Kjetil Fallan

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Visiting address Blindernveien 31 Georg Morgenstiernes hus 0313 Oslo
Postal address Postboks 1020 Blindern 0315 Oslo

Research interests

Design history, visual/material culture, ecological design, environmental humanities, popular culture, historiography, theory and method.

Courses taught

I supervise MA and PhD projects in these research fields, especially design history and visual/material culture.

Background

Cand.mag. (B.A.), history and sociology (Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)).
Cand.philol. (M.Phil.), history (NTNU)
Ph.D., cultural history (NTNU)
Dr.Philos., art history (University of Oslo)

Postdoc Research Fellow in NTNU's Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture (2008-2009).
I joined the University of Oslo's Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas as Associate Professor in 2009. Professor since 2013.

Appointments

Editor (Editorial Board Member), Journal of Design History (2009-2017; 2022-).
Editorial Advisory Board Member, Design and Culture (2013-).

Tags: Art History, Design History, Cultural History, Design Studies, Modernism, Industrial Design, Material Culture, Popular Culture, Scandinavian Design, Environmental Humanities, Environmental History, Ecological Design

Publications

Books

Book chapters

Articles

  • Fallan, Kjetil (2023). Lost and Found: Translational Thinking in the History of Nordic Design. In Ashby, Charlotte & Kallestrup, Shona (Ed.), Nordic Design in Translation: The Circulation of Objects, Ideas and Practices . Peter Lang Publishing Group. ISSN 9781800792906. p. 289–300.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2023). Dybt design i det Vilde vesten: Da norsk økofilosofi mødte amerikansk økodesign. In Lenskjold, Tau Ulv; Brun Petersen, Trine & Satell, Rosita (Ed.), Grønne designkulturanalyser: Perspektiver på bæredygtighed. Syddansk Universitetsforlag. ISSN 978-87-408-3457-4. p. 59–75.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2022). Internazionalizzare il disegno industriale italiano. In Rosselli, Paolo; Di Nofa, Elisa & Paleari, Francesco (Ed.), Alberto Rosselli: Architettura, Design e "Stile Industria". Quodlibet studio. ISSN 9788822908834. p. 385–395.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2022). The Way North: Merging Ideology and Methodology on the Road to Ecological Design. In Fallan, Kjetil; Zetterlund, Christina & Munch, Anders V. (Ed.), Nordic Design Cultures in Transformation, 1960–1980: Revolt and Resilience. Routledge. ISSN 9781032290423. p. 11–23. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2022). Da design utviklet en samvittighet. In Hagströmer, Denise & Kåberg, Helena (Ed.), Scandinavian Design og USA 1890-1980. Nasjonalmuseet for kunst, arkitektur og design. ISSN 9788281541375. p. 137–143.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2021). Think City Electric Vehicle, Extinct: A Compendium of Obsolete Objects. Reaktion Books. ISSN 1789144523. p. 324–327.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2021). Norwegian Wood: Trails to Ecological Design. In Mareis, Claudia & Paim, Nina (Ed.), Design Struggles: Intersecting Histories, Pedagogies, and Perspectives . Valiz. ISSN 978-94-92095-88-6. p. 117–135.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2020). Aspen comes to Scandinavia. In Tigerman, Bobbye & Obniski, Monica (Ed.), Scandinavian Design and the United States, 1890-1980. Prestel. ISSN 978-3-7913-5916-8. p. 289–306.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2020). Dyp design i Ville vesten: da norsk økofilosofi møtte amerikansk økodesign. Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift. ISSN 0800-336X. 37(2), p. 98–112. doi: 10.18261/issn.1504-3053-2020-02-02.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2019). Introduction: The Culture of Nature in the History of Design. In Fallan, Kjetil (Eds.), The Culture of Nature in the History of Design. Routledge. ISSN 9781138601925. p. 1–15. doi: 10.4324/9780429469848-1.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2019). The Object of Design History: Lessons for the Environment. In Massey, Anne (Eds.), A Companion to Contemporary Design since 1945. Wiley-Blackwell. ISSN 978-1-119-11120-7. p. 260–283. doi: 10.1002/9781119112297.ch13.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2019). Design Culturing: Making Design History Matter. In Julier, Guy; Folkmann, Mads Nygaard; Skou, Niels Peter; Jensen, Hans-Christian & Munch, Anders V. (Ed.), Design Culture: Objects and Approaches. Bloomsbury Academic. ISSN 9781474289849. p. 15–26. doi: 10.5040/9781474289856.0007.
  • Fallan, Kjetil & Jørgensen, Finn Arne (2017). Environmental histories of design: Towards a new research agenda. Journal of Design History. ISSN 0952-4649. 30(2), p. 103–121. doi: 10.1093/jdh/epx017.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2016). Things at Home: Pursuing the Genuine in Contemporary Norwegian Design. In Lønmo, Solveig & Rydiger, Monika (Ed.), The Logic of the Local: Norwegian and Polish Contemporary Design. International Cultural Centre. ISSN 978-83-63463-61-8. p. 45–53.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2016). A Match Made in Utopia? The Uneasy Love Affaire of Art and Industry in Scandinavia. In Sparke, Penny & Fisher, Fiona (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to Design Studies. Routledge. ISSN 9781138780507. p. 255–265.
