Jilly Traganou is Associate Professor of Spatial Design Studies at the School of Art and Design History and Theory at Parsons The New School for Design. She will be a Research Fellow at the Bard Graduate Center from September 2014 through June 2015. Traganou is the author of The Tokaido Road: Traveling and Representation in Edo And Meiji Japan (Routledge Curzon, 2004), and a co-editor with Miodrag Mitrasinovic of Travel, Space, Architecture (Ashgate, 2009; travelspacearchitecture.com). Traganou has published in the Design and Culture, Design Issues, Journal of Design History, Journal of Sport and Social Issues, Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Larchitecture daujourdhui, and has chapters in Critical Cities Vol. 02 (Myrdle Court Press, 2010), Global Design History (Routledge, 2011), Design as Future Making (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014), Iconic Designs (forthcoming by Bloomsbury), Cartographic Japan (forthcoming by Chicago University Press), and other books. In 2012 she was guest-editor of a special issue in the Journal of Design History titled “Design Histories of the Olympic Games” (25:3), and in 2014 she co-curated with Izumi Kuroishi the exhibition “Design and Disaster: Kon Wajiro’s Modernologio” at the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons (currently on tour in Macau). Traganou has also co-organized and participated in practice-based collaborative research projects in critical design pedagogy (such as Spatial Imaginary and Multiple Belonging: The Open House Workshop with Eleni Tzirtzilaki and Lydia Matthews, Athens 2008). She is currently finalizing a book titled Designing the Olympics (forthcoming by Routledge), and her new research project focuses on designerly ways of dissenting. Traganou currently serves as Book Reviews Editor of the Journal of Design History (Oxford University Press).