at MoMA starting in fall 2020 as well as collaborating with critic Alice Rawsthornn on @design.emergency, an Instagram and book project on the role of design in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Just like there are many ways to be a designer, there are also many ways to be an activist designer. From the Mexico-U.S. border to the streets of Cairo; from an intensive care unit to a video game screen; and from objects to global infrastructures, designers are highlighting their presence and their important role in shaping social and political progress.

This event is part of the Spring 2021 Lecture Series presented by the UT School of Architecture.