  • Fallan, Kjetil & Zetterlund, Christina (2016). Altering a Homogenized Heritage: Articulating Heterogeneous Material Cultures in Norway and Sweden. In Fallan, Kjetil & Lees-Maffei, Grace (Ed.), Designing Worlds: National Design Histories in an Age of Globalization. Berghahn Books. ISSN 978-1-78533-155-8. p. 172–187. doi: 10.2307/j.ctv8bt1mv.14.
  • Lees-Maffei, Grace & Fallan, Kjetil (2016). Introduction: National Design Histories in an Age of Globalization. In Fallan, Kjetil & Lees-Maffei, Grace (Ed.), Designing Worlds: National Design Histories in an Age of Globalization. Berghahn Books. ISSN 978-1-78533-155-8. p. 1–21. doi: 10.2307/j.ctv8bt1mv.4.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2016). High Fidelity: Visioning Sound at Tandbergs Radiofabrikk. In Hagströmer, Denise (Eds.), Ekstrøm Extreme: Norwegian Furniture and Industrial Design. Arnoldsche. ISSN 978-3-89790-460-6. p. 75–93.
  • Fallan, Kjetil & Lees-Maffei, Grace (2016). Real Imagined Communities: National Narratives and the Globalization of Design History. Design Issues. ISSN 0747-9360. 32(1), p. 5–18. doi: 10.1162/DESI_a_00360.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2015). Love and Hate in Industrial Design: Europe’s Design Professionals and America in the 1950s. In Lundin, Per & Kaiserfeld, Thomas (Ed.), The Making of European Consumption: Facing the American Challenge. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 9781137374035. p. 134–156. doi: 10.1057/9781137374042_7.
  • Fallan, Kjetil & Lees-Maffei, Grace (2015). It’s Personal: Subjectivity in Design History. Design and Culture. ISSN 1754-7075. 7(1), p. 5–27. doi: 10.2752/175470715X14153615623565.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2014). Our Common Future: Joining Forces for Histories of Sustainable Design. TECNOSCIENZA: Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies. ISSN 2038-3460. 5(2), p. 13–44. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2014). Rubik’s Cube, Hungary (Ernő Rubik, 1974). In Lees-Maffei, Grace (Eds.), Iconic Designs: 50 Stories about 50 Things. Bloomsbury Academic. ISSN 978-0-85785-352-3. p. 138–141. doi: 10.5040/9781474293921.ch-028.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2014). LEGO, Denmark (Ole Kirk Christiansen, 1958). In Lees-Maffei, Grace (Eds.), Iconic Designs: 50 Stories about 50 Things. Bloomsbury Academic. ISSN 978-0-85785-352-3. p. 176–179. doi: 10.5040/9781474293921.ch-037.
  • Ringdal, Siv & Fallan, Kjetil (2014). 110 Volts at Home: the American Lista. Journal of Design History. ISSN 0952-4649. 27(1), p. 79–96. doi: 10.1093/jdh/ept046.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2013). La Kombi nacional: Mini bicicletas como recuerdos en movimiento. IF. ISSN 1669-9300. p. 54–64.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2013). Annus Mirabilis: 1954, Alberto Rosselli and the Institutionalization of Design Mediation. In Fallan, Kjetil & Lees-Maffei, Grace (Ed.), Made in Italy: Rethinking a Century of Italian Design. Bloomsbury Academic. ISSN 978-0-85785-389-9. p. 255–270. doi: 10.5040/9781474294133.ch-014.
  • Fallan, Kjetil & Lees-Maffei, Grace (2013). Introduction: The History of Italian Design. In Fallan, Kjetil & Lees-Maffei, Grace (Ed.), Made in Italy: Rethinking a Century of Italian Design. Bloomsbury Academic. ISSN 978-0-85785-389-9. p. 1–33. doi: 10.5040/9781474294133.0004.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2013). L’histoire du design. In Midal, Alexandra (Eds.), Design, l'anthologie. Cité du design / Ecole supérieure d’art et design. ISSN 978-2-912808-55-4. p. 453–462.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2013). Culture by Design: Co-Constructing Material and Meaning. In Aukrust, Kjerstin (Eds.), Assigning Cultural Values. Peter Lang Publishing Group. ISSN 9783631632987. p. 135–163.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2013). Kombi-Nation: Mini Bicycles as Moving Memories. Journal of Design History. ISSN 0952-4649. 26(1), p. 65–85. doi: 10.1093/jdh/eps051.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2012). Epilogue. In Fallan, Kjetil (Eds.), Scandinavian Design: Alternative Histories. Berg Publishers. ISSN 9781847889119. p. 237–241.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2012). Goldfish Memories: Recounting Oslo's Streamlined Aluminium Trams. In Fallan, Kjetil (Eds.), Scandinavian Design: Alternative Histories. Berg Publishers. ISSN 9781847889119. p. 117–135. doi: 10.5040/9781474294027.ch-007.
  • Fallan, Kjetil; Korvenmaa, Pekka; Johnsen, Espen; Zetterlund, Christina; Kristoffersson, Sara & Munch , Anders V (2012). A Historiography of Scandinavian Design. In Fallan, Kjetil (Eds.), Scandinavian Design: Alternative Histories. Berg Publishers. ISSN 9781847889119. p. 13–31. doi: 10.5040/9781474294027.ch-001.

