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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.
8 September - 10 September
Izmir Institute of Technology, Izmir, Turkey
The DHS Annual Conference, 2021 will be held in the Izmir Institute of Technology, Izmir, Turkey. Stay tuned for more...
1 April, 1:30 - 5pm
Online
1 April 2021. 13.30 BST The editorial project “World History of Design,” initiated by the late Victor...
25 January - 8 February
Online
The first two meetings of the DHS Reading Groups are coming up soon. On January 25, Tai Cossich will lead the session...
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.
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20 January - 31 March
Virtual seminar
How has craft been represented through a variety of media? What impact does representation through the particularities...
12 January 2022
Please take a moment to get informed about the financial constraints faced by colleagues at The City Museum & Art...
10 January 2022
As the Design History Society and its wider community we are saddened by the loss of design critic and historian...
22 December 2021
The online talk held by the Society of Design Arts and AIGA Baltimore with the co-editors of the special issue of the...
In this report reflecting on their participation to the Memory Full? DHS annual conference, Petra Seitz invites us to take a critical position on a potential schism "which appears to exist within Design History; of a discipline unsure of its relationship to the political, to the radical, to the decolonial, to the anticapitalist and to a critical approach to history, theory, and objects."
16 November 2021
The JDH proudly presents the new Special Issue titled "Material Displacements" edited by Sarah Lichtman and Jilly...
16 November 2021
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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Join Nana Wang and their research journey into the fruition of their virtual exhibition project 'ISOTOPIA, the museum of the future,' which aims to explore the museum pedagogy methods and picture education in ISOTYPE.
28 October 2021
The Design History Society and its wider community mourns the tragic loss of Gabriele Oropallo. Please join us reflect...
27 October 2021
The Design History Society is looking for three new Ambassadors! The Ambassadors will play a vital role in enriching...
Sorcha O'Brien, the recipient of the DHS Virtual Event Grant, provides us with a vivid account of her AHRC funded research project "Kitchen Power: National Parallels symposium." The exhibition mainly looked at the promised lifestyle and everyday reality of rural electrification in 1950s and 1960s Ireland particularly its effect on the lives of Irish women.
20 October 2021
Art Emergency, a mentoring charity and support network that helps underrepresented young people get ahead in the...
11 October 2021
How has craft been represented through a variety of media? What impact does representation through the particularities...
6 October 2021
The Design History Society would like to share the outcome of the Design Writing and Essay Prizes (undergraduate and...
Check out our blog to see reports on the Society's activities.
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25 September 2021, 12:30 - 1:15pm
National Gallery, London
The Design History Society is participating in the first annual week-long festival curated by the Association for Art...
22 September 2021, 6 - 7pm
Virtual
The Design History Society is participating in the first annual week-long festival curated by the Association for...
13 September 2021
We are proud to announce the publication of a new Virtual Special Issue by the Journal of Design History; Typographic...