Jorn Konijn | Sr. Project Co-ordinator Design Research

Jorn Konijn is an architecture & design curator and writer based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. He curated several exhibitions, such as the official Dutch pavilion for the International Architecture Biennale of Sao Paulo (Brazil) on Unsolicited Architecture, the award winning Housing with a Mission exhibition for the Urbanism & Architecture Bi-City Biennale of Hong Kong and Shenzhen 2011 and the exhibition Lelé – Architect of health and happiness for the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi) in 2012. In 2013 he was curator for the overall Urbanism & Architecture Bi-City Biennale of Hong Kong and Shenzhen 2013. In 2015, he was appointed as curator of the 5th Bienal Brasileira de Design, which took place in Florianopolis, Brazil May 2015. He remained working in Brazil as curator for the official cultural program of the Olympic Games Rio de Janeiro 2016. Recently, he was appointed as artistic-director for The Sugar Factory project, an international cultural festival on materiality which will take place in Groningen 2018 as part of Leeuwarden Cultural Capital 2018. Apart from his curatorial work, he is advisor for the national Council for Culture.