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  • Fallan, Kjetil (2022). Ecological by Design: A History from Scandinavia. MIT Press. ISBN 9780262047135. 368 p.
  • Fallan, Kjetil; Zetterlund, Christina & Munch, Anders V. (2022). Nordic Design Cultures in Transformation, 1960–1980: Revolt and Resilience. Routledge. ISBN 9781032290423. 230 p. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2019). The Culture of Nature in the History of Design. Routledge. ISBN 9781138601925. 257 p.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2017). Designing Modern Norway: A History of Design Discourse. Routledge. ISBN 9781472456625. 212 p.
  • Fallan, Kjetil & Lees-Maffei, Grace (2016). Designing Worlds: National Design Histories in an Age of Globalization. Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-78533-155-8. 296 p. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fallan, Kjetil & Lees-Maffei, Grace (2013). Made in Italy: Rethinking a Century of Italian Design. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 978-0-85785-389-9. 325 p.

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  • Fallan, Kjetil (2024). Hva er ond design?
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2023). Designing is Mining: Historicizing Material Ecologies of Design.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2023). ...Dust to Dust: Material Ecologies and the Future of Design History.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2023). La linea scandinava: Reading Scandinavian Design in the Italian Design Press in the 1950s and 1960s.
  • Fallan, Kjetil & Munch, Anders V. (2022). Dissolving Design: Ecology and Environment as Destabilizing Agents.
  • Fallan, Kjetil; Zetterlund, Christina & Munch, Anders V. (2022). Introduction: Nordic Design Cultures in Transformation, 1960–1980. In Fallan, Kjetil; Zetterlund, Christina & Munch, Anders V. (Ed.), Nordic Design Cultures in Transformation, 1960–1980: Revolt and Resilience. Routledge. ISSN 9781032290423. p. 1–8. Full text in Research Archive
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2022). The Graphic Language of Protest: Design Activism at the UN Conference on the Human Environment.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2021). Designed in Denmark, Assembled in California: Windmills in Lands of Plenty.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2021). Deep Ecology as Deep Design.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2019). Förlagd form: Designkritik och designpraktik i Sverige 1860–1890. Konsthistorisk tidskrift. ISSN 0023-3609. 88(4), p. 210–213. doi: 10.1080/00233609.2019.1711162.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2019). The Sea Ranch: Architecture, Environment, and Idealism. Journal of Modern Craft. ISSN 1749-6772. 12(3), p. 281–285. doi: 10.1080/17496772.2019.1678890.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2019). Ecosophy D: From Deep Ecology to Deep Design.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2019). Design’s Ecological Restraints: Hans Palmstierna and Sweden’s Environmentalist Awakening.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2019). Making Design History Matter.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2019). Response and Responsibility: The Social Turn in Scandinavian Design.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2018). Aspen Comes to Scandinavia: Displaced Dreams and Misplaced Means.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2018). Carl A. Zimring, Aluminum Upcycled: Sustainable Design in Historical Perspective. Journal of Design History. ISSN 0952-4649. 31(2), p. 209–210.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2018). Norwegian Wood: Økologiens estetikk i norsk designhistorie.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2018). And After Us... Robert Esdaile and the Emergence of Ecological Design.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2017). Norwegian Wood: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Ecological Design.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2017). Reparatørene kommer! Om varighet, tilknytning, og åpenhet i vår produktkultur.