GET IT LOUDER (UK Exhibits)
London Guest City programme of Beijing Design Week
Talking Innovation
Design UK Front Page
IYDEY 2007 Award
IYDEY 2006 Award
Design in the UK
Shumon Basar
Shumon Basar is a co-founder of the London based curatorial/design group Newbetter, who, since 2002, have worked on a number of international exhibitions (such as Can Buildings Curate) and collaborations with artists, film-makers and urbanists. Shumon is also co-founder of the publishing event sexymachinery, and a contributing editor at the fashion/culture quarterly Tank. With Markus Miessen, he has co-edited the anthologies Did Someone Say Participate (MIT/Revolver, 2006) and With/Without (Bidoun Publications, 2007). A columnist at Blueprint magazine, Shumon has written for Art Review, Sunday Telegraph, Domus and Modern Painters. Academic appointments include The Royal College of Art, The London Consortium and a new curatorial and cultural initiative at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in 2006. From 1996-99, Shumon worked for the architect Zaha Hadid, notably on the Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center. Educated at Cambridge University and the Architectural Association, Shumon has begun a doctorate at the newly established Goldsmiths Centre for Research Architecture.
