Routes to Design History: Episode 7 - Justine Boussard

DHS Podcasts

15 October, 2025

In the next episode of our new podcast series: Routes to Design History, we speak with Justine Boussard, a curator and creative producer with over a decade’s experience working on design and craft exhibitions, artist-led public engagement and creative programming with clients including the Design Museum, Crafts Council, Jane Withers, North East Museums and UP Projects. As the Amateur Ancestor, she creates experiences that harness the power of material culture and storytelling to expand participants’ sense of time and agency, when faced with the reality of the climate and biodiversity crises. She is a graduate of the V&A/RCA MA in History of Design (2012) and a member of Climate Museum UK. The Amateur Ancestor project has been supported by the Arts Council and Creative UK. After years in London, she has happily relocated to the North East of England where she dips in the North Sea as often as she can.

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Developed by our Teaching and Learning Officer Deepika Srivastava, our Student Officer Alex Todd, and our Ambassadors Dan Mu and Pippy Stephenson, the Routes to Design History podcast series explores diverse ways of practising the field. Join us as we uncover the many routes to shaping a career in design history.