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The Design History Society is the leading organisation that promotes the study of global design histories, and brings together and supports all those engaged in the subject - students, researchers, educators, designers, designer-makers, critics and curators. The Society aims to play an important role in shaping an inclusive design history.
7 September - 9 September
University of Oslo, Norway
Design and designers hold an ambiguous place in environmental discourse. They are either blamed for causing...
6 September, 10am - 5pm
Georg Morgensternes hus, Room 452, University of Oslo
The Design History Society will host a Writing & Publishing Workshop in conjunction with the 2017 Annual DHS...
This article explores three twentieth-century villas - Villa Tugendhat, Villa Müller and Villa Rothmayer - comparing their interiors, and the representations of these houses and the families living in them.
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15 August 2017
'For me, there is no gap between my painting and my so-called 'decorative' work. I never considered the 'minor arts'...
During a research period in Tokyo, I was able to study and gather materials for a significant case study regarding Korean and Japanese commercial art education by reviewing a collection of Japanese exhibition catalogues. I would like to thank the Design History Society once again for supporting the archival work essential for my studies.
I spent Valentine's Day 2017 in New York in anticipation of one of the largest international art history gatherings - the College Art Association Annual Conference - at which I would be co-chairing the Design History Society's inaugural panel as an affiliate society. This was a valuable opportunity to work with a larger, US-based organisation and promote the DHS internationally.
31 July 2017
The V&A is seeking to appoint a Curatorial Fellow in furniture history to join the Furniture, Textiles and Fashion...
The weekend of 30 June-2 July 2017 saw Middlesbrough host the second edition of the bi-annual 'Dresserfest', a family-friendly and action packed celebration of the Victorian industrial designer Christopher Dresser (1834-1904).
20 July 2017
Guest Editors: Dr Katie Faulkner (The Courtauld Institute of Art and Arcadia University) and Dr Freya Gowrley...
The Design History Society Student Travel Award funded 7 days, 4 ferry journeys, 2 flights and numerous bus journeys in and around the Orkney and Shetland Islands, where I was able to study first-hand objects made by members of the Armed Forces during World War II.
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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CAA 106th Annual Conference 2018 - Imagining the International: Repositioning Peripheral Narratives in Global Design...
I am grateful to the Design History Society for awarding me a Strategic Research Grant, which helped to fund a trip to London for consulting a collection of shawls at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
With the generous support of the DHS Student Travel Award, I had the opportunity to visit Tokyo for a week in May 2017. The primary and secondary sources I collected during this trip will form the core evidence for my research on the identity of modern Japanese women during the interwar period.
20 June 2017
The University of Oslo, Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, invites applications for a PhD...
I am in the third year of a PhD, studying design and business education for traditional artisans in India. The DHS Student Travel Award enabled me to conduct filming in one of my case study locations: Maheshwar, a small town in Madhya Pradesh state.
13 June 2017
The M+ / Design Trust Research Fellowship 2018 programme aims to support an original research project investigating...
4 June 2017
The Board of the European Association for Asian Art and Archaeology (EAAA) is pleased to announce the 2nd EAAA...
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I am grateful to the Design History Society for awarding me with a Strategic Research Grant, which helped to fund a crucial research trip to Tokyo, Japan. This will inform my PhD thesis, provisionally titled 'Graphic design in colonial Korea and the influence of Japanese Shōgyō Bijutsu'.
20 May 2017
The Design History Society is now accepting applications for the position of Teaching & Learning Officer. The Teaching...
17 May 2017
Aesthetics and Design History Since its formulation as an independent discipline in the 1970s, design history has...