Lecture | Design and Violence - Paola Antonelli | NGV International

Paola Antonelli. Copyright Robin Holland. Image via http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/program/design-and-violence-2/?

Paola Antonelli. Copyright Robin Holland. Image via http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/program/design-and-violence-2/?

Design has a history of violence. Aside from commercial and aesthetic successes, many design objects have ambiguous relationships with violence, challenging us with moral ambiguities and inconsistencies. MoMA curator Paola Antonelli explores how design can provide extraordinary insight into society and human nature, uncovering the dark side of the world’s ‘second oldest’ profession.

Paola Antonelli is Senior Curator, Architecture and Design and Director of Research and Development at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Antonelli’s work investigates design’s influence on everyday experience, advocating for often overlooked objects and practices. Antonelli recently began adding to the MoMA Collection a range of important contemporary designs – videogames, the @ symbol and Google Map drop pin.

Speaker Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator, Architecture and Design and Director, Research & Development, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Date: 5-6pm, October 4th 2015
Venue: NGV International, Ground Level
Free entry. Booking is not required but seating is limited.