The New Design Museum brings together theories and voices from leading international
institutions and independent initiatives addressing the transformed--and continually
transforming--nature of design in the 21st century and its planetary scope in both practical
and discursive dimensions. By mapping a new landscape of institutional practices across
different geographical locations it reveals how spaces of culture dedicated to design need
transformation-of their missions programs and outreach platforms-to respond to an
ever-expanding outlook on design as a field that is moving beyond its traditional presentation
as an object-based practice. The book integrates essays by Beatrice Leanza fifteen
interviews with directors and programmers-such as Carson Chan (MoMA New York) Ikko Yokoyama
(M+ Museum Hong Kong) Aric Chen (Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam) Giovanna Borasi (Canadian
Centre for Architecture Montreal) and Lucia Pietroiusti (Serpentine Gallery London)- and
seventeen case studies that encompass independent organizations and platforms offering evidence
of the changing paradigms of public and professional engagement with the discipline of design.
The World Around (Brooklyn NY) African Futures Institute (Accra Ghana) Cultures of Assembly
(Luxembourg) Loudreaders Instituto A Gente Transforma (Sao Paolo Brasil) and Fundación
Organizmo (Colombia) and others explore global design practices invested in decolonizing and
queering agency as well as computational ecological and Indigenous knowledge and present
alternative educational and collaborative frameworks of institutional development.
