Dr Daniel Huppatz is TVAD Visiting Researcher for 2015-16

Dr Daniel Huppatz will join us as TVAD Visiting Researcher for 2015-16. Dr Huppatz is a Senior Lecturer at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. His current research interests include mapping histories of modern Asian design, Australian design, and histories of interior design and architecture. As well as presenting papers at numerous academic conferences, Dr Huppatz has been widely published in journals including Design Issues, Journal of Design History and Design and Culture. His other interventions include editing Design: Critical and Primary Sources (Bloomsbury, 2016), a collection of 75 essential texts on design from the mid-19th century to the present day, covering key thinkers, movements and issues for design, and co-editing Unbounded: On the Interior and Interiority (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2015). Huppatz is a co-founder of the Design History Australia Research Network, DHARN. He is currently working on a book titled Modern Asian Design.

Dr Huppatz will be working with researchers both within and beyond TVAD, and other staff and students in the School of Creative Arts and the School of Humanities. His work with us will cover topics including interior design and global design history to modern Asian design. These topics will be examined through sessions including:

• A research training seminar with Level 6 students on the Interior Architecture programme and MA Interior Architecture and Design students
• A contribution to the School of Creative Art’s Art Talk series
• A staff reading group with the TVAD researchers
• Participation in a workshop on Global and Local Heritage for the DHeritage Professional Doctorate in Heritage in the School of Humanities.

For more information, contact Dr Grace Lees-Maffei, TVAD Research Group Leader, g.lees-maffei@herts.ac.uk