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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 - 4 September 2021
FHNW Academy of Art and Design, Basel, Switzerland
We regret to inform our colleagues, members of the DHS2020 scientific committee that due to the severe challenges...
28 May 2020
The DHS is delighted to offer new funding opportunities for virtual activities whilst our support for face-to-face and...
2019 DHS Conference Bursary recipient, Christin Yu offers us a glimpse of last year's DHS annual conference through the lens of textiles, design, and material cultures, which informs her own perspective in her PhD research.
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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20 May 2020
The first DHS podcast is now online! Please listen to Megha Rajguru, the DHS Teaching and Learning Officer, in...
15 May 2020
Open call for academic articles for the inaugural online issue of ‘DISCERN, International Journal of Design for...
Kelly Washington takes us to Johannesburg, South Africa, where she was able to observe the local youth phenomenon Skothane as a modern subculture as part of her MA in Fashion Communication at Central Saint Martins. Kelly was one of the recipients of the 2019 DHS Student Travel Award.
22 April 2020
The Design History Society (DHS), as Affiliate Society of the College Art Association (CAA), invites DHS members to...
22 April 2020
Routledge is partnering with the University of Manchester and AMPS on two virtual conferences as part of a “Teaching...
In her vivid account of the DHS 2019 conference, The Cost of Design, Gretchen Von Koenig, our DHS Conference Bursary recipient shares her invaluable observations from the panels as she takes us through her paper focusing on the industrialist roots of American industrial design education with the subsequent influence of the German Bauhaus school.
10 April 2020
The particular epistemic and innovative potentials of Design Research are increasingly recognized within the wider...
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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We regret to inform our colleagues that due to the severe challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic the convenors have...
2019 DHS Conference Bursary recipient, Enya Moore, shares her invaluable observations from the highlights of the 2019 DHS Conference, The Cost of Design, giving us some insight into panel discussions and keynote speeches revolving around the true ‘cost’ of design beyond financial implications.
Magali An Berthon takes us to Cambodia, where she has visited the Phnom Penh at Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum, a former secret prison site of the Khmer Rouge regime between 1976-1979. Magali has had the opportunity to examine the museum’s textile collection there, thanks to her DHS Student Travel Award.
24 March 2020
The Design History Society and Oxford University Press continue to monitor the COVID-19 pandemic. Our first priority...
24 March 2020
As all possible efforts globally should be focused upon protecting and saving life and wellbeing, the Trustees are...
11 March 2020
The Department of Arts is looking to appoint an experienced Art Conservator with the skills and experience to lead and...
11 March 2020
The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Department of Arts and Culture, opens the position of Assistant Professor (0,8fte)...
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More details >11 March 2020
STORMLAMP is a research project that is characterising wave loading and structural performance of rock lighthouses. It...
DHS Conference Award winner Seungyeon Gabrielle Jung shares her observations from the 2019 DHS Conference "The Cost of Design" and presents us with an interesting thread about the reconciliation of global design influences and local appropriations that runs through the panels.
4 March 2020
On last Sunday, 1 March the deadline for the call of papers to the DHS annual conference, "Memory full? Reimagining...