Colin Keays works across a number of international cultural projects as a writer, editor and curator. He was commissioned by Nieuwe Instituut to curate the Dutch Pavilion at the 2023 London Design Biennale, which was awarded with a special mention from the professional jury. He is editor of OtherNetwork, a global platform researching independent cultural production, and in 2023 he co-founded and edited the first issue of W’AHU, a new magazine celebrating queer creatives in Accra, Ghana. His writing has been published in PIN–UP, e-flux Architecture, DAMN° Magazine, Metropolis M and Failed Architecture, among others. He has collaborated on projects with architecture and design studio Cookies since 2021 for a range of cultural clients. Colin holds a BA in Architecture with First Class Hons. from the Manchester School of Architecture (2016) and an MA in Contextual Design from Design Academy Eindhoven (2019), where he  teaches in the BA Studio Digital-Native.

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Project List with Filter
Year
Project
With
Type
2024
Beautiful Freaks & Monstrous Matters
FORMÆ Magazine, Paris Design Week
Talk/Lecture
2024
PIN–UP
Writing
2024
DAMNº Magazine
Writing
2024
OtherNetwork, Contemporary And
Editorial
2024
Efia Serwah, Abraham Tettey, Federico Martelli, Stimuleringsfonds
Editorial
2024
Valiz Books, KIOSK Rotterdam, René Boer
Talk/Lecture
2023
Nieuwe Instituut, Embassy of the Netherlands
Curatorial
2023
BUTT Magazine, Nieuwe Instituut, Cookies
Curatorial
2023
Nieuwe Instituut, Stimuleringsfonds
Research
2023
British Council
Talk/Lecture
2023
ifa, Cookies
Editorial
2022
DAMNº Magazine
Writing
2022
e-flux Architecture, OtherNetwork
Editorial, Writing
2022
DAMNº Magazine
Writing
2022
IABR, Nieuwe Instituut
Talk/Lecture
2022
Club Extra Extra #1 – Night Walk
Extra Extra Magazine
Curatorial
2021
Metropolis M
Writing
2021
Ward Goes
Writing
2021
gaybar.archive
Creative Coding Utrecht
Exhibition
2021
Design Academy Eindhoven
Writing
2021
Arcam Amsterdam
Research
2020
Design Academy Eindhoven, Anastasia Kubrak
Editorial
2020
A Nostalgia for the Mud? Awakening Queer Potential to Challenge the Smooth City
Failed Architecture, Independent School for the City
Talk/Lecture
2020
“Soon All This Will Be Picturesque Ruins”
TAC Eindhoven
Exhibition
2020
GEO–DESIGN
Exhibition, Research
2019
Design Academy Eindhoven, Tamar Shafrir
Curatorial, Editorial
2018
Eindhoven Footnotes: Tales from a Technocratic City
Onomatopee
Writing, Research




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