The New Design Museum : Co-creating the Present, Prototyping the Future

Beatrice Leanza

ISBN 10: 3038604380 / ISBN 13: 9783038604389

Published by Park Books Sep 2026, 2026

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Neuware - 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, this volume 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, 15 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 17 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 (São Paolo, Brazil) 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. ; The New Design Museum versammelt Theorien und Stimmen führender internationaler Institutionen und unabhängiger Initiativen zur sich ständig wandelnden Natur von Design im 21. Jahrhundert und seinem Wirkungsbereich in praktischer und diskursiver Hinsicht. Sie bilden neue institutionelle Praktiken auf allen Kontinenten ab und zeigen auf, wie dem Design - und der Architektur - gewidmete Kultureinrichtungen der Transformation bedürfen, sei es in Bezug auf ihre jeweilige Mission, ihr Programm oder Vermittlungsplattformen. Es gilt, auf sich ständig erweiternde Sichtweisen auf Design zu reagieren und dessen traditionelle, vor allem objektbasierte Präsentation durch neue Formen der Vermittlung ebenso zu erweitern. Essays von Beatrice Leanza, 15 Interviews mit führenden Kurator:innen sowie 17 Fallstudien unabhängige Organisationen und Plattformen vertiefen und belegen diesen Paradigmenwechsel in der öffentlichen und professionellen Auseinandersetzung mit Design. Zu Wort kommen unter anderem Carson Chan (MoMA, New York), Ikko Yokoyama (M+ Museum, Hongkong), Aric Chen (Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam), Giovanna Borasi (Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal) und Lucia Pietroiusti (Serpentine Gallery, London). Die Fallstudien widmen sich beispielsweise The World Around (Brooklyn, NY), African Futures Institute (Accra), Cultures of Assembly (Luxemburg), Loudreaders, Instituto A Gente Transforma (São Paolo) oder der Fundación Organizmo (Kolumbien). Diese erforschen globale, der Dekolonisierung und dem Aufbrechen herkömmlicher Gender-Kategorien verpflichtete sowie auf maschinell generiertem, ökologischem und indigenem Wissen basierende Designparktiken und stellen neue Modelle der Weiterentwicklung und Kollaboration für Design-Institutionen vor.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The New Design Museum : Co-creating the Present, Prototyping the Future
• Publisher: Park Books Sep 2026
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3038604380
• ISBN 13: 9783038604389
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 212W x 141H x 26D millimeters 212 millimeters width by 141 millimeters height by 26 millimeters depth
• Weight: 546 grams

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Synopsis

Explores how design and architecture museums have adapted to face contemporary concerns.

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 twenty-first 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.

The New Design Museum ultimately examines the critical role of cultural institutions as engines for knowledge production, where a democratic politics of mutual care and shared purpose can be explored and exercised.

About the Author

Beatrice Leanza is a cultural strategist, museum director, and critic with a background in Asian studies. She served as executive director of the Museum of Art, Architecture, and Technology in Lisbon, as director of the Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts in Lausanne,  and as creative director of Beijing Design Week. She is co-founder of The Global School, China’s first independent institute dedicated to design and creative research.