Alison J. Clarke: Victor Papanek, Gebunden

Biografie

Alison J. Clarke received a Masters (RCA) with Distinction in History of Design from the Royal College of Art and Victoria and Albert Museum, London (1990) and went on to complete a PhD. in Social Anthropology, University College London (2001). She joined the University of Applied Arts Vienna, as a full-professor in 2003 having previously held a senior faculty position in Design History and Material Culture at the Royal College of Art, London. She has supervised students of design and material culture at undergraduate and post-graduate level over a period of twenty years as a Senior Faculty member of the University of Brighton, University of Southampton and Royal College of Art, London. She has held guest-lecturing posts at Chelsea College of Art, Central St. Martins School of Art & Design, University of Arts London and acted as Guest Professor in Design History and Theory at the University of Applied Arts Vienna from 1998 - 2003.§ Alison J. Clarke has presented research and lectured internationally at institutions including Parsons School for Design, NYC; National Museum of American History, Washington DC; University of Oxford: University College London; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Centre for Consumer Science, Sweden; and Institute of Historical Research, London.§She is presently engaged in several research projects including 'Doing Kinship with Pictures and Objects' (WWTF); 'The Victor Papanek Archive and Library' (BMWF); 'Home Interiors in Mass Observation' (AHRC).