Kjetil Fallan

Books

• Nordic Design Cultures in Transformation, 1960-1980: Revolt and Resilience (London: Routledge, 2023). Co-edited with Christina Zetterlund and Anders V. Munch.
• The Culture of Nature in the History of Design (London and New York: Routledge, 2019).
• Designing Modern Norway: A History of Design Discourse (London and New York: Routledge, 2017).
• Designing Worlds: National Design Histories in an Age of Globalization (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2016). Co-edited with Grace-Lees-Maffei.
• Made in Italy: Rethinking a Century of Italian Design (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013). Co-edited with Grace-Lees-Maffei.
• Scandinavian Design: Alternative Histories (London: Berg Publishers, 2012) ISBN: 9781847889119
• Design History: Understanding Theory and Method (Oxford: Berg Publishers, 2010) ISBN: 9781847885371
• Chinese edition, transl. Li Zhang (Nanjing: Phoenix Publishing, 2016) ISBN: 9787558003165

Book chapters

• 'The Way North: Merging Ideology and Methodology on the Road to Ecological Design', in Kjetil Fallan, Christina Zetterlund and Anders V. Munch (eds.), Nordic Design Cultures in Transformation, 1960-1980: Revolt and Resilience (London: Routledge, 2023), pp. 11-23.
• 'Introduction: Nordic Design Cultures in Transformation, 1960-1980', in Kjetil Fallan, Christina Zetterlund and Anders V. Munch (eds.), Nordic Design Cultures in Transformation, 1960-1980: Revolt and Resilience (London: Routledge, 2023), pp. 1-8. Co-authored with Christina Zetterlund and Anders V. Munch.
• 'When Design Developed a Conscience', in Denise Hagströmer and Helena Kåberg (eds.), Scandinavian Design og USA 1890-1980 (Oslo: Nasjonalmuseet, 2022), pp. 170-171.
• 'Think City Electric Vehicle', in Barbara Penner, Adrian Forty, Olivia Horsfall Turner, Miranda Critchley (eds.), Extinct: A Compendium of Obsolete Objects (London: Reaktion Books, 2021), pp. 324-327.
• 'Norwegian Wood: Trails to Ecological Design', in Claudia Mareis and Nina Paim (eds.), Design Struggles: Intersecting Histories, Pedagogies, and Perspectives (Amsterdam: Valiz, 2021), pp. 117-135.
• 'Aspen Comes to Scandinavia', in Bobbye Tigerman and Monica Obniski (eds.), Scandinavian Design and the United States, 1890-1980 (Los Angeles/Munich and New York: Los Angeles County Museum of Art/DelMonico Books Prestel, 2020), pp. 289-306.
• 'Introduction: The Culture of Nature in the History of Design', in Kjetil Fallan (ed.), The Culture of Nature in the History of Design (London and New York: Routledge, 2019), pp. 1-15.
• 'The Object of Design History: Lessons for the Environment', in Anne Massey (ed.), A Companion to Contemporary Design since 1945 (Oxford: Wiley Blackwell, 2019), pp. 260-283.
• 'Design Culturing: Making Design History Matter', in Guy Julier, Mads Nygaard Folkmann, Niels Peter Skou, Hans-Christian Jensen, and Anders V. Munch (eds.), Design Culture: Objects and Approaches (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019), pp. 15-27.
• 'Reale imaginierte Gemeinschaften: Nationale Narrative und die Globalisierung der Designgeschichte', in Eva Knopf, Sophie Lembcke, Mara Recklies (eds.), Archive dekolonialisieren: Mediale und epistemische Transformationen in Kunst, Design und Film (Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 2018), pp. 223-240. Co-authored with Grace Lees-Maffei. [German translation of 'Real Imagined Communities: National Narratives and the Globalization of Design History']
