Paola Antonelli is the head of the design and architecture department at The Museum of Modern Art MoMA at the New York Museum of Modern Art. An Italian journalist, curator and expert determines what the world’s leading museum selects and what its exhibitions will be about.

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At the request of INTERIOR + DESIGN magazine, Paola formulated key perspectives:

“Art and design are getting closer. The most avant-garde tendencies concern man, what will be the future of humanity and the world after some time. Designers think about sustainable development, cyclicality, about balance, about restoring and renewing resources, about collaboration and interaction. These are all very old ideas.

The most advanced, I think, today is a sense of responsibility and the ability to change. Design combines with scientists, sociologists, politicians, as well as with bees and mulberry worms. Many work with biologists and computer scientists, others, on the contrary, are drawn to artisans, artists and sculptors.

Starting a career from a regular chair or a lamp, very soon the designer finds himself in the field, where he has to move from the physical world to the virtual world and back. Some use three-dimensional printing, others potter's wheel. Technology does not define design today. Rather the opposite. ”