Dr Alice Twemlow

Dr Alice Twemlow is an Associate Professor based in Graphic Design at Kingston School of Art.

Additionally, she is external examiner for the Non-Linear Narrative MA at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) The Hague, an Honorary Fellow, in the Faculty of Arts, Cultures and Education, at the University of Hull, and Chair of the Advisory Board for VCUarts Qatar’s Institute for Creative Research.

Previously she was Research Professor at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) The Hague. Here she led the Design and the Deep Future research project, situated at the intersection of design history, creative practice research and the environmental humanities, and which aimed to contribute interventions and imaginaries to climate justice research.

She was also a full Professor in the Wim Crouwel Chair of the History of Graphic Design & Visual Culture at the University of Amsterdam, a visiting professor for the Artistic Research Lab at Casino, Luxembourg, head of the MA in Design Curating & Writing at Design Academy Eindhoven, and co-founder and director of the MA in Design Research, Writing & Criticism at the School of Visual Arts in New York.

Her monograph, Sifting the Trash: A History of Design Criticism was published by MIT Press (2017) and other more recent publications include: Countermapping: A Research Method in Art & Design, to be published by Hatje Cantz, Berlin, (2026); a chapter, 'Space Junk: Design and its Extraterrestrial Aftermath,’ in Elio Caccavale and Gordon Hush, Planetary Conversations: Design Beyond the Human, Bloomsbury Academic, (2026); A Fray of Messays: Unraveling Research Toward the Deep Future, published by KABK Design Lectorate & Metropolis M Books, Utrecht (2025); Walking as Research Method, published by WARP x Soapbox Journal with Roma Publications, (2024); and Listening: A Research Method in Art & Design, published by KABK, The Hague (2024).

Research specialisations

Climate justice imaginaries; deep time, speculative futures and alternative timescales; AI, digital methods, slow technologies and data visualisation; interdisciplinary sensory research methods; radical pedagogy; creative practice based research, women in graphic design; intersectional feminist and decolonial readings of archives and museum collections; design criticism; graphic design history; visual culture theory; walking and listening as research methods in graphic design history-making.

• PhD, History of Design, Royal College of Art
• MA, History of Design, Royal College of Art
• BA, English Literature, Bristol University