• 'Altering a Homogenized Heritage: Articulating Heterogeneous Material Cultures in Norway and Sweden', in Kjetil Fallan and Grace-Lees-Maffei (eds.), Designing Worlds: National Design Histories in an Age of Globalization (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2016), pp. 172-187. Co-authored with Christina Zetterlund.
• 'Introduction: National Design Histories in an Age of Globalization', in Kjetil Fallan and Grace-Lees-Maffei (eds.), Designing Worlds: National Design Histories in an Age of Globalization (New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2016), pp. 1-21. Co-authored with Grace Lees-Maffei.
• 'A Match Made in Utopia? The Uneasy Love Affaire of Art and Industry in Scandinavia', in Penny Sparke and Fiona Fisher (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Design Studies (London: Routledge, 2016), pp. 255-265.
• 'Things at Home: Pursuing the Genuine in Contemporary Norwegian Design', in Monika Rydiger and Solveig Lønmo (eds.), The Logic of the Local: Norwegian and Polish Contemporary Design (Kraków: International Cultural Centre, 2016), pp. 45-53.
• 'High Fidelity: Visioning Sound at Tandbergs Radiofabrikk', in Denise Hagströmer (ed.), Ekstrøm Extreme: Norwegian Furniture and Industrial Design (Stuttgart: Arnoldsche, 2016), pp. 75-93.
• 'Love and Hate in Industrial Design: Europe’s Design Professionals and America in the 1950s', in Per Lundin and Thomas Kaiserfeld (eds.), The Making of European Consumption: Facing the American Challenge (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), pp. 134-156.
• 'LEGO, Denmark (Ole Kirk Christiansen, 1958)', in Grace Lees-Maffei (ed.), Iconic Design: 50 Stories about 50 Things (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014), pp. 176-179.
• 'Rubik’s Cube, Hungary (Ernő Rubik, 1974)', in Grace Lees-Maffei (ed.), Iconic Design: 50 Stories about 50 Things (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014), pp. 138-141.
• 'Annus Mirabilis: 1954, Alberto Rosselli and the Institutionalisation of Design Mediation', in Grace Lees-Maffei and Kjetil Fallan (eds.), Made in Italy: Rethinking a Century of Italian Design (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013), pp. 255-270.
• 'Introduction: The History of Italian Design' [Co-authored with Grace Lees-Maffei], in Grace Lees-Maffei and Kjetil Fallan (eds.),Made in Italy: Rethinking a Century of Italian Design (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013), pp. 1-33.
• 'Culture by Design: Co-Constructing Material and Meaning', in Kjerstin Aukrust (ed.), Assigning Cultural Values (Frankfurt: Peter Lang Publishing, 2013), pp. 135-163.
• 'L’histoire du design', in Alexandra Midal (ed.), Design, l’anthologie (Saint Étienne: Cité du design & Ecole supérieure d’art et design, 2013), pp. 453-462. [French translation of excerpt from Design History: Understanding Theory and Method]
• 'Introduction', in Kjetil Fallan (ed.), Scandinavian Design: Alternative Histories (London: Berg Publishers, 2012), pp. 1-12.
• 'A Historiography of Scandinavian Design' [co-authered Anders V. Munch, Pekka Korvenmaa, Espen Johnsen, Sara Kristoffersson og Christina Zetterlund], in Kjetil Fallan (ed.), Scandinavian Design: Alternative Histories (London: Berg Publishers, 2012), pp. 13-31.
• 'Goldfish Memories: Recounting Oslo's Streamlined Aluminium Trams', in Kjetil Fallan (ed.), Scandinavian Design: Alternative Histories (London: Berg Publishers, 2012), pp. 117-135.
• 'Epilogue', in Kjetil Fallan (ed.), Scandinavian Design: Alternative Histories (London: Berg Publishers, 2012), pp. 237-241.
• 'The Metamorphosis of a Norwegian Design Magazine: nye bonytt, 1968-1971', in Grace Lees-Maffei (ed.), Writing Design: Words and Objects (London: Berg Publishers, 2011), pp. 47-61.

