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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.
5 - 7 September 2019
Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
'The Cost of Design' explores the complexities of the historic and contemporary relationship between design and...
2 February 2019, 2 - 5pm
The Gallery, 70 Cowcross Street, London, EC1M 6EJ
The Design History Society is hosting an afternoon event on Saturday 2nd February at 70 Cowcross Street, EC1M...
From 6-8 September, design historians from all over the world gathered in New York, USA for the 2018 DHS Conference, Design and Displacement. The DHS Ambassadors, Vivien Chan (VC) and Simon Spiers (SS), along with the Society's Student Officer, Lydia Caston (LC), review some of the activities that took place as part of the event.
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 >6 December 2018
Free one-day symposium organised by the KABK Lectorate Design: Design and the Deep Future. You are warmly invited...
With the generous support of the Design History Society, and the assistance of Laura Weill, Assistant Curator of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading, I spent a week in September 2018 immersed in the Otto and Marie Neurath Isotype Collection.
DHS Research Travel & Conference Grant recipient, Fiona Anderson, reviews her participation in the 2018 DHS Annual Conference.
28 November 2018
The Art and Art History Department of Drexel University's Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design invites...
Earlier this year, PhD student Suzanne Rowland was granted a DHS Student Travel Award to conduct further research in the US.
17 November 2018
LearnXdesign is a conference series by DRS Special Interest Group in Design Pedagogy (PedSIG), cultivating symbiotic...
Marta Filipová, who was awarded a DHS Research Travel & Conference Grant, reflects on her experiences of the 2018 DHS Conference, Design and Displacement.
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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DHS Conference Bursary recipient Magali An Berthon reviews her participation in the 2018 DHS Conference, Design and Displacement.
1 November 2018
10 October 2018
The Design History Society is looking to appoint a new Membership and Outreach Officer to champion the interests of...
10 October 2018
The Design History Society warmly welcomes proposals from individual members and institutions that support research...
Upon graduating from the MA History of Design course at the Royal College of Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum, I was given the fantastic opportunity by the Design History Society to share my dissertation research at the inaugural Fashion, Costume and Visual Cultures conference, held in Zagreb, Croatia.
3 October 2018
Nordic Forum for Design History, 23-24 November 2018, Museum of Design and Applied Arts, Garðabær...
Wessie Ling writes about how a DHS Research Publication Grant contributed towards the preparation of her edited volume, Fashion in Multiple Chinas: Chinese Styles in the Transglobal Landscape (with Simona Segre Reinach).
Check out our blog to see reports on the Society's activities.
More details >21 September 2018
Interior Provocations, a symposium founded by Pratt Institute Faculty in the History of Art and Design and Interior...
DHS Student Travel Award recipient Christin Yu shares details of her recent research trip to Honolulu, Hawai'i, USA, undertaken as part of her PhD, 'Fragments and Borders: Reconstructing Post-War Korean Identity Through Patchwork'.
6 - 8 September
Parsons School of Design, New York
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates that in 2016, some 65.6 million people were...