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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...
13 November 2019
The fourth annual Interior Provocations symposium, Memory, held at the Ryerson School of Interior Design on March 28,...
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.
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More details >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 Open Call to submit work for the next round of the Municipal Art Acquisitions is now online and can be accessedThe...
7 November 2019
The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam is the largest museum for modern and contemporary art and design in the Netherlands,...
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.
26 October 2019
The Design History Society, a subject-specialist association founded in 1977 to promote the field of the History of...
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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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.
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...
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More details >5 October 2019
A Special Issue of Religion and the Arts Guest Editor: Frederick S. Roden Religion and the Arts solicits essays...
Jess Majekodunmi won the DHS Essay Prize in the post-graduate category for her submission, ‘What a Load of Bollards: The Bollards of Dublin's Thomas Street’.
Fleur Elkerton won the DHS Essay Prize in the undergraduate category for her submission, ‘Staging, Stitching and Sensing: A Comparison of Medieval English Passion Narratives in Mystery Plays and Opus Anglicanum Embroidery’.