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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
Design & TransienceDesign History Society Annual Conference 2022// Hybrid Conference///September 8-10 2022 Izmir...
18 November - 2 December
Online
Fridays 18 November - 2 December 2022 Session 1 15.30 - 17.00 (GMT) Session 2 19.00 - 20.00...
4 October, 11am - 1pm
Virtual event
Join us this fall for the virtual symposium, Global Conversations: Materiality and Mediation, on October 4,...
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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21 September, 2 - 3:30am
Hybrid
Free hybrid event in partnership with the Design History SocietyPart of the Association for Art History's Art History...
15 September 2022
Free hybrid event in partnership with the Design History SocietyWednesday 21 September 2022, 2-3.30pm (UK time). Watch...
15 September 2022
Running from 20 – 26 September, the Association for Art History’s celebration of art, design and architecture...
8 September, 10:15 - 11:15am
hybrid - IZTECH, Izmir, Turkey and Zoom
Our upcoming Student Forum event ‘Hear Your Peers’ provides students at all stages of their studies with...
7 September, 3 - 6:30pm
Izmir, Turkey and Zoom
Design History Society Annual Publishing Workshop 2022The Design History Society will host a hybrid Publishing...
6 September 2022
The Trustees of the Design History Society acknowledge the disquiet and anxiety felt by a number of its members...
Welcome to the next in our Provocative Places and Objects series, in which our Ambassadors look at places and spaces that challenge and confront us as design historians. This month, Alexandra Banister looks at Millbank Prison, the former national penitentiary and deportation holding facility, and the architecture of imprisonment and surveillance.
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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Until recently many academic disciplines and subjects avoided the subject of the occult, deeming it too ‘irrational...
14 July 2022
Call for Papers: Student Forum: Hear Your PeersThursday 8th September 202212.45-1.30pm TRT /10.45-11.30am BSTHybrid...
6 July 2022
Started by the DHS Ambassadors in 2022, the Provocative Objects and Places blog series looks at places and objects...
Welcome to the next in our Provocative Places and Objects series, in which our Ambassadors look at places and spaces that challenge and confront us as design historians. This month, Alexandra Banister discusses the city of Johannesburg in South Africa and issues of segregation and urban planning.
In this blog report the awardees of the DHS Conference Bursary, Joana Baptista Costa and Mariana Leão talk about the Open Portuguese Graphic Design Archive, an initiative they lead in order to "problematise the processes of the historiography of graphic design and question the authorities and the powers that define objects, themes and authors."
29 June 2022
The Design History Society (DHS) is the leading organisation that promotes and supports the study of design histories,...
Welcome to the next edition of our Provocative Places and Objects blog series, in which our Ambassadors look more at places and spaces that challenge and confront us as design historians. This month, Wiktoria Kijowska looks at the Bacchantes Vase by René Lalique in the context of fakes and copies.
Check out our blog to see reports on the Society's activities.
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20 June 2022
June 30th, 6 PM - 7:30 PM ET The Society of Design Arts Baltimore (SoDA) and Aigia Baltimor are back with the...
20 June 2022
Join us welcoming the new members of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Design History with these reflective words...
Leanne Tolkin is a PhD researcher and a textile and fashion conservator. In this report Leanne talks about the ‘postconservation’ model that extends the legacy and appreciation of fashion artefacts beyond a representational conservation approach. After all, if a fashion item is designed to degrade, what are the archival implications in conserving, documenting processes and ‘performance’ of the applied characteristics of such artefacts?