Dr. Viviana Narotzky

Barcelona

QUALIFICATIONS

2003 PhD, History of Design. Royal College of Art, London

1989 BA(Hons) Industrial Design, Escola Massana, Barcelona

1985Diploma, Documentary Filmmaking, New School for Social Research, New York

TEACHING CAREER

2003-07Senior Research Fellow, AHRC Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior / Tutor, History of Design. Royal College of Art, London.

2002-03Senior Lecturer, History of Design, KingstonUniversity. Course Director MA in Design History

2000-02Research Fellow, Art History. Globalizing Art, Architecture and Design History Project (GLAADH), The Open University.

1998-02Visiting Tutor, Critical and Historical Studies, RoyalCollege of Art

1998-99Senior Lecturer, 0.5. Critical and Contextual Studies; School of Art, Architecture and Design, LeedsMetropolitanUniversity. CCS Course Leader.

1996-98Part-time Lecturer, Critical and Contextual Studies; School of Art, Architecture and Design, LeedsMetropolitanUniversity

1993-94Part-time Lecturer, Product and Furniture Design, ElisavaSchool of Design, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain

PROFESSIONAL, CURATING and CONSULTANCY

Professional Practice and Curatorship

2001Architectures of Discourse exhibition, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona.

1998-9 Barcelona Design In Spring Festival. Project Co-ordination, Online Design Database

1993“Why *%*#! Doesn’t It Work?’ exhibition, Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona

1989-94 Senior Designer, Product and Furniture, Jorge Pensi Diseño S.L., Barcelona

Editorial & Consultancy

Member Board of Trustees, Design History Foundation (Barcelona, Spain)

Advisory Board Member, Revista Bellas Artes, University of Tenerife (Spain)

Editorial Board Member, Journal of Design History, OxfordUniversity Press

Editorial Board Member, GGMixta Collection, Editorial Gustavo Gili, Barcelona, Spain

Steering Committee Member, International Conferences on Design History and Design Studies

Advisory Committee Member, Design History Conferences for the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean.

Advisor to the World Economic Forum, Design and Innovation 2005

Reader, Santa&Cole Design Editions, Barcelona, Spain.

Associate Researcher, The Centre for Transition Research in Design (CENTRAD), LeedsMetropolitanUniversity.

Advisor, General Catalogue of the Industrial Design collection, Barcelona Museum of Decorative Arts / Barcelona Design Museum, 2004-2005

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Books and Book Sections

2007La Barcelona del diseño. Barcelona: Santa & Cole.

2006‘Dream homes and DIY: television, new media and the domestic makeover’ in Imagined Interiors: Representing the Domestic Interior since the Renaissance. Jeremy Aynsley and Charlotte Grant, eds.London:V&A Publications.

2006‘Themes and Issues in 19C Design and Decorative Arts’, in Ars Magna. Historia Universal del Arte. Vol. IX ‘La conquista de la libertad’. Madrid:Grupo Editorial Planeta.

2002‘Our Cars in Havana’ in J. Kerr & P. Wollen (eds.) Autopia, Reaktion Books.

2001Notes on Things: An Annotated Guide to Vinçon. Barcelona: Fundació Antoni Tàpies and Vinçon.

2001‘Consuming Design in the Periphery: Private and Public’ in Anna Calvera and Miquel Mallol (eds.) Design History Seen from Abroad: History and Histories of Design. Barcelona: Publicaciones de la Universidad de Barcelona.

Journal Articles

2001‘The Footnote, the Chair and the City’ in Case 1, Arquitectures del discurs, Barcelona: Fundació Antoni Tàpies.

2000‘Texto y contexto: desde la realidad al discurso’. Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference of Design History and Design Studies, ONDI, Havana, Cuba, 1999. (refereed)

2000‘A Different and New Refinement: Design in Barcelona 1960-1990’. Journal of Design History, 13(3) p.227-243 (refereed)

Reviews

2005 For Il Giornale dell’ Architettura 4(25): David Raizman, History of Modern Design. London: Laurence King, 2003.

20002nd International Conference of Design History and Design Studies in HavanaDesign History Society Newsletter No 87, Oct 2000.

CONFERENCE CONVENOR

2006Moving Home: Exploring Future Agendas for Research in the Domestic Interior. Co-organiser. CSDI / BardGraduateCenter for Studies in Design, Decorative Art and Culture. Bard Graduate Centre, New York.

2002Design History in the Periphery 3rd International Conference. Co-organiser and Convenor – ‘Design History and its Boundaries’. Istanbul Technical University, Turkey.

2001Globalizing Art, Architecture and Design History. Joint Conference Organiser. SussexUniversity.

2001Design History Society International Conference. RCA/V&A. Convenor – ‘Representing Margins and Peripheries’.

INVITED SPEAKER AND CONFERENCE PAPERS (selected)

2006 CatholicUniversity of Leuven, Leuven. Department of Art History. ‘TV Dreams: TV, new media and the domestic makeover’.

2006 Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona. Estrategas en Barcelona. ‘Diseño, Ciudad y Marca’.

2006 Bard Graduate Centre, New York. Symposium: Moving Home: Exploring Future Agendas for Research in the Domestic Interior. ‘TV Dreams: TV, new media and the domestic makeover’.

2006University of BarcelonaPerpignanUniversity. Interior Spaces conference. ‘Interiors al Televisor’.

2005 World Economic Forum, Design and Creativity Workshop. New York. ‘Designing Systems and Processes’.

2005 HelsinkiUniversity, Dept. of Art History. ‘Author, Author! Design, the original and the copy’

20044th Int. Conference on Design History and Design Studies, Guadalajara, Mexico. ‘Beware of Imitations: A Case Study on Design Classics’

2003University of Art and Design (UIAH) Helsinki / Dept. of Cultural HistoryUniversity of Helsinki / National Centre for Consumption Studies Finland. 'Cultural Modernization Through Material Culture'

2003College Art Association Annual Conference, New York. ‘Selling the Nation: Identity and Design in 1980s Catalonia’

2001Lancaster University, Urban Mobilities Group. ‘Automobility in Havana’

2001‘Making Do and Making New: Dream Machines in Havana'. Society For Caribbean Studies Conference, University of Nottingham.

2001‘The Audacity of Wanting to Change the World: Design in Transitional Barcelona’ Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA).

2001‘Selling Distinction: The Retailing of Design in 1980s Barcelona’. Brighton University.

2001 Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona. Symposium, ‘Architectures of Discourse’

2000 ‘Texto y contexto: desde la realidad al discurso’. ONDI, Havana, Cuba. 2nd International Conference of Design History and Design Studies.

1999‘Branding a Nation: Design and National Identity’.Signs Of The Times, Race, Nation & Identity Symposium, The Gallery (London).

1999‘Contextualising the Design Phenomena in Spain: A Research Model’. Royal College of Art, London. Search Symposium.

1999‘The Lure of Modern Design: Barcelona 1975-1995’. Victoria & Albert Museum Research Seminars.

1999‘Consuming Design in the Periphery: Private and Public’. Barcelona University, Spain. Research Symposium: Design History Seen from Abroad: History and Histories of Design.

1998‘The Redundancy of Design History’. Practically Speaking Conference, Wolverhampton University.

1998‘Going Public: Design and Urban Identity in 1980s Barcelona’. Design History Society International Annual Conference, Huddersfield University

1998‘Reconsidering Design and National Identity in the New Europe’. Royal College of Art / British Council / Leeds Metropolitan University.

1996Transitional Objects: Design and the New Democracies. Panel Discussion. Leeds Metropolitan University / CENTRAD.