Lara Chapman is a writer, editor and curator who has recently moved to Sydney.
Lara writes about design, architecture, technology and exhibitions, often exploring how these areas intersect with the climate crisis. Her work has appeared in The Saturday Paper, The Guardian, The Architectural Review, Disegno, DAMN, MacGuffin, Art Monthly and Real Life, among other publications.
Living and working in London and Eindhoven for the past twelve years, Lara was assistant editor at Disegno, working across the print publications, digital publishing and podcasting. She was assistant curator and associate touring curator at the Design Museum where she helped to develop and tour critically acclaimed exhibitions such as Waste Age: What can design do? and Yinka Ilori: Parables for Happiness. While completing her MA at Design Academy Eindhoven in 2017-19 Lara was web editor of TLMag.
Lara’s independent curatorial projects have been shown at the V&A, Dutch Design Week and the Embassy of Internet and other spaces. She has delivered lectures to design students at Kingston University, Design Academy Eindhoven and the University of London.
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I acknowledge and pay respect to the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, the traditional custodians of the land on which I work and live. Always was, always will be.