2021

2021, November 23
Prof. Alison J. Clarke
Keynote Lecture
Histories in Ecology and Design: Myths of the Circular Economy
9th Bienial Iberoamericana de Diseño (BID), Madrid

2021, October 28
Prof. Alison J. Clarke
Keynote Lecture
Design Anthropology: Legacies and Futures
Chilean Design Week, Santiago

2021, June 4
Prof. Alison J. Clarke
Guest Lecture
Writing Critical Design Biography
Işık University, School of Industrial Design, Istanbul

2021, June 9
Carol Tulloch
Guest Lecture
This Time It’s Personal
Online Event

2021, May 11
Shannon Mattern
Guest Lecture
Purity and Security: A Cultural History of Plexiglass
Online Event

2021, April 21
Brendan Cormier
Guest Lecture
Pandemic Objects
Online Event

2021, April 16
Prof. Alison J. Clarke
Keynote Lecture
Beyond Interiority: The Design Politics of Normativity
Online Event, Royal Danish Academy, Copenhagen

2021, March 23
Prof. Alison J. Clarke
Book Release
Victor Papanek: Designer for the Real World
MIT Press

2020

2020, 16 October
Prof. Alison J. Clarke
Lecture
Design for the Real World?
Design Museum Den Bosch, the Netherlands

2020, 6 March
Prof. Alison J. Clarke
Lecture
Ecology and the Sociotechnics of Design
C-Mine, Genk, Belgium

2019

2019, 30 October
Prof. Alison J. Clarke
Opening Exhibition Talk
Victor Papanek:
The Politics of Design
Barcelona Design Museum, Barcelona

2019, 26–27 September
Organised by Prof. Alison J. Clarke and Francisco Laranjo
Papanek Symposium 2019
Papanek Symposium 2019: Real World: Design, Politics, Future
Porto Design Biennale, Portugal

2019, June 13
Dr. Martina Grünewald
Open seminar session with Magdalena Reiter
“Make Design Open”
Design History and Theory
University of Applied Arts Vienna

2019, May 16–17
Concept and organizer: Dr. Elana Shapira
Symposium
Design Transformation: Jews and Cultural Identity in Central European Modernism
University of Applied Arts Vienna

2019, May 2–4
Prof. Alison J. Clarke
Keynote Lecture
Politics of Design: Manufacturing the “Undeveloped Peoples”
Design and Authority, 4T Design and Design History Conference

2019, June 19
Design as Politics Lecture Series 2019
Tim Parsons and Jessica Charlesworth
“Catalog for the Post Human: Reflections on the Future of Human Enhancement”
Design History and Theory
University of Applied Arts Vienna

2019, June 5
Design as Politics Lecture Series 2019
Roman Kirschner
“Entangled Environments and Some Questions on Methods”
Design History and Theory
University of Applied Arts Vienna

2019, May 22
Design as Politics Lecture Series 2019
Noam Toran
“One Leg Up and a Hole in the Ground”
Design History and Theory
University of Applied Arts Vienna

2019, May 8
Design as Politics Lecture Series 2019
Ruth Sonderegger
“Kritik als Prozess”
Design History and Theory
University of Applied Arts Vienna

2019, April 10
Design as Politics Lecture Series 2019
Daniela Gruber
“EIN-SICHTEN”
Design History and Theory
University of Applied Arts Vienna

2019, March 20
Prof. Alison J. Clarke
Opening Keynote Lecture
Victor Papanek: The Politics of Design and the Role of Design Education
Bauhaus Festival School FUNDAMENTAL, Bauhaus, Dessau, Germany

2019, 22 February
Prof. Alison J. Clarke
Keynote Lecture
The Other Way: Designing a Sustainable Tomorrow
London Design Museum, UK

2019, 21 February
Prof. Alison J. Clarke
Public Lecture
The Problem of the ‘Social’ in Design
Politechnico di Milano
Polifactory, Milano

2019, 10 January
Guest hosted by Anita Posch, organised by Martina Grünewald
Workshop
Digital Currencies and Smart Contracts: Bitcoin, Blockchain & Co.
University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Design History and Theory, Seminar Room

2018

2018, 22 November
Prof. Alison J. Clarke
Public Lecture
Design Revolution
Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Germany

2018, 8–9 November
Symposium
Freud and the Émigré. Austrian Émigrés and Exiles and the Legacy of Psychoanalysis in Britain from the 1930s to the 1970s
Concept by Elana Shapira with Daniela Finzi, Research Director of the Sigmund Freud Museum
Freud Museum, Vienna

2018, 15 October
Alison J. Clarke
Keynote Lecture
‘Design Anthropology and Spatial Relations’
Bauhaus Dessau
Dessau, Germany

