The initiative – entitled - is a series of British Academy-funded international writing workshops to develop the skills of Postgraduate Researchers and Early Career Researchers in the Global South.
The five-year collaboration will bring together the university's globally-renowned Centre for Design History (CDH) and the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Sao Paolo. The UK side will be led by – Reader in History of Art and Design, and Director of the CDH – working with in Brazil.
The Centre for Design History will deliver on writing about objects, images and archives, pertinent to the design history interests of both sets of partners. Questions asked at the events will include: What are the challenges and benefits of writing about design for English language domains? How can objects be verbalised? What might be gained in these acts of translation?