Curation
The art of creating value by providing context and meaning to apparently disconnected information bits
Robin Good and
Curation
The curator of the digital world is positioned as mediator and tastemaker, using content created elsewhere as raw material for the making of meaning.
Curating the Digital World: Past Preconceptions, Present Problems, Possible Futures | MW2013: Museums and the Web 2013
In fact, I’d argue an emerging class of creators and consumer brands is actually employing curation as a business strategy. Gohar World, Ganni and Soeur have been sharing city travel guides, Ghia has been sharing Spotify playlists, and tastemakers like Olympia Gayot and Alex Eagle are joining entirely new social platforms purpose-built for... See more
Michelle Rose Joseph • No. 13 — Reclaiming Discovery From the Algorithms
Curation has historically emerged at moments when institutions failed to provide coherence. Salons rose when the Church and monarchy lost epistemic control; DJs rose when record labels could no longer define taste; curators rise today because algorithms are riddled with decision fatigue, influencers are intrinsic to their own needs, and the... See more
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In Museums and the Interpretation of Visual Culture , Eilean Hooper-Greenhill documents how museum work “has involved the establishment of a canon” through which order is created “by giving authority to certain texts, figures, ideas, problems, discursive strategies and historical narratives” (Hooper-Greenhill, 2000b, 20). This process of “boundary... See more
Curating the Digital World: Past Preconceptions, Present Problems, Possible Futures | MW2013: Museums and the Web 2013
Museums and the their role in developing culture - Boundary maintenance and the curation canon: can there be rules for what is of value and what is not?
Opportunity to update the museums and art gallery curation canons as well as those of who curates content and resources - of whatever kind - online
“When content is infinite, curation becomes the ultimate luxury good.”
Source: Sarah Johnson - The Akin Changemaker Report 2025
Curation is an act of illuminating [something that is not us].
Curation Monetized
Curation is the act of illuminating something
Embrace curation as a core brand function . Brands that filter and contextualise effectively create substantial value, particularly in categories suffering from choice overload. Create "digital gardens" where content is organised by human meaning rather than algorithmic relevance. Consider how your brand can function as a trusted filter rather than... See more
Sarah Johnson • Issue 007: The Curation Renaissance
I think of taste like a radar. As you move through the world, your radar scans and picks up on what aligns.
Holly Meredith Bossung • The Art of Personal Taste
What aligns is what resonates with your values, perspective and ideals. Taste is the way you adopt, represent and show such resonance.
as the amount of slop increases — whether human or AI generated — the difficulty in finding the right stuff to read is only increasing