ABSTRACT
This chapter explores to one that sees the curator take on an explicitly activist agenda, where curated content responds to the social and political currency of the day. The exhibition had very little in the way of objects or didactic information; it was simply orientated around a ‘super-graphic’ title where, upon entry, the audience could choose to move left into an exact replica of a slum dwelling or right into a modernist room. Audiences have access to multiple platforms in which they can choose how they wish to consume information and acquire knowledge. In this new context, an exhibition environment that is overly didactic risks that the audience will simply ‘tune out’. As an act of curatorial activism, the project’s open-ended structure and porosity and wide dissemination exposed new and emerging ways that women are working inside, outside and beside architecture and design as it has previously been conceived.
