Paola Antonelli is Senior Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design and Director of Research and Development at the Museum of Modern Art. Her first MoMA exhibition was Mutant Materials in Contemporary Design, and her most recent exhibition was Talk to Me: Design and the Communication between People and Objects. Antonelli earned the “Design Mind” Smithsonian Institution’s National Design Award and was named one of the twenty-five most incisive design visionaries by Time magazine. She has been a contributing editor for Domus magazine, an editor of Abitare, and the author of Humble Masterpieces: Everyday Marvels of Design, highlighting how good design facilitates and enriches our daily life. She is currently working on several shows on contemporary design; and on Design Bites, a book about foods from all over the world appreciated as examples of outstanding design.

With support from the Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning and the University of Michigan Museum of Art.