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2017). Appetite for Construction: Design History as Environmental History.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2016). Future Anterior: A Historiography of Contemporary Design.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2016). An Educated Guess: History Lessons for the Environment.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2016). Ingeniørkunst: teknologen som designer. Kunsthåndverk. ISSN 0333-1059. 36(140), p. 7–11.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2016). Learning from Nowhere? Locating William Morris' Eco-Fiction in Design History.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2016). Hi-Fi: Visualisering av lyd ved Tandbergs Radiofabrikk.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2016). Grønt forbruk: et designhistorisk perspektiv.
  • Jørgensen, Finn Arne & Fallan, Kjetil (2015). Environmental histories of design. Environment and History. ISSN 0967-3407. 21(4), p. 641–644.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2015). Green is Beautiful: Design History as if Nature Mattered.
  • Fallan, Kjetil & Lees-Maffei, Grace (2015). National Design Histories in an Age of Globalization.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2015). Gullfiskminner: Aluminiumstrikken fra Holmestrand og Strømmen.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2015). Ruth Oldenziel and Mikael Hård, Consumers, Tinkerers, Rebels: The People Who Shaped Europe. Journal of Design History. ISSN 0952-4649. 28(2), p. 212–213. doi: 10.1093/jdh/epu040.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2015). The Station of the Nation: National Narratives and the Globalization of Design History.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2015). The Making of Design History.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2015). For the Love of It: Enthusiasts, Collectors, Amateurs, and the Value of Unsanctioned Knowledge.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2014). New Nordic: Contemporary Design.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2014). Design Culturing: Making Design History Matter.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2014). Weapons of Mass Deception: Deadly Design from the Peacemongering Periphery.
  • Fallan, Kjetil & Zetterlund, Christina (2014). Minoriteters materielle kultur: en utfordring for nordisk designhistorie.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2014). Introduction to ‘110 Volts at Home: The American Lista’ by Siv Ringdal. Journal of Design History. ISSN 0952-4649. 27(1), p. 76–78. doi: 10.1093/jdh/ept047.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2013). “Kombi-Nation: Mini Bicycles as Moving Memories”.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2013). Confessions of an Anti-Instrumentalist: Teaching Design History outside Design Schools.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2013). Icons of Play, Icons at Play: LEGO and Rubik’s Cube.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2013). De-tooling Design History: To What Purpose and For Whom Do We Write?
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2012). Et fag i forming: Designhistorisk teori og metode.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2012). Skandinavisk design: Alternative historier.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2012). Up Close and Personal: Subjectivity in Research and Design.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2012). Turning My Story into History: Making Memories Matter.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2012). Relationships between Text, Narrative and Image.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2012). Aluminium i designhistorien: "... som ild og vand"?
  • Fallan, Kjetil & Bulie, Kåre (2012). Historisk redesign. [Newspaper]. Dagens Næringsliv, D2.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2012). Designhistorie i bedriftshistorien: teoretiske og metodiske innganger.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2012). Skandinavisk design: Alternative historier.
  • Fallan, Kjetil (2012). Aluminium i norsk designhistorie: "... som ild og vand"?

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