Fleur Watson Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Vic, Au

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Fleur Watson (PhD) is an Associate Professor, School of Architecture & Design, RMIT University and the founding director of collaborative curatorial practice Something Together. Fleur's practice is focused on research, exhibitions and programs that ask questions of architecture and design’s role in the world today and its agency in responding to the issues that shape contemporary life. She is the author of The New Curator: Exhibiting Architecture & Design (Routledge, 2021) and the series editor of Editions: Australian Architecture Monographs (Thames & Hudson, 2021 – ongoing).

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Fleur Watson (PhD) was formerly the Executive Director and Chief Curator for Open House Melbourne (2020-2022) before joining the OHM Board in 2023. Open House Melbourne is an independent architecture organisation that fosters public appreciation for good design within the built environment and public engagement in the future of our cities. Open House Melbourne is committed to exploring the pressing issues in making better cities and regional centres in which all Australians can live, work and gather together.

Melbourne, Australia

Fleur Watson was formerly Curator at RMIT Design Hub – a gallery space dedicated to cross-disciplinary design research and experimentation. Additionally, she was an Industry Fellow in the School of Architecture & Design, RMIT University. For Design Hub, Fleur co-curated a diverse range of exhibitions for Design Hub including Workaround: Design, Women, Action; Occupied; David Thomas: Colouring Impermanence; High Risk Dressing: Critical Practice; Las Vegas Studio, Brook Andrew : De Anima, The Future Is Here (in collaboration with London's Design Museum), 100 Chairs in 100 Days: Martino Gamper. In 2013, Fleur was an invited architecture and design curator for the National Gallery of Victoria's Melbourne Now exhibition and co-produced the installation Sampling The City. Fleur is the editor of the Edmond & Corrigan monograph Cities of Hope: Remembered/Rehearsed and, most recently, co-edited an issue of Architectural Design UK (May/June 2015) with RMIT University's Innovation Professor of Architecture Leon van Schaik AO. In 2015, Fleur completed a practice-based PhD at RMIT University entitled "The Agency of Encounter: Performative curatorial practice for architecture and design".

Melbourne, Australia

As the founding Executive Curator for the Housemuseum Galleries – a new public space for contemporary art and design in Melbourne – Fleur worked closely with the Lyon Foundation and the advisory group to conceptualise and manage the launch strategy for the new Galleries including the co-curation of the inaugural exhibition ENTER featuring sixteen new creative commissions. Additionally, Fleur provided consultancy curatorial services during the pre-launch period for the new Foundation.

Collingwood Melbourne

Pin-up Project Space (2010-2014) was an independent curatorial initiative and experimental project space in Collingwood which provided a cultural space for making, testing and demonstrating how architecture, design and cultural knowledge might contribute to our ability to respond to the problems of our collective future. The temporal ‘gallery’ was sited within a collective warehouse shared with other creative practitioners and, as a result, the nature of the space drove an imperative for flexible, temporal, performative curated content including a series of intensive 'residencies' with practitioners including John Tarry, Studio Bird with BalletLab and Lucy McRae amongst others.

Unlimited: Designing for the Asia Pacific was an international initiative supported by the Queensland Government to promote the value of design thinking in shaping a positive future for the Asia Pacific region. As Senior Curator, and in collaboration with the Creative Director, Fleur led the curation and development of the inaugural exhibition "Make Change" and the direction of a diverse range of industry and public programs.

Fleur has an established reputation and track record of excellence in working with government and industry particularly within a festival context. In 2008, Fleur was appointed as Curator the State of Design Festival (2008/2009) were she oversaw the curation of the exhibition and public program for the festival over two years. Extending upon this role, Fleur also curated the cultural program for the L’Oréal Melbourne Fashion Festival (2009).

From 2001–2007, Fleur was the Editor-in-Chief of Monument magazine – an Australian publication that, at the time, was recognised as the leading architecture and design publication in the country with an international audience and reputation. In 2017, Monument was awarded the national Bates Smart Award for Architecture in the Media. This award recognised Fleur's leadership in documenting Australian modernist architectural heritage through to the Classic Houses issues.

Phd Architecture And Design

Master Of Arts - Ma, Curating Contemporary Design