essa’s Honours thesis, Curating Change: Design Exhibitions and Critical Discourse, investigated the potential agency of the exhibition curator to generate an engaged critical discourse within the design discipline. She looked closely at local visual arts curators currently developing radical new strategies for curatorial practice, and argued for a more critically engaged design practice based on a considered and responsive relationship to the contemporary world and articulated through the medium of the exhibition.

Her research was supervised by Prof. Richard Goodwin and received First Class Honours.


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