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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.
3 - 5 September
FHNW Academy of Art and Design, Basel, Switzerland
The “memory full” warning sent by a device when its drive reaches maximum capacity is both an irritant and an...
30 January, 1 - 5pm
Design Museum, Bauhaus and Ulm Room, First Floor, London
‘Heritage’ is designed, from landscapes and buildings, to rituals and artefacts. Join us for an afternoon...
DHS Conference Award winner Yulia Karpova shares her observations from the 2019 DHS Conference The Cost of Design and presents us with some wider frameworks to rethink the themes discussed in the panels.
We love to hear what our members are getting up to. If you'd like to contribute to the DHS Newsletter and get published on our website, just drop us an e-mail.
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DHS Conference Bursary recipient, Saurabh Tewari reflects on his participation in the 2019 DHS Annual Conference, The Cost of Design.
9 January 2020
The University of North Texas (UNT)’s long-standing and dynamic art history program has recently been designated an...
9 January 2020
The Division of Art History, New York State College of Ceramics (NYSCC) at Alfred University, is seeking candidates...
9 January 2020
The Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts, a newly established $57M facility and academic degree at the...
9 January 2020
Northumbria University had the biggest rise in research power of any university following the results of the 2014...
9 January 2020
The following projects are available for PhD students in 2020 at the University of Tasmania: Communicating...
8 January 2020
The V&A/RCA History of Design Research Seminar Series provides a forum for engaging with new thinking in the...
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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“Design Is Private/Design Is Public” The Twenty-Ninth Annual Parsons/Cooper Hewitt Graduate Student Symposium on...
In this year's last blog report, Vanessa Vanden Berghe shares highlights from the conference ‘Modernism in the Home’, held in Birmingham, between 1-2 July 2019, which she was able to attend with her DHS Student Travel Award. Vanessa also guides us through her own paper focusing on the consumption patterns of decorated interior especially in the work of architect Oliver Hill (1887-1968).
17 December 2019
My five years as Chair of the Society seem to have flown by. I step down with the sense that the subject of Design...
16 December 2019
Grateful for this opportunity to serve, I hope to contribute to the Society’s nurturing of the interdisciplinarity...
Megan Brandow-Faller offers us a vivid glimpse of her new publication "The Female Secession: Reclaiming ‘Women’s Art’ and the Decorative at the Viennese Women’s Academy, 1897-1938", for which she was awarded a DHS Research Publication Grant.
In our last report from the DHS conference 2018, Design and Displacement, Noga Bernstein shares her invaluable remarks, especially from the point of view of its contribution to a multidisciplinary debate.
Reflecting on his DHS Conference Bursary, Colin Fanning shares some invaluable remarks on matter and materiality in design from his observations on last year's DHS Conference, Design and Displacement.
Check out our blog to see reports on the Society's activities.
More details >27 November 2019
The California State University, Sacramento is looking for an Assistant Professor of Design Studies with the following...
DHS Conference Bursary recipient, Nerea Amoros Elorduy, reflects on her participation in the 2018 DHS Annual Conference, Design and Displacement, sharing some critical highlights from the panels.
11 November 2019
The Design History Society warmly welcomes proposals from individual members and institutions that support research...