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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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2019 DHS Conference Bursary recipient, Rachel Hunnicutt