Join us as the curator and educator Kate Goodwin joins us live from Australia. She shares her stories of her work as a curator in the Royal Academy, and teases out the challenges and delights of curatorial practice in architecture.

Curating and exhibiting architecture 

Curating architecture has risen to prominence as a distinct field of practice in recent years. This talk will introduce the role of curatorial practice, particularly in advancing a public discourse and engagement in architecture. It will draw on examples ranging from events, activations, installations and exhibitions created by Goodwin over the past 17 years while a curator of architecture at the Royal Academy of Arts. It will briefly introduce a spectrum of exhibition types and strategies that seek to transcend the paradox of being unable to directly ‘exhibit’ built architecture. Focusing on a small number of case studies including a major show at the Royal Academy in 2014 called Sensing Spaces, it will demonstrate how exhibitions can be a means to not express or represent what we already know but rather to discover things we don’t.