Select Publications
Book Chapters
2023, 'Reframing Modern Design as Displacement: A Discussion through Decolonial Thinking on the Brazilian Experience', in Traganou J; Lichtman SA (ed.), Design, Displacement, Migration: Spatial and Material Histories, Routledge, New York, pp. 109 - 123, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003194293-8
,2022, 'Shared and not Contested: Modern Erasures in Design and Architecture: History, Practice and Education in Brazil', in Ashby C; Crinson M (ed.), Building/Object. Shared and Contested Territories of Design and Architecture, Bloomsbury Publishing, London, pp. 253 - 272, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350234031
,2016, 'Of Coffee, Nature and Exclusion: Designing Brazilian National Identity at International Exhibitions, 1867 & 1904', in Lees-Maffei G; Fallan K (ed.), Designing Worlds: National Design Histories in an Age of Globalization, Berghahn Books, Oxford, pp. 259 - 273
,2016, 'Asociación Colombiana de Diseñadores (ACD) (Association of Colombian Designers) (1976–)', in Edwards C (ed.), The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design, Bloomsbury Academic, London, pp. 94 - 95, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781472596178-BED-A104
,2016, 'Asociación Latinoamericana de Diseño (Aladi) (Latin American Association of Design) (1980–)', in Edwards C (ed.), The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design, Bloomsbury Academic, London, pp. 312 - 312, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781472596161-BED-L018
,2016, 'Chicago “A Century of Progress International Exposition” (1933–4)', in Edwards C (ed.), The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design, Bloomsbury Academic, London, pp. 232 - 233, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781472596178-BED-C042
,2016, 'Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition (1893)', in Edwards C (ed.), The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design, Bloomsbury Academic, London, pp. 234 - 235, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781472596178-BED-C044
,2016, 'Escola Superior de Desenho Industrial (ESDI) (College of Higher Education in Design), Rio de Janeiro (1963–)', in Edwards C (ed.), The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design, Bloomsbury Academic, London, pp. 488 - 489, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781472596178-BED-E040
,2016, 'Escuela de Diseno Industrial e Informacional (EDI) School of Informational and Industrial Design, Havana (1969–76)', in Edwards C (ed.), The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design, Bloomsbury Academic, London, pp. 463 - 463, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781472596178-BED-E013
,2016, 'Instituto de Diseño Fundación Neumann-INCE (IDD) (Institute of Design, Neumann-INCE Foundation), Caracas (1964–95)', in Edwards C (ed.), The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design, Bloomsbury Academic, London, pp. 202 - 203, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781472596161-BED-I043
,2016, 'Museo Mexicano del Diseño (MUMEDI) (Mexican Museum of Design), Mexico City (2002–)', in Edwards C (ed.), The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design, Bloomsbury Academic, London, pp. 423 - 424, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781472596161-BED-M112
,2016, 'Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (MASP) (São Paulo Art Museum) (1947–)', in Edwards C (ed.), The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design, Bloomsbury Academic, London, pp. 424 - 424, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781472596161-BED-M113
,2016, 'Museu do Design e da Moda (MUDE) (Museum of Design), Lisbon (1999–)', in Edwards C (ed.), The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design, Bloomsbury Academic, London, pp. 424 - 424, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781472596161-BED-M114
,2016, 'National Institute for Industrial Research (Instituto Nacional de Investigação Industrial) (INII), Portugal (1959–79)', in Edwards C (ed.), The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design, Bloomsbury Academic, London, pp. 434 - 434, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781472596161-BED-N011
,2016, 'National Institute for Industrial Research (Instituto Nacional de Investigação Industrial) (INII), Portugal (1959–79)', in The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design
