Angela Rui

Angela Rui is an internationally renowned design curator and researcher with a multidisciplinary background spanning curation, writing and mentoring, with over 15 years of experience in curating in the field of design culture.

Rui currently holds the position of director of the master’s programmes in arts at IED Milan, where she contributes to the construction of the DesignXCommons design observatory, an initiative that explores the potential of design as a tool for recognising the role of common goods and collaborative practices in the regeneration of social systems.

Among other projects, she has curated several exhibitions: ITALY: A New Collective Landscape (ADI Design Museum, Milan 2023; HKDI Gallery, Hong Kong 2024; Italian Pavilion Expo2010, Shanghai 2024), a project that explores new trajectories in Italian design in relation to collective and territorial dimensions; AQUARIA. Or the Illusion of a Closed Sea (Maat, Lisbon 2021), together with the book The Aquarium is a Listening Glass (Humboldt Books, 2024), which investigates the relationships between culture and design in the context of ecology and the representation of marine ecosystems; She was co-curator of I See That I See What You Not See, the Dutch participation in Broken Nature – XXII Triennale di Milano (2019) and Faraway So Close – 25th Ljubljana Design Biennial (2017).