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Petra Seitz

@pooskipie.bsky.social
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Design Historian. Bartlett School of Architecture PhD. Thesis on commercial office interiors and the capitalist labor process. Primary investigator of Chandigarh Chairs project. Big into (studying) design crime.

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Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
How 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...
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Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
IMO, still preferable to many of the open offices I study...
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Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
www.tribuneindia.com/news/chandig...
tribuneindia.com
Suspend transfer of Chandigarh heritage furniture sold in Chicago: UNESCO tells Wright Auction House - The Tribune
In 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...
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Design History Society @sodesignhistory.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
In 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
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eshpur @eshpur.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
✣ Medieval Jimothy ✣
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Erin L. Thompson @artcrimeprof.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
new open access publication - free for download! - on digital approaches to tracing the illicit trade in cultural objects: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Fantastic to see a successful stoppage of a sale of Chandigarh's furniture! Hopefully a tiding for future interventions... www.tribuneindia.com/news/chandig...
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Chandigarhs heritage recovery: How India got the legal lever it never had - The Tribune
What 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...
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Will Jennings @willjennings.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I am here for NextGen Hooliganism.
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Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Finishing 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!
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Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Disgusted (but not totally surprised) that the V&A would so easily capitulate to foreign censorship.
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Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Pressing question: Is a Gundam a piece of architecture?
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Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
100% agree that Glasgow's management of its built environment needs to change, but 100% disagree that this 'heritage' is 'irreplaceable.'
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Hannah Shelley, MLIS (Maggots, Lycanthropes & Ice Skeletons) @hannahshelley.site · 02/03/2026
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A 3x3 grid titled "Is it a library? Alignment chart".
Horizontal axis categories:
Contents purist: Must contain books
Contents neutral: Must contain information
Contents rebel: Can contain anything
Vertical axis categories:
Curation purist: Must be managed by a professional librarian
Curation neutral: Must be curated by someone
Curation rebel: Can be managed by nobody

Examples represented on the grid:
Curation purist, contents purist: New York Public Library is a library
Curation purist, contents neutral: A newspaper archive is a library
Curation purist, contents rebel: A school information commons is a library
Curation neutral, contents purist: A home bookshelf is a library
Curation neutral, contents neutral: A Spotify playlist is a library
Curation neutral, contents rebel: A zoo is a library
Curation rebel, contents purist: A street library is a library
Curation rebel, contents neutral: A PC downloads folder is a library
Curation rebel, contents rebel: A junk drawer is a library
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Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Once 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.
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Chappell Ellison @chappelltracker.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
What 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
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Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I am in love.
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NainRouge420 @nainrouge420.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
What a world huh

Lemon it’s still struggling to be born
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Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Who 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*!
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Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Only going to produce architectural history outputs in music video format from now on. This is an absolute gem: www.instagram.com/reel/DTJBVn2...
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Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Uh.......
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Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
Amen.
hyperallergic.com
British Museum Launches Farcical “Decolonizing” Loan Program
Long-term loans to former colonies are not restitution. They do not acknowledge historical wrongdoing, nor do they restore agency to source communities.
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 05/12/2025
Frank Gehry, 1929–2025 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/a...
Screenshot from The Onion, originally published October 9, 2002.

Headline: Frank Gehry No Longer Allowed To Make Sandwiches for Grandkids

Below it, a photo of a plate with multiple deconstructed sandwiches balanced precariously, vaguely resembling a Frank Gehry building.
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Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Some really professional work by YouGov this morning.
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Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Wow, what a surprise - another large company is pulling its employees back to shared physical offices.
businessinsider.com
Read Instagram chief Adam Mosseri's memo ordering staff to the office five days a week in 2026
Instagram back-to-office policy: Adam Mosseri demands full-time in-person work in 2026, fewer meetings, and faster product prototypes.
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Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Now accepting donations toward the purchase of this absolutely smashing chair:
phillips.com
Fernando Campana and Humberto Campana Design
Discover 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.
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Present & Correct @presentcorrect.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Salami Advent Calendar, Czech Republic. podnikovka.cz/uzeniny_c103...
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Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
eBay doesn't authenticate or check antiquities sold on its platform in any way, but don't worry, they will 'authenticate'* a luxury purse.
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Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
New lecture, who dis? (The office is a machine to work in) youtu.be/XX7PbBMth9o
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The office is a machine to work in
YouTube video by Petra Seitz
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Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Chuffed 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...
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A Discipline that Sat on Its Treasures, but Didn’t See Them: Leveraging Online Auction Data for Design Historical Research
This 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...
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Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Trying 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.
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Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
The 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.
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Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Heart 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!).
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Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
More INCREDIBLY serious stationery for an INCREDIBLY serious academic.
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Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Exploiting the working class (Anno 1800).
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Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Notre-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.
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Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Mildred 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.
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Jess Pendley @jesspendley.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Clearly, this was a global issue.
A screenshot of a Tumblr post from user thehmn. It depicts two carved ivory figurines of foxes dressed as monks. The caption reads, Foxes disguised as monks. On the left from Japan and on the right from Denmark.
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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
I’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
The world’s stupidest handbag. It is emerald green crocodile with little burgundy strips turning it into a charmless character with hands and rudimentary facial features. It is astonishingly ugly and looks like a children’s toy for terrible children with no taste. The caption says “Police say the thief made off with £150,000 worth of Hermes Crocodile Kelly handbags.”
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Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Lines I never thought I would write until drafting a book proposal for the Chandigarh Chairs project:
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Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Finished up the annual Paris Christmas trip with a visit to Corbusier's buildings for the Cité Internationale Universitaire.
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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
At 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.
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Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Strongly 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!
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Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Went 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').
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MꙬse Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 03/11/2023
Cartoon of three buildings by the architect Le Corbusier, top to bottom:

Notre Dame du Haut
La Tourette monastery
Unité d'Habitation 

Captions:
Below the top one: Le Corbusy
Middle: Le Corbusier 
Top: Le Corbusiest
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Petra Seitz @pooskipie.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
I am a serious academic and have the stationery to prove it.
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