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The Design History Society is the leading organisation that promotes the study of global design histories, and brings together and supports all those engaged in the subject - students, researchers, educators, designers, designer-makers, critics and curators. The Society aims to play an important role in shaping an inclusive design history.
7 September - 9 September
University of Oslo, Norway
Design and designers hold an ambiguous place in environmental discourse. They are either blamed for causing...
24 September 2017
The Design History Society is now accepting applications for the position of Conference Liaison Officer. The role of...
From 7-9 September, design historians from all over the world gathered in Oslo, Norway for the 2017 DHS Conference, Making and Unmaking the Environment. This year, Lydia Caston (LC), DHS Student Officer, and Vivien Chan (VC) and Simon Spiers (SS), DHS Ambassadors, covered a selection of panels during the conference.
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More details >19 September 2017
Northumbria University is a thriving research-engaged, business-focused institution with an ambitious vision for...
12 September 2017
The Annual Design History Society Conference is a prestigious international event, which offers a platform for an...
8 September 2017
The Design History Society wishes to invite individuals who can make a distinctive and dynamic contribution to the...
6 September, 10am - 5pm
Georg Morgensternes hus, Room 452, University of Oslo
The Design History Society will host a Writing & Publishing Workshop in conjunction with the 2017 Annual DHS...
40 years have passed since the Design History Society was formed in 1977. Additionally, the Journal of Design History, created by the Society in 1987 - and now a leading journal in the field - celebrates its third decade of publication this year. To commemorate both milestones, the Society decided a poster should be created for the upcoming DHS 2017 Annual Conference.
29 August 2017
A one-day conference organised by Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture (MoDA), Middlesex University. Venue:...
This article explores three twentieth-century villas - Villa Tugendhat, Villa Müller and Villa Rothmayer - comparing their interiors, and the representations of these houses and the families living in them.
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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15 August 2017
'For me, there is no gap between my painting and my so-called 'decorative' work. I never considered the 'minor arts'...
During a research period in Tokyo, I was able to study and gather materials for a significant case study regarding Korean and Japanese commercial art education by reviewing a collection of Japanese exhibition catalogues. I would like to thank the Design History Society once again for supporting the archival work essential for my studies.
I spent Valentine's Day 2017 in New York in anticipation of one of the largest international art history gatherings - the College Art Association Annual Conference - at which I would be co-chairing the Design History Society's inaugural panel as an affiliate society. This was a valuable opportunity to work with a larger, US-based organisation and promote the DHS internationally.
31 July 2017
The V&A is seeking to appoint a Curatorial Fellow in furniture history to join the Furniture, Textiles and Fashion...
The weekend of 30 June-2 July 2017 saw Middlesbrough host the second edition of the bi-annual 'Dresserfest', a family-friendly and action packed celebration of the Victorian industrial designer Christopher Dresser (1834-1904).
20 July 2017
Guest Editors: Dr Katie Faulkner (The Courtauld Institute of Art and Arcadia University) and Dr Freya Gowrley...
The Design History Society Student Travel Award funded 7 days, 4 ferry journeys, 2 flights and numerous bus journeys in and around the Orkney and Shetland Islands, where I was able to study first-hand objects made by members of the Armed Forces during World War II.
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More details >8 July 2017
CAA 106th Annual Conference 2018 - Imagining the International: Repositioning Peripheral Narratives in Global Design...
I am grateful to the Design History Society for awarding me a Strategic Research Grant, which helped to fund a trip to London for consulting a collection of shawls at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
With the generous support of the DHS Student Travel Award, I had the opportunity to visit Tokyo for a week in May 2017. The primary and secondary sources I collected during this trip will form the core evidence for my research on the identity of modern Japanese women during the interwar period.