Crawford brings expertise in technology and justice to the foundation’s cultural initiatives
Fondazione Prada has announced the appointment of Kate Crawford to its Steering Committee. The committee works closely with President and Director Miuccia Prada and the foundation’s internal team to identify key research areas for the development of interdisciplinary cultural initiatives.
Crawford is a scholar known for her work on artificial intelligence and its broader implications. She currently holds positions as a professor at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, a Senior Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research in New York, and as the inaugural visiting chair of AI and Justice at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. Her book Atlas of AI has received multiple international awards and has been translated into twelve languages. She has advised global institutions including the White House, the European Parliament, and the United Nations, and currently serves on Spain’s AI Council under President Pedro Sánchez. In 2023, TIME Magazine listed her among the inaugural TIME100 most influential figures in AI.
Crawford has also worked extensively in visual culture, exhibiting artworks and collaborative projects at over one hundred museums worldwide. Her work is held in the permanent collections of institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Design Museum in London. She has previously collaborated with Fondazione Prada on two exhibitions at the Osservatorio: “Training Humans” (2019, with Trevor Paglen) and “Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power, 1500–2025” (2023, with Vladan Joler). The latter exhibition received the European Commission’s Grand Prize for bridging the arts, science, and technology and is set to be presented at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale.
Crawford joins an existing roster of committee members with diverse disciplinary backgrounds. These include Giuliana Bruno, a professor at Harvard University specializing in visual and environmental studies; Theaster Gates, an artist and professor at the University of Chicago; Alejandro González Iñárritu, a filmmaker; and Salvatore Settis, an archaeologist and art historian. Each member contributes to shaping Fondazione Prada’s program through distinct theoretical lenses ranging from cinema and architecture to social practice, science, and art history.
The appointment underlines Fondazione Prada’s continued commitment to engaging with contemporary issues through interdisciplinary cultural programming.