Select Talks/Papers

‘The Design Necessity: NEA’s Federal Design Improvement Program and the Crisis in Design’ 
Panel: Public-Private Partnerships in the Arts and Education (March 15, 2024)
Business History Conference in Providence, RI

“’Federal Design Matters’: Promoting the US Design Arts Program” 
Promoting the Local, the National, and the Future (September 9, 2023)
Design History Society Conference: Displaying Design
Hosted by ESAD in Matosinhos, Portugal

“Forms, Folders, and Files: Supplying Organizational Memory”
Panel: Stories of Storing (September 2-4, 2021)
Design History Society Conference: Memory Full?
Hosted by FNHW Academy of Art and Design in Basel, Switzerland (Virtual Conference)

“Organization through Office Design: Kevin Roche as Corporate Ethnographer”
Design Business as Usual
(February 10, 2021)
College Art Association, Virtual Conference

“Learning Through Critical Analysis: Using Chinese Propaganda Posters in a Design History Survey”
Getting Beyond the Canon and Beyond the Lecture: Design History Pedagogy Pro-Tools (February 13, 2020)
College Art Association, Chicago, IL

“Maintaining the Open Plan: Facilities Managers as Design Practitioners”
Design Outside of Design: “Hands on” Work and the Politics of Expertise (October 25, 2019)
Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) in Milan, Italy

“The Open Plan Office in the Windy City”
Invited Paper (October 18, 2018)
Chicago: City of Commerce and Design, 1890-1990 seminar series
Newberry Library in Chicago, IL

“Raceways and Keyboard Trays: The Messy Integration of Personal Computers in American Office Design”
“’Better’ Connections, ‘Best’ Designs” panel (March 19, 2017)
Command Lines: Software Power and Performance
Special Interest Group for Computing, Information, and Society (SIGCIS) Conference
Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA

“Landscaping the Office: The Role of Plants in the American Open Plan Office”
“Designing Nature” panel (September 8, 2017)
Making and Unmaking the Environment
Design History Society Conference
University of Oslo in Oslo, Norway