Paola Antonelli on Broken Nature and Restorative Design at Triennale Milano

Paola Antonelli, curator of the XXII Triennale di Milano exhibition 'Broken Nature', discusses restorative design as a means to repair humanity's broken relationship with nature. She argues that design must address the environmental crises it helped create, shifting from speculative to scalable projects. The exhibition features works like Studio Folder's 'Italian Limes', Irene Stracuzzi's 'The Legal Status of Ice', a biodegradable pregnancy test, Daniela Ducato's wool barriers, and Kelly Jazvak's 'Plasticglomerates'. Antonelli emphasizes the need to move beyond single-use plastics and fast fashion, advocating for language change from 'consumers' to 'citizens'. She cites Buckminster Fuller's 'Spaceship Earth' metaphor and concludes with Laura Aguilar's photographs, which evoke empathy with rocks. Antonelli also critiques Milan's design week for focusing too much on furniture, urging inclusion of interface, information, and video game design.