About

Artemis Yagou (she/her)

Άρτεμις Γιάγκου

PhD
Historian of design and technology

e-mail: artemis@yagou.gr , a.yagou.ext@deutsches-museum.de

ORCID ID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2508-70888

Also on  LinkedIn, Academia, Researchgate

Born in Athens, Greece; lives in Munich, Germany

Research Associate, Deutsches Museum, Munich

Author of Construction Toys and Modern European Culture: Education, Politics, and Technology, 1830 to 1940

Author of Products, Users, and Popular Luxury in Early Modern Greece

Editor of Technology, Novelty, and Luxury

Author of Fragile Innovation: Episodes in Greek Design History

(Greek version: Εύθραυστη Καινοτομία: Επεισόδια από την Ιστορία του Ελληνικού Ντιζάιν)

Main research interests:

Design Studies, Design History, Design Pedagogy, Cultural history of technology, Museums, Greek material culture (18th–21st), Construction toys, Toy robots, Horology, Digital Humanities

Research Projects:

2026: Toy robots
2025: Exhibiting Online the Construction Toys Collection of the Deutsches Museum
2024: Circulation of Scientific Instruments in Early Modern Greece
2022–2023: Timekeeping in Motion: Technology and Design of 18th c. Portable Clocks from European Museum Collections
2016–2021: How they played: Children and construction toys (c. 1840-1940), funded by the DFG

Affiliations:

Member of the Editorial Advisory Board, The Design Journal

ICOM – The International Council of Museums

ICOHTEC (International Committee for the History of Technology)

ITRA (International Toy Research Association)

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