Organised events
Planetary Design: Reclaiming Futures, Conference & Public Programming, co-organised with the Governing Through Design team (Claudia Mareis, Kenny Cupers, Orit Halpern, Laura Nkula-Wenz, Özgün Eylül İşcen, Nadia Christidi, Sudipto Basu, Anke Gruendel), ICI Berlin & Spore Initiative, Berlin, October 23-26, 2024.
Expanding Histories of Resilience and Adjacent Practices of Designing, Colloquium co-organised with Professor Yoko Akama (RMIT), Critical Media Lab Basel, HGK FHNW, Basel, December 13, 2023. Chaired by Solveig Qu Suess.
The Design Turn Workshop Series, co-organised with Professor Claudia Mareis and Dr Anke Gruendel, Humboldt University of Berlin and online, Berlin, Summer 2022.
Online Workshop ‘Emergency Design and Testbed Urbanism’, February 4, 2021 (co-organised with Laura Nkula-Wenz).
‘Memory full? Reimagining the Relations Between Design and History, Annual Design History Society Conference (DHS), Member of the Convening Team, FHNW Academy of Art and Design, Switzerland, September 2-3, 2021.
International Design Organisations: Histories, Legacies, Values, International Conference co-convened with Professor Jeremy Aynsley, Professor Alison Clarke and Dr. Dora Souza Dias, University of Brighton, Brighton, November 9-10, 2017.
Designing Identity: Historical Perspectives, Roundtable co-convened with David Preston, Chiara Barbieri and Trond Klevgaard, Royal College of Art (RCA), London, 12 March 2014.
Selected presentations
‘Design and Crisis: From Catastrophic Thinking to Interscalar Responses’, ‘Is this it? Alternative histories of design and the design professions’, panel Discussion, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Vienna, 10 April 2026.
‘Design in Times of Crisis: From Catastrophic Thinking to Interscalar Responses (1970-1980s)’. Global Governance Centre Talk Series, Geneva Graduate Institute, Geneva, Switzerland, March 2025.
‘Worlds by Design: Design x Histories’. Worlds by Design Lecture Series, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, January 2024.
‘Emergency Architecture, Testing and the Ecology of Aid’. University of Humboldt, Berlin, June 2022. ‘The Design Turn: Remaking Worlds’,
‘Design, Disasters and the Politics of Resilience, 1960-1980’. 16th EISA Pan-European Conference on International Relations Conference, University of Potsdam, Potsdam, September 2023.
‘Nature, Design and the Rationality of Crisis’. Swiss Design Network Conference, Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), Zurich, October 2022.
‘Emergency Design, Resilience and the Humanitarian Complex (1970-1980)’. Design History Society Annual Conference, Izmir Institute of Technology, Izmir, September 2022.
Presentation, Book launch for International Design Organizations: Histories, Legacies, Values edited by myself, Jeremy Aynsley, Alison Clarke and Dora Souza Dias, Centre for Design History, University of Brighton, Brighton, May 26, 2022.
‘Design for Emergency and Humanitarian Governance’. Design & the History of Knowledge Colloquium, Humboldt University, Berlin, May 2021.
‘Humanitarian Relief and Graphic Design: Transnational Circuits’. Anglo-Swiss Connections in an Expanded Field: Modernism in Typography and Graphic Design, 1950-80, workshop organised by Harriet Atkinson, Jeremy Aynsley, Sue Breakell and Lesley Whitworth, June 3-4, 2019.
‘Design towards Disaster Relief: ICSID and the League of Red Cross Societies (1971-1979)’. Design History Society Annual Conference, Parsons School of Design, New York, September 2018.
'ICSID, Development and Environmental Concerns, 1970-1980s'. Swiss Design Network Summit, FHNW Academy of Art and Design Basel, Basel, March 2018.
'ICSID, Development, and Environmental Discourse, 1970-1980'. Design History Society Annual Conference, University of Oslo, Oslo, September 2017.
‘Design Across Borders: The Establishment of the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID) 1957-1963’. International Conference on Design History and Design Studies, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, October 2016.
‘International Norms and Local Design Research: ICSID and the Promotion of Industrial Design in Latin America, 1970-1979’. Design Research Society Conference ‘Design + Research + Society: Future-Focused Thinking’. University of Brighton, Brighton, June 2016.
‘Design Across Borders: The Establishment of the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID) 1957-1963’. 10th Annual Conference by the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics (CAPPE), University of Brighton, Brighton, September 2015.
Miscellaneous
Design and Latin America: New Research from the ICSID Archive, Respondent, organised by the University of Brighton Design Archives and the Centre for Design History, University of Brighton, March 18, 2025.