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New Appointment to the DHS Executive Committee: Conference Liaison Officer

13 Jan

New Appointment to the DHS Executive Committee: Conference Liaison Officer

The Design History Society seeks a new appointment to the Executive Committee for the position of Conference Liaison Officer, for the period 2012 - 2015.

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New Appointment to the DHS Executive Committee: Communications Officer

13 Jan

New Appointment to the DHS Executive Committee: Communications Officer

The Design History Society seeks a new appointment to the Executive Committee for the position of Communications Officer, for the period 2012 - 2015.

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Change to DHS Executive Committee Members

29 Nov

Change to DHS Executive Committee Members

Changes of office on the Design History Society Executive Committee, following elections in September 2011.
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DHS Essay Prize Winners Announced

August 15th 2008

This year’s BA prize: ‘A study of the gecekondu in Instanbul, Turkey: Innovative Urbanism for the West and the Global Urban Poor’ by Miranda Iossifides, a student on the Graphic and Media Design BA at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. Drawing on primary and wide-ranging secondary sources, the ambitious essay provided a thoughtful account of the complexities of the gecekondu’s history and design, proposing it as a model of hybrid urbanization.

The winning postgraduate essay ‘Design Change in American Motels, 1945- 1970’ by Elizabeth Bisley from the RCA/V&A course stood out in its elegant integration of sources from film and literature, to a discussion of issues of materiality, gender, and race, the last two of which led to a careful reassessment of Augé non-place thesis.