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Vanessa Vanden Berghe
@vbruggemeyer.bsky.social
Senior lecturer @chelseaUAL | PhD on the domestic work of Oliver Hill during the interwar period @MIRC_KU |
This is so up my street 🤩
We’re doing a photography conference! Please circulate!
A single-stream 2 day International Conference hosted by the Centre for Culture and Everyday Life, School of the Arts, University of Liverpool.

Full CFP at www.ccel.uk
December 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Diseña: Call for papers: minor gestures www.designresearchsociety.org/events/call-...
Call for Papers: Diseña Special Issue #30 – Minor Gestures
Submissions due 26 April 2026.
www.designresearchsociety.org
December 2, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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Did a walking lecture round Kings Cross centred around seating with @vbruggemeyer.bsky.social for @chelseaual.bsky.social Interior Design students.
November 19, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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The beautiful cover for my new book: "The Broken Machine: Histories of Technology, Social Order, and the Self." Coming June 2026. (mitpress.mit.edu/978026255334...). @mitpress.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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We are delighted to announce that the plenary speakers for our upcoming conference are Dr Sarah Jackson, Professor Peter J. Capuano and Caroline Seymour!

Visit our website for more information: www.thevictorianhand.uk/conference
October 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Epic; no notes
October 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
What a great project 🤩
Resharing as many people thought was about a different kind of darkroom 😂
📸🏠🏳️‍🌈I wish to speak to LGBTQIA people who have experience of having a home darkroom/using a darkroom (in Britain) that felt like home.

If you are interested please get in touch:
📧 [email protected]
📞 +447902489831
September 27, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Folks, has anyone written anything on bisexuality and modernism and/or the First World War? I can't immediately see things, but maybe they're hiding in work without that in the title.
September 22, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Call for Papers: After the Global Turn: Current Colonial, Decolonial and Postcolonial Perspectives in Architecture www.mdpi.com/journal/arch...
www.mdpi.com
September 1, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Whoop whoop 🙌 this looks right up my street
August 5, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Well, this is going into a class next year for sure - how many impossible, dubious or just incredibly dangerous things can you spot? I’m up to 8 here.
I think the toilet is my favorite part of this weird AI.
August 4, 2025 at 8:58 AM
This looks amazing
1/ I'm excited to have contributed a chapter to this significant new book 'Post-War Public Housing and Well-Being: Modernity, Economic Recovery, and Social Change'. Available at discounted price for pre-order now. Table of contents follows ...
www.routledge.com/Post-War-Pub...
July 24, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Alex Todd & I are co-chairing the Design History Society sponsored panel at CAA in Chicago 2026 on DESIGN ACTIVISM AS REPETITION, RECONSTRUCTION AND REINVENTION.

Please consider submitting an abstract caa.confex.com/caa/2026/web...
Session: Design Activism as Repetition, Reconstruction and Reinvention (CAA 114th Annual Conference)Preliminary Program
caa.confex.com
July 15, 2025 at 1:09 PM
The Architecture Exhibition of Tomorrow at the architecture gallery | Berlin www.architecture-exhibitions.com/en/architekt...
The Architecture Exhibition of Tomorrow | AEX
www.architecture-exhibitions.com
July 9, 2025 at 9:01 PM
CFP: Animals Inside: A History of Objects and Furniture for Pets in Domestic Interiors eahn.org/2025/06/call...
International Conference Animals Inside: A History of Objects and Furniture for Pets in Domestic Interiors | eahn
eahn.org
July 3, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Call for Papers, please share! “Power Couples? Collaborations at work and at home, c.1750-1914” workshop to be held at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany 11-13 May 2026. Deadline for expression of interest 1 Sep 2025. Please see more info in the attached & email me if any questions.
July 2, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Nicola Wilson: Recommended! The influencers who changed how we read research.reading.ac.uk/thebooksocie...
Recommended! - The Book Society 1929-69
The Book Society judges were the literary celebrities of their day.
research.reading.ac.uk
June 30, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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With all due cringe, but huge gratitude to Disha Karnad....
In todays episode of In Theory, Disha Karnad Jani interviews Stephen Legg (@stephenlegg11.bsky.social) about his recent @ugapress.bsky.social book, Spaces of Anticolonialism: Delhi’s Urban Governmentalities.
Spaces of Anticolonialism: Disha Karnad Jani Interviews Stephen Legg
by Disha Karnad Jani
www.jhiblog.org
June 26, 2025 at 7:58 AM