Fleur Watson PhD is a curator, creative producer and author. Her academic and cultural leadership extends across a broad spectrum of creative disciplines including architecture, design, visual art, and expanded spatial practices. Fleur is an Associate Professor, School of Architecture & Design at RMIT University and founder of independent curatorial practice Something Together. She is an experienced researcher within an ‘integrated scholarship’ framework with a focus on curating contemporary art and design within a cross–disciplinary context. She has co-created and led curatorial projects, design studios and industry workshops with a diverse range of institutions including RMIT University, Melbourne and, internationally, at Innsbruck University, Austria; Design Museum, London, and the Venice International Architecture Biennale.
In 2021, the UK-based publisher Routledge released Fleur’s authored book The New Curator : Exhibiting Architecture & Design which is also due for release in the Korean language in early 2024. This publication builds on Fleur’s practice-based PhD titled ‘The Agency of Encounter’ completed in 2016 at RMIT University. Fleur is a Board member for the not-for-profit organisation “Open House Melbourne” and was formerly OHM’s Executive Director and Chief Curator from 2020–2022. From 2013–2020, Fleur was Curator at RMIT Design Hub Gallery – a purpose-designed project space dedicated to cross-disciplinary exhibitions. Fleur managed the creative direction, curation and program from the Design Hub’s official opening to the public and co-curated a diverse range of influential exhibitions and research-led projects.
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She started her career as a book designer at a design-focused publishing house and now works as a planner building on her foundation in design. As she strived to truly understand her work, she ended up writing her third book and became someone who shares knowledge in front of others. Although she has experienced design and publishing as professional fields, she places more emphasis on design and bookmaking as part of everyday life and general education. Since August 2012, she has been teaching …
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Yamamoto Riken
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Charles Wallschlaeger
In his long tenure at The Ohio State University (OSU), Charles A. Charles Wallschlaeger was instrumental in creating one of the first full-scale industrial design departments at the university level. In more than 30 years there – including 19 as department chair, Charles influenced countless students and design educators. -
Ota Hiroshi
Born in 1968. Architect.Co-chair of Design Nouveau, Tokyo Picnic Club. Researcher at the International Center for Urban Regeneration Research, University of Tokyo, and lecturer at the Institute of Production Technology, University of Tokyo, where he studies urban regeneration cases around the world. Since 2011, he has been a lecturer at the Children’s Architecture School. -
Cho Sung-hyeon
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Kimura Shunsuke
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Lee Jeong-hwan
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Kang E-Roon
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Kim Yu-yeong
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Woowa Brothers Corp.
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Yoo Da-mi
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Ezio Manzini
Ezio Manzini is a world-renowned scholar in the field of design for sustainability. In 2009, he founded the DESIS Network, a network of design universities dedicated to social innovation design, to connect design universities around the world and revitalize the discourse on social innovation design. As a longtime professor of design at Politecnico di Milano, Italy, he conducted research on design for sustainability and expanded the scope of design education by launching new design majors such …