7 Jul
Design History Society on Facebook
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6 Jul
Response to the HEFCE's REF consultation
This year the DHS is not hosting an annual conference, rather we are sponsoring the ICDHS conference.
Call for Papers for Design History Futures – Sustaining What?
The Design History Society Annual Conference 2009, Writing Design: Object, Process, Discourse, Translation, has now opened its call for papers.
The Society is seeking to fill a number of positions on its Executive Committee, including Secretary, Conference Liaison Officer, Communications Officer, Essay Prize Officer and Student Representative.
Awarded annually, the DHS essay prize for undergraduate and postgraduate work was announced last week, and the winners were ....
An invitation to attend the Society's anniversary reception, to be held at Pendennis Castle, Cornwall, on 5th September 2008.
This one day symposium, 19 January 2009, will explore methodologies of evaluating the user's' or audience's response to media such as websites, portable media, pervasive games, film, videogames, technology-rich performance and interactive art. Historical and philosophical contributions are particularly welcome. Deadline is 31 July 2008.
The Royal College of Art is seeking to make two appointments within the School of Humanities: a full-time Tutor to work across the departments of History of Design and Critical and Historical Studies, and a part-time Tutor to work two days a week in Critical and Historical Studies (salary pro rata).
The cultural significance of the café provides a central theme for scholars from the fields of visual, social, literary and cultural history to meet and explore the similarities, differences and shared points of interest in recent research into Vienna 1900.
The Textile Society is holding its annual conference, Something Old, Something New, in Winchester on 5-7 September 2008.
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.
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.
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.
Middlesex University is pleased to announce that the University's Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture (MoDA) has been granted 'Designated Collection' status from the Museum, Library and Archives Council (MLA) for its Silver Studio collection.
A partnership between The Design Museum and Harrods will produce have a series of six design-focused lectures and debates featuring some of the world's leading designers and industrial experts.