,2016, 'New York World's Fair (1964–65)', in Edwards C (ed.), The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design, Bloomsbury Academic, London, pp. 455 - 456, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781472596161-BED-N034
,2016, 'Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition (1876)', in Edwards C (ed.), The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Design, Bloomsbury Academic, London, pp. 49 - 50, http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781472596154-BED-P038
,2015, 'The Artifice of Nature and the Naturalisation of the State at the 1922 Rio de Janeiro International Exhibition', in Filipova M (ed.), Cultures of International Exhibitions, 1840–1940: Great Exhibitions in the Margins, Ashgate, London, pp. 163 - 182
,2014, 'Beyond natural beauty, bounty and national boundaries: actualising the debate on the “Brazilian Contemporary', in Faust C (ed.), Prova 2: Humanities Research Forum Journal, Royal College of Art, London, pp. 26 - 30
,2014, 'Designing the state at Brazil’s Independence Centennial International Exhibition', in Design Frontiers: Territories, Concepts, Technologies, Editorial Designio, Mexico City, pp. 79 - 89
,2005, 'A Circulação de imagens no Brasil Oitocentista: uma História com Marca Registrada', in Cardoso R (ed.), O Design Brasileiro Antes do Design: Aspectos da História Gráfica, 1870-1960, Cosac Naify, São Paulo, pp. 20 - 57
,Journal articles
2023, 'In Between Breaths: Memories, Stories, and Otherwise Design Histories', Journal of Design History, 36, pp. 1 - 22, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epac038
,2021, 'The future of the past: The representation of the first brazilian republic in the world’s columbian exposition in Chicago, 1893', Iberoamericana, 21, pp. 71 - 95, http://dx.doi.org/10.18441/ibam.21.2021.77.71-95
,2021, '‘Deep encounters’ with the archives: reflections of a design historian in Brazil (in two acts)', RMIT Design Archives Journal, 11, pp. 8 - 19, https://issuu.com/rmitdesignarchives/docs/rda_journal_25_11.2_supply_singlepages_issuu
,2019, 'Locating design exchanges in Latin America and the Caribbean', Journal of Design History, 32, pp. 1 - 16, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epy048
,2017, 'Manufacturing the raw in design pageantries: The commodification and gendering of Brazilian tropical nature at the 1867 Exposition Universelle', Journal of Design History, 30, pp. 122 - 138, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epx007
,2015, 'World History of Design', JOURNAL OF DESIGN HISTORY, 28, pp. 431 - 433, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jdh/epv039
,2012, 'Modern British Posters: Art, Design & Communication * Art for All: British Posters for Transport', Journal of Design History, 25, pp. 329 - 332, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jdh/eps024
,Conference Papers
2023, 'Interalities: a conversation on positionalities, localities, pluralities within design education futures', in LearnxDesign 2023, Design Research Society, London, UK, presented at LearnXDesign 2023, London, UK, 29 November 2023 - 01 December 2023, http://dx.doi.org/10.21606/drslxd.2023.047
,2020, 'O design na encruzilhada: o currículo “imperialista” da ESDI contestado durante a Primeira Bienal Internacional de Design no Brasil (1968)', in Marinho C; Barros C; Ribeiro B (eds.), Pesquisa e Design: De(s)colonizando o design, Editora Nadifúndio, UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO CEARÁ (UFC) / UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO CARIRI (UFCA) / GRUPO DE PESQUISA EM ARTE E DESIGN (PADE), pp. 639 - 647, presented at II COLÓQUIO DE PESQUISA E DESIGN, UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO CEARÁ (UFC) / UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO CARIRI (UFCA) / GRUPO DE PESQUISA EM ARTE E DESIGN (PADE), 03 November 2020, http://dx.doi.org/10.26190/unsworks/28126
,2012, 'Transforming territories and forging identities at the Independence Centennial International Exhibition in Rio de Janeiro (1922)', in Farias P; Calvera A; Braga M (eds.), Design frontiers: territories, concepts, technologies [=ICDHS 2012 - 8th Conference of the International Committee for Design History & Design Studies], Edgard Blücher, São Paulo, pp. 274 - 277, presented at Design frontiers: territories, concepts, technologies [=ICDHS 2012 - 8th Conference of the International Committee for Design History & Design Studies], São Paulo, 03 September 2012, http://dx.doi.org/10.5151/design-icdhs-052
