Sarah Teasley’s research combines perspectives and methods from history, design research and social practice to understand and impact how power relations shape experience, ecosystems and the agency that individuals and groups have to change their world.

A second ongoing area of research explores lived experience of old new materials and technologies in global circulation, particularly how emergent tech and materials ‘land’ in everyday applications beyond the lab.

Her research is highly collaborative and transdisciplinary, and has been published and shared widely internationally, with talks, publications, collaborations and visiting positions in Asia, Europe and North America. Her publications include Designing Modern Japan (Reaktion, 2022), Global Design History (Routledge, 2011) and numerous articles, book chapters and reports. She holds degrees from Princeton University, Musashino Art University and the University of Tokyo.