Broken Nature and Other Design Exhibitions for the Real World

Date: 

Tuesday, November 5, 2019, 5:30pm to 11:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy Street, Cambridge MA

Join us for this year’s Curatorial Innovations Lecture with Paola Antonelli, senior curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

The XXII Triennale di Milano presented the exhibition Broken Nature: Design Takes on Human Survival, which highlighted the concept of “restorative design,” plotting its role in surveying our species’ bonds with the complex systems in the world and in designing reparations, when necessary, through objects, concepts, and new systems. In this talk, Antonelli will take stock of the experience, casting the exhibition against the turbulent geopolitical background of the past year, describing which of its ambitions were met and which were not.

Offered by:
Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator, Department of Architecture and Design; Director of Research & Development, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Presented by the Harvard Museums of Science & Culture and the Harvard Art Museums.

The lecture will take place in Menschel Hall, Lower Level. Please enter the museums via the entrance on Broadway. Seating will begin at 5pm.

Free admission, but seating is limited. Tickets will be distributed beginning at 5pm at the Broadway entrance. One ticket per person.

Complimentary parking available in the Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street, Cambridge.

Paola Antonelli, Director of R&D at MoMa