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DHS Network Co-ordinator

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

Media Matters: Friedrich Kittler and Technoculture

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

Commonplace Yet Extraordinary

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

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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.

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