The jury for the Bee Awards of the 24th International Exhibition

The jury for the Bee Awards of the 24th International Exhibition Inequalities (May 13 – November 9, 2025) has been named and is composed by Paola Antonelli (President), Senior Curator and Director of the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York; Ife Adedeji, journalist and author; Francesca Lavazza, Board Member of Lavazza Group and President of the Castello di Rivoli Museo di Arte Contemporanea; and Maria Porro, President of the Salone del Mobile.Milano.

Established for the first time in 2019, on the occasion of the 22nd International Exhibition Broken Nature: Design Takes on Human Survival, the Bee Awards are presented to two of the original projects on display in the themed exhibitions organized as part of the event and to the two most deserving International participations, selected according to the accuracy of their interpretation of the theme and the quality of the ideas proposed. The winners are announced on Monday, May 12, 2025 during the opening ceremony of the 24th International Exhibition.

For each edition of the International Exhibition, Triennale invites one or more artists to design the awards. This year, the Bee Awards were created by Flaminia Veronesi, a versatile artist who explores the fantastic and the marvelous through a playful approach to art, creating heterogeneous works with different media and materials, in a non-hierarchical way. Her artistic production ranges from textile works, polymer plastiline sculptures, ceramic pencil drawings, painting, watercolors, engravings on glass and installations.

Paola Antonelli is Senior Curator of Architecture & Design at The Museum of Modern Art, as well as MoMA’s founding Director of Research & Development. Her goal is to promote design’s understanding, until its mighty influence on the world is universally acknowledged. Her work considers design various practices within a multidisciplinary framework, highlighting its connections with technology, society, and the environment. 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. The Instagram platform, book, and podcast Design Emergency, which she co-founded with design critic Alice Rawsthorn, is an ongoing investigation on design's power to envision a better future for all.

Ifeoluwa Adedeji is a London-raised, Nigerian-born journalist currently based in Milan. She specialises in design, construction, and architecture, and her work has appeared in leading international publications, including The Financial Times, The New York Times, The Observer, Grand Designs Magazine, and the London Evening Standard. A former launch editor at Culture Trip, she is also a regular contributor to respected UK titles such as Wallpaper. With a keen eye for global design trends and a gift for nuanced storytelling, her writing offers both depth and cultural resonance.

Francesca Lavazza, after completing her studies and gaining extensive experience at the Armando Testa communication agency, attended the prestigious New York Film Academy, where she further developed her interest in artistic languages. She joined the Board of Directors of Luigi Lavazza S.p.A. in 2001. From 2005 to 2015, she served as the company’s Corporate Image Manager, a role in which she focused on developing and evolving new forms of communication, such as international campaigns linked to the Lavazza Calendar, photographic projects, and the launch of significant partnerships in the fields of art and culture. Since 2015, she is member of the Board of Directors of Camera, Centro Italiano per la Fotografia, and since 2016, of the Board of Trustees of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in New York. Since 2017 she is member of the Board of Trustees of the Università di Scienze Gastronomiche in Pollenzo. In 2020 she became President of the Piedmont section of Adisco, and since 2021 she has been President of the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art.

Born in Como in 1983, Maria Porro has been President of Assarredo since being unanimously elected in September 2020, and is the first woman to take on this role. She joined the Board of Directors of Assarredo in 2017 and the General Council of FederlegnoArredo in 2019. She is Director of Marketing and Communication at Porro S.p.A., an old-established Italian design brand, set up by her great grandfather Giulio in 1925. She joined the company permanently in 2014, with responsibility for bolstering the company's international trade network and strengthening its communication strategies, before taking on her current role, with sustainable development very much to the forefront. She graduated cum laude in Set Design from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, and worked in theatre, art and large events as a designer, coordinator and curator. She has always maintained strong ties to the family firm and the design world, collaborating with her father Lorenzo Porro and with the Lissoni Associati studio in particular, in the field of stylistic research and new product development, and personally overseeing the company's presentations at the Salone del Mobile. Starting from July 2021 she has become President of Salone del Mobile.Milano.