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Provocative Places: Soviet Playground Design in Lithuania
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Provocative Places: Soviet Playground Design in Lithuania

8 December 2023 -

Welcome to the final Provocative Places and Objects blog of 2023. This time, Ieva Daujotaite, a Design History Postgraduate from the Royal College of Art / Victoria & Albert Museum shares research on Soviet Playground Design in Lithuania.

CFP - DHS-sponsored event - (Re)Making: Craft-Design and Women’s Empowerment in the  Global South
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CFP - DHS-sponsored event - (Re)Making: Craft-Design and Women’s Empowerment in the Global South

5 December 2023

Projekt Studio, Cape Town (Re)Making: Craft-Design and Women’s Empowerment in the Global SouthCall for...

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Welcome to our new Ambassador

1 December 2023

The Design History Society is pleased to welcome our new Ambassador, Rowan Adamson. Rowan recently achieved her...

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Welcome to new DHS Trustees

30 November 2023

The Design History Society has recently welcomed new members to its Executive Committee. Anna Talley has joined...

Call for convenors: 2025 Design History Society Annual Conference
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Call for convenors: 2025 Design History Society Annual Conference

29 November 2023

The Design History Society (DHS) is looking for a host for its 2025 annual conference. The conference is a...

Report: Child Creativity from Secessionist Vienna to Postwar America by Megan Brandow-Falller (recipient of the Research Access Grant [Professional])
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Report: Child Creativity from Secessionist Vienna to Postwar America by Megan Brandow-Falller (recipient of the Research Access Grant [Professional])

22 November 2023 -

Megan Brandow-Falller, Professor of History at the City University of New York KBCC, reports on research undertaken for the book project 'Child Creativity from Secessionist Vienna to Postwar America', supported by the DHS Research Access Grant (Professional)

Provocative Objects: VHS tapes
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Provocative Objects: VHS tapes

9 November 2023 -

Welcome to the next in our Provocative Places and Objects series, in which our contributors look at places and spaces that challenge and confront us as design historians. This time, Justin Childress, Clinical Assistant Professor in the Master of Arts in Design & Innovation at the Southern Methodist University, looks at VHS tapes as memory objects.

A statement by the DHS, SAHGB and AAH regarding the imminent closure of MoDA
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A statement by the DHS, SAHGB and AAH regarding the imminent closure of MoDA

2 November 2023

Closure of MoDA and Disbursal of CollectionsThe SAHGB, DHS and AAH note with sadness and immense concern the...

Report: No More Giants: J.M. Richards, modernism and The Architectural Review by Jessica Kelly (recipient of the Research Publication Grant)
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Report: No More Giants: J.M. Richards, modernism and The Architectural Review by Jessica Kelly (recipient of the Research Publication Grant)

20 October 2023 -

Jessica Kelly reports on the publication of her monograph titled No More Giants: J.M. Richards, modernism and The Architectural Review, which was partly funded by the DHS Research Publication Grant.

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POSTPONED - Teaching Graphic Design History in/of the Arab World: Narratives and Practices
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POSTPONED - Teaching Graphic Design History in/of the Arab World: Narratives and Practices

19 October - 20 October

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Teaching Graphic Design History in/of the Arab World: Narratives and Practices DATE: Thursday 19th / Friday...

Provocative Places: The Arab Hall at Leighton House
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Provocative Places: The Arab Hall at Leighton House

11 October 2023 -

Welcome to the next in our Provocative Places and Objects series, in which our contributors look at places and spaces that challenge and confront us as design historians. This time, Isabella Warnham, a student on the V&A/RCA History of Design MA, looks at the Arab Hall at Leighton House in London.

Special Issue of the 2022 DHS annual conference 'Design and Transience' now published
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Special Issue of the 2022 DHS annual conference 'Design and Transience' now published

10 October 2023

We are pleased to announce that a Special Issue on the theme of the 2022 DHS annual conference 'Design and Transience'...

Call for Submissions: JDH Special Issue: Administering Design: Politics, Power and Agency in Global Perspective
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Call for Submissions: JDH Special Issue: Administering Design: Politics, Power and Agency in Global Perspective

9 October 2023

Call for Papers for Special Issue of the Journal of Design History: Administering Design: Politics, Power and Agency...

Designing the Domestic: Innovation in the Home (DHS online symposium)
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Designing the Domestic: Innovation in the Home (DHS online symposium)

7 October, 2 - 4:30pm

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Convened by Alexandra Banister (Design History Society Ambassador and PhD student at Oxford Brookes...

Designing the Domestic: Innovation in the Home - Interview with Dr Emeline Brule
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Designing the Domestic: Innovation in the Home - Interview with Dr Emeline Brule

5 October 2023 -

Ahead of our ‘Designing the Domestic: Innovation in the Home’ symposium, DHS Ambassador Alexandra Banister caught up with Dr Emeline Brule, design lecturer at the University of Sussex, to further explore her research into the modern torchiere.

Designing the Domestic: Innovation in the Home - Interview with Selin Geerinckx
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Designing the Domestic: Innovation in the Home - Interview with Selin Geerinckx

3 October 2023 -

As part of our upcoming online symposium ‘Designing the Domestic: Innovation in the Home’, DHS Ambassador Alex Banister caught up with Selin Geerinckx, interior architect and doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Design Sciences, University of Antwerp, to discuss her research on the bodily and mental effects of modern(ist) housing ideologies. Selin will be presenting joint paper – ‘The Bruynzeel Kitchen: On Body Movements and Household Reform’ alongside Els De Vos, associate professor at the University of Antwerp.

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DHS Ambassador call and thank you to outgoing Ambassador Wiktoria Kijowska
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DHS Ambassador call and thank you to outgoing Ambassador Wiktoria Kijowska

2 October 2023

In September we sadly said farewell to one of our Ambassadors, Wiktoria Kijowska after almost two years in post...

Designing the Domestic: Innovation in the Home - Interview with Priya Gupta
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Designing the Domestic: Innovation in the Home - Interview with Priya Gupta

27 September 2023 -

Ahead of our ‘Designing the Domestic: Innovation in the Home’ symposium, DHS Ambassador Alexandra Banister interviewed Priya Gupta, a PhD scholar at the Faculty of Architecture at CEPT University in Ahmedabad, to further discuss her research analysing the impact of state led regulations on Chandigarh’s private housing.

Provocative Objects: Barbie Velina
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Provocative Objects: Barbie Velina

25 September 2023 -

In the wake of the Barbie fever, this month's guest contributor to the Provocative Objects series Amelia O’Mahony-Brady (independent design researcher, archivist and recent Trinity College Dublin graduate) introduces us to Barbie Velina: a limited-edition doll exclusive to Italian audiences, released in Summer 2002.