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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
Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
'The Cost of Design' explores the complexities of the historic and contemporary relationship between design and...
Reflecting on his DHS Student Travel Award, John Clegg shares his observations from his archival field trip into New York City, USA, where he was able to conduct his research on the Harlem Renaissance, a movement in the early twentieth century when cultural and artistic self-expression reinterpreted what it meant to be African American.
Delia Danchev gives us a glimpse of her research on the ceramicist Grete Marks' (Margarete Heymann Löbenstein Marks, 1899-1990) work, which she was able to investigate in the archives in Germany, thanks to the DHS Student Travel Award.
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 >9 October 2019
Arts University Bournemouth is looking for a Senior Lecturer or Lecturer who could help students to contextualise...
5 October 2019
A Special Issue of Religion and the Arts Guest Editor: Frederick S. Roden Religion and the Arts solicits essays...
Jess Majekodunmi won the DHS Essay Prize in the post-graduate category for her submission, ‘What a Load of Bollards: The Bollards of Dublin's Thomas Street’.
Fleur Elkerton won the DHS Essay Prize in the undergraduate category for her submission, ‘Staging, Stitching and Sensing: A Comparison of Medieval English Passion Narratives in Mystery Plays and Opus Anglicanum Embroidery’.
The one-day workshop Objects Matter: design education and learning through objects in the museum co-organised by Design History Society, the Design Museum and Council for Higher Education in Art and Design was held on 10 September 2019.
Timothy Brittain-Catlin gives us an overview of his upcoming publication 'The Edwardians and their Houses: the New Life of Old England', which received a DHS Research Publication Grant.
17 September 2019
Speaker: Deborah Sugg Ryan, Professor of Design History and Theory This year the Association for Art History’s...
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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10 September, 12 - 12am
Design Museum, 224-238 Kensington High St, Kensington, London W8 6AG
What does it mean to learn about design through the study of objects? Objects Matter: Design Education and Learning...
6 September 2019
Interest in maritime art and its role in art history has reignited in recent years and this conference provides an...
21 August 2019
What does it mean to learn about design through the study of objects? Objects Matter: Design Education and...
PhD student Enya Moore was granted a DHS Student Travel Award as part of her research on design events, with which she went to experience the Shenzhen Design Week.
19 July 2019
Decolonising Design History – Call for Papers Session Convenors: Katherine Moline (University of New South Wales),...
Raiford Guins discusses his upcoming publication, Atari Design: Impressions on an Everyday Cultural Form, 1972-1979, which received support from a DHS Research Publication Grant.
5 July 2019
Lincoln School of Design Location: Lincoln Salary: From £38,460 per annum This post is permanent FTE 1.0Closing...
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More details >5 July 2019
Organization: FULL BEED | Maryland Institute College of Art Deadline: January 1, 2020 CFP...
4 July 2019
Join the DHS Executive Committee Overview The Student Officer serves on the Executive Committee as a...
1 July 2019
Call for Chapters: Domesticity under Siege: when home isn’t safe Edited by: Mark Taylor, Georgina Downey and...