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Designing the Domestic: Innovation in the Home (DHS online symposium)
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Designing the Domestic: Innovation in the Home (DHS online symposium)

7 October, 2 - 4:30pm

online

Convened by Alexandra Banister (Design History Society Ambassador and PhD student at Oxford Brookes...

Designing the Domestic: Innovation in the Home - Interview with Selin Geerinckx
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Designing the Domestic: Innovation in the Home - Interview with Selin Geerinckx

3 October 2023 -

As part of our upcoming online symposium ‘Designing the Domestic: Innovation in the Home’, DHS Ambassador Alex Banister caught up with Selin Geerinckx, interior architect and doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Design Sciences, University of Antwerp, to discuss her research on the bodily and mental effects of modern(ist) housing ideologies. Selin will be presenting joint paper – ‘The Bruynzeel Kitchen: On Body Movements and Household Reform’ alongside Els De Vos, associate professor at the University of Antwerp.

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DHS Ambassador call and thank you to outgoing Ambassador Wiktoria Kijowska
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DHS Ambassador call and thank you to outgoing Ambassador Wiktoria Kijowska

2 October 2023

In September we sadly said farewell to one of our Ambassadors, Wiktoria Kijowska after almost two years in post...

Designing the Domestic: Innovation in the Home - Interview with Priya Gupta
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Designing the Domestic: Innovation in the Home - Interview with Priya Gupta

27 September 2023 -

Ahead of our ‘Designing the Domestic: Innovation in the Home’ symposium, DHS Ambassador Alexandra Banister interviewed Priya Gupta, a PhD scholar at the Faculty of Architecture at CEPT University in Ahmedabad, to further discuss her research analysing the impact of state led regulations on Chandigarh’s private housing.

Provocative Objects: Barbie Velina
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Provocative Objects: Barbie Velina

25 September 2023 -

In the wake of the Barbie fever, this month's guest contributor to the Provocative Objects series Amelia O’Mahony-Brady (independent design researcher, archivist and recent Trinity College Dublin graduate) introduces us to Barbie Velina: a limited-edition doll exclusive to Italian audiences, released in Summer 2002.

Postponed - Designing Resistance: Colour, Colonialism and Decolonisation
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Postponed - Designing Resistance: Colour, Colonialism and Decolonisation

24 September, 7 - 8pm

online

Please note this event has been postponed until January 2024 - a new date will be announced soon Part of the...

Designing the Domestic: Innovation in the Home - Interview with Paloma Carignani & Gabriela Gugliottella
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Designing the Domestic: Innovation in the Home - Interview with Paloma Carignani & Gabriela Gugliottella

22 September 2023 -

Ahead of our ‘Designing the Domestic: Innovation in the Home’ symposium, DHS Ambassador Alexandra Banister met Paloma Carignani, a Master’s Degree candidate in Urban Studies and Housing in Latin America Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism at the University of Buenos Aires, and Gabriela Gugliottella, Professor of Arts at the University of Buenos Aires, to further discuss their research.

Design History Society annual conference 2024 convenor announcement
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Design History Society annual conference 2024 convenor announcement

21 September 2023

We are delighted to announce that the 2024 Design History Society conference will be hosted by the University for...

Congratulations to the winners of the 2023 Design Writing Prize and Student Essay Prize
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Congratulations to the winners of the 2023 Design Writing Prize and Student Essay Prize

19 September 2023

The Design History Society would like to share the outcome of the Design Writing Prize and Student Essay Prizes...

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Tender for new DHS website now live

18 September 2023

The DHS requires a developer to create a new website to be live by January 2024. This website will use Wordpress, so...

DHS Annual Conference 2023: Displaying Design - thank you!
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DHS Annual Conference 2023: Displaying Design - thank you!

18 September 2023

The DHS annual conference 2023 took place at ESAD College of Art and Design in Matosinhos, Porto. The theme Displaying...

Design History Society Annual Publishing Workshop 2023
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Design History Society Annual Publishing Workshop 2023

6 September, 3 - 6pm

esad idea, Rua Brito Capelo 243, Matosinhos

Design History Society Annual Publishing Workshop 2023The Design History Society will host an in person Publishing...

DHS Student Forum 2023 - Lightning Talks in response to 'Displaying Design'
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DHS Student Forum 2023 - Lightning Talks in response to 'Displaying Design'

2 September, 2 - 3:30pm

online

The DHS Student Forum presents a session of 5 minute Lightning Talks to be held online on 2nd September at 2pm...

Report: Regional Dress: Between Tradition and Modernity by Sara Hume (recipient of the Research Publication Grant)
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Report: Regional Dress: Between Tradition and Modernity by Sara Hume (recipient of the Research Publication Grant)

25 August 2023 -

Sara Hume reports on the publication of her monograph titled Regional Dress: Between Tradition and Modernity, which was partly funded by the DHS Research Publication Grant.

The Journal of Design History wishes to appoint a Social Media Editor
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The Journal of Design History wishes to appoint a Social Media Editor

9 August 2023

The Editorial Board of the Journal of Design History wishes to appoint a Social Media Editor. Please note this call...

Provocative Places: Capitol Complex, Chandigarh
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Provocative Places: Capitol Complex, Chandigarh

2 August 2023 -

This month, guest contributor to the Provocative Places series Vinod Bhatia, Assistant Professor of the National Institute of Fashion Technology, Panchkula (Haryana), explores the Capitol Complex in Chandigarh

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Call for papers: Indigenous design? New perspectives on decolonising design - DHS-sponsored panel at CAA 2024 (14-17 February 2024, Chicago)
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Call for papers: Indigenous design? New perspectives on decolonising design - DHS-sponsored panel at CAA 2024 (14-17 February 2024, Chicago)

28 July 2023

Indigenous design? New perspectives on decolonising design The Design History Society sponsored panel seeks...

'Wi Deh Yah' - Caribbean Fashion and Design Research Network In Collaboration with Design History Society
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'Wi Deh Yah' - Caribbean Fashion and Design Research Network In Collaboration with Design History Society

24 July - 7 August

online

Wi Deh Yah is a series of talks organised in collaboration with the Design History Society and the Caribbean...

Provocative Objects: Surrey County Asylum Photography
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Provocative Objects: Surrey County Asylum Photography

13 July 2023 -

This month, guest contributor to the Provocative Objects series Evangeline Rouse, MA History of Design student at the Royal College of Art/Victoria and Albert Museum, discusses the practice and ethics of presenting and taking photographs of asylum patients in the mid-nineteenth century