Curating as graphic design research

Sara De Bondt

About this exposition

In 2019, I curated and designed Off the Grid, an exhibition on post-war Belgian graphic design at Design Museum Gent. The show included public events (Design Museum Gent, 2019–20) and led to a publication (De Bondt, 2022), all of which have been elements of my practice-based doctoral research at KASK School of Arts and Ghent University. Curating Off the Grid allowed me to define my own research area, namely the investigation of graphic design from a specific country and period. The process also raised broader questions around naming, authorship, and canon-formation, which in turn have enriched my practice as a designer and educator. The curatorial thus became a methodology that allowed me to bring the two sides — my historical research and my graphic design practice — together. In this article, I discuss my engagement with graphic design via the curatorial, and how the latter can be deployed for practice-based graphic design research in and beyond exhibition spaces.

type	research exposition
keywords	graphic design, curating, exhibition, exhibition-making, History, historiography, critical graphic design, design, archive
date	30/12/2022
published	29/12/2022
last modified	29/12/2022
status	published
affiliation	KASK School of Arts Ghent / Ghent University
copyright	Sara De Bondt
license	CC BY-NC-ND
language	English
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/974865/1511874
doi	https://doi.org/10.22501/jar.974865
published in	Journal for Artistic Research
portal issue	28. 28
external link	https://occasionalpapers.org

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