Juliette Kristensen

Staff details

Position Lecturer in Design
Department Design
Email j.kristensen (@gold.ac.uk)
Juliette Kristensen

Juliette is a design researcher, theorist and historian with a background in Philosophy, Cultural Studies and Critical Theory, who works within and through visual and material culture, specialising in the history and theory of technology and media.

Collaboration and dialogue are critical elements of her practice, embodied by her work on Art Vapours, an art practice with the film and video artist susan pui san lok on feminism and the everyday in publishing and broadcasting; as one of the ten researchers on The UCL 100 Hours Project; as Assistant Project Manager on Voices in the Visual Arts Oral History Project; and as editor of Journal of Visual Culture.

In addition to her academic work, she works an editor, publisher and broadcaster in the visual arts, communicating academic research in visual and material culture to as broad and diverse an audience as possible. She also has a commercial consultancy practice in design research and cultural analysis, where she works with research and insight agencies for clients across a variety of business sectors, including consumer technology and design, healthcare, automotive and property development.

Teaching

BA Design

Featured Work

Media Appearances

Host and Producer, Paperweight Radio: Explorations in Visual and Material Culture, Resonance 104.4fm, 2013-15 (Two Series)

Guest on BBC Radio 4’s The Digital Human, Series 7, Episode 2 Magic, 20 April 2015.

Conference, Workshop and Seminar Papers

‘Contemporary Design History’, Memory, Collecting and the Future Archive Panel, Design and Time: The Design History Society Annual Conference 2016, Middlesex University, London, UK. 8-10 September 2016.

‘Speaking for The Technical Body’, Knowing, Doing, Living, Telling: Oral Histories of Scienti c Practice as Document, Narrative and Testimony Roundtable, Oral Histories of Science, Technology and Medicine: The Oral History Society Annual Conference, Royal Holloway University of London, Surrey, UK. 10 July 2015. [Invited Speaker]

‘Design History Practice: A Manifesto’, History of Design Professional Practice Workshop, Royal College of Art, London, UK. 6 May 2015. [Invited Speaker]

‘Speaking/Writing/Research’, Critical Waves, Birkbeck, University of London, UK. 20 April 2015. [Invited Speaker]

‘Orality and Literacy in the Digital Age: Some Initial Notes’, Radio Now!, London College of Communications, University of the Arts, London, UK. 21 March 2015. [Invited Speaker]

Art Vapours: Ways of Seeing, Hearing, and Speaking Again’, Thinking With Berger, Cardi Metropolitan University, Cardi , 4-5 September 2014. With susan pui san lok.

‘Writing Without Bodies: Telegrams from My Grandfather and Other Notes’, Making Letters Making Meaning, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, UK. 27 June 2014. [Invited Speaker]

‘The Object and ... and ... and ...’, The 100 Hours Forum, University College London, UK. 20 June 2014.

 ‘On Handling Objects: Or, What Do Objects Want?’, Thinking with Things 1500-1940 Seminar, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, Cambridge University, UK. 4 June 2014. [Invited Speaker]

Publications

J.C.Kristensen, ‘Pockets of Slime’, Tenderfoot, ed. Laura White, 15 December 2017.  

J.C.Kristensen, ‘Jane Dillon’, ‘James Dyson’, ‘Jonathan Ive’, ‘Clive Sinclair’, ‘Karl and Bertha Benz’, ‘Ferdinand Porsche’, ‘Bruno Sacco’ and ‘Peter Behrens’, The Bloomsbury Dictionary of Design, London: Bloomsbury, 2015.

J.C.Kristensen and susan pui san lok, 'Six Women / Art Vapours' for Mnemoscape Magazine #2, ‘In the Presence of Absence’, 2015. https://www.mnemoscape.org/susan-pui-san-lok--jckristensen---six-w

J.C.Kristensen, ‘The Sony Walkman (Nobutoshi Kihara, 1978)’, in Grace Lees-Ma ei (ed.) Iconic Designs: 50 Stories About 50 Objects, London: Berg, 2014.

J.C.Kristensen, ‘On Images Running Away With Themselves: Or, Networking with Tubes and Cylinders’, The UCL 100 Hours Project, Response #4, 29 January 2014.

Research Interests

Trained in philosophy, cultural studies and critical theory, with a focus on the act of writing and its relationship to questions of embodiment, her research incorporates both the historical and the theoretical; the archival and the experiential; the material and the visual. Her broader research practice makes objects speak in different voices through different disciplinary practices and then critically interrogates these vocalisations, working to flesh out relationships between the visual and the material.

Publications and research outputs

Conference or Workshop Item

Kristensen, J C. 2019. 'Slime: That Hinterland Substance, This Material of the Moment'. In: The Urgency of the Arts Lecture Series. Royal College of Art, United Kingdom 30 October 2019.

