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
Associations
20th Century Society
www.c20society.demon.co.uk
The Twentieth Century Society exists to safeguard the heritage of architecture and design in Britain from 1914 onwards.
AHRB Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior
www.rca.ac.uk/csdi/
A research centre to develop new histories of the home, its contents, and its representation.
The Center for Material Culture Studies, University of Delaware
The Committee for the History of Retailing and Distribution (CHORD)
pers-www.wlv.ac.uk/%7Ein6086/chord.html
The Crafts Council
www.craftscouncil.org.uk The Crafts Council is the UK's national organisation for the promotion of contemporary crafts.
Design Research Society
www.drs.org.uk"
The Design Research Society is the multi-disciplinary international learned society for the design research community. DRS was founded in 1967, and since then has established a record of significant achievements in contributing to design knowledge.
Design History Workshop Japan (DHWJ)
www.soc.nii.ac.jp/dhwj/
was founded in 2002 as a nation wide network of researchers, historians, designers, curators, archivists and postgraduate students in order to promote a newly distinct discipline, design history. The Workshop organizes twice-yearly research workshops and other events as well as publishes the Design History journal. Design History is published in spring once a year by the DHWJ.
The Economic History Society
www.ehs.org.uk
Aims to promote the study of economic and social history.
Gesellschaft für Designgeschichte (GfDg)
www.gfdg.org
German Design History Society
Society for the History of Technology
shot.jhu.edu
An interdisciplinary organization, SHOT is concerned not only with the history of technological devices and processes, but also with the relations of technology to science, politics, social change, the arts and humanities, and economics.
Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland
www.qub.ac.uk/english/socs/ssnci.html
The principal activities of the Society are the organising of conferences and the publication of works or collections of papers on Nineteenth-Century Ireland.
Visual and Material Culture Centre, Kingston University London
www.kingston.ac.uk/~kx23813/VAMCRC/index.html
An interdisciplinary research centre in visual and material culture, and the histories of art, design, and architecture.
Visual Resources Association
vraweb.org/index.html
The Visual Resources Association is a non-profit organization established to further research and educatio n in the field of visual resources and to promote a spirit of cooperation among the members of the profession.
The Wallpaper History Society
www.wallpaperhistorysociety.org.uk
The William Morris Society
