Donna Loveday - Curating Design: Context, Culture and Reflective Practice

Curating Design

Curating Design

Context, Culture and Reflective Practice

Donna Loveday

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Names: Loveday, Donna, author. Title: Curating design / Donna Loveday.

Description: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2022. |

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2022005841 (print) | LCCN 2022005842 (ebook) |

ISBN 9781350162761 (paperback) | ISBN 9781350162778 (hardback) |

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Contents

Renata Becerril is a design curator and critic based in Mexico City. Renata is the founding director of the international design festival, Abierto Mexicano de Diseo , the first of its type in Latin America. She also established and directs Capitales , a design consultancy and gallery. She has worked for Vitra Design Museum and curated exhibitions for the World Bank (the design section in About Change: Art from Latin America and the Caribbean ), The London Festival of Architecture ( mAxico: Architectures from Mexico ), the Franz Mayer Museum ( Tapetes: Tapetes Anudando Historias Enlazando Ideas ) and several exhibitions within the design festival Abierto Mexicano de Diseo. Renata has taught at the design university Centro where she was Head of Foundation Year. She has also been a guest nominator for the Designs of the Year exhibition at the Design Museum, London. She holds an MA in Curating Contemporary Design from Kingston University in partnership with the Design Museum, London. Renata is currently working on an urban project focused on placemaking for the government of Tampico, in the State of Tamaulipas in Mexico.

Wilhelm Finger is a founder and co-director of Double Decker, a curating and design practice which occupies a unique space in its field. The London-based studio curates artwork collections for leading hotels and cruise liners. The studio also designs visual identities and curates exhibitions and events for high-profile cultural institutions, including the Oscar Niemeyer Museum, Brazil, the Design Museum, London, the Science Museum, London and the Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens. Wilhelm has a visual design publishing practice that predates his work with Double Decker. He has worked on collaborations with some of the worlds most distinctive brands such as Comme des Garons and Palais de Tokyo. Wilhelm studied Communication Design at Central Saint Martins, London, and holds an MA in Curating Contemporary Design from Kingston University in partnership with the Design Museum, London, where he met his creative partner Melita Skamnaki, sparking the birth of Double Decker.

Corinna Gardner is Senior Curator of Design and Digital at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Corinna leads the museums Rapid Response Collecting programme and her research focuses on contemporary product and digital design and the role they play in society. She was lead curator, together with Johanna Agerman Ross, on a new gallery for twentieth- and twenty-first-century design that opened at the V&A in 2021, Design 1900Now . In 2015, Corinna co-curated All of This Belongs to You , an exhibition about the design of public life and the role of institutions in contemporary society. Prior to joining the V&A, Corinna worked at Barbican Art Gallery, London on exhibitions including Bauhaus: Art as Life (2012), OMA: Progress (2011), Random Internationals Rain Room (2012) and Cory Arcangels Beat the Champ (2011). She holds an MA in History of Design from the Royal College of Art and the V&A, London. Corinna is working towards the development and delivery of a digital design collecting strategy for the V&A. She is also working on exhibitions about design and public good, and the problem and promise of plastic in todays world.

Andrea Lipps is Associate Curator of Contemporary Design at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, where she conceives, develops and organizes major award-winning exhibitions and books, most recently Nature Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial (2019), The Senses: Design beyond Vision (2018), Joris Laarman Lab: Design in the Digital Age (2017) and Beauty Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial (2016). Andrea is an accomplished writer and editor on contemporary design, having authored and edited numerous publications, essays and scholarly articles. Her work has appeared in the New York Times , Wall Street Journal , the New Yorker , Vogue , WWD , Architectural Digest, W and The Financial Times . She is a regular visiting critic, lecturer and thesis advisor. She participates on international design juries and frequently moderates and speaks at events, symposia and academic conferences. She holds an MA in Decorative Arts and Design from Parsons with the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Andrea is currently leading the museums efforts to build its nascent Digital Design collection.

Riya Patel is a design and architecture curator and writer. From 2015 to 2020 she was curator of The Aram Gallery in London, an independent gallery space dedicated to new and experimental design. Riya is a contributing editor at Icon magazine and writes for several publications including Disegno , Wallpaper and The Independent . She was previously senior editor at Icon and spent a year in Amsterdam as an editor of Frame magazine. Riya began her journalism career at the Architects Journal and The Architectural Review , and holds an MArch in Architecture from Cardiff University.

Melita Skamnaki is a founder and co-director of Double Decker, a curating and design practice which occupies a unique space in its field. The London-based studio curates artwork collections for leading hotels and cruise liners. The studio also designs visual identities and curates exhibitions and events for high-profile cultural institutions, including the Oscar Niemeyer Museum, Brazil, the Design Museum, London, the Science Museum, London and the Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens. Previously Melita was a creative director at DDB Athens, Upset and Ogilvy, Athens, overseeing accounts with Vodafone, Aegean Airlines and Action Aid. She studied Art and Design at Camberwell College of Arts, London, and holds an MA in Curating Contemporary Design from Kingston University in partnership with the Design Museum, London, where she met her creative partner Wilhelm Finger, sparking the birth of Double Decker.