About
Tiiu Meiner
Born in Tallinn, Estonia
Based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Tiiu Meiner is a writer and freelance curator with a recent Masters diploma from Design Academy Eindhoven (2019). Her topics of interest deal with establishments of knowledge and self-discovery through readings of contemporary culture. Her research methodologies range from deeply empathic to carefully self-reflective to enthusiastically factual. She often borrows theories from fields of psychology, sociology, media and cultural theory and semiotics. Her outcomes vary greatly from texts in essay forms and poetry, as well as poetic story telling in film, performance and installation design.
Her latest works have been a series of performative workshops that deconstruct and recontextualise conspiracy theories, as well as moderating and producing podcasts and live panel discussions on design. She has exhibited the workshops at Bureau Europa in Maastricht and De Fabriek in Eindhoven, and moderates during Dutch Design Week at the Design Academy graduation show.
Her masters graduation project from Design Curating & Writing at Design Academy Eindhoven was on conspiracy theories, and she has previously graduated from a bachelors degree in Media & Communications at Goldsmiths University of London.
CV
Education
2020
Visiting Student: If I Can't Dance I Don't Want to Be a Part of Your Revolution/ University of the Underground in the Cloud
University of the Underground, Amsterdam
2017 - 2019
MA Design Writing & Curating
Design Academy Eindhoven
2014 - 2017
BA Media & Communications
Goldsmiths, University of London
Summer 2016
Exchange IBCOM
Erasmus University of Rotterdam
2012-2014
International Baccalaureate
Birkerød Gymnasium, Denmark
Exhibitions
Curating
2020 - CURATOR A Firefly Sit on an Electric Fence Reflecting on Light, Roodkapje
2020 - EDITOR ..., might delete later, Dutch Design Week
2020 - CURATOR Don't Avoid What is Easy, Vabaduse Gallerii, Tallinn
2019 - PERFORMANCE & CURATOR I Know That You Know (that they know that we might know): De Fabriek, Eindhoven
2019 - CO-CURATOR Film Posters from the Last Century: Tallinn Film Museum, Tallinn
Showing
2020 - FILM Carry on, and so on and so on, Geo-Design Sand: Building Blocks of Modernity, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven
2020 - INSTALLATION Print & Play Exhibition: Online
2019 - PERFORMANCE GS19, Design Academy Graduation Show: Campina, Eindhoven
2019 - PERFORMANCE Maastricht Museum Night: Bureau Europa, Maastricht
2018 - INSTALLATION Peace and Justice: De Electriciteitsfabriek, The Hague
2018 - PERFORMANCE Facebook Bingo, Data Embassy, Dutch Design Week: Eindhoven
2017 - PERFORMANCE Goldsmiths Degree Show, Goldsmiths University of London: London
Talks:
2020 - PANEL MODERATOR
Illuminating the Black Box: The Arena GS20
with Elsa Rambaud, Jorim Theuns, Pete Fung, Bogomir Doringer and Lenka Hamosova
2020 - PANEL MODERATOR
Abandoning Nature?: The Arena GS20
with Hannah Segerkrantz, Charly Blödel, Ignacio Subias, Madeleine Oltra, Dean Bowen, Rebecca Lewin and Carla Khater
2019 - Q&A HOST
Silent Memories: Eindhoven Film Festival
2019 - PANEL MODERATOR
Design and Media: The Arena, GS19
with Yuri Veerman, Andrea Karch, Martina Huyn from Cream on Chrome, Julia Romanowska, and Ines Glowania
2018 - PANEL MODERATOR
Culturally Entangled Artefacts: The Arena, GS18
with Amanda Pinatih, Nadine Botha, Simon Ballen Baturo and Pascale Theron
2018 - PANEL MODERATOR
Design and Human Rights: The Arena, GS18
with Joseph Grima, Ravi Naidoo, Maxime Benvenuto and Bernhard Lenger
2018 - PANEL MODERATOR
Curating in the Age of the Internet: The Arena, GS18
with Charles Esche, Martina Muzi, Agata Jaworska, Mikaela Steby-Stenfalk and Delany Boutkan
Publications
2020 - Conspiring to Curate Conspiracy Theories: Running Dog
2020 - She's Still Home: Grandmother Project
2018 - Post-humanism: Trends at Dutch Design Week 2017 Good Design for a Bad World/Dezeen
2017 - Virtual Sentiment / CANARY Publication
Content Production
2020 - ARENA: Design Academy Eindhoven Graduation Show
2019 - Design Research Podcast: Knowledge Circle
2019 - ARENA: Design Academy Eindhoven Graduation Show
2018 - ARENA: Design Academy Eindhoven Graduation Show
Educational Workshops
2020 - Intuitive Writing Workshops: Critical Inquiry Lab, Online
2019 - What if I Don't Care: Athens, Greece
2019 - The Fragility of Truth: Masters Open Day, Design Academy Eindhoven, Netherlands
2019 - How to Do Conspiracy Theories: Digital Dilemmas - the Architecture of Trust, Bureau Europa, Maastricht