BIO
Josh Plough is a writer, editor and curator who focuses on the sordid world of design and its position in the webs of folklore, identity, politics and futures. He received his MA in Design Curating and Writing from the Design Academy Eindhoven and cut his teeth at the independent publishers and exhibition space Onomatopee Projects, where he worked for three years as an editor and city curator. Currently based in Warsaw, he established the cultural foundation and bookshop Ziemniaki i, which researches the social relevance of myth and folk practices by placing them in the context of populist politics, belief and digital technologies. Josh was the recipient of the 2022 Fondazione Fitzcarraldo scholarship in Cultural Policies at Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana and a contributing writer to publications including DAMN Magazine, Revista-ARTA, Dialog, FORMY, CritiCALL! and The Future of.