Growing up in Milan, Paola Antonelli was surrounded by design and became aware of its importance when she noticed things that weren’t well designed. For nearly 30 years Antonelli—an architect, author, editor and podcaster—has been the Design Curator at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art. A long-time inspiration for us at COOL HUNTING, we were excited to sit down with her to talk about her perspective on design, what’s exciting her now, current and future MoMA exhibitions, her Design Emergency podcast and her work running the Research and Development department focusing on discourse around life’s moments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paola_Antonelli

https://www.moma.org/about/senior-staff/paola-antonelli

http://momarnd.moma.org/salons/

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/design-emergency/id1655108265

Photo by Marton Perkaki

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This episode was produced by Rob Schulte.

Design Tangents is presented by Genesis.