Kingston University London & The Design Museum London collaboration.
Role: Class Representative & Project Manager
Dates: 15 – 23 September 2018
Collaboration: Design Museum, Kingston School of Art & Gallery Fumi
An exhibition of collective year-long research project by the MA Curating Contemporary Design class in collaboration with the Design Museum and Kingston School of Art. This project exhibited how museum selecting and collecting are part of the process of understanding current creative practice, as a reaction to the world around us and to write a new history.
This exhibition, following years of questioning, critiquing and rejecting the institutional canon as instrument of power, reconsidered the relevance of canonization today. The project interrogated structures and mechanisms, the decision makers and their intentions, the benefactors, and equally those forgotten or rejected. All the above factors are of importance for strategic institutional planning, project implementation, project management, monitoring and evaluating.
The collaboration with Gallery Fumi (commercial London based gallery) allowed not only a theoretical exploration of these questions but an invaluable direct engagement with current practice through the collaboration with a group of artists, designers and makers whom we each had to develop a creative brief which the designer had to respond to in a creative format. This coordination, planning and reviewing of strategic plans address the relevance of canon for contemporary practice, including its borders and fields of influence.