Design

Alexandra Midal

Based on an absolute belief in an object's power to permanently transform and improve the world we live in, the author demonstrates the ways in which design has proposed to reform political, social and artistic circles and how it has, in certain cases, become a genuine political tool.

Alexandra Midal is a design historian and theorist, a graduate of the Sorbonne (Paris-IV) and the School of Architecture at Princeton University in the United States, Director of the Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain de Haute-Normandie, and Dan Graham's assistant. She conducts research in history and theory of design as an author and exhibition curator. She has been teaching since 1999, first as a Teaching Assistant at Princeton University and then as a Professor at the Ecole des Beaux Arts de Toulouse and the Ecole Cantonale de Lausanne. She lives in Paris.