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
Oral History
The Society has initiated an oral history project about the development of the discipline over the last thirty years through an on-going series of life histories and interviews with historians and writers who have played a significant role in establishing our discipline. The life histories format provides a rich resource for understanding how individuals and institutions constructed the concept of 'design history' as a separate entity, and the various vicissitudes that have created, and continue to shape, what the subject means in the 21st century.
Extracts from the recordings will be available as podcasts hosted by the Voices in the Visual Arts (VIVA) Oral History project, launched in October 2007 and based at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London. The completed recordings will be stored with the DHS archive at Northumbria University.
For further information about the project, or suggestions for possible interviewees, please contact Linda Sandino, VIVA Senior Research Fellow, Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts, Wilson Road, London SE5 8LU.
Voices in the Visual Arts website
This project has to date documented the life stories of the following
- Judy Attfield (b.1942, d. 2006) Scholar, Academic, Writer
- Adrian Forty, Architectural historian