Saskia van Stein

Saskia van Stein is an independent curator, moderator, and educator with an emphasis on design and architecture. Since 2019 she’s headmaster of the MA entitled ‘The Critical Inquiry Lab’, a department with artistic (design)research at its core. She was Director at Bureau Europa, platform for architecture and design, in Maastricht (2013–2019) and a curator at the Netherlands Architecture Institute (now Het Nieuwe Instituut) in Rotterdam (2003–2012). She contributes to the development of cultural discourse, and she’s a board member of multiple advisory committees, involved in the several juries and advisory bodies such as The Independent School for the City and the architectural journal Oase. Besides her work as Head of Department at the Design Academy, she is a PhD candidate at the Curatorial Research Community at the Technical University of Eindhoven.

photo: Moniek Wegdam