Robert J. Kett

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Robert Kett is an anthropologist and curator of design based in Los Angeles and the Bay Area. He received his PhD from the University of California, Irvine and is currently Assistant Professor of Design Anthropology at ArtCenter College of Design.

Robert has previously taught at UC Berkeley and the California College of the Arts and held positions in SFMOMA’s Department of Architecture + Design, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science’s Artefacts, Actions and Knowledge initiative, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, and the Getty Research Institute. Working across California and Latin America, his projects have examined design/technology intersections; countercultural and vernacular design; and the place of indigeneity in modern aesthetic and knowledge practices. His writing has been published in Representations, Design Observer Quarterly, the Getty Research Journal, Curator: The Museum Journal, and other publications and he is author of two books, Prospects Beyond Futures: Counterculture White Meets Red Power (Canadian Centre for Architecture, 2020) and Learning by Doing at the Farm: Craft, Science, and Counterculture in Modern California (with Anna Kryczka, Soberscove Press, 2014). Recent exhibition projects include Fabien Cappello: Sillas Callejeras/Street Chairs (UC Berkeley), Designed in California (SFMOMA, 2018) and MEXICO 68: Design and Dissent (SFMOMA, 2018). Robert’s work has been supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Smithsonian Institution, UC MEXUS, the UC Institute for Research in the Arts, and other institutions.

PROSPECTS BEYOND FUTURES, COUNTERCULTURE WHITE MEETS RED POWER by Robert J. Kett

CANADIAN CENTER FOR ARCHITECTURE (CCA)

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