On 8th June Harriet chaired a session at ‘Building-Object-Design-Architecture: exploring interconnections‘ at Birkbeck College. The conference set about exploring old, new and future interconnections between Design History and Architectural History. It addressed the disciplines’ shared historiography, theory, forms of analysis and objects of critical enquiry, and drew attention to how recent developments in the one could have significant implications for the other. Harriet chaired a session on the theme of ‘Interiors’, with contributions from Panagiotis Doudesis (Pembroke College, Cambridge) on ‘Between micro- and macro-: The design of an ephemeral construction for a nocturnal divertissement at Versailles in the summer of 1674’, Aurora Laurenti (University of Turin) on ‘Design and Decoration in Rococo carved interiors’ and Alistair Cartwright (Birkbeck) on ‘Partitioning Practices in Postwar London Interiors, c. 1960’.

On 3 and 4 June 2019, Harriet co-convened and co-chaired a University of Brighton research workshop through Centre for Design History entitled ‘Anglo-Swiss Connections in an Expanded Field: Modernism in Typography and Graphic Design, 1950-80‘, working with Professor Jeremy Aynsley (Director of Centre for Design History), Dr Sue Breakell (Design Archives) and Dr Lesley Whitworth (Design Archives). The two-day workshop drew international graphic design researchers together to introduce the Anthony Froshaug and Richard Hollis archives and to reflect on the research significance and potential of those archives. Contributors included Davide Fornari on ‘The Sources of Jan Tschichold’s The New Typography’, Sandy Jones on ‘Networking diaspora collections: the Jan Tschichold purchases of New Typography’, Robert Lzicar on ‘Ideologies of Modernism: On Anthony Froshaug’s “Typography is a Grid”‘, Robert Harland on ‘Mesographic theory: analysing the City of Westminster street nameplate’, Vaibhav Singh on ‘Modernism’s unfinished projects? The Indian connection’, Tania Messell ‘Humanitarian Relief and Graphic Design: Transnational Circuits’, Jeremy Aynsley on ‘Graphic Design Magazines in the 1950s’, Jessica Jenkins on ‘Swiss Posters in the GDR’, Dora Souza Dias on ‘Locating Transnational Interactions in Brazilian design in the 1960s’ and Priscila Farias on ‘From Utopia to dystopia: modernist typography in Brazil 1950-1980’.