Curating Design: Between Word and World

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Join an international network of curators, designers and researchers to challenge and rethink curatorial practice today in this conference celebrating 25 years of MA Curating Contemporary Design, a partnership between Kingston University and the Design Museum London.

'Curating Design: Between Word and World' is a conference organised by an alumni research group from Kingston University's MA Curating Contemporary Design course. It brings together an international, cross-disciplinary group of curators, designers and researchers for a day of exchange and debate on the evolving practice of the design curator.

Unpacking design curation as a practice of care, collaboration and stewardship, this conference expands beyond objects of study to engage with wider systems, structures and processes that are defining how we inhabit our world now and in the future. 

Structured around a linguistic framework, moving from noun to adjective to verb, the conference explores design curation as a form of language reflecting on and responding to the world around us, shaped by and through design. It moves away from defining the role and functions of the curator towards examining the ethical qualities required of contemporary curatorial practice and exploring the methods and formats through which curating operates.

Positioned as a practice of commoning, the conference will question what design curating represents as a discipline, practice and pedagogy today. It will create a space in which to share ideas and imagine expanded, inclusive, equitable, pluralistic and dynamic curatorial futures together.

MA Curating Contemporary Design was established in 2001 as a pioneering collaboration between Kingston University and the Design Museum.

This Conference Programme was developed with MA Curating Contemporary Design Alumni:
Ayesha Adonais
Chiara Dellerba
Christen Faver
Dominga Sanchez
Joanne Aguilar
Kate Dooley
Lisa Marie Sneijder
Maria De Sousa Pereira Duarte Banta
Noel Cheung
Samta Nadeem

Please note that this event is wheelchair accessible, with step-free access throughout the museum.