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Isabelle Strömstedt

Lecturer, Head of Unit

University Lecturer in Graphic Design and Communication.

As a lecturer in the Bachelor’s program in Graphic Design and Communication, I teach visual culture and marketing while conducting research in visual and popular culture. I also work as a content leader in the Tellus research project, creating stories that enhance children’s interest in and understanding of STEM subjects and sustainable development.

I teach subjects such as visual culture, visual represenation, marketing, graphic design, and other media and communication-related topics. My teaching aims to integrate theoretical insights with analytical applications to provide students with a deeper understanding of how visual representations influence and shape our contemporary world.

My research interests include areas such as visual culture, narrative, popular culture, representation, and lifeworlds. I am particularly interested in exploring how visual representations reflect and influence societal values and norms.

In addition to my teaching duties, I work 30% as a content leader in the Tellus research project at the Visualization Center C. In this role, I focus on communicating scientific information in a way that engages and informs students in grades 1-6.

I am also the head of the Graphic Design and Communication unit at Linköping University, where I oversee daily operations.

Publications

2024

Isabelle Strömstedt, Adam Bisno (2024) Defending the Knowledge Monopoly: The U.S. Patent Office, Propaganda, and the Centennial Celebration of the Patent Act of 1836 History of Intellectual Culture 3/2024: Experimental Spaces: Knowledge Production and its Environments in the Long Nineteenth Century, p. 49-71 (Chapter in book) Continue to DOI

2023

Isabelle Strömstedt (2023) The Patent Office on Display: Intellectual Property in the Public Eye

2021

Isabelle Strömstedt (2021) Translating an Institution: The Swedish Patent Office on Display Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) (Conference paper)

2020

Emelie Fälton, Isabelle Strömstedt (2020) A Cathartic Journey through Horrific Swedish Nature Film International, Vol. 18, p. 63-69 (Article in journal) Continue to DOI

2019

Isabelle Strömstedt (2019) Celebrating Patents: the Swedish Patent Office's Jubilee Exhibition of 1941 Intellectual Property and the Visual, International Society for the History and Theory of Intellectual Property (ISHTIP) (Conference paper)