Podcasts by the Design History Society

DHS Routes to Design History: Ana Elena Mallet

Welcome to the Design History Society: Routes to Design History podcast series. This series offers a glimpse into the journeys of those who have studied or practice design history, highlighting global perspectives and diverse ways of engaging with the field.

 

In this episode, we speak with Ana Elena Mallet, an independent curator specialising in modern and contemporary design, and cultural management. She has taught History of Design, Art as well as Contemporary Photography in various institutions and universities throughout Mexico and has overseen the creation and planning of academic programs in different institutions. Since 2018, she is a guest curator at the Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) in Mexico City, in charge of putting together the first-ever public Mexican Design collection in the country. Her research varies from the famous Mexican intricate woven looms to the core of Mexican design itself.

 

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DHS Routes to Design History: Justine Boussard

Welcome to the Design History Society: Routes to Design History podcast series. This series offers a glimpse into the journeys of those who have studied or practice design history, highlighting global perspectives and diverse ways of engaging with the field.

 

In this episode, we speak with Justine Boussard, curator and creative producer with over a decade’s experience working on design and craft exhibitions, artist-led public engagement and creative programming with clients including the Design Museum, Crafts Council, Jane Withers, North East Museums and UP Projects. As the Amateur Ancestor, she creates experiences that harness the power of material culture and storytelling to expand participants’ sense of time and agency, when faced with the reality of the climate and biodiversity crises. She is a graduate of the V&A/RCA MA in History of Design (2012) and a member of Climate Museum UK. The Amateur Ancestor project has been supported by the Arts Council and Creative UK. After years in London, she has happily relocated to the North East of England where she dips in the North Sea as often as she can.

 

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DHS Routes to Design History: Elizabeth Guffey

Welcome to the Design History Society: Routes to Design History podcast series. This series offers a glimpse into the journeys of those who have studied or practice design history, highlighting global perspectives and diverse ways of engaging with the field.

 

In this episode, we speak with Elizabeth Guffey, Professor emerita in Art History at the State University of New York, Purchase College. Her research lies at the intersection of design, visual culture, museology and disability studies. She is currently working on a book project that describes and critiques the emergence of Post-Universal Design, arguing that paradigms from critical disability studies are reshaping the landscape of design for disability but also providing a new model for responsible, respectful and research-rich design practice in the future. Her most recent books are Making Disability Modern, and Designing Disability. 

 

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DHS Routes to Design History: Derrick Gaiter

Welcome to the Design History Society: Routes to Design History podcast series. This series offers a glimpse into the journeys of those who have studied or practice design history, highlighting global perspectives and diverse ways of engaging with the field.

 

In this episode, we speak with Derrick Gaiter, an Assistant Attorney General in Florida. Through Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts (“VLA”), Gaiter also provides pro-bono legal assistance to income-eligible artists, creative entrepreneurs, and arts organizations. Post his MA History of Design & Curatorial Studies degree at Parsons, he went on to pursue a JD. In this conversation, we will trace Derrick's journey of navigating the shift from design history to law, the parallels, and the contrasts. 

 

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DHS Routes to Design History: Ezrena Marwan

Welcome to the Design History Society: Routes to Design History podcast series. This series offers a glimpse into the journeys of those who have studied or practice design history, highlighting global perspectives and diverse ways of engaging with the field.

 

In this episode, we speak with Ezrena Marwan, a graphic designer, educator, and archivist, who specialises in visual advocacy and the politics of archives. Ezrena co-founded Malaysia Design Archive (MDA), a platform tracing Malaysia’s graphic design history, and Sejarah Wanita, a project highlighting women’s contributions to Malaysian history. Currently, she is the Co-Lead of Liberatory Archives and Memory at Whose Knowledge?, where she is dreaming of alternative approaches to archiving to challenge colonial capitalist memory institutions. Through her work, Ezrena challenges dominant narratives in design, history, and social justice.

 

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DHS Routes to Design History: Sarita Sundar

Welcome to the Design History Society: Routes to Design History podcast series. This series offers a glimpse into the journeys of those who have studied or practice design history, highlighting global perspectives and diverse ways of engaging with the field.

 

In this episode, we speak with Sarita Sundar, a designer and design historian who combines her 30+ years of working with brand strategy and design solutions with her academic training in museum studies and heritage interpretation. Research informs the way Sarita works, often taking a critical look at how our culture engages with the visual. She is the founder of Hanno, a consultancy that visualizes and curates diverse narratives with a particular focus on museum, heritage and social communication. She is the author of From Frugal to the Ornate: Stories of the Seat in India, a path-breaking and award-winning book that chronicles how seats have evolved in India. She received a 2022 Fulbright Fellowship to study the intersectional design histories between the United States and India. Her present research studies the Planters chair along with Dr Rachel Lee through a grant from TU Delft.

 

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Anne Massey in conversation with Kitt Santos, the 2024 Design Writing Prize Winner

Guest judge Prof. Anne Massey in conversation with the 2024 DWP winner Kitt Santos, Designer and graduate of the Master of Design Futures programme at RMIT University, Melbourne, about their winning paper "Examining design orientations through Indigenous Filipino strengths' perspective".

This paper explores how design has historically been shaped by Western politics and frameworks, influencing products and services across diverse contexts, and offers an alternative design approach grounded in Indigenous Filipino values, emphasizing human dignity, collective strength, and inclusion while encouraging designers to embrace plurality and diverse experiences.

This paper was published in the text Entanglements of Designing Social Innovation in the Asia-Pacific

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DHS Routes to Design History: Barbara Perata-Smith

Welcome to the Design History Society: Routes to Design History podcast series. This series offers a glimpse into the journeys of those who have studied or practice design history, highlighting global perspectives and diverse ways of engaging with the field.

 

In this episode, we speak with Barbara Perata-Smith, a design history graduate from the Royal College of Art who has paved a career in sustainability and policy. She is an Environmental Strategist at the Civil Aviation Authority. She is currently on secondment with the UK Regulators Network, where she is leading the development of their environmental programme as a key strategic objective.

 

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DHS Routes to Design History: Shirley Surya

Welcome to the Design History Society: Routes to Design History podcast series. This series offers a glimpse into the journeys of those who have studied or practice design history, highlighting global perspectives and diverse ways of engaging with the field.

 

In this episode, we speak with Shirley Surya, Curator (Design and Architecture) at M+, Hong Kong. Shirley shares insights into her curatorial journey after studying history of design at Royal College of Art - from working on the retrospective of Yung Ho Chang in Beijing to becoming the first member of the Design and Architecture curatorial team at M+. She shares her reflections on working across regions, the diverse roles of a curator in the making of exhibitions, the process of building the architecture collection, and much more.  

 

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Priscila Farias in conversation with Ijeoma Ndukwe, the 2023 Design Writing Prize Winner

Guest Judge Priscila Farias in conversation with Ijeoma Ndukwe, the 2023 Design Writing Prize winner for her essay "Golden Lion winner: The pioneering architecture of Nigerian artist-designer Demas Nwoko". This episode includes audio clips of Nwoko reflecting on his practice.

You can read the full winning essay here: https://www.wallpaper.com/architecture/architecture-artist-designer-demas-nwoko-nigeria