We'd like to introduce Emily King as June-July's Guest Editor.

Emily is a respected design historian and a mover and shaker in the London arts scene. At the moment she's spending most of her time in Lisbon, curating an exhibition as part of the forthcoming design biennale, Experimenta, which opens on the 28th September 2011 and runs for two months.

Operating economically (as do the entire hard-working and resourceful Experimenta team), my plan is to exploit Lisbon's fantastic resource of small, often quite eccentric museums and institutions. Taking a bunch of idiosyncratic collections - at the moment I am working with seven - I am going to lodge them for two months inside a handful of the city's finest hidden treasures. So far it's working beautifully, with all the potential host institutions lining up neatly along the route of the famous no.28 tram. From the geological museum at one end, to the decorative arts museum at the other, the trail runs from stone-age flints, to ancient Egyptian pharmaceutical equipment, through a Roman amphitheatre and into a heavily furnished formal salon. The matieral that I will be bringing to these places is yet to be finalised. Come to Lisbon this autumn and take a look!

Putting a collection of one kind inside that of another raises questions about acquisition, ordering and display, and how these activities shape our understanding of both the past and the present. This is an especially pointed exercise in Lisbon, where there seems to be a very particular sense of how things are gathered and shown. Walking through the city hunting down the perfect venue to exhibit this or that, I am constantly coming across sources of inspiration.

A well-known Lisbon favourite, on the shopping street Rua do Carmo, is the glove shop Luvaria Ulisses. Lodged in a space little bigger than its doorway, it displays the stock in neatly formed chevrons, women's gloves on the left, men's on the right. There is a sense of abundance and variety that belies the shop's tiny size.