Noel Cheung|Curator|Ceramicist
Noel Cheung 張知行
⸰ curator ⸰
⸰ researcher ⸰
⸰ ceramicist ⸰
I am a London-based independent curator working across contemporary design, architecture, and art.
My practice explores how material processes make visible the psychological and social structures underlying experiences of migration, memory, and belonging in postcolonial Britain.
I work with museums, cultural organisations, and creative practitioners to develop research-led exhibitions, curatorial frameworks, and public programmes that open these inquiries to broader public engagement.
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Curating Design: Between Word and World
2026
Category: Conference
Location: the Design Museum, London
—Curating Design: Between Word and World was a conference organised by an alumni research group from Kingston University's MA Curating Contemporary Design course. It brought together an international, cross-disciplinary group of curators, designers and researchers for a day of exchange and debate on the evolving practice of the design curator.
Unpacking design curation as a practice of care, collaboration, and stewardship, this conference expands beyond objects of study to engage with wider systems, structures and processes that are defining how we inhabit our world now and in the future.
Structured around a linguistic framework, moving from noun to adjective to verb, the conference explores design curation as a form of language reflecting on and responding to the world around us, shaped by and through design. It moves away from defining the role and functions of the curator towards examining the ethical qualities required of contemporary curatorial practice and exploring the methods and formats through which curating operates.
Positioned as a practice of commoning, the conference will question what design curating represents as a discipline, practice and pedagogy today. It will create a space in which to share ideas and imagine expanded, inclusive, equitable, pluralistic and dynamic curatorial futures together.
Conference website: https://designmuseum.org/whats-on/talks-courses-and-workshops/curating-design-between-word-and-world
Summary: https://www.stirworld.com/see-features-between-word-and-world-creating-new-languages-for-curating-design