Rawad Baaklini is a Lebanese curator and educator based in Rotterdam. He collaborated with various curatorial teams in institutions like the Science Gallery network, the Noorderlicht Photo Festival of Groningen and the MIT Museum in Boston, to name a few. He also taught at the Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam as an audiovisual tutor and the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam as a design theory tutor. Baaklini was co-winner of the 2022 young curator award at the Garage Gallery Rotterdam. In his personal practice he explores the meeting points between the enigmatic concepts of design theory and the concrete reality of the everyday, with a particular interest in the mediums of film and exhibition making. baaklinirawad@gmail.com