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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.
2 September - 4 September
FHNW Academy of Art and Design, Basel, Switzerland
Memory Full?Reimagining the Relations between Design and History2-4 September 2021 | FHNW Academy of Art and...
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...
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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25 September, 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, 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...
3 September, 6:30 - 8pm
Virtual via Zoom
We invite members and prospective members of the DHS to join our 2021 Virtual AGM and prize-giving ceremony on Friday...
27 August - 31 August
Virtual via Zoom
The Design History Society will host three virtual Publishing Workshops in conjunction with the 2021 annual DHS...
20 August 2021
The Design History Society is participating in the first annual week-long festival curated by the Association for Art...
19 August 2021
We invite members and prospective members of the DHS to join our 2021 Virtual AGM and prize-giving ceremony on Friday...
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 >19 August 2021
The DHS is looking for a new Book Reviews Editor of the Journal of Design History.The Design History Society (a...
28 July 2021
Ahmed Ansari (in conversation with Tai Cossich and Sandra Bischler) will be the keynote speaker of the pre-conference...
Having just wrapped up this year’s Oxford Digital Humanities Summer School (DHOXSS), this report gives a summary of my attendance at the school, my reasons for participating, an overview of the speakers and topics addressed over the four days of morning lectures and how what I have learnt might be applied to both my personal research as well as to the digital humanities strand of the DHS student-led reading groups, which Tai Cossich and I are leading in 2022.
16 July 2021
The Design History Society is proud to announce the launch of the third and final series of Reverberations podcasts by...
7 July 2021
The DHS is looking for a new Managing Editor of the Journal of Design History. The Design History Society (a...
2 July, 6:30 - 8pm
Virtual event
Over the past year, we have all experienced unprecedented uncertainty within our respective institutions. Design...
24 June 2021
The Design History Society is proud to announce the launch of the second series of Reverberations podcasts by Zara...
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23 June 2021
The Design History Society will host three events led by students and early career researchers in response to the...
18 June, 6:30 - 8pm
Online
Over the past year, we have all experienced unprecedented uncertainty within our respective institutions. Design...
The ‘Eye for Colour’ symposium was held at the National Museum of Scotland on 29 November, 2018 by the Bernat Klein foundation, partially funded by the DHS Day Symposium Grant. In this report, the chair of BKF, Alison Harley, is providing us a glimpse on the aims and wide outreach of the event.