Tindal’s work covers roughly 300 shared co-curricular buildings and 11 million square feet of campus. After transitioning from her position as executive director of the Harvard Museums of Science and Culture last spring, she has turned her attention to building the infrastructure of her larger work. This entails understanding the full scope of collections held by Harvard’s museums and libraries, developing a community of practice and policies to guide renewal efforts, working with University partners to enable digital curation with cross-institutional collections, and hiring staff to support and implement an ever-expanding portfolio.

Along with making sure the University’s visual culture represents its community, Tindal is also tasked with making the FAS more accessible. That work will include labeling objects installed across campus, thinking about the readability of texts, considering the usage of QR codes, and making sure that accessibility is part of the design process, Tindal noted.

“Leveraging technology, human-centered design, and an inclusive community of practice are central to my curatorial praxis,” said Tindal, who serves on the University Accessibility Committee (UAC) and plans to work intentionally with the Office of Disability Services and other Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging campus partners.

“I want to sit with students, faculty, and staff who frequent our campus and live and work in our buildings. Being in dialogue with our campus community is critical in order to ensure that I’m informed by a diverse chorus of voices and a cross-section of perspectives as we reimagine our visual cultural ecosystem.”

While Tindal’s work prioritizes different stakeholders at the FAS, she said she hopes to also reach the thousands who visit the University.

“I really want people to not just see our campus as a cabinet of curiosity,” Tindal said. “I really want people to not simply look — I want them to understand. The work ahead is about transforming the gaze through the dynamic curation of our campus, while prioritizing our mission to be a welcoming and inclusive depot for the Harvard community and beyond.”