2018, 5 October
Alison J. Clarke
Keynote Lecture
‘Victor Papanek: Design, Ecology, and Global Activism’
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)
Providence, USA

2018, 28 September
Alison J. Clarke
Panel discussion
‘Can Design Save the World?’
Vitra Design Museum
Weil-am-Rhein, Germany

2018, 22 July
Leah Armstrong
Panel discussion
‘Fashion Utopias’
Transfashional network, State of Fashion 2018
Arnhem, Netherlands

2018, 6 July
Leah Armstrong
Book Launch: ‘Fashioning Professionals’
London College of Fashion, UK

2018, 28 May
Dr Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler
‘Toolkits for change: American systems furniture and the open plan office’
Seminar room, Design History and Theory
Postgasse 6

2018, 17 May
Elana Shapira
‘Jewish clients and architects, Viennese modernism and the sociology of aesthetics’
Slovak National Library,
Bratislava, Slovakia

2018, 12 April
Alison J. Clarke
Lecture: ‘The Politics of Design’
École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs
EnsadLab, ‘Science of Doubt’ series,
Paris, France

2018 March 22–June 10
Dana Abdulla
Workshop Series
Black as hell, strong as death, sweet as love: coffeehouse debates on decolonising design
Department of Design History and Theory
University of Applied Arts Vienna

2018, 10 March
Alison J. Clarke
‘Design Anthropology: Agencies, Inclusions and Exigencies’
Conference: The Agents of Design/Design as Agency
Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

2017

2017, 17 December
Alison J. Clarke
Symposium: Bauhaus Lab 2017: Between Chairs
Bauhaus Dessau, Germany

2017, 10 December
Elana Shapira
‘Adolf Loos und seine Schneider: Über Mode und Innendekoration in Wien um 1900’
Imperial Furniture Collection, Vienna

2017, 30 November
Elana Shapira
‘People are more important than things: Austrian Émigré designers in Britain’
Conference: Designs on Britain: Jewish Émigré Designers, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

2017, 9–10 November
Alison J. Clarke and Leah Armstrong(Co-Convenors)
‘International Design Organisations: Histories, Legacies, Values’
In collaboration with Centre for Design History, University of Brighton

2017, 27 October
Alison J. Clarke
‘Design as Futurism and its Discontents’
Keynote delivered on occasion of award of Honorary Doctorate, University of Southern Denmark, Odense

2017, 21 October 2017
”Chrono-Voyeurism: A Design Anthropology of Retro Food’
Alison J. Clarke
Experiencing Food: International Food Design & Food Studies Conference, University of Lisbon, Portugal

2017, 22 September 2017
Alison J. Clarke (Director and Co-organiser) and Leah Armstrong(Co-Organiser)
‘Papanek Symposium 2017: Design and Ethics’
Austrian Embassy, London
Official partner of London Design Festival 2017
Papanek Symposium 2017

2017, 6 September
Leah Armstrong
‘Working from home’: Representing the Professional Designer in Post-War Britain’
Conference: Mediating Cultural Work
University of Leicester, UK

2017, 28 June
Clemens Winkler
‘Political Clouds’
Department of Design History and Theory
University of Applied Arts Vienna

2017, 24 May
Burkhard Meltzer
‘Vitamin Water: How Design has become Art’s Critical Agent’
Department of Design History and Theory
University of Applied Arts Vienna

2017, 10 May
Julijonas Urbonas
‘Thingly Philosophy, Transtextuality and Material Hermeneutics in Art and Design’
Department of Design History and Theory
University of Applied Arts Vienna

2017, 3 May
Eric Anderson
‘Colour Cure: Freud, Optical Science and Design Theory’
Sigmund Freud Museum Vienna

2017, 26 April
Daisy Ginsberg
‘The Dream of Better’
Department of Design History and Theory
University of Applied Arts Vienna

2017, 26 January
V&A Design Culture Salon in collaboration with Design History and Theory, University of Applied Arts Vienna
Speakers: Alison J. Clarke, Martina Grünewald, Guy Julier, Matthias Tarasiewicz
“Alternative Exchange: How Does Design Create Alternative Economies in Contemporary Design Culture?”
Angewandte Innovation Lab (AIL), Vienna

2017, 26 January
Guy Julier
Guest Lecture: ‘Economies of Design: Materialising Finance’
University of Applied Arts Vienna

2017, 23 January
Leah Armstrong
Invited speaker: ‘Transparency in Design: From the Age of Enlightenment to the Age of Endarkenment’
Technical University, Vienna

2017, 12 January
Dr Stefanie Wuschitz
Guest Lecture: ‘Maker Culture: A Feminist Perspective’
University of Applied Arts Vienna

