Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026How well do objects of design fare in secondary markets built for fine art and antiquities? This is the question I tackle in my newest article for transfer, out now (in open access!): ahnp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/tra... 111
Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026IMO, still preferable to many of the open offices I study... 000
Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 20/08/2026www.tribuneindia.com/news/chandig...tribuneindia.comSuspend transfer of Chandigarh heritage furniture sold in Chicago: UNESCO tells Wright Auction House - The TribuneIn a development that appears to have significantly strengthened India’s effort in recovering Chandigarh’s heritage furniture sold at an auction in Chicago, US, on August 13, the United Nations Educat... 100
Reposted by Petra SeitzDesign History Society @sodesignhistory.bsky.social · 06/08/2026In the first of our new blog series 'Crafting Furniture in the Global South', design and architectural historian @pooskipie.bsky.social shares research on Chandigarh's modernist furniture and use-based furniture history as an anti-colonial technique buff.ly/V9pWVII 011
Reposted by Petra SeitzErin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 08/07/2026new open access publication - free for download! - on digital approaches to tracing the illicit trade in cultural objects: link.springer.com/book/10.1007... 1268
Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Fantastic to see a successful stoppage of a sale of Chandigarh's furniture! Hopefully a tiding for future interventions... www.tribuneindia.com/news/chandig...tribuneindia.comChandigarhs heritage recovery: How India got the legal lever it never had - The TribuneWhat changed this week was not the law — it was the decision to stop looking for a domestic solution to an international problem and instead use the international legal architecture that already exist... 130
Reposted by Petra SeitzWill Jennings @willjennings.bsky.social · 19/06/2026I am here for NextGen Hooliganism. 071
Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Finishing up another *provocative* Chandigarh Chairs project paper for this symposium on the need to establish new systems of value (based on use!) for design historical studies - hope you can join us for it! 000
Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 15/04/2026Disgusted (but not totally surprised) that the V&A would so easily capitulate to foreign censorship. 100
Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Pressing question: Is a Gundam a piece of architecture? 000
Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 10/03/2026100% agree that Glasgow's management of its built environment needs to change, but 100% disagree that this 'heritage' is 'irreplaceable.' 111
Reposted by Petra SeitzHannah Shelley, MLIS (Maggots, Lycanthropes & Ice Skeletons) @hannahshelley.site · 02/03/2026📚 131054311
Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 26/02/2026Once again, with feeling: The housing crisis isn't necessarily a crisis in the existing amount of housing stock, but rather is a crisis related to the distribution and use of extant buildings. 120
Reposted by Petra SeitzChappell Ellison @chappelltracker.bsky.social · 01/05/2025What is the lifespan of software? What if you make software that's silly and full of whimsy? Will people remember it? Anyway, here's a video someone recently posted of “Good Luck, Babe!” by Chappell Roan performed through the composer feature in Mario Paint, a game released on Super Nintendo in 1992 10854451372
Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Who ever said that academia moved at a snail's pace? Why, just today I received a desk rejection from something I submitted *less than 24 hours before*! 010
Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 09/01/2026Only going to produce architectural history outputs in music video format from now on. This is an absolute gem: www.instagram.com/reel/DTJBVn2... 000
Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 24/12/2025Amen.hyperallergic.comBritish Museum Launches Farcical “Decolonizing” Loan ProgramLong-term loans to former colonies are not restitution. They do not acknowledge historical wrongdoing, nor do they restore agency to source communities. 100
Reposted by Petra SeitzJoshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 05/12/2025Frank Gehry, 1929–2025 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/a... 224095751
Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 04/12/2025Some really professional work by YouGov this morning. 000
Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Wow, what a surprise - another large company is pulling its employees back to shared physical offices.businessinsider.comRead Instagram chief Adam Mosseri's memo ordering staff to the office five days a week in 2026Instagram back-to-office policy: Adam Mosseri demands full-time in-person work in 2026, fewer meetings, and faster product prototypes. 100
Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 27/11/2025Now accepting donations toward the purchase of this absolutely smashing chair:phillips.comFernando Campana and Humberto Campana DesignDiscover Fernando Campana and Humberto Campana's "Panda Banquete" chair featured in Phillips' Design Auction in New York. Browse, bid, and explore art, design, and luxury at Phillips. 211
Reposted by Petra SeitzPresent & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Salami Advent Calendar, Czech Republic. podnikovka.cz/uzeniny_c103... 10505176
Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 19/11/2025eBay doesn't authenticate or check antiquities sold on its platform in any way, but don't worry, they will 'authenticate'* a luxury purse. 110
Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 14/11/2025New lecture, who dis? (The office is a machine to work in) youtu.be/XX7PbBMth9oyoutu.beThe office is a machine to work inYouTube video by Petra Seitz 000
Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Chuffed to have been included in the OPEN ACCESS and just released volume Researching a Rigged Game: Digital Approaches to Tracing the Illicit Trade in Cultural Objects. Read my chapter (A discipline that sat on its treasures, but didn't see them) here: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...link.springer.comA Discipline that Sat on Its Treasures, but Didn’t See Them: Leveraging Online Auction Data for Design Historical ResearchThis chapter details the Chandigarh Chairs project’s collection and analysis of online auction data during the COVID-19 pandemic. Collection and analysis of online auction data is presented as a... 131
Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 28/10/2025Trying to practice good, regenerative open science by recording and uploading old talks to YouTube with slides. Pros: making my work accessible! revisiting old ideas! getting my name out there! Cons: hearing my own voice over and over again. 100
Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 21/10/2025The ProQuest AI 'Research Assistant' summary of my dissertation is yet one more example of why I'll be eschewing AI in research for the foreseeable future. 100
Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 16/10/2025Heart overfilling with gratitude to have the privilege of a second amazing trip to Chandigarh working on the Chandigarh Chairs project (before a detour to Delhi for ICDHS14!). 000
Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 22/01/2025More INCREDIBLY serious stationery for an INCREDIBLY serious academic. 100
Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 15/01/2025Notre-Dame de Paris is looking good post-facelift, but I remain disappointed and inconsolable the proposed plan to place a public swimming pool on the roof was not selected/enacted. 000
Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 07/01/2025Mildred and Edward Hall quoted a John Deere employee as saying that workers at the company were "inmates of the edifice” - with "the edifice" being Saarinen's office design, and I'm not sure I've ever vibed with a statement more. Big mood. 110
Reposted by Petra SeitzJess Pendley @jesspendley.bsky.social · 30/12/2024Clearly, this was a global issue. 8990062709
Reposted by Petra SeitzAlex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 30/12/2024I’m sure we all have thoughts on this but can I please just draw your attention to the £150,000 worth of stolen handbags that the Metropolitan Police say look like this 52645172
Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 30/12/2024Lines I never thought I would write until drafting a book proposal for the Chandigarh Chairs project: 110
Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 28/12/2024Finished up the annual Paris Christmas trip with a visit to Corbusier's buildings for the Cité Internationale Universitaire. 100
Reposted by Petra SeitzAdam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 26/12/2024At risk of repeating myself: The Luddites weren’t against technology. They were against getting put out of work by a technology that did a version of their job faster but worse, in the service of increasing profits for their bosses. 8461882038
Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 24/12/2024Strongly appreciate the distinction made by the Musée de l'Orangerie in their current exhibition (Heinz Berggruen, un marchand et sa collection) between date of design and date of object creation for this Picasso sculpture. Wish this could become commonplace in the field of design! 000
Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Went to the National Library of Scotland several weeks ago, and sat all day with about four different translations of Marx splayed on the table in front of me. It's the first time I've felt like a true Scholar (with a capital 'S'). 140
Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 15/12/2024I am a serious academic and have the stationery to prove it. 020