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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...
DHS Conference Bursary recipient, Malin Graesse, reviews her participation in the 2018 DHS Annual Conference.
It was a joy to present at the 2018 DHS Conference. Not only was it my first presentation at a major academic conference, it was my first time attending one as well, and I can say with certainty that it was an incredibly rewarding experience.
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More details >11 February 2019
DHS Panel Proposal: The Cost of Design, University of Northumbria, 5-7 September 2019 The Business of the...
How does design participate in the narratives and experiences of displaced persons? How are designed objects and spaces subject to displacement, and how are these transformations exposed or concealed? What does a lens of displacement offer to design historians and to the field of design study?
2 February, 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...
24 January 2019
National Museums Scotland (NMS) is one of the leading museum groups in Europe. With one of the largest and most...
'Design has to be emancipated from itself - there's another history to tell'. This was keynote speaker Tony Fry's clarion call at the DHS Conference on Design and Displacement.
16 January 2019
In 2019, Germany will be celebrating the centenary of the founding of the Bauhaus, together with partners worldwide...
11 January 2019
The Society is looking to appoint a new Membership and Outreach Officer to champion the interests of its wide-ranging...
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.
More details >Back in January 2018, I was very excited to see a call for papers for the inaugural conference of the newly-created International Society for the Study of Surrealism.
Emin Artun Ozguner, a PhD candidate on the RCA/V&A History of Design programme, was awarded a DHS Conference Bursary to attend the 2018 DHS Conference, Design and Displacement. Here, Ozguner shares some of his highlights.
Facilitated by a generous grant from the Design History Society, my research towards the exhibition 'Typing in tongues: writing machines around the world' examines how technological modernity and literacy were mediated globally through writing machines – that is, through everyday technologies of inscription and duplication.
20 December 2018
RACAR special issue to be published October 2020. The home, while sometimes conceived as stable and secure,...
15 December 2018
The Royal College of Art is the UK's only entirely postgraduate art and design university. In 2018/19 the College will...
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.
6 December 2018
Free one-day symposium organised by the KABK Lectorate Design: Design and the Deep Future. You are warmly invited...
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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...