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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.
3 - 5 September 2020
FHNW Academy of Art and Design, Basel, Switzerland
The “memory full” warning sent by a device when its drive reaches maximum capacity is both an irritant and an...
30 January 2020, 1 - 5pm
Design Museum, Bauhaus and Ulm Room, First Floor, London
‘Heritage’ is designed, from landscapes and buildings, to rituals and artefacts. Join us for an afternoon...
Megan Brandow-Faller offers us a vivid glimpse of her new publication "The Female Secession: Reclaiming ‘Women’s Art’ and the Decorative at the Viennese Women’s Academy, 1897-1938", for which she was awarded a DHS Research Publication Grant.
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More details >In our last report from the DHS conference 2018, Design and Displacement, Noga Bernstein shares her invaluable remarks, especially from the point of view of its contribution to a multidisciplinary debate.
Reflecting on his DHS Conference Bursary, Colin Fanning shares some invaluable remarks on matter and materiality in design from his observations on last year's DHS Conference, Design and Displacement.
27 November 2019
The California State University, Sacramento is looking for an Assistant Professor of Design Studies with the following...
DHS Conference Bursary recipient, Nerea Amoros Elorduy, reflects on her participation in the 2018 DHS Annual Conference, Design and Displacement, sharing some critical highlights from the panels.
11 November 2019
The Design History Society warmly welcomes proposals from individual members and institutions that support research...
DHS Conference Bursary recipient, Kasia Jezowska, reflects on her participation in the 2018 DHS Annual Conference.
7 November 2019
The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam is the largest museum for modern and contemporary art and design in the Netherlands,...
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 >7 November 2019
Aberdeen Art Gallery holds the largest collection of the work of internationally renowned fashion designer Bill Gibb...
Rebecca Keyel was awarded a DHS Conference Bursary to attend last year's DHS Conference, Design and Displacement. Keyel shares some invaluable remarks from the event as she reflects on the then-ongoing "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination" exhibition at the MET.
Émélie Desrochers-Turgeon was awarded a DHS Conference Bursary to attend last year's DHS Conference, Design and Displacement. Here, Émélie shares some of his highlights.
23 October 2019
Louise Campbell’s Studio Lives traces the evolution of the artist’s studio from the Victorian style of G.F. Watts...
23 October 2019
This fully-funded PhD explores the intersection of high speed motilities and fashion in the century of speed. Hosted...
23 October 2019
The Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain is excited to announce the result of a collaboration between...
Reflecting on his DHS Student Travel Award, John Clegg shares his observations from his archival field trip into New York City, USA, where he was able to conduct his research on the Harlem Renaissance, a movement in the early twentieth century when cultural and artistic self-expression reinterpreted what it meant to be African American.
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Delia Danchev gives us a glimpse of her research on the ceramicist Grete Marks' (Margarete Heymann Löbenstein Marks, 1899-1990) work, which she was able to investigate in the archives in Germany, thanks to the DHS Student Travel Award.
9 October 2019
Arts University Bournemouth is looking for a Senior Lecturer or Lecturer who could help students to contextualise...
5 October 2019
A Special Issue of Religion and the Arts Guest Editor: Frederick S. Roden Religion and the Arts solicits essays...