Paola Bellani

is an architect based in Milan who’s main focus is researching the imaginaries of contemporary design.
Her research explores how design, photography, fashion, architecture, art and cinema construct the imaginaries of the contemporary.
She looks at the relationship between project and representation: how objects, spaces and bodies are imagined, represented and made culturally meaningful through images.
Her work develops across research, editorial, education and consulting.



Research

Education

Consulting
Editorial
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Paola Bellani

is an architect, curator and researcher based in Milan.
Her research explores how design, photography, fashion, architecture, art and cinema construct the imaginaries of the contemporary.
She looks at the relationship between project and representation: how objects, spaces and bodies are imagined, represented and made culturally meaningful through images.
Her work develops across research, editorial, education and consulting.



Research

Education
Consulting
Editorial
Archive

About


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Teaching visual culture through the project


Teaching is a central part of the research.

Courses and lectures explore how visual languages are constructed and how students can learn to read images not simply as representations, but as cultural and spatial devices.

Teaching connects design, fashion, photography, architecture, art, cinema and contemporary visual culture.

Selected teaching:

NABA — Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti
Visual Design · Brand Strategy · Image Culture

Domus Academy
Master courses in fashion and related fields

MUNAF. Museo Nazionale della Fotografia
Lecture on contemporary visual imaginaries

Educational approach:

The classroom is treated as a space for observation and hypothesis. Students are encouraged to move between disciplines, compare visual languages and identify the cultural structures behind apparently unrelated images.