Participant Info
- First Name
- Sorcha
- Last Name
- O'Brien
- Country
- Ireland
- State
- sorchaobrien@gmail.com
- Affiliation
- Kingston University
- Website URL
- electricirishhomes.org
- Keywords
- design history, product design, interiors, home, technology, electrical technology, irish culture, irish design, domesticity
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- PhD
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
I am a Irish design historian who specialises in the areas of product and interior design. I am currently the principal investigator on an AHRC Leadership Fellowship, researching women and rural electrification, focusing on the role played by domestic electric products in developing Irish ideas about modernity and domesticity in the 1950s and 1960s.
Topics of interest include: Design history, particularly relating to technology, product and interior design; image and object analysis; critical theory relevant to materiality and the designed object; the representation of technology through advertising and photography; electricity in Ireland; rural electrification
- Recent Publications
Powering the Nation: Images of the Shannon Scheme and the Electrification of Ireland, Irish Academic Press, 2017
Subject editor for Practitioners, Bloomsbury Encyclopaedia of Design, general editor Clive Edwards, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015
Love Objects: Emotion, Design and Material Culture, co-edited with Anna Moran, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2014
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @electricirishhomes
- Country Focus
- Ireland
- Expertise by Geography
- British Isles, Ireland
- Expertise by Chronology
- 20th century, 21st century
- Expertise by Topic
- Art & Architectural History, Material Culture, Rural & Agrarian History, Technology, Women
