The People
Claire Quong & Elizabeth Watkins
Co-Editors in Chief & Managing Editors
Dr. Marilyn Cohen
Faculty Advisor
Elizabeth Watkins
Chief Copy Editor
Erik Livingston, Annabelle Oates, Claire Quong
Copy Editors
Chloe Buergenthal, Alanna Campbell, Elizabeth Sanders, Claire Quong, Elizabeth Watkins
Editorial Board
Asli Kuvvet
Chief Designer
Chloe Friedenberg
Assistant Designer
Claire Quong
Digital Editor
Afiya Lewis
Website Developer
Acknowledgements
We acknowledge that our learning at Parsons School of Design, The New School, takes place on ancestral Lenape homelands, and we recognize the longstanding significance of these lands for Lenape nations past and present. We also acknowledge that the field of art and design history does not encompass all voices, cultures, and histories. We believe that historical awareness of Indigenous exclusion is critical, and we are committed to doing the necessary work to overcome the erasure of Indigenous knowledge in our own educational institution and in the digital landscape we now also inhabit.
We would like to thank everyone who contributed their time, knowledge, and expertise to the History of Design and Curatorial Studies MA program (HDCS). We especially thank Dr. David Brody, Director of HDCS MA program, and Maria Nicanor, Director of Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. We are also grateful to Matilda McQuaid, Acting Director of Curatorial at Cooper Hewitt, and to all the curators at Cooper Hewitt for their constant input into our program. Additionally, we want to thank Ashley Tickle (Director of Communications & Marketing) and Laurie Bohlk (Associate Director of Communications & Marketing) from Cooper Hewitt for their careful attention to the content of this issue of Objective. An additional thank you to Danielle Bowers and Luke Davis, who administer the History of Design and Curatorial Studies MA program, for all their assistance.
We are immensely thankful for our incredible faculty and professors. Our professors provide us with invaluable knowledge, experience, encouragement, and guidance. We are truly grateful for your unwavering commitment to our academic growth and scholarly pursuits.
Afiya Lewis of Parsons School of Design continues to make our online presence possible, and ongoing gratitude goes to Charlotte von Hardenburgh, editor-in-chief of the fifth issue of Objective, designer Arpie Gennetian and her assistant Ivana Maldonado for connecting Objective to the World Wide Web.
We also thank our editorial, copyediting, and graphics teams for their contributions to shaping this sixth edition of Objective. Our immense gratitude goes to our faculty advisor, Dr. Marilyn Cohen, for her unwavering dedication and guidance as we navigated the development of this issue after an unprecedented part-time faculty strike.
Finally, of course, we are incredibly appreciative of our contributors—our classmates and alumni—for sharing their wonderful wide-ranging interests and writing. Objective would not exist without your fascinating and diverse scholarly pursuits.
