Priya Khanchandani's guest appearances

Priya Khanchandani

Thought Starters

On Design with Justyna Green

Open/Ended Design

Anab Jain

Piero Lissoni

Shantell Martin

John Booth

Andy J

Lee Broom

Michael Anastassiades

Katie Patrick

Suhair Khan

Tim Lane

Aparna Rao

Karin Gustafsson

Matt Alagiah

Matt Gibberd

Yinka Ilori

OwlTail

Priya Khanchandani is the head of curatorial and interpretation at the Design Museum. Prior to her role there she worked at the V&amp;A as well as the British Council. She also studied modern languages at the University of Cambridge and had a five-year career as a lawyer, before moving to the design industry. In our conversation, we track Priya’s career, discuss diversity in the design sector and also talk about the role of design in the pandemic and curating museum exhibitions remotely. Mentioned in the episode: Design Museum: https://designmuseum.org/ Priya’s ‘secret’ exhibition “Amy: Beyond The Stage”: https://designmuseum.org/exhibitions/amy-beyond-the-stage  Design Can: https://design-can.com/ This episode was produced by Green Podcast Productions. To get new weekly On Design podcast episodes directly in your inbox, sign up to our newsletter at https://ondesignpodcast.com/newsletter.

Priya Khanchandani is the head of curatorial and interpretation at the Design Museum. Prior to her role there she worked at the V&amp;A as well as the British Council. She also studied modern languages at the University of Cambridge and had a five-year career as a lawyer, before moving to the design industry. In our conversation, we track Priya’s career, discuss diversity in the design sector and also talk about the role of design in the pandemic and curating museum exhibitions remotely. Mentioned in the episode: Design Museum: <a href="https://designmuseum.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://designmuseum.org/</a> Priya’s ‘secret’ exhibition “Amy: Beyond The Stage”: <a href="https://designmuseum.org/exhibitions/amy-beyond-the-stage" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://designmuseum.org/exhibitions/amy-beyond-the-stage</a> Design Can: <a href="https://design-can.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://design-can.com/</a> This episode was produced by <a href="https://www.greenpodcastproductions.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Green Podcast Productions</a>. To get new weekly On Design podcast episodes directly in your inbox, sign up to our newsletter at <a href="https://ondesignpodcast.com/newsletter" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://ondesignpodcast.com/newsletter</a>.

Priya Khanchandani on design in the pandemic and an urgent call for diversity

/ Priya Khanchandani has been a bright light in the world of design for most of her career across continents. A writer, curator and commentator (and trained solicitor!), she’s just stepping into her new role as the Head of Curatorial and Interpretation at the Design Museum in London.Once a curator at the V&amp;A in London Priya kicked off their seminal contemporary design acquisitions program — basically allowing them to augment their illustrious collection with (usually fascinating, sometimes odd!) objects from the contemporary world. This habit has stuck, she's been thinking a lot about pandemic objects the last few weeks and months!In this Open/Ended chat, she speaks with us about her interdisciplinary world:  growing up with a hard-to-pronounce name (some of us can relate!), the importance of female mentorship and acquiring Katy Perry’s eyelashes for the V&amp;A collection…

/ Priya Khanchandani has been a bright light in the world of design for most of her career across continents. A writer, curator and commentator (and trained solicitor!), she’s just stepping into her new role as the Head of Curatorial and Interpretation at the Design Museum in London. Once a curator at the V&amp;A in London Priya kicked off their seminal <a href="http://www.priyakhanchandani.com/museum-projects/the-design-fund/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">contemporary design acquisitions program </a>— basically allowing them to augment their illustrious collection with (usually fascinating, sometimes odd!) objects from the contemporary world. This habit has stuck, she's been thinking a lot about <a href="https://www.vam.ac.uk/blog/projects/pandemic-objects-the-ground" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">pandemic objects</a> the last few weeks and months! In this Open/Ended chat, she speaks with us about her interdisciplinary world: growing up with a hard-to-pronounce name (some of us can relate!), the importance of female mentorship and acquiring Katy Perry’s eyelashes for the V&amp;A collection…

Priya Khanchandani on Human connection in Design