🚨 18-month-old Elaiya urgently needs a stem cell transplant to help save her life. However, her search is made harder due to her Pakistani heritage. Aged 16-30 and from a South Asian background? Join the register now and help #FightForElaiya: anthonynolan.org/fightforelaiya

'Administering Design: The Hidden Practices of Design Work' Design History Society sponsored panel at CAA Advancing Art & Design conference, NY, 15-18 February 2023 (online). I'm co-chairing w/ the brilliant @kajezowska CFP: caa.confex.com/caa/2023/webpr… Submission guidelines: caa.confex.com/caa/2023/webpr…

"Losers make the best historians." Eric Hobsbawm

Two weeks till deadline for this!

If you wanna read a dig at Hilberseimer or Gropius or better yet about badass women‘s rights activist Marie-Elisabeth Lüders, then may I recommend my latest on 1920s Siedlungsbau and housewives as experts just out in #OpenAccess Architectural Histories_EAHN Journal:

📣 We are looking for new book review editors, for history as well as for art history! Details below - please retweet and share to help us find our next team members, and do get in touch if it could be you 📝📚📚

📢 Partnering with Institute of Historical Research, we are offering a recent PHD student a book contract with us and a grant of £500 as part of the Inclusive Histories initiative. Deadline for submissions is 23.59 (UK time) on 31st October 2022. For more information: bit.ly/3zwijnh

Autumn will see the @JoDesignHistory special issue on #bauhaus #b100 by #JeremyAynsley and me! Including four essays, a bibliography and six reviews of the most interesting #publications of 2019. Gratefully presenting here in advance: Professor of Design History #GerdaBreuer.

Made my week to read this generous and careful review of African Motors (Duke University Press;USC History Dept.) from Lee Vinsel in @JoDesignHistory. Absolutely love this line: “I would suggest readers pick up the book even if only to peruse [the] pictures.”

One more day till deadline (31 August)! Thanks to everyone who has submitted already, really looking forward to this!

Looking fwd to chairing 'Delineating the Designer' Design History Society conference next week, Fri 9 Sept. In person and 'virtually', of course. Full program up here: designandtransience.com/program So many fantastic sessions and papers Design and Transience

YSK: EDITH (Exploring Diversity in Technology’s History) support grants for #shot2022 are available --deadline is September 30th! #histtech #histSTM #STS #envhist Link: historyoftechnology.org/about-us/trave… (scroll all the way down to "Section C")

New project & CFP!! "Creativity from Vienna to the World" seeks to establish a critical overview of the achievements of Central European women designers in the US after emigration. viennatotheworld.com #viennatotheworld

I'm actively seeking more books published in languages other than english for review in the @JoDesignHistory. If you are a publisher, author or a potential reviewer, I'd be delighted to hear from you. [email protected]

Call for applications: Editorial Board Member, Journal of Design History @JoDesignHistory designhistorysociety.org/news/view/call…

Save the date: the 2023 Papanek Symposium, Design Anthropology: Critical Speculations, online 16-17 March 2023. Co-convened by Prof. Alison J. Clarke @papanekfound & @shannonmattern @nssrnews. The Symposium focuses on critical speculation in design, social sciences & humanities

Very excited to be chairing this Design History Society virtual panel session CAA Advancing Art & Design 2023, 'Administering Design: the hidden practices of design work' w/ @kajezowska We received so many brilliant abstracts- delighted to confirm the four selected papers here: caa.confex.com/caa/2023/meeti…

I cannot wait for Luca Csepely-Knorr's (Luca Csepely-Knorr) lecture tomorrow evening. For anyone interested in women design pioneers and industrialism in 1950s/60s Britain, this talk is a real treat. Join us via Zoom or in person---> eventbrite.co.uk/e/esala-aht-se…

Archive as Method: new approaches to archives of creative practice This new event series w/The Centre for Design History foregrounds the creative archive as a method for research, knowledge generation & exchange. 8 Nov w/Ego Ahaiwe Sowinski, Jo Rosenthal Sue Breakell blogs.brighton.ac.uk/brightondesign…

Registration now open for 'Femininity and Design at Work', 15 + 22 March, exploring the relationship between femininity and design identities. Organised / hosted by me and Dr Julia Secklehner. Full program here: arthistory.phil.muni.cz/news/femininit… Register here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/femininity-a…