'Research for UNDERFOOT focused initially on the design archives of the Stoddard-Templeton Collection. [Elizabeth] Price visited the Mitchell Library in order to experience the physical impact of patterned carpets installed wall-to-wall across a field-like expanse of space. The Mitchell’s carpets are famous – frequently instagrammed and fondly remembered: they physically insinuate a time-shift that relocates anybody using the rooms that they furnish. The Library is a building haunted by a civic ambition that generously catered to the publics it imagined.

Similarly, in SLOW DANS, Price has worked with private, personal and public archives’ collections of images and objects and there is a sense in which her work deals with the organisation of information and reconstitution of meaning. The speakers invited to take part in the Symposium...are concerned, in one way or another, with the processes of ‘archiving’, the intimacy between technologies and design, and interiors that have been Modern.