All Outputs (13)

Untrammelled ways: Reflecting on the written text, nourishment and care in online teaching (2022)
Journal Article
Bell, R. (2022). Untrammelled ways: Reflecting on the written text, nourishment and care in online teaching. Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, 15(2), 126-138. https://doi.org/10.1386/JWCP_00034_1

As the COVID-19 pandemic gathered momentum in 2020, it became clear that online teaching spaces risked a distancing from the embodied knowledge so necessary to creative education. Teaching written texts to creative practitioners is a process that cal... Read More about Untrammelled ways: Reflecting on the written text, nourishment and care in online teaching.

Re-imagining the university through hope in pedagogy (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Bell, R., & Baeza Ruiz, A. (2022, July). Re-imagining the university through hope in pedagogy. Presented at 22nd Utopian Studies Society Conference 2022, University of Brighton

Co-authored conference paper exploring ideas of care, hope, nourishment and object-based teaching as part of a panel focused on 'Hope and the University'. With Dr Ana Baeza Ruiz (Loughborough University; Prado Madrid).

They hide with their boots on (2020)
Digital Artefact
Bell, R. (2020). They hide with their boots on. [Magazine]

Review of the Invisible Men exhibition, Westminster Menswear Archive, for Artforum Magazine (print edition).

Small paths (2020)
Journal Article
Bell, R. (2020). Small paths. Hoosac Institute Journal, 5,

A personal creative non-fiction text published in the Hoosac Institute Journal - ‘Small Paths’ is about woodland, nature, countryside, childhood and miscarriage. Written during May 2020, it is also entangled in Covid19 era isolation.

Negotiations of socialist modernity: The Czech glass figurine (from the late 1940s-1960s) (2020)
Journal Article
Bell, R. (2020). Negotiations of socialist modernity: The Czech glass figurine (from the late 1940s-1960s). Journal of Modern Craft, 13(2), 137-159. https://doi.org/10.1080/17496772.2020.1815401

This article presents the glass figurine as means of understanding making and socialist modernity in Czechoslovakia during the first two decades of Socialism (late 1940s-1960s). Through studying the work of glass artists such as Jaroslav Brychta and... Read More about Negotiations of socialist modernity: The Czech glass figurine (from the late 1940s-1960s).

Presentation at Sotheby's institute resulting from Decorative Arts Society funded research trip to Hungary (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Bell, R. (2018, November). Presentation at Sotheby's institute resulting from Decorative Arts Society funded research trip to Hungary

In May 2018 I was awarded a bursary to join the Decorative Arts Society on their research trip to Hungary. After carrying out PhD research into applied arts, crafts and notions of national identity in Communist Czechoslovakia, I wished to expand my u... Read More about Presentation at Sotheby's institute resulting from Decorative Arts Society funded research trip to Hungary.

Design History Society: Imagining the international: repositioning peripheral narratives in global design histories [Panel Session Chairs] (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Bell, R., & Kerr, H. (2018, February). Design History Society: Imagining the international: repositioning peripheral narratives in global design histories [Panel Session Chairs]. Presented at CAA 106th Annual Conference 2018 - Imagining the International: Repositioning Peripheral Narratives in Global Design Histories (Panel Co-Chair) and continued Research Group., Los Angeles

Dr Hui-Ying Kerr and Rebecca Bell were awarded the role of co-chairs by the Design History Society to build a panel of speakers exploring so-called 'peripheral' narratives in global design history, re-examining methods by which post-war cultural prac... Read More about Design History Society: Imagining the international: repositioning peripheral narratives in global design histories [Panel Session Chairs].

Making enhanced pin-up symposium (2017)
Presentation / Conference
Bell, R., & Essen, T. V. (2017, January). Making enhanced pin-up symposium. Presented at Making enhanced pin-up symposium. In: Making Enhanced Pin-Up Symposium, Royal College of Art

On Saturday 21st January 2017, we at Making Enhanced hosted round table discussions at the Royal College of Art to inform the future of the collective. Building on the work in progress show from Collect Open 2015 (Saatchi Gallery), the four collabora... Read More about Making enhanced pin-up symposium.

Folk fever and the bureaucratic machine: Craft and design in early 1960s' Czechoslovakia (2016)
Presentation / Conference
Bell, R. (2016, November). Folk fever and the bureaucratic machine: Craft and design in early 1960s' Czechoslovakia. Paper presented at Theorising Visual Art and Design (TVAD) Research Seminar Series, University of Hertfordshire

Research paper delivered as part of the Theorising Visual Art and Design (TVAD) inter-disciplinary research group at Hertfordshire University. The paper presented my research on Czech New Wave cinema and ethnographic craft practices in early 1960s So... Read More about Folk fever and the bureaucratic machine: Craft and design in early 1960s' Czechoslovakia.

Věci a slova: Umělecký průmysl, užité umění a design v české teorii a kritice 1870–1970 / Things and Words: Art Industry, Applied Arts and Design in Czech Theory and Criticism 1870–1970 (2016)
Journal Article
Bell, R. (2016). Věci a slova: Umělecký průmysl, užité umění a design v české teorii a kritice 1870–1970 / Things and Words: Art Industry, Applied Arts and Design in Czech Theory and Criticism 1870–1970. West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture, 23(2), 333-337. https://doi.org/10.1086/691620

Critical Review of Věci a slova: Umělecký průmysl, užité umění a design v české teorii a kritice 1870–1970 / Things and Words: Art Industry, Applied Arts and Design in Czech Theory and Criticism 1870–1970, Publication and exhibition. UMPRUM Galle... Read More about Věci a slova: Umělecký průmysl, užité umění a design v české teorii a kritice 1870–1970 / Things and Words: Art Industry, Applied Arts and Design in Czech Theory and Criticism 1870–1970.

The pursuit of exceptional typicality: Glass-making in Communist Czechoslovakia (2016)
Journal Article
Bell, R. (2016). The pursuit of exceptional typicality: Glass-making in Communist Czechoslovakia

Article for Glass Circle Magazine exploring ideas of 'exceptional typicality' stemming from my PhD research, looking at the role of Czech glass figurines (and related glass objects) in Socialist Czechoslovakia.

Not for glory! Not for gain! Commemorative glass figurines at the Czechoslovak Spartakiad 1955 (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Bell, R. (2014, September). Not for glory! Not for gain! Commemorative glass figurines at the Czechoslovak Spartakiad 1955. Paper presented at Design for War and Peace: 2014 Annual Design History Society Conference, Rewley House

In this paper I discussed my research into a series of glass figurines created by artist Miloslav Klinger for the 1955 International Spartakiad in Prague. Mass gymnastics in Socialist Czechoslovakia were a key site for the visual representation of id... Read More about Not for glory! Not for gain! Commemorative glass figurines at the Czechoslovak Spartakiad 1955.

History in the Making: Experiment Invalidovna, Prague 1961 (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Bell, R. (2014, May). History in the Making: Experiment Invalidovna, Prague 1961. Paper presented at (De)constructing Utopia: Design in Eastern Europe from Thaw to Perestroika, University of Sheffield

In this paper I discussed my research on social housing project Experiment Invalidovna (Prague, 1961) and the role of state-commissioned glass, ceramic and furniture designers