,2010, 'Crafting the Nation: Brazilian 'Civilised Exoticism' at World’s Exhibitions', in Gimeno-Martinez J; Floré F (ed.), Design and Craft: A History of Convergences and Divergences, Universa, Brussels, pp. 136 - 139, presented at 7th International Committee of Design History and Design Studies (ICDHS) Conference - ‘Design and Craft’: A History of Convergences’,, Belgium, (2010), Brussels, 20 September 2010
,2008, 'The Raw and the Manufactured: a Discussion of Brazilian National Identity as Projected in International Exhibitions (1862-1867)', in Fujita H (ed.), Another Name for Design: Words for Creation, Osaka, pp. 354 - 357, presented at 6th ICDHS Conference - International Committee for Design History and Design Studies, Osaka, 15 October 2008, http://www.ub.edu/icdhs/osaka/book.html
,Conference Abstracts
2014, 'The land of coffee: Brazilian representation at the Louisiana Purchase International Exhibition (St. Louis, 1904)', in Forging the Nation: 21st Annual Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) Conference, London School of Economics (LSE), s/p., London School of Economics (LSE), UK, presented at Forging the Nation: 21st Annual Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) Conference, London School of Economics (LSE), UK
,(ed.), 2005, 'From the graphic to the ideological project: the construction of national identity on nineteenth-century Brazilian labels', in ocating Design, Proceedings of the 2005 Design History Society Annual Conference, London Metropolitan University, UK, presented at 2005 Design History Society Annual Conference, London Metropolitan University, UK
,Curatorial Outputs
2019, Emotional Practices, exhibited at: , 27 September 2019 - 27 September 2020, https://emotional-practices.webflow.io/
,Theses / Dissertations
2011, The raw and the manufactured: Brazilian modernity and national identity as projected in International Exhibitions, 1862-1922, https://researchonline.rca.ac.uk/1143/
,2003, Do projeto gráfico ao ideológico: a impressão da nacionalidade em rótulos oitocentistas brasileiros
,1998, Cinema Imagem
,Creative Written Works
2022, Amazon’s Rubber Saga, Material Intelligence: Rubber, Adamson G; Herrera-Perez C, (ed.), Chipstone Foundation, https://www.materialintelligencemag.org/rubber/
,2022, The empty and the full: Design education, modern design pedagogies and student protests in 1968 Brazil, Schools of Departure: a digital atlas of Bauhaus pedagogy post-1933, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, https://atlas.bauhaus-dessau.de/en/escola-superior-de-desenho-industrial-esdi
,2012, O Nome do Jogo, Livro-Poster Canção: Transgressão, http://livroposter.blogspot.com/p/colaboradores.html
,2011, The raw and the manufactured: Brazilian modernity and national identity as projected in International Exhibitions (1862–1922), Royal College of Art Show Catalogue 2011, Reeve O, (ed.), Royal College of Art
,2007, Expo: the Brazilian quest for modernity and national identity through participation in International Exhibitions, 1851–1922, Research RCA, Kemp S, (ed.), Royal College of Art
,Creative Works (non-textual)
2011, The Tropicalisation of Brazil, Show RCA 2011, Royal College of Art, London, UK, 24 June 2011 - 03 July 2011, medium: Installation in glass, adhesive paper and plastic
,Media
2022, Design networks in / from / across Australia, Parlour: Gender, Equity, Architecture, Australia, https://parlour.org.au/parlour-live/parlour-lab/designing-histories-new-futures/
,2021, Fugitive Paperwork: Documentary Practices in Literature, Art and History, Media Futures Hub, UNSW School of Arts & Media, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYpA4CGxwdk
,2021, Locating Design Exchanges in Latin America and the Caribbean, AIGA Baltimore and the Society of Design Arts, United States, https://baltimore.aiga.org/latino-design-histories/
,2021, Megha Rajguru in conversation with Livia Lazzaro Rezende, the 2020 Design Writing Prize Winner, Australia & UK, https://www.designhistorysociety.org/news/view/megha-rajguru-in-conversation-with-livia-lazzaro-rezende-the-2020-design-writing-prize-winner
,2018, Fire destroys Rio's National Museum of Brazil, Channel 4 UK, London, UK, https://www.channel4.com/news/rcas-dr-livia-rezende-on-rio-museum-fire-some-collections-lost-are-irreplaceable
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