Gillian Russell is a Designer, Curator and Researcher whose projects centre on the interplay between design and its critical contexts. She is co-founder of the design think tank DeTnk.com, and has been a lecturer on the MA Curating Contemporary Design Programme at Kingston University, London, UK (run in partnership with the Design Museum, London) since 2007. She has published a book chapter on 'Curating Critical Design: An embodied criticality' in Design Objects and the Museum, Bloomsbury (2016). Currently she is completing a PhD in Design Products at the Royal College of Art, London. Her research is on emerging relationships between critical design and curatorial practice focusing on the phenomenon of the epistemic object and embodied criticality. It is being undertaken as part of an AHRC funded collaborative doctoral award with the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK.
