Publications

Selected Publications


Alison J. Clarke
Victor Papanek: Designer for the Real World (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2021)


Alison J. Clarke
‘The Absent, the Virtual & the Immaterial’ in Design Rehearsals: conversations about bauhaus lessons, K. Klaus & R. Bittner (eds), (Bauhaus Dessau, Germany 2019)


Alison J. Clarke
‘The Indigenous and the Autochthon’ in Global Tools: When Education Coincides with Life 1973–1975, V. Borgonuovo & S. Franceschini, (Salt, Istanbul 2019)

StyleSeduction
Elana Shapira
Style and Seduction: Jewish Patrons, Architecture, and Design in Fin-de-siècle Vienna, (Boston: Brandeis University Press, 2016).

DesignAnthropology2010
Alison J. Clarke
Design Anthropology: Object Culture in the 21st Century (Wien/New York: Springer Verlag, 2010).


Alison J. Clarke ‘Contesting the Origins of the Social in Design’ in C. Mareis & N. Paim Design Struggles: Intersecting Histories, Pedagogies, and Perspectives (Amsterdam: Valiz, 2021)


Alison J. Clarke and Elana Shapira (Eds.)
Émigré Cultures in Design and Architecture (London: Bloomsbury, 2017)

AgainstDesign
Elana Shapira
‘Sense and Sensibility: Architect Josef Frank and his Jewish Clients,’ in H. Czech and S. Hackenschmidt (eds.) Josef Frank: Against Design, MAK exhibition catalogue (Basel: Birkhäuser, 2016).

DesignObjectsMuseum
Leah Armstrong
‘Sites of Interaction: The Design Culture Salons at the V&A Museum’ in L. Farrelly and J. Weddell (eds.), Design Objects and the Museum (London: Bloomsbury, 2015).


Elana Shapira
Design Dialogue: Jews, Culture and Viennese Modernism (Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, 2018).

DesignAnthropology
Alison J. Clarke
Design Anthropology: Object Cultures in Transition, revised edition (London: Bloomsbury, 2018).

HippieModernism
Alison J. Clarke
‘Buckminster Fuller’s Reindeer Abattoir and Other Designs for the Real World’, in A. Blauvelt (ed.) Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia,  Walker Art Center exhibition catalogue (Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 2015).

BloomsburyEncyclopedia
Leah Armstrong
Twenty-one entries on institutions and processes in H. Atkinson and C. Edwards (eds.) Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design (London: Bloomsbury, 2015).

Tupperware
Alison J. Clarke
Tupperware: The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America (Washington DC: Smithsonian University Press, 1999).


Alison J. Clarke, et al. (eds.)
Victor Papanek: The Politics of Design, Papanek Foundation and Vitra Design Museum (Weil am Rhein: Vitra Design Museum, 2018)


Michelle Jackson-Beckett, co-edited with Mina Warchavchik Hugerth, Glenn Adamson,
Objects: USA 2020 (New York: The Monacelli Press, 2020)

Fashioning Professionals
Leah Armstrong and Felice McDowell (eds.)
Fashioning Professionals: Identity and Representation at work in the Creative Industries (London: Bloomsbury, 2018)

HomeCultures
Alison J. Clarke
Co-founder of Home Cultures: Architecture, Design and Domestic Space, (Taylor & Francis).

DesigningModernInterior
Alison J. Clarke
‘The Contemporary Interior: Trajectories of Biography and Style’ in B. Martin and P. Sparke (eds.) Designing the Modern Interior (Oxford: Berg 2009).