2025 Rowena Reed Kostellow Awards

Celebrating design excellence, the 35th Rowena Reed Kostellow Awards this year honors two of the world’s most influential design figures. The award promotes the educational pedagogy Rowena Reed Kostellow developed at Pratt. Paola Antonelli and Alice Rawsthorn are critics, curators, public advocates of the power of design ideas and opportunity.

Friday, October 24, 2025

5:30–7:30 PM

MillerKnoll Showroom

251 Park Avenue South

Located between 20th & 21st St.

New York, NY 10010

Registration is required.

Please note: space is limited for this event.

Honorees

Design Emergency: Building a Better Future, co-written by Alice Rawsthorn and Paola Antonelli, focuses on four themes – Technology, Society, Communication, and Ecology. The Phaidon book presents designers, architects, engineers, artists, scientists, and activists, who are at the forefront of positive change worldwide. For the ongoing investigation of design, they co-founded the podcast and Instagram platform Design Emergency.

Alice Rawsthorn is a British design critic and author. Her books include Design as an Attitude and Hello World: Where Design Meets Life. Her weekly design column for The New York Times was syndicated worldwide for over a decade.

Paola Antonelli is Senior Curator of Architecture & Design and Director of Research & Development at The Museum of Modern Art. Besides curating exhibitions, she also produces a renowned public series, the MoMA R&D Salons, that demonstrates the potential of museums as R&D departments for society.