2016

2016, 24 November
Leanne Wierzba
Guest Lecture: ‘What is Luxury and for whom?’
University of Applied Arts Vienna

2016, 23 November
Leah Armstrong
Work-in-Progress, ‘A new Image for a New Profession: Self-image and Representation in the Professionalisation of Design 1945-1960’
University of Applied Arts Vienna

2016, 20 November
Elana Shapira
Guest Lecture: Annual Zilk Lecture, ‘Un-designed Identities: Jewish Patrons and Viennese Modernism’
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

2016, 9 November
Ufaq Inam
‘Bazaar Economy & Traditional Medicine: An Ethnographic investigation in Papad Mandi, Lahore
University of Applied Arts Vienna

2016, 26 October
Leah Armstrong
‘Looking Inwards and Facing Outwards: the Society of Industrial Artists in Britain 1930-1967’
ICDHS Conference, Taipei, Taiwan

2016, 13-14 October
Dr Elana Shapira
‘Design Dialogue: Jewish Contributions to Viennese Modernism’
MAK Design Forum, Stubenring 5, 1010 Vienna

2016, 23-25 September
Alison J. Clarke
Stamps Design Salon, Detroit Design Festival

2016, 9 September
Leah Armstrong
Chair: ‘Time, Objects and the Experience of the Home’
Design History Society Annual Conference Middlesex UK

2016, 23 June
Onkar Kular, Stanley Picker Fellow in Design and Professor in Design Interventions, HDK, Gothenburg University.
Designing Interventions
Department of Design History and Theory
University of Applied Arts

2016, 8 June
Carmen Weisskopf, !Mediengruppe Betnik
Random Darknet Shopping Bots, Mail Art and Surveillance Algorithms
Department of Design History and Theory
University of Applied Arts

2016, 2 June
Björn Franke and Alison J. Clarke
Undesign
Department of Design History and Theory
University of Applied Arts
Convened as part of the FWF Research Project “Émigré Design Networks and the Founding of Social Design”
Full Programme

2016, 25 May
Edward Saunders
Negotiating Questions of Method in Biography
Department of Design History and Theory
University of Applied Arts

2016, 23 May
Christopher Long
Central European Modernists and the Varieties of Southern California Design
Department of Design History and Theory
University of Applied Arts

2016, 18 May
Alison J. Clarke
Keynote Lecture: ‘Design Anthropology: Reassessing Historiography and Critical Methods in Design Studies’
University of Antwerp

2016, 4 May
Heng Zhi
Understanding Shenzai
Department of Design History and Theory
University of Applied Arts

2016, 20 April
Tido von Oppeln
Design Exhibited: Versuche zu einer Praxis der Theorie im Design
Department of Design History and Theory
University of Applied Arts

2015

2015, 13 November
Alison J. Clarke
‘Designs for the Real World: Cold War “Soft” Diplomacy and the Emergence of Radical Design Anthropology in 1960s Design & Engineering’
Engineering Department, University of Cambridge, UK

2015, 30–31 October
Alison J. Clarke
‘Buckminster Fuller’s Reindeer Abattoir: The Influence of Finland’s North on 1960s Radical Design’
North as Meaning in Design and Art
Kulttuuritalo Korundi, Lapland

2015, 14 October
Book Discussion with John Thackara
‘How to thrive in the next economy’
Café Prückel, Wien

2016, 12 October
Elisabeth Peterman, PhD Candidate, Design History and Theory, University of Applied Arts Vienna
Work-in-Progress: ‘Ways to Unlock the Trend Industry’
Department of Design History and Theory
University of Applied Arts Vienna

2015, 24–25 September
Alison J. Clarke
‘Work Activity: The Politics of Work and Design in a Neo-Liberal Economy’
Fair Design: International Conference on Design Theory and Criticism
Academy of Fine Arts, Faculty of Design, Warsaw, Poland

2015, 11–13 September
Alison J. Clarke
‘How we live and how we might live: Design and the Spirit of Critical Utopianism’
Annual Design History Society Conference 2015
California College of Arts, San Francisco, USA

2015, 8 June
Alison J. Clarke
‘Buckminster Fuller’s Reindeer Abattoir and Other Designs for the Real World’
NORDES 2015 Conference, Design Ecologies
University College of Arts, Crafts and Design, Stockholm, Sweden

2015, 27-28 May
Alison J. Clarke and Elana Shapira (Co-Organisers)
Emigre Design Culture: Histories of the Social in Design
Papanek Symposium 2015
University of Applied Arts Vienna

2015, 20 February
Alison J. Clarke
How dependent is the design profession on cultures of migration?
Design Culture Salon
Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UK