Sarah Teasley’s research combines perspectives and methods from history, design research and social practice, with particular attention to the lived experience of old new materials and technologies in global circulation, especially how emergent tech and materials ‘land’ in everyday applications beyond the lab.

A second ongoing area of research explores how power relations shape experience, ecosystems and agency, within and as the result of design projects and industries.

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.