Staff Research Profiles
Emma Gieben-Gamal
Position: Lecturer in Design History and Visual Culture
Telephone: 0131 221 6196
Email: e.gieben-gamal@eca.ac.uk
The Graduate Research School deals with enquiries about research-led postgraduate study at eca. Formal applications for postgraduate study must be submitted to the Academic Registry.
Profile
I specialise in the history of design and consumer culture as well as design and consumption theory and am particularly interested in issues revolving around gender, design and the cultural construction of space. I have published on a diverse range of topics from a narrative history of English garden design to an analysis of hair and beauty salons in the 1920s and 1930s.
I am currently interested in contemporary practices of ‘home-making’ and what impact discourses around climate change are having on attitudes towards the home and domestic products. Within this, I am also interested in the ways in which women are represented as ‘home-makers’ and consumers of domestic products.
Academic Units
Vision
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- GLAADH Conference organiser and session convenor
- ‘Diversifying the Design History Curriculum: A Review of Recent Resources’
- Feminine spaces, modern experiences: the design and display strategies of British hairdressing salons in the 1920s and 1930s
- This Other Eden. Seven Great Gardens and 300 Hundred Years of English History
- Teaching learning resources for a culturally diverse curriculum
Projects