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Nominations sought for Design History Society Teaching and Learning Officer

The DHS is seeking nominations for the Teaching and Learning Officer position. More

Victoria and Albert Museum Symposium

To celebrate the opening of the V&A's new Dr. Susan Weber Gallery of Furniture, the V&A are holding a one-day symposium on the 17th of May to investigate furniture materials, making and design. More

DHS Day Seminar Series: 'It's Personal: Subjectivity in Design History'

Postmodern theory might have finally killed off the utopian ideal of history as an objective science, but it has arguably left a vacuum, with no comprehensive debate on the role of subjectivity and its potential challenges and benefits...


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Welcome to the Design History Society

The Design History Society is the leading national organisation that promotes the study of design history, and brings together and supports all those engaged in the subject - students, researchers, educators, designers, designer-makers, critics and curators. The Society aims to play an important role in shaping an inclusive design history.

An elected Executive Committee and Board of Trustees works together to enable the activities of the Society, and to ensure that higher education and research bodies in the UK appropriately represent design history.

The society's activities include:

Membership

Annual Membership of the Society is open to all and is available to individuals and institutions.

Various benefits are included in membership; however, many events are open or free to all interested in design history.

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