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The Design History Society is the leading organisation that promotes and supports the study of design histories, both in the UK and internationally. Through its journal, annual conference and programme of events it brings together all those engaged in the subject – students, researchers, educators, designers, designer-makers, critics and curators among them. It also acts as an advocate for the subject in a number of different contexts.
8 September - 10 September
Izmir Institute of Technology, Izmir, Turkey
Design & TransienceDesign History Society Annual Conference 2022// Hybrid Conference///September 8-10 2022 Izmir...
This week’s Hidden Histories: Gender in Design seminar looks at design amidst the Cold War. Alyona Sokolnikova, independent researcher, writer, curator and teacher, and founder of the Women Designers: USSR research project, spoke to DHS Ambassador Alexandra Banister about her work on women designers in the Soviet Union, 1960-1980.
This week’s Hidden Histories: Gender in Design seminar looks at design amidst the Cold War. Our Ambassador Alexandra Banister interviewed Bettina Siegele, Assistant Professor and PhD Researcher in the Department of Architectural Theory at the University of Innsbruck, about her research into feminist approaches to architectural history ahead of her paper on the architect Karola Bloch.
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This week’s Hidden Histories: Gender in Design seminar looks at design amidst the Cold War. Francesco E. Guida, Assistant Professor in the Department of Design at Politecnico di Milano, spoke to our Ambassador Alexandra Banister about his research ahead of his paper on women pioneers in the Golden Age of Italian graphic design.
17 May - 5 July
Online
The DHS Reading Groups are a new initiative of the Design History Society to support emerging researchers interested...
12 May - 26 May
Virtual
Convened by Alex Banister and Claire O’MahonyThursdays 19.30-21:00 hrs GMT via Zoom Our upcoming seminar...
As part of our Hidden Histories: Gender in Design seminar series, Parisa Heidari, Master in Architecture Studies at the School of Architecture in the University of Tehran, and Hamed Mazaherian, Associate Professor at the School of Architecture in the University of Tehran, presented as part of a wider discussion on ‘Archives and Beyond: Strategies for Historical Research in Gender in Design’. Due to technical difficulties with their pre-recorded talk, we have transcribed their presentation into a blog post.
Session six of our Hidden Histories: Gender in Design seminar series looks at collaboration and collective practice. Ahead of her paper on Lilly Reich’s contributions at the 1929 Barcelona International Exposition, Martínez de Guereñu tells our Ambassador Alexandra Banister more about her research.
Session six of our Hidden Histories: Gender in Design seminar series looks at collaboration and collective practice. Ahead of her paper on M. H. Maxy and Mela Brun-Maxy, Dr Alexandra Chiriac, a Leonard A. Lauder Postdoctoral Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, tells our Ambassador Alexandra Banister more about her research.
5 May 2022
‘Folk’ is a contested term, invoking resonances of tradition, rurality, informality. Its forms and connotations...
Design History Society members include all those interested in design: students, designers, lecturers, historians, researchers, craftspeople, manufacturers, archivists, curators, librarians and collectors. New members are always welcomed and actively encouraged to contribute to events and publications.
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Ahead of this week's Hidden Histories: Gender in Design seminar themed 'dress and graphic design,' DHS Ambassador Alexandra Banister speaks to Dr Jaleen Grove, Assistant Professor in Illustration at the Rhode Island School of Design and Associate Editor for the Journal of Illustration, ahead of her paper on Olive Allen and Edwardian girls’ media.
Welcome to the next in our "Provocative Places" series, in which DHS Ambassador Alexandra Banister looks at Antilia, the private residence of the Ambani family in Mumbai, and issues of the wealth divide as articulated through architecture.
Ahead of this week's Hidden Histories: Gender in Design seminar themed 'dress and graphic design,' DHS Ambassador Alexandra Banister speaks to Teal Triggs, Professor of Graphic Design at the Royal College of Art, co-editor of Design Issues, and founder member of the Women’s Design + Research Unit about her paper on Fleur Cowles’s editorship of Flair magazine.
29 April, 1:30 - 5pm
Online
This event has been moved to 29 April 2021, 13.30 BST. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause to...
28 April 2022
Materiality and Mediation: Global Conversations is a new virtual symposium convened by the College Art Association,...
Ahead of this week's Hidden Histories: Gender in Design seminar themed 'interior design,' DHS Ambassador Alexandra Banister spoke with Sarah Mursal, lecturer on the Digital Film Production Course at Ravensbourne University, London, to discuss her research, which aims to make history and design more inclusive and sensitive.
DHS Ambassador Alexandra Banister speaks with Dr Catriona Quinn, Research Assistant in the School of Art and Design at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, ahead of her paper on Australian interior designers and architects in the postwar era.
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Sadly, the chair of the Society, Claire O’Mahony has decided to step down with the termination of her three-year...
25 April 2022
Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Design History Society (DHS), the Journal of Design History is...
Ahead of this week's Hidden Histories seminar which examines Archives and Beyond: Strategies for Historical Research in Gender in Design, DHS Ambassador Alexandra Banister catches up with Elin Manker, Assistant Professor in Art History and Visual Studies at Umeå University, Sweden, to further discuss her research.