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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...
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...
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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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).
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...
5 September, 10am - 3:30pm
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
The Design History Society will host a Publishing & Research Methods Workshop in conjunction with the 2018 Annual DHS...
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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3 September 2018
2 September 2018
A conference jointly supported by the Design History Society, the European Architectural History Network, and the...
Leslie Atzmon and Betti Marenko reflect on Design and Theories of Things, a symposium held earlier this year in June and hosted at the DHS offices.
24 August 2018
You will be responsible for: Supporting the curatorial team in all events and activities related to museum...
Zoë Hendon and Anne Massey discuss their upcoming publication, Design, History and Time: New Temporalities in a Digital Age, which received support from a DHS Research Publication Grant.
Alexandra Gushurst-Moore, a PhD candidate at University of York, reviews her participation in the 2018 John Douglas Taylor Conference, which was facilitated by a DHS Student Travel Award.
8 August 2018
Convened by Louise Purbrick and Annebella Pollen, this panel, which focuses on the subject of Dress and...
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More details >DHS Membership and Outreach Officer, Sabrina Rahman, reviews 'Migrating Culture: Global Curation between Past and Present', a two-day symposium co-organised by the Design History Society and the Programme in Art History and Visual Culture at the University of Exeter.
Thanks to the generous support of a Student Travel Award from the Design History Society, I was able to undertake a five-week research trip to Moscow, Russia, where I conducted archival research for my doctoral thesis, 'The Kino-khudozhnik and the Material Environment in Early Russian Fiction Film, c. 1907-1930'.
17 July 2018
In the past decades there has been a lot of discussion about the construction and impact of history. Historians claim...