Curiosity Engines: Rewiring Museums for the Future of Design | BODW 2025
How should museums evolve when design permeates everything from AI to climate, craft to cities? Suhanya Raffel (M+), Tim Marlow (the Design Museum), and Paola Antonelli (MoMA) share how they’re turning museums into curiosity engines — commissioning, collecting, and exhibiting across disciplines while engaging new publics on- and offline. They’ll discuss future-ready strategies: phygital experiences, experimental research, civic partnerships, and ethical curation. A candid look at governance, funding, and impact—so institutions don’t just mirror change but help design it.
Speaker:
Tim Marlow
Chief Executive & Director, the Design Museum, United Kingdom
Paola Antonelli
Senior Curator, Architecture & Design, The Museum of Modern Art, United States
Suhanya Raffel
Museum Director, M+, Hong Kong

