Teacher Preview: The Offbeat Sari

Teachers and educators are warmly invited to join London-based curator and writer Priya Khanchandani for very special preview of The Offbeat Sari, a major exhibition celebrating the contemporary sari. 

This exhibition unravels the sari's numerous forms, demonstrating it to be a metaphor for the layered and complex definitions of India today. It brings together the finest saris of our time from designers, wearers and craftspeople in India. 

Teachers and educators will uncover exhibition stories, themes and ideas, including the role of design, innovative use of materials, and how fashion designers approach sustainability in their practice.  

Presented exclusively in Victoria at Bunjil Place, The Offbeat Sari is a touring exhibition by the Design Museum, London. Conceived and curated by Priya Khanchandani.
 

About the Curator

Priya Khanchandani is a design curator and writer, educated at the Royal College of Art and at Cambridge University and now working independently. Until recently the Head of Curatorial at the Design Museum in London, her projects include the celebrated exhibition The Offbeat Sari with an associated book published with Thames and Hudson. She also curated Design Museum exhibitions Bethany Williams: Alternative Systems, Yinka Ilori: Parables for Happiness and the blockbuster Amy: Beyond the Stage. Her biennial projects center around interrogating narratives of identity and belonging through re-examining the existing canon of design, such as co-curating Pattern as Politics with Sam Jacob at Lisbon Architecture Triennial, and curating State of Indigo, the India Pavilion at London Design Biennial. Previously the first female Editor in Chief of celebrated architecture magazine Icon, Khanchandani was nominated for Fiona Macpherson New Editor of the Year.