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. As a writer, Colin’s work has been published in PIN–UP, e-flux Architecture, DAMN° Magazine, Metropolis M and Failed Architecture, among others. He is Editor-in-Chief 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. 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.
He is currently based in Amsterdam.
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Project List with Filter
Year
Project
With
Type
2025
Pride Masking Prejudice: The paradox of queer visibility in Dutch public space
Venice Architecture Biennale (Dutch Pavilion)
Writing
2025
Subverting Soft Power: Reflections on ‘Out of Joint’
Nieuwe Instituut
Writing
2025
Anchorpoints (at the end of the world)
Stimuleringsfonds
Research, Editorial
2024
Beautiful Freaks & Monstrous Matters
FORMÆ Magazine, Paris Design Week
Talk/Lecture
2024
Contemporary And
Editorial
2024
Efia Serwah, Abraham Tettey, Federico Martelli, Stimuleringsfonds
Editorial
2023
Nieuwe Instituut, Embassy of the Netherlands
Curatorial
2021
gaybar.archive
Creative Coding Utrecht
Exhibition
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
2019
Design Academy Eindhoven, Tamar Shafrir
Curatorial, Editorial
2018
Eindhoven Footnotes: Tales from a Technocratic City
Onomatopee
Writing, Research
Year
Project
With
Type
2025
Pride Masking Prejudice: The paradox of queer visibility in Dutch public space
Venice Architecture Biennale (Dutch Pavilion)
Writing
2025
Subverting Soft Power: Reflections on ‘Out of Joint’
Nieuwe Instituut
Writing
2025
Anchorpoints (at the end of the world)
Stimuleringsfonds
Research, Editorial
2024
Beautiful Freaks & Monstrous Matters
FORMÆ Magazine, Paris Design Week
Talk/Lecture
2024
Contemporary And
Editorial
2024
Efia Serwah, Abraham Tettey, Federico Martelli, Stimuleringsfonds
Editorial
2023
Nieuwe Instituut, Embassy of the Netherlands
Curatorial
2021
gaybar.archive
Creative Coding Utrecht
Exhibition
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
2019
Design Academy Eindhoven, Tamar Shafrir
Curatorial, Editorial
2018
Eindhoven Footnotes: Tales from a Technocratic City
Onomatopee
Writing, Research
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