Society News
1 May
DHS Network Co-ordinator
The Design History Society is looking to enhance the activities of the Executive Committee with the appointment of Network Co-ordinator, to plan and develop new networks germane to the Design History Society and related subjects....More
1 May
Media Matters: Friedrich Kittler and Technoculture
Media Matters: Friedrich Kittler and Technoculture is a two day series of events bringing one of today's foremost philosophers of media to Tate Modern for an opportunity to examine the relationship between culture and technology with a range of leading thinkers and practitioners, on 27-28 June 2008....More
1 May
Commonplace Yet Extraordinary
The symposium “Commonplace Yet Extraordinary: Design Histories of Everyday Objects” will take place at the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware on Friday 16 May, 2008....More
Annual Conference
The next DHS conference, Networks of Design, will be hosted by University College Falmouth in Cornwall, 3-6 September 2008, and will be convened by Fiona Hackney.
Bruno Latour, Professor at Sciences Po and Vice President for Research Jeremy Myerson, Director of the Helen Hamlyn Centre and InnovationRCA Jan Konings, international designer and Droog collaborator.
Networks of Design responds to recent academic interest in the fields of design history, technology and the social sciences in the 'networks' of interactions that inform knowledge formation and design. Studying networks foregrounds infrastructure, negotiations, processes, strategies of interconnection, and the heterogeneous relationships between people and things.
The Call for Papers has closed.
Key dates
Preliminary Conference Programme 14 April 2008
Registration opens: 14 April 2008
Early Registration discount until 1 July 2008
Deadline for Speakers Registration 31 July 2008
Deadline for Booking Conference Dinner 31 July 2008
Deadline for Conference Registration 15 August 2008
Conference opens 3 September 2008
Conference closes 6 September 2008
Full details are available on the conference website.
