Professor, MIT Program in Science, Technology, and Society

Workshop at the University of Illinois Urban-Champaign, “Curatorial Strategies in Design: Reconstruction as Performative Practice”

Curatorial work in design is highly interdisciplinary, and often requires bringing expertise together from fields such as architecture, history, design, engineering, and others. It may also involve reconstructing objects and spaces that do not have original examples that can be studied and copied. The main objective of this session is to generate new knowledge through the original and interdisciplinary blending of research and creation, based on innovative curatorship in design. In this workshop students will be able to develop creative curatorial strategies for design; learn about specific cases of design curatorship in contexts with interdisciplinary demands for local and internacional audiences; study and select historical or contemporary design products of high significance that are absent or unavailable; propose the complete or partial reconstruction or repair of such design objects in order to generate a speculative and performative prototype intended for display.