Javier Gimeno Martínez

Javier Gimeno Martínez (Valencia, 1973) is an associate professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where he runs the MA Design Cultures and lectures on fashion history and theory, on research methodology and on national identity. He was trained both as an industrial designer (BSc, MSc) and as an art historian (BA,MA) and got his PhD from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, in 2006 with the dissertation ‘The Role of the Creative Industries in the Construction of Regional/European Identities (1975-2002): Design and Fashion in Belgium and Spain.’ He served as a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Design History (2008-2012) and was a visiting scholar in the department of Design History at the Royal College of Art (London, UK) for the year 2009-2010. His research explores the relationship between design and national identity, underpinned in questions related to globalization, migration and multiculturalism. His research has been published in academic journals such as Design Issues, Urban Studies, Fashion Practice, Journal of Cleaner Production,The Burlington Magazine and Design and Culture. He is the author of Design and National Identity (Bloomsbury Academic, 2016) among other books and is a member of the International Committee for Design History and Design Studies (ICDHS).