Joseph Grima is a British architect, critic, curator and editor. He is the creative director of

Design Academy Eindhoven Design Academy Eindhoven is an interdisciplinary educational institute for art, architecture and design in Eindhoven, Netherlands. The work of its faculty and alumni have brought it international recognition, and is widely regarded as one of the w ...

and co-founder of the design research studio, Space Caviar.

Career

Grima graduated from

Architectural Association The Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, commonly referred to as the AA, is the oldest independent school of architecture in the UK and one of the most prestigious and competitive in the world. Its wide-ranging programme ...

in 2003 and then became the curator of the Biennale Interieur in

Kortrijk Kortrijk ( , ; vls, Kortryk or ''Kortrik''; french: Courtrai ; la, Cortoriacum), sometimes known in English as Courtrai or Courtray ( ), is a Belgian City status in Belgium, city and Municipalities in Belgium, municipality in the Flemish Regio ...

Istanbul Design Biennial and the director of

Chicago Architecture Biennial The Chicago Architecture Biennial is an international exhibition of architectural ideas, projects and displays. It seeks "to provide a platform for groundbreaking architectural projects and spatial experiments that demonstrate how creativity and i ...

. He also became the director of the Ideas City festival at

New Museum The New Museum of Contemporary Art, founded in 1977 by Marcia Tucker, is a museum in New York City at 235 Bowery, on Manhattan's Lower East Side. History The museum originally opened in a space in the Graduate Center of the then-named New Sc ...

. In 2011, Grima became the editor-in-chief of

Domus In Ancient Rome, the ''domus'' (plural ''domūs'', genitive ''domūs'' or ''domī'') was the type of town house occupied by the upper classes and some wealthy freedmen during the Republican and Imperial eras. It was found in almost all the ma ...

, and stayed on till 2013. He has also been Director of Storefront for Art and Architecture, NYC and the Artistic Director of Matera; European Capital of Culture 2019. In 2013, together wit
Tamar Shafrir
Grima founde
Space Caviar
an architecture and research studio operating at the intersection of design, technology, politics and the public realm. One of the projects, FOMO algorithm-generated journalism machine, was presented in the 2014

Milan Design Week The Milan Furniture Fair ( it, Salone Internazionale del Mobile di Milano) is a furniture fair held annually in Milan. It is the largest trade fair of its kind in the world. The exhibition showcases the latest in furniture and design from countrie ...

for automatically creating magazine articles from live speech as well as social media. Recurring themes in the work of Space Caviar include the impact of media and technology on social relations, and the design of domesticity. As curator of Biennale Interieur, Space Caviar presented a series of works and exhibitions including ''The Theatre of Everyday Life'' and the film ''Fortress of Solitude'', which were together poised to ask challenging questions on the past, present and future of the home under the umbrella title ''SQM: The Home Does Not Exist''. Grima has held various academic / teaching positions at

Strelka Institute Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design is a non-profit international educational project, founded in 2009 and located in Moscow. Strelka incorporates an education programme on urbanism and urban development aimed at professionals wit ...

and at

Bartlett School of Architecture Bartlett may refer to: Places * Bartlett Bay, Canada, Arctic waterway * Wharerata, New Zealand, also known as Bartletts United States * Bartlett, Illinois ** Bartlett station, a commuter railroad station * Bartlett, Iowa * Bartlett, Kansas ...

under Sir Banister Fletcher Visiting Professorship. In 2017, Grima was appointed as the creative director of

Works

Some of notable works by Grima include: * ''Player Piano: A Subjective Atlas of a Landscape of Labour''. * ''Kortrijk Interieur Biennale''. * ''RAM House''. * ''Chicago Architecture Biennale 2015''. * ''Archipelago di Ocno, Mantova''. * ''FOMO''.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Grima, Joseph Living people 21st-century British architects British curators Alumni of the Architectural Association School of Architecture Domus (magazine) editors Year of birth missing (living people)