Catharine "Cat" Rossi

Dr. Catharine Rossi is a senior lecturer in design history at Kingston University, London, where her research specialties include twentieth- and twenty-first-century Italian design, the relationship between design and craft, and ethically engaged approaches to design and craft past and present. The curator of Space Electronic: Then and Now at the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale, Rossi co-edited The Italian Avant-Garde: 1968–1976 (Sternberg Press, 2013), authored Crafting Design in Italy: From Post-War to Postmodernism (Manchester University Press, forthcoming) and contributed to several journals, including The Journal of Modern Craft, The Journal of Design History, Design and Culture, and magazines Crafts, Disegno, and Domus.