Online
April 20–21, 2023
A pioneer in its approach to materials, marketing, and design, Isokon Ltd was instrumental in introducing functional modernism to England between the wars.
This online symposium will explore Isokon within the systems of manufacturing, media, and collective living that underpinned modernist practice in the 1930s and consider its global legacy.
Thursday, April 20, 2023
Keynote conversation: 1–2pm ET. Please visit here to register.
Juliet Kinchin, independent design historian and former curator of modern design, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, talks with Leyla Daybelge, trustee, Isokon Gallery Trust, and Magnus Englund, director, Isokon Gallery Trust. Daybelge and Englund are the co-authors of Isokon and the Bauhaus in Britain (2019).
Friday, April 21, 2023
Panels and presentations: 8:30am–1:45pm ET. Please visit here to register.
Introduction
8:30–9:25am
Rachel Stratton, Yale Center for British Art, and Christopher Wilk, V&A
Panel I: The Lawn Road Flats: Before and After
9:25–10:30am
Chair: Alexandra Lange, critic
Panelists: Elizabeth Darling, Oxford Brookes University, and Philip Goad, University of Melbourne
Panel II: The Making and Marketing of Isokon Furniture
10:40–11:45am
Chair: Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, Yale School of Architecture
Panelists: Jessica Kelly, London Metropolitan University, and Jyri Kermik, Estonian Academy of Arts
Panel III: The Social Life of Isokon
12:15–1:45pm
Chair: Craig Buckley, Yale School of Architecture and Department of the History of Art. Panelists: Caterina Caputo, Università degli Studi dell'Aquila; Calvin Po, Dark Matter Labs; and Robin Schuldenfrei, Courtauld Institute of Art.
View the full program schedule here.
