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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 2022
Izmir Institute of Technology, Izmir, Turkey
Design & TransienceDesign History Society Annual Conference 2022// Hybrid Conference///September 8-10 2022 Izmir...
27 March 2023
The Design History Society invites proposals for an Affiliated Society panel at the College Art Association conference...
Alice Naylor, AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral Researcher at the University of Portsmouth and Science Museum Group reports on two live events that evoked the history of a Kenwood demonstration, supported by the DHS Outreach and Events Grant.
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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17 March 2023
The 2023 Design History Society annual conference will be hosted by the
This month, guest contributor to the Provocative Objects series Jade Lindo offers a brief glimpse into the history of Nadinola DeLuxe Bleaching Cream.
13 March 2023
The Caribbean Fashion and Design Research Network (CFDRN) was established in October 2022 by a group of researchers...
1 March 2023
The 2023 Design History Society annual conference will be hosted by the
27 February 2023
Join us in welcoming the new members of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Design History Dr Harriet Atkinson,...
This month, guest contributor to the Provocative Places series Monica Jae Yeon Moon explores Prince/Mercer Street in New York and the late designer Virgil Abloh.
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Petra Seitz, Nia Thandapani and Gregor Wittrick report on their 2022 fieldwork into the Chandigarh Chairs project which involved an initial trip to Chandigarh, supported by the DHS Research Access Grant (Professional)
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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We are delighted to announce that DHS Chair Dr Sally-Anne Huxtable has been appointed as Archives, Collections &...
30 January 2023
The recording of the virtual symposium, Global Conversations: Materiality and Mediation organised by the Design...
This month, guest contributor to the Provocative Objects series Zarna Hart studies The Pirate and The Traders of the West Indies by William Spooner in relation to British Empire and the indoctrination of Victorian children.
12 January 2023
This Special Issue of the Journal of Design History is dedicated to promoting the study of digital material culture...
This month, guest contributor to the Provocative Objects series Livy Scott discusses the haptic, tactile, and embodied experience of pearls.
As part of the 'Folk' Cultures in Everyday Objects seminar series, Francisca Antunes Guimarães (an independent researcher from Porto, Portugal) has written a blog post about Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro's (Lisbon, 1846-1905) utensils set and its design links to Portuguese folk culture. Her research intends to deepen the study and meaning of the tablewares in the 19th century using a specific set from Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro as a case study.
21 November 2022
The latest episode of the DHS podcasts is out now! Listen to this year's Design Writing Prize (DWP) guest judge,...
Check out our blog to see reports on the Society's activities.
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18 November - 2 December 2022
Online
Fridays 18 November - 2 December 2022 Session 1 15.30 - 17.00 (GMT) Session 2 19.00 - 20.00...
Following a summer break, welcome back to the Provocative Places and Objects series in which our Ambassadors look at places and spaces that challenge and confront us as design historians. This month, Alexandra Banister looks at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, and considers how we use architecture to remember and to display collective history.
8 November 2022
The digital legacy of the 2021 DHS annual conference Memory Full? (Basel, Switzerland) is now live. This...