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Updated January 2012

My research is now primarily focused on design in the context of the history of technology, on the uses of nationalism in design, and on the history of dress.

Activities

• Lecturer, MA Design Cultures, VU University Amsterdam.
• Scholar-in-Residence (Fellowship), Deutsches Museum, Munich, September-December 2011.
• Co-Advisor to Avsar Gurpinar, PhD candidate, Istanbul Technical University.
• Reviewer, Design Research Society 2012 Conference, Bangkok, 1-4 July 2012.
• "Construction toys as a source of knowledge on innovation", international conference Toys and Learning in Different Cultures, Bursa, 27-30 July 2011.
• "Ancient Greece as inspiration for Greek design", paper presented in international conference Re-Imagining the Past: Antiquity and Modern Greek Culture, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman & Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham, 27-28 June 2011.
• Editor of Special Issue on uniforms, Journal of Design History, 24:2, June 2011.
• Participation in on-line photography project Capture the moment 2, pp. 52-53.
• Reviewer, 9th International European Academy of Design Conference, Porto, 4-7 May 2011 and 4th World Conference on Design Research IASDR2011, Delft, 31 October-4 November 2011.
• Invited intervention in the international meeting CoProduce.it, Milan, 15 November 2010.
• Photography exhibition, Piliko Gallery, Hania (Crete), 9-17 August 2010.
• Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Design History.
• Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, The Design Journal.

Publications

• Fragile Innovation: Episodes in Greek Design History, 2011.
• "Narratives of Heritage and Modernity: National Production and Consumption in Greek Advertising", in Oliver Kühschelm, Franz X. Eder and Hannes Siegrist (eds), Konsum und Nation. Zur Geschichte nationalisierender Inszenierungen in der Produktkommunikation, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, forthcoming in 2012.
• "Dress, Modernity and Evolution in 19th century Greece" in Cristina Ghitulescu (ed.), From Traditional Attire to Modern Dress: Modes of Identification, Modes of Recognition in the Balkans, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011, pp. 194-211.
• "Foreword: Uniforms in design historical perspective", Journal of Design History, 24:2 (special issue on uniforms), June 2011, pp. 101-104.
• "Walls of Lisbon - A visual essay", Visual Communication, 10:2, May 2011, pp. 187-192.
• "4th International Conference on Typography and Visual Communication, Nicosia, Cyprus, 17-19 June 2010" (conference review), Design History Society Newsletter, August 2010, p. 4.
• «Αφηγηματικά Προβλήματα στην Ιστορία της Γραφιστικής», Hyphen, no 14, 2010, 7-17. Translated in Greek from "Narrative Problems in Graphic Design History", The Politics of the Artificial, Victor Margolin, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2002, pp. 188-201.
• "Fashion and evolutionary theories in nineteenth century Greece", The Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, Volume 9, pp. 450-452, Berg Publishers, 2010.
• "Girls' uniforms in Greek schools", The Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, Volume 9, pp. 453-454, Berg Publishers, 2010.
• "First steps: Early design education and professionalisation in Greece", Journal of Design History, issue 23:2, 2010, pp. 145-161.
• "Approaching the Japanese Other: Evidence from Tefchos, Greek review of architecture and design (1989-1995)", Words for Design III, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2010, pp. 69-75.
• Special issue on " Innovative service design for all, Part Two" (editor), on-line journal Re-public, March 2010.