Anne Massey is Professor of Design and Culture at London College of Communication, UK. She is the author and editor of a number of books, including Pop Art and Design (2017) and Hollywood Beyond the Screen (2000).
Zoë Hendon is Head of Collections at the Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture, UK. She has published articles in the Journal of Decorative Arts and is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Design History.

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List of contributors
Foreword
Barry Curtis, Royal College of Art, UK

Introduction
Zoe Hendon and Anne Massey, independent, UK
Section I: Millennia, Centuries
1. Designing stone: temporal representation of a timeless material
Seher Erdogan Ford, Temple University, USA
2. 'The drama of the soul': time, eternity and evolution in the designs of Phoebe Anna Traquair
Sally Anne Huxtable, National Museums Scotland, UK
3. Time aboard the Ghan: Alice Springs to Adelaide, March 2016
Anne Burke, Middlesex University, UK
Section II: Centuries, Decades, Years
4 As good as apple pie? Post-unification Germany and the reception of public art from the former German Democratic Republic
Jessica Jenkins, Falmouth University, UK
5. The story of a Portuguese cock and other knick-knacks: heritage, propaganda and design in a far-right dictatorship
Carlos Bártolo, Universidade Lusíada, Portugal
6. An experiment with time: modern and classical influences in the planning of 'high and over'
Michael Findlay, Otago Polytechnic, New Zealand
7. Making 'atomic' history: consuming historical narratives in the 'unofficial' digital archive
Emily Candela, Royal College of Art, UK
8. A queer feeling and its future in/for design history
John Potvin, Concordia University, Canada
Section III: Days, Hours, Seconds
9. Tube time: How the subterranean city got faster by design
David Lawrence, Kingston University and London Transport Museum, UK
10. Dreams of The Fun Palace and Plug-In City: architectural modularism and cybernetics in the 1960s
Claire McAndrew, University College London, UK
11. Sign of the times: slow design in the age of social acceleration
Niels Peter Skou, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
12. Fast and slow: design and the experience of time
Stephen Hayward, Central St Martins, UK
13. Delivered in less than sixty seconds: temporal references in the design and discourse of digital reading devices
Toke Riis Ebbesen, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
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Index