Book Details

The New Curator: Exhibiting Architecture and Design / Fleur Watson

Publication year: 2021

ISBN: 9781138492738

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Examines the challenges inherent in exhibiting design ideas. Traditionally, exhibitions of architecture and design have predominantly focused on displaying finished outcomes or communicating a work through representation. In this ground-breaking new book, Fleur Watson unveils the emergence of the ‘new curator’. Instead of exhibiting finished works or artefacts, the rise of ‘performative curation’ provides a space where experimental methods for encountering design ideas are being tested. Here, the role of the curator is not that of ‘custodian’ or ‘expert’ but with the intent to create a shared space of encounter with audiences.


Subject: Architecture, Architecture Exhibitions, Curatorship, Design Exhibitions