Malcolm practices as an independent curator working across a range of art and design media and formats. He established, along with Mr. Tim Bolton, the international biennial Making Future research conference in 2009. Malcolm has since curated every edition in the series, and the conference, based at Plymouth College of Art, has established an excellent international reputation with invited editions having taken place at Beijing Design Week, China; Cheongju, South Korea; and in Cebu in the Philippines. Making Futures explores new possibilities for small-scale craft, design-to-make, neo-artisanal producers and micro-manufacturers, arguing that these enterprises can be seen as political undertakings in which many molecular acts (of production and consumption) combine to produce vitally important responses to the global challenges we face. Malcolm also researched and curated the flagship digital gallery for the UK’s National Media Museum – a project that won two national design awards and is widely seen as pioneering digital media art in mainstream UK museum sites. As a Director of the Plymouth Visual Arts Consortium, Malcolm worked with PVAC and the Hayward Gallery to help bring the British Art Show to Plymouth across five city-wide sites.Other projects have explored the dynamics of contemporary Chinese art production and include shows at the 798 Art District (Beijing), DadaPost Gallery (Berlin), Asia Pacific Weeks Festival (Berlin), and Yerba Buena Centre, (San Francisco).Malcolm has also regularly supervised and advised on research related programmes both inside and outside the academy, and presented and published for numerous catalogues, journals and international fora, including: Association of American Geographers; American Comparative Literature Association; Akademie der Künste, Berlin; the International Research Center for Cultural Studies, Vienna; the Association of Art Historians, Ephemera, etc.