On Saturday 17th October, Harriet gave a paper entitled ‘Exhibitions as Political “Demonstrations”: Artists International Association’s For Liberty Exhibition, London 1943′ at the ICDHS12 conference. In the paper she explored the idea of exhibitions having the capacity to act as political ‘demonstrations’ – a term used by the AIA to describe their exhibitions – by considering For Liberty’s site, installation, content, integration of graphics, space, text and image.
The 2020 ICDHS conference was organised by the International Committee for Design History and Design Studies and convened by Dr Fedja Vukić (Institute for the Research of the Avant-garde, Zagreb), with keynotes from design theorist Matko Meštrović and Professor Yuko Kikuchi icdhs12.org. Harriet spoke in a strand entitled ‘Politics and Design: Past, Present, Future’ co-chaired by Barbara Predan (Academy of Fine Arts, University of Ljubljana) and Tevfik Balcıoğlu (ARUCAD University, Northern Cyprus). Her paper is published in the conference proceedings entitled Lessons to Learn? Past Design Experiences and Contemporary Design Practices edited by Fedja Vukić and Iva Kostešić (ISBN 978-953-7703-67-7).
