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ACM CONVERSATIONS
This talk is free. Registration (with $10 refundable deposit) required.
Drawing on his experience as Lead Curator for Design and Architecture at M+ in Hong Kong, where he helped to build an internationally significant collection of material and visual culture from Asia, curator Aric Chen explores how institutions today represent “Asia” through collection-building and exhibition-making, as well as how these processes shape contemporary design discourse.
Offering unique insight from decades of curatorial practice across Asia, Europe, and beyond, including as Director of the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, Curatorial Director of Design Miami, and Creative Director of Beijing Design Week, Chen will open up questions around the future of design, culture, and heritage in the region.
About the speaker
Aric Chen is a curator, writer, and Director of the Zaha Hadid Foundation, a London-based cultural foundation established by the late architect Dame Zaha Hadid. Previously, he served as General and Artistic Director of Nieuwe Instituut, Founding Director of the Curatorial Lab at Tongji University College of Design & Innovation, Curatorial Director of Design Miami, Creative Director of Beijing Design Week, and Lead Curator for Design and Architecture at M+, where he helped establish the museum’s design and
architecture collection.
About the moderator
Zara Arshad is curator for design at ACM. She has held design curatorial and research roles at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), Asia Culture Center Gwangju, and Beijing Design Week, and lectured at the Royal College of Art London, University of the Arts London, LASALLE, and National University of Singapore. She completed her PhD, which investigated museum representations of Korean art, craft, and design, with the Centre for Design History at University of Brighton and the V&A.
Image: Gallery view of Things, Spaces, and Interactions at M+. Image courtesy of M+.
THIS TALK IS GENEROUSLY SPONSORED BY DALIO PHILANTHROPIES
Ngee Ann Auditorium
Asian Civilisations Museum
Ngee Ann Auditorium
Asian Civilisations Museum
This talk is free. Registration (with $10 refundable deposit) required.
Drawing on his experience as Lead Curator for Design and Architecture at M+ in Hong Kong, where he helped to build an internationally significant collection of material and visual culture from Asia, curator Aric Chen explores how institutions today represent “Asia” through collection-building and exhibition-making, as well as how these processes shape contemporary design discourse.
Offering unique insight from decades of curatorial practice across Asia, Europe, and beyond, including as Director of the Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, Curatorial Director of Design Miami, and Creative Director of Beijing Design Week, Chen will open up questions around the future of design, culture, and heritage in the region.
About the speaker
Aric Chen is a curator, writer, and Director of the Zaha Hadid Foundation, a London-based cultural foundation established by the late architect Dame Zaha Hadid. Previously, he served as General and Artistic Director of Nieuwe Instituut, Founding Director of the Curatorial Lab at Tongji University College of Design & Innovation, Curatorial Director of Design Miami, Creative Director of Beijing Design Week, and Lead Curator for Design and Architecture at M+, where he helped establish the museum’s design and
architecture collection.
About the moderator
Zara Arshad is curator for design at ACM. She has held design curatorial and research roles at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), Asia Culture Center Gwangju, and Beijing Design Week, and lectured at the Royal College of Art London, University of the Arts London, LASALLE, and National University of Singapore. She completed her PhD, which investigated museum representations of Korean art, craft, and design, with the Centre for Design History at University of Brighton and the V&A.
Image: Gallery view of Things, Spaces, and Interactions at M+. Image courtesy of M+.
THIS TALK IS GENEROUSLY SPONSORED BY DALIO PHILANTHROPIES
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