Robert Kett

Robert Kett is an anthropologist and curator of design and technology. He received his PhD from UC Irvine and is currently Public Programs Officer at UC Berkeley's Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation and the 2017-18 Emerging Curator at the Canadian Centre for Architecture. Prior to joining Berkeley, Robert held positions at SFMOMA, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, and the Getty Research Institute. Centered on histories of the Americas, Robert's projects have examined art/science intersections; experimental and interdisciplinary practice; and the place of indigeneity in modern aesthetic and knowledge practices. His writing has been published in Representations, Design Observer Quarterly, the Getty Research Journal, Curator: The Museum Journal, Los Angeles Magazine, and other publications and he is coauthor of Learning by Doing at the Farm: Craft, Science, and Counterculture in Modern California (Soberscove Press, 2014). Recent exhibition projects include Designed in California (SFMOMA, 2018) and MEXICO 68: Design and Dissent (SFMOMA, 2018).