Gonzalo Herrero
Ecocity World Summit
/ Director
Gonzalo is an independent curator, architect and educator based in London. He is the Director of the Ecocity World Summit 2023 at the Barbican Centre, an Associate Lecturer at Central Saint Martins and a Design Fellow at the University of Cambridge. He recently worked for the Museum of the Future in Dubai curating the opening exhibition Tomorrow Today. From 2016 to 2021, he was the Curator of the Architecture Programme at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Previously, he held different curatorial positions at The Architecture Foundation and the Design Museum, both in London. His independent curatorial portfolio includes projects for the Mies van der Rohe Foundation, Barbican, Tate, Serpentine Galleries, London Design Festival and the Arquia Foundation, amongst others. He has edited two books: Conversations on a Planet in a State of Emergency (RA, 2019) and Fear and Love: Reactions to a complex world (Phaidon, 2016).