The National CollegeVisual Culture Staff
Lisa Godson, MA (Dublin), MA, (RCA/V&A), PhD, (RCA)
Lecturer - History of Design & Material Culture.
godsonl[AT]ncad.ie
Lisa is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, the RCA/V&A MA in History of Design and has recently completed her PhD at the Royal College of Art, London.
Prior to her appointment at NCAD, she was lecturer in Critical and Historical studies at the RCA for 4 years, and held a teaching and learning fellowship there. She was visiting lecturer in History of Art and Architecture at Trinity College Dublin (2003), and lecturer in History of Art, Design and Visual Culture at Dublin Institute of Technology (1999-2003).
Other recent activities have included co-convening the international symposium on new research into exhibitions, festivals and Worlds Fairs at the Victoria and Albert Museum (March 2005) and working as a critic and curator. Her work as a critic includes a weekly column on Irish design and material culture ('Designer Ireland') for the Sunday Times (1999 - 2005). Godson has also worked as a curator (On Neon, National Photographic Archive, 2002) and as curatorial adviser to the Design Museum in London and the National Museum of Ireland.
Publications include a book Stealing Hearts at a Travelling Show, on the graphic design of U2 (Dublin: 2003), essays in the Journal of Design History and articles on Irish design for CIRCA.
Areas of research expertise include the material culture of ceremony and ritual, gender and material culture, religion and material culture/design, Irish material culture since 1850, design and the everyday, non-hegemonic constructions of modernity around design and material culture, contemporary product and interaction design, particularly conceptual design and the construction of the user/consumer.
