In November Harriet was invited by tutor Dr Lizzy Currie to give a talk about teaching and publishing in the History of Design to students on the joint Royal College of Art/ Victoria & Albert Museum History of Design Masters programme. She presented alongside Priya Khanchandani, Editor of Icon magazine and Michael Horsham of art/design collective Tomato.
On Tuesday 5th November, Harriet was interviewed by James O’Malley, journalist and creator of the Pod Delusion podcast about the government’s idea for a 2022 Festival of Brexit, which, despite being subject to much criticism when it was first announced in 2018, was revealed this week still to be in development. Harriet talked about the critical reception of the Festival of Britain in 1951 and the Millennium Dome in 2000 and the potential for an event in 2022 to be successful. Listen to the conversation here at 14.50.
While AHRC Fellow Harriet has been researching in an extensive private archive of material about the development and design of the Millennium Dome.