Articles

• “Dyp design i Ville vesten: Da norsk økofilosofi møtte amerikansk økodesign”, Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift 37(2) (2020): 98-112.
• "Environmental Histories of Design: Towards a New Research Agenda", Journal of Design History 30(2) (2017): 103-121. Co-authered with Finn Arne Jørgensen.
• "Real Imagined Communities: National Narratives and the Globalization of Design History”, Design Issues 32(1) (2016): 5-18. Co-authored with Grace Lees-Maffei.
• "Nordic Noir: Deadly Design from the Peacemongering Periphery", Design and Culture 7(3) (2015): 377-402.
• “It’s Personal: Subjectivity in Design History”, Design and Culture 7(1) (2015): 5-27. Co-authored with Grace Lees-Maffei. Special Issue: It’s Personal: Subjectivity in Design History, edited by Grace Lees-Maffei and Kjetil Fallan.
• “The Enthusiast’s Eye: The Value of Unsanctioned Knowledge in Design Historical Scholarship”, Design and Culture 7(1) (2015): 107-123. Co-authored with Paul Hazell.
• “Our Common Future: Joining Forces for Histories of Sustainable Design”, Tecnoscienza: Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies 5(2) (2014): 13-44.
• "Milanese Mediations: Crafting Scandinavian Design at the Triennali di Milano", Konsthistorisk Tidskrift/Journal of Art History 83(1) (2014): 1-23.
• "Kombi-Nation: Mini Bicycles as Moving Memories", Journal of Design History 26(1) (2013): 65-85.
• "De-tooling Design History: To What Purpose and For Whom Do We Write?", Design and Culture 5(1) (2013): 13-19.
• “‘The “Designer”—the 11th Plague’: Design Discourse from Consumer Activism to Environmentalism in 1960s Norway”, Design Issues 27(4) (2011): 30-42.
• "The Realpolitik of the Artificial: Strategic design at Figgjo Fajanse facing  international free trade in the 1960s", Enterprise and Society 10(3) (2009): 559-589.
• ”Heresy and Heroics: The debate on the alleged ‘crisis’ in Italian design around 1960”, Modern Italy 14(3) (2009): 257-274.
• ""One must offer ‘something for everyone’": Designing crockery for consumer consent in 1950s’ Norway", Journal of Design History 22(2) (2009): 133-149.
• ”De-scribing Design: Appropriating script analysis to design history”, Design Issues 24(4) (2008): 61-75.
• ”Architecture in Action: Traveling with Actor-Network Theory in the land of architectural research”, Architectural Theory Review 13(1) (2008): 80-96.
• ”Form, function, fiction: Translations of technology and design in product development”, History and Technology 24(1) (2008): 61-87.
• ”How an excavator got aesthetic pretensions: Negotiating design in 1960s’ Norway”, Journal of Design History 20(1) (2007): 43-59.
• “Modernism or modern ISMS?: Notes on an epistemological problem in design history”, Nordic Journal of Architectural Research 17(4) (2004): 81-92.
• ”Visionaries and weathercocks: Norwegian furniture design c. 1920 – 1965”, Scandinavian Journal of Design History 13 (2003): 100-113.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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. Show summary

  The Culture of Nature in the History of Design confronts the dilemma caused by design’s pertinent yet precarious position in environmental discourse through interdisciplinary conversations about the design of nature and the nature of design. Demonstrating that the deep entanglements of design and nature have a deeper and broader history than contemporary discourse on sustainable design and ecological design might imply, this book presents case studies ranging from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century and from Singapore to Mexico. It gathers scholarship on a broad range of fields/practices, from urban planning, landscape architecture, and architecture, to engineering design, industrial design, furniture design and graphic design. From adobe architecture to the atomic bomb, from the bonsai tree to Biosphere 2, from pesticides to photovoltaics, from rust to recycling – the culture of nature permeates the history of design. As an activity and a profession always operating in the borderlands between human and non-human environments, design has always been part of the environmental problem, whilst also being an indispensable part of the solution. The book ventures into domains as diverse as design theory, research, pedagogy, politics, activism, organizations, exhibitions, and fiction and trade literature to explore how design is constantly making and unmaking the environment and, conversely, how the environment is both making and unmaking design. This book will be of great interest to a range of scholarly fields, from design education and design history to environmental policy and environmental history.

