Robert J. Kett, PhD is an anthropologist and curator. Based in Los Angeles, he develops exhibitions, publications, and programs on the cultural life of architecture and design. He is currently Associate Professor of Design Anthropology at ArtCenter and Curator-at-Large at the Palm Springs Art Museum.

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ROBERT J. KETT is an anthropologist and curator of design and Assistant Professor at ArtCenter.ABOUT
Prospects Beyond Futures: Counterculture White Meets Red Power.
BOOK
Responsible Design from Bits to Buildings. BAMPFA.PROGRAMMING; TEACHING
MEXICO 68: Design and Dissent. SFMOMA.CURATORIAL
Anthropology, Design, and the Arts of Noticing. Sillas Callejeras: Un Proyecto de Fabien Cappello.
ARTICLE
From the “Dumb Box” to the Museum as Interface: Curating and Conserving Digital Design. FUTURE TALKS 017, Die Neue Sammlung.
ARTICLE
Primary Materials. Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.EDITORIAL; INTERVIEW
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8/2020 Prospects Beyond Futures: Counterculture White Meets Red Power.BOOK
  9/17 Hypebeast, “It’s Time for Art Museums To Address Their Racist Histories.”
INTERVIEW
10/7-11 ArtCenter @ Abierto Mexicano de Diseño.
CURATORIAL
For Whom? By Whom? Designs for Belonging. UC Berkeley.PROGRAMMING
Designing the Digital Self. SFMOMA.ARTICLE
Monumentality as Method: Archaeology and Land Art in the Cold War. Representations.
ARTICLE
Fabien Cappello: Sillas Callejeras. UC Berkeley.CURATORIAL
Learning by Doing at the Farm: Craft, Science and Counterculture in Modern California. Soberscove Press.BOOK
Dori Tunstall on Decolonizing Design. Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation.
INTERVIEW
Unpacking the Office: The Information Environments of Charles and Ray Eames. SFMOMA.ARTICLE
Making Art Concrete: Works from Argentina and Brazil. Getty Research Institute.CURATORIAL
Total Environments and Design in the Streets: MEXICO 68. All Possible Futures: The Unrealized Archive #3.ARTICLE
Designed in California. SFMOMA.CURATORIAL
Ornithologists in Olman: Epistemic Ecologies in the Field and the Museum. Curator: The Museum Journal.ARTICLE
Where is Yucatan? Julius Shulman at Chichen Itza. Getty Iris.ARTICLE

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