Kjetil Fallan

Professor of Design History
Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas
University of Oslo

Session Chair
Round table guest

Kjetil Fallan is Professor of Design History in the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas at the University of Oslo. He is the author of Design History: Understanding Theory and Method (Berg Publishers 2010); of numerous articles published in a range of journals including the Journal of Design History, Design Issues, Design and Culture, Enterprise and Society and History and Technology; and of chapters in e.g. Writing Design: Words and Objects (Berg Publishers 2011), Assigning Cultural Value (Peter Lang 2013) and The Making of European Consumption: Facing the American Challenge (Palgrave Macmillan 2015). He is the editor of Scandinavian Design: Alternative Histories (Berg Publishers 2012) and co-editor, with Grace-Lees Maffei, of Made in Italy: Rethinking a Century of Italian Design (Bloomsbury Academic 2013). Fallan also serves as an editor of the Journal of Design History and on the advisory boards of Design and Culture and AIS/Design: Storia e Ricerche.