• 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). Nordic Noir: Deadly Design from the Peacemongering Periphery. Design and Culture. ISSN 1754-7075. 7(3), p. 377–402. doi: 10.1080/17547075.2015.1117718.
• 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 & Hazell, Paul (2015). The Enthusiast’s Eye: The Value of Unsanctioned Knowledge in Design Historical Scholarship. Design and Culture. ISSN 1754-7075. 7(1), p. 107–123. doi: 10.2752/175470715X14153615623763.
• 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 (2014). Milanese Mediations: Crafting Scandinavian Design at the Triennali di Milano. Konsthistorisk tidskrift. ISSN 0023-3609. 83(1), p. 1–23. doi: 10.1080/00233609.2013.878389.
• 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). De-tooling Design History: To What Purpose and For Whom Do We Write? Design and Culture. ISSN 1754-7075. 5(1), p. 13–19. doi: 10.2752/175470813X13491105785389.
• 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.
• Fallan, Kjetil (2012). Introduction. In Fallan, Kjetil (Eds.), Scandinavian Design: Alternative Histories. Berg Publishers. ISSN 9781847889119. p. 1–12.
• Fallan, Kjetil (2012). The Metamorphosis of a Norwegian Design Magazine: nye bonytt, 1968-1971. In Lees-Maffei, Grace (Eds.), Writing design : words and objects. Berg Publishers. ISSN 978-1-84788-956-0. p. 47–61. doi: 10.5040/9781474294089.ch-003.
• Fallan, Kjetil (2011). Ting og teori i nyere designhistorie :. Kunst og kultur. ISSN 0023-5415. 94(4), p. 230–239.

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• Fallan, Kjetil; Zetterlund, Christina & Munch, Anders V. (2022). Nordic Design Cultures in Transformation, 1960–1980: Revolt and Resilience. Routledge. ISBN 9781032290423. 230 p.
• Fallan, Kjetil (2019). The Culture of Nature in the History of Design. Routledge. ISBN 9781138601925. 257 p. Show summary

  The Culture of Nature in the History of Design confronts the dilemma caused by design’s pertinent yet precarious position in environmental discourse through interdisciplinary conversations about the design of nature and the nature of design. Demonstrating that the deep entanglements of design and nature have a deeper and broader history than contemporary discourse on sustainable design and ecological design might imply, this book presents case studies ranging from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century and from Singapore to Mexico. It gathers scholarship on a broad range of fields/practices, from urban planning, landscape architecture, and architecture, to engineering design, industrial design, furniture design and graphic design. From adobe architecture to the atomic bomb, from the bonsai tree to Biosphere 2, from pesticides to photovoltaics, from rust to recycling – the culture of nature permeates the history of design. As an activity and a profession always operating in the borderlands between human and non-human environments, design has always been part of the environmental problem, whilst also being an indispensable part of the solution. The book ventures into domains as diverse as design theory, research, pedagogy, politics, activism, organizations, exhibitions, and fiction and trade literature to explore how design is constantly making and unmaking the environment and, conversely, how the environment is both making and unmaking design. This book will be of great interest to a range of scholarly fields, from design education and design history to environmental policy and environmental history.

• 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.
• Fallan, Kjetil (2012). Scandinavian Design: Alternative Histories. Berg Publishers. ISBN 9781847889119. 288 p.

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• Fallan, Kjetil & Munch, Anders V. (2022). Dissolving Design: Ecology and Environment as Destabilizing Agents.
• 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). Kast eller fiks. Ekko, NRK P2, 26. mai 2017.
• 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"?
• Fallan, Kjetil (2012). Alumination: Co-constructing Material and Meaning in the Design History of Aluminium.
• Fallan, Kjetil (2012). Turning My Story into History: Mini-Bicycles as Moving Memories.
• Fallan, Kjetil (2011). Design and Truth. Design Issues. ISSN 0747-9360. 27(4), p. 103–104.
• Fallan, Kjetil (2011). Finnish Design: A Concise History. Journal of Design History. ISSN 0952-4649. 14(1), p. 136–140. doi: 10.2752/175630610X12877385838966.

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