Design Curator and Associate Professor at the Kingston School of Art in London
Jana Scholze is a design curator. She is Associate Professor at the Kingston School of Art in London heading the MA Curating Contemporary Design in collaboration with the Design Museum. Her transdisciplinary research covers questions around formats of interaction and contemporary design practice engaging with society, technology and the environment. She is a Fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum where she has been previously the Curator of Contemporary and Modern Furniture and Product Design working on acquisitions and exhibitions, such as 'What is Luxury?’ (2015). She is a member of the AHRC’ Peer Review College, and a member of the board of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg and the Stanley Picker Gallery in London. She is one of the initiators of The Design Film Festival (2020) and co-curates an exhibition about domesticity for the XII International Design Biennial Saint-Etienne in 2021.
Design historians Dr Peter Kapos and Dr Jana Scholze met for a product based rummage through the history of Braun Design. Focusing on audio designs of the 1960s, including the iconic TP 1 and wall-mounted system, they explored the enduring principles of Braun Design - Simple, Useful and Built to Last.
Speakers:
Dr Jana Scholze, Design Curator and Associate Professor at the Kingston School of Art in London
Dr Peter Kapos, Strategic Director and Founding Partner of Systems Studio
Supported by Braun
