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3 Sep

Writing Design - Call for Papers

The Design History Society Annual Conference 2009, Writing Design: Object, Process, Discourse, Translation, has now opened its call for papers.
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22 Aug

DHS Roles Available

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....More

15 Aug

DHS Essay Prize Winners Announced

Awarded annually, the DHS essay prize for undergraduate and postgraduate work was announced last week, and the winners were .......More

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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.