Jane Pavitt

Jane Pavitt Prof. was Blood Mountain’s keynote speaker for the Budapest Design Week 2013. She is a specialist in 20th and 21st century design with particular expertise and interest in design curation. She worked as a research fellow and exhibition curator at the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) for over ten years, curating a series of exhibitions which broadened the framework of understanding for design practice and history in the museum context. These include Designing the Digital Age (1999); Brand.New (2000), an exploration of branding cultures; and Brilliant: Contemporary Lights and Lighting (2004). In 2008 she was lead curator for the major inter national exhibition Cold War Modern: Design 1945–70, which subsequently toured to MART, the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rovereto, Italy, and the National Gallery of Art in Vilnius, Lithuania. A graduate of the History of Design Course (1991) offered by the V&A and the Royal College of Art, Pavitt was Senior Lecturer in Design History at Camberwell College (1992-1997) before joining the Royal College of Art in 2010, where she currently resides as Dean of the School of Humanities and RCA Head of the V&A/RCA History of Design Programme. Her other research interests include British design post-1945, Czech twentieth-century architecture and the history of curatorial and exhibition practices in design. www.rca.ac.uk, www.vam.ac.uk/page/c/cold-war/