Fables for our Time: A Conversation with Space Popular and Shumi Bose

Bose is chief editor at KoozArch, educator, curator and editor in the field of architecture and architectural history. She is a Senior Lecturer at Central Saint Martins and also teaches at the Royal College of Art, the Architectural Association and the School of Architecture at Syracuse University in London. Bose has curated widely, including exhibitions at the Venice Biennale of Architecture, the V&A Museum and the Royal Institute of British Architects. In 2020 she founded Holdspace, a digital platform for extracurricular discussions in architectural education, and currently serves as trustee for the Architecture Foundation.

Founders of Space Popular, Lesmes and Hellberg are Visiting Professors at UCLA AUD in Los Angeles and have previously held academic positions at the Architectural Association in London, the University of Toronto, and INDA Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. Clients, collaborators and commissioners include MAK – Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna, MAXXI – National Museum of 21st Century Art in Rome, the Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design ArkDes in Stockholm, the Royal Institute of British Architects in London, the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, and independent galleries such as MAGAZIN, Vienna, and Sto Werkstatt, London.

Displayed on our tri-wall on Level 2, Fables for our Time is a triptych of stories about environmental urgencies, that uses folktales and a new collection of emoji to examine humanity’s relationship with the natural environment.

Future Observatory is the Design Museum’s national research programme for the green transition, coordinated in partnership with the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council.