Revision Path: Episode 107; Dori Tunstall: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Episode 107 of the Revision Path podcast. The episode begins with host Maurice Cherry advertising the show’s Job Board, while instrumental music plays in the background. Shortly afterwards, the Revision Path podcast soundtrack plays, and Cherry welcomes his listeners. He also thanks the episode’s sponsors, MailChimp and Hover, and implores listeners to become patrons, before reading a positive review that was posted online.

The interview segment begins with Cherry inviting Dr. Dori Tunstall to introduce herself. She discusses her work as a design anthropologist. Some of the topics they discuss during the interview include: her educational trajectory; her work in both the public and private sectors; similarities between the Australian indigenous experience and the African American experience; systemic racism in Australia, as well as design policy in the United States.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: November 16, 2015
• Produced by: Maurice Cherry, American
• Interview of: Elizabeth Tunstall, American, born 1972
• Type: sound recordings
• Type: digital media - born digital
• Medium: digital
• Dimensions: Duration: 1 hr., 3 min., 59 sec.
• Dimensions: File size: 53.59 MB
• Place made: United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: Australia, Oceania
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: Design
• Topic: Education
• Topic: Politics
• Object number: 2019.47.10.1
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Maurice Cherry and Glitch, Inc.
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Sources and reuse

Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of African American History and Culture through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed. The underlying object's rights statement is: © Maurice Cherry and Glitch, Inc Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.