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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.
2 September - 4 September
FHNW Academy of Art and Design, Basel, Switzerland
Memory Full?Reimagining the Relations between Design and History2-4 September 2021 | FHNW Academy of Art and...
21 May, 6:30 - 8:30pm
Online
Over the past year, we have all experienced unprecedented uncertainty within our respective institutions. Design...
13 April, 7 - 8pm
Online
Please book your place via Eventbrite. Please join us in the next session of the DHS Virtual Student Forum! In...
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.
More details >8 April 2021
The DHS is looking for a new Chair of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Design History. The Design History...
17 March 2021
The Design History Society (DHS), as Affiliate Society of the College Art Association (CAA), invites DHS members to...
3 March 2021
The Design History Society would like to congratulate the winners of the Research Publication Grant, Equity,...
24 February 2021
CfP: Teaching and Learning, Design History and Practice in the Virtual SpaceFriday 21st May 2021 at 6:30pm...
The 2020 DHS Virtual Event Award winner, Jennifer McHugh talks about the ideation process of her virtual event proposal, which has turned into the DHS Student Forum in collaboration with the DHS Student Representative, Tai Cossich.
9 February 2021
The convenors of the upcoming DHS annual conference in Basel, have sent us another postcard sharing some latest...
21 January 2021
We have an another postcard from Basel, and a great news too! Given the ongoing pandemic and the challenging...
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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In her blog report Denise Lai, talks us through the archiving process of Wawasan 2020 in collaboration with the Malaysian Design Archive and supported by the DHS. Launched in 1991 by the Malaysian state, Wawasan 2020 was an ambitious development and modernisation scheme for the nation, which also takes central stage in Denise's MA dissertation in history of design recently completed at the Royal College of Art. Denise was one of the recipients of the 2020 DHS Virtual Event Award (Student)
5 January 2021
We start the new year with a little surprise. The second edition of the DHS podcast* is now live!Please listen to...
In the last blog report of the year, the Design in Quarantine Team, Fleur Elkerton and Anna Talley, are talking us through their amazing experience of creating an archive in the present amidst the COVID pandemic.
In these difficult times, it is good to rejoice thinking back about the last DHS conference in Northumbria University. DHS Conference Award winner Sena Çerci shares some of her observations from the panels and reminds us that she would stick with the word "change" in case of a verbal extinction, a choice apt for today.
27 November 2020
Lund Humphries is delighted to invite you to a digital talk to celebrate the launch of: Closed on Mondays: Behind the...
19 November 2020
Kitchen Power: National Parallels was an international online symposium on the 16th and 17th September 2020, which...
16 November 2020
The Smithsonian’s Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation invites you to attend our upcoming...
Check out our blog to see reports on the Society's activities.
More details >16 November 2020
We have a new postcard from Basel, and a great news too! The CfP for the 2021 DHS Conference, Memory Full? Reimagining...
Dr. Louise Hardiman shares some highlights from her research trips to the USA and Russia, which have helped her reconnect with the wider network of Slavist specialists, collaborate with cultural institutions, and finalise her research for her upcoming title, "Selling the Samovar: Women and the Promotion of Russian Craft in the West". Hardiman is the recipient of the 2019 DHS Research Access Grant (formerly known as, DHS Research and Conference Travel Grant).
20 October 2020
We have a new postcard from Basel! The convenors of the DHS 2021 conference, Ernst Meret and Monica Gaspar are...