Associate professor in design history and theory, PhD in industrial design.
Design, histories, futures
Public talks and lectures
The topics I speak about have to do with how history matters for design and for design education; and on pasts and futures made through design.
Talks
Recent and upcoming
Mapping Design Methods: Revisiting the Desktop Walkthrough.
Public talk and seminar in the Experio Seminar series, with Valentina Auricchio and Annalinda De Rosa, Politecnico di Milano.
26 May 2023
Research Ethics
19 January 2022
Panelist in a half-day seminar on ethics in artistic/design research practices, gathering design researchers in Sweden, arranged by Konstfack, Stockholm.
Visions for the Future
17 December 2021
Seminar in the series '100 years of design and democracy' arranged by Linköping University, SVID and Svensk Form.
Skapa historia, göra design
Seminar presentation on "Making history, doing design" at the cross-disciplinary seminar exploring forms of knowledge in visual design, at Karlstad University, Department of media and communication.
25 November 2021
Design histories, design futures
14 October 2021
Open lecture at Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm.
Design Dialogues: The Kinship Method
Panelist at Beckmans School of Design, Stockholm, in a conversation about artistic research and design methods relating to Margot Barolo's project The Kinship Method.
5 October 2021
Nordes: Matters of Scale
During the Nordes conference, I was one of the opening session panel commenters, chaired a session on (Un)sustainability, and presented a paper of my own.
15-16 August 2021
Design, deltagande och demokrati
12 March 2021
In the seminar series celebrating 100 years of design and democracy, arranged by Linköping University, my contribution addressed design, participation and democracy - and why these neither as concepts nor as processes can be taken for granted.
Design Methods in the Kitchen
16-17 September 2020
I was invited as panelists in the online symposium Kitchen Power: National Parallels, arranged at the National Museum of Ireland. My talk highlighted the 1940s Home Research Institute and the feminist origins of Scandinavian user-centered design.
Designhistorier för framtiden
”Design histories for the future”, talk in connection to the exhibition Design Matters, Bildmuseet, Umeå 9 February 2020.
9 February 2020
Design, deltagande och demokrati
Seminariet Alla vägar bär hit - Hundra år av design och demokrati