Kristensen, J C. 2019. 'An Oscillating Wave: How to recarve a space for an academic practice through life’s little vagaries'. In: Shit Happens Panel, College Art Association Annual Conference. Chicago, United States.

Kristensen, J C. 2017. 'Pockets of Slime'. In: Materiality Session for The Mountain of Art Research (MARs) Centre. Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom 6 December 2017.

Kristensen, J C. 2015. 'Speaking for The Technical Body'. In: Oral Histories of Science, Technology and Medicine: The Oral History Society Annual Conference. Royal Holloway, University of London, United Kingdom 10-11 July 2015.

Kristensen, J C. 2015. 'Orality and Literacy in the Digital Age: Some Initial Notes'. In: Radio Now!. London College of Communications, University of the Arts London, United Kingdom 21 March 2015.

Kristensen, J C. 2014. 'The Tools of Production, Media Myopia and the Legitimacy of Knowledge'. In: Sounds of Design History: Design History Society Teaching and Learning Workshop. Design History Society, United Kingdom 19 September 2014.

Kristensen, J C. 2014. 'Writing Without Bodies: Telegrams from My Grandfather and Other Notes'. In: Making Letters Making Meaning. Institute of Historical Research, University of London, United Kingdom 24 June 2014.

Kristensen, J C. 2014. 'The Object and ... and ... and ...'. In: The 100 Hours Forum. University College London, United Kingdom 20 June 2014.

Kristensen, J C. 2014. 'Handling Objects; Or What do objects want?'. In: Thinking with Things Seminar. Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom 4 June 2014.

Kristensen, J C and Pui San Lok, Susan. 2014. 'Art Vapours: Ways of Seeing, Hearing, and Speaking Again'. In: Thinking With Berger. Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff, United Kingdom 4-5 September 2014.

Article

Kristensen, J C. 2017. Pockets of Slime: A Critical Essay. Tenderfoot: A Materiality Website/Artwork by Laura White,

Art Object

Kristensen, J C and Pui San Lok, Susan. 2015. Six Women / Art Vapours.

Book Section

Kristensen, J C. 2015. ‘Peter Behrens’, ‘Karl and Bertha Benz’, ‘Jane Dillon', ‘James Dyson’, ‘Jonathan Ive’, ‘Ferdinand Porsche’, and ‘Clive Sinclair’. In: Clive Edwards; Harriet Atkinson; Dipti Bhagat; Sorcha O'Brien; David Raizman; Sarah Kettley and Anne-Marie Willis, eds. The Bloomsbury Dictionary of Design. London: Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781472521576

Kristensen, J C. 2014. The Sony Walkman (Nobutoshi Kihara, 1978). In: Grace Lees-Maffei, ed. Iconic Designs: 50 Stories About 50 Things. London: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, pp. 226-229. ISBN 9780857853523

Broadcast

Kristensen, J C and Pope, Emily. 2019. Slime Radio Hour.

Kristensen, J C. 2015. Guest Expert, 'Magic', The Digital Human (BBC Radio 4).

Kristensen, J C. 2014. Paperweight Radio: Plastic (S2, EP6).

Kristensen, J C. 2014. Paperweight Radio: The Art School (S2, EP5).

Kristensen, J C. 2014. Paperweight Radio: Mixed Media (S2, EP4).

Kristensen, J C. 2014. Paperweight Radio: Domesticating the Modernist Body (S2, EP3).

Kristensen, J C. 2014. Paperweight Radio: Animals (S2, EP2).

Kristensen, J C. 2014. Paperweight Radio: Collections (S2, EP1).

Kristensen, J C. 2013. Paperweight Radio: The Ecological (S1, EP6).

Kristensen, J C. 2013. Paperweight Radio: Mothers & Daughters (S1, EP5).

Kristensen, J C. 2013. Paperweight Radio: Maker Culture (S1, EP4).

Kristensen, J C. 2013. Paperweight Radio: Paper (S1, EP3).

Kristensen, J C. 2013. Paperweight Radio: Light (S1, EP2).

Kristensen, J C. 2013. Paperweight Radio: Ghosts and Screens (S1, EP1).

Professional Activity

Kristensen, J C. 2020. Consultancy on GCE A-Level Design & Technology.

Kristensen, J C. 2019. External Examiner, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London.

Project

Kristensen, J C. 2013. Paperweight Radio Series 1 (Speaking:Writing:Research 2013).

Hannan, Leonie and Smith, Kate. 2013-2015 The 100 Hours Project.

Report

Kristensen, J C. 2014. On Images Running Away With Themselves: Or, Networking with Tubes and Cylinders. Working Paper. University College London, London.

Kristensen, J C. 2013. Failure, Ritual and The Horror of Negation. Working Paper. The UCL 100 Hours Project, London.