Special issues
In press. ‘Design Emergencies: Interrogating Innovation in Humanitarian Aid and International Development’. Special issue of Third World Quarterly. (With Laura Nkula-Wenz).
Edited volumes
2022. International Design Organisations: Histories, Legacies, Values. (With Jeremy Aynsley and Alison Clarke).London: Bloomsbury Academic.
Publications in international peer-reviewed scientific journals
2026. ‘Resilience by Design: Emergency Architecture, Testing and the Ecology of Aid (1970-1980)’. Third World Quarterly.
2025. Review of Assembly by Design: The United Nations and its Global Interior by Olga Touloumi, 2024. In: Journal of Design History.
2019. 'Globalization and Design Institutionalization: ICSID’s XIth Congress and the Formation of ALADI, 1979’. Journal of Design History, Vol. 32, No. 1.
2017. Review of Designing Modern Norway: A History of Design Discourse by Kjetil Fallan. Routledge, 2016. In: Kunst og Kultur, Vol. 100, No. 3.
Chapters in edited volumes
In preparation for submission. ‘Nature, Design and the Rationality of Crisis’.
Accepted. ‘Development by Disaster: Intersecting Histories and Design Imaginaries’. In: Orit Halpern et al. (Eds). Against Catastrophe/Radical Pragmatism.
2023. ‘Design by Disaster: ICSID and the League of Red Cross Societies (1971-1979)’. In: Sarah A. Lichtman and Jilly Traganou (Eds). Design & Displacement. London: Routledge.
2022. ‘Disaster Relief and “Universal Shelters”: Humanitarian Imaginaries and Design Interventions at Oxfam, 1971-1976’. (With Lilián Sánchez-Moreno). In: Charlotte Ashby and Mark Crison (Eds). Building/Object: Shared and Contested Territories of Design and Architecture. London: Bloomsbury.
2022. ‘Introduction’. (With Jeremy Aynsley and Alison Clarke). In: Aynsley Jeremy, Alison Clarke and Tania Messell (Eds). International Design Organisations: Histories, Legacies, Values. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
2022. ‘International Design Organizations and Emigré Identity: Peter Muller-Munk and American Representation in ICSID, 1950–1967’. In: Jeremy Aynsley, Alison Clarke and Tania Messell (Eds). International Design Organisations: Histories, Legacies, Values. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
2021. ‘Sustainable Design on the World Stage: The International Council of Societies of Industrial Design and Environmental Concerns, 1970–1990’. In: Claudia Mareis and Nina Paim (Eds). Design Struggles: Intersecting Histories, Pedagogies, and Perspectives. Amsterdam: Valiz.
2019. ‘Contested Development: ICSID’s Design Aid and Environmental Policy in the 1970s’. In: Kjetil Fallan (Ed). The Culture of Nature in the History of Design. Abingdon: Routledge.
Peer-reviewed conference proceedings
2016. ‘Design Across Borders: The Establishment of the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID) 1957-1963’. In: Wendy Siuy Wong et al. (Eds). Making Trans/National Contemporary Design History. ICDHS Conference. São Paulo: Blucher. Open Access
2016. 'International Norms and Local Design Research: ICSID and the Promotion of Industrial Design in Latin America, 1970-1979'. In: Peter Lloyd and Erik Bohemia (Eds). Proceedings of DRS2016: Design + Research + Society - Future-Focused Thinking, Volume VII. Open Access
Other
2014. ‘Designing Identity: Based on the session curated by Chiara Barbieri, Trond Klevgaard, Tania Messell and David Preston’, Tania Messell et al, Humanities Research Forum Journal, Royal College of Art, 63-69. Open Access.