Routes to Design History: Episode 8 - Ana Elena Mallet

DHS Podcasts

14 November, 2025

In the next episode of our new podcast series: Routes to Design History, we speak with Ana Elena Mallet, an independent curator specialising in modern and contemporary design, and cultural management. She has taught History of Design, Art as well as Contemporary Photography in various institutions and universities throughout Mexico and has overseen the creation and planning of academic programs in different institutions. Since 2018, she is a guest curator at the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) in Mexico City, in charge of putting together the first-ever public Mexican Design collection in the country. Her research varies from the famous Mexican intricate woven looms to the core of Mexican design itself.

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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.