Regina Blaszczyk is an award-winning historian and author specializing in innovation, design, fashion, globalization, business and technology. She is a visiting scholar at the University of Pennsylvania and an editor at the Journal of Design History. As founder and principal of Innovative Histories, she is dedicated to showcasing America’s design and innovation heritage. Blaszczyk is the author of seven books in this field, including Imagining Consumers: Design and Innovation from Wedgwood to Corning; American Consumer Society, 1865-2005; Rohm and Haas: A Century of Innovation; Producing Fashion: Commerce, Culture, and Consumers; and The Color Revolution, out in fall 2012. Her background includes experience as a cultural history curator at the Smithsonian Institution, a history professor at Boston University and director of the Beckman Center at the Chemical Heritage Foundation. She writes for Echoes: A Blog about the Past, at Bloomberg.com. Visit her website imaginingconsumers.
Session Title:
Philadelphia, the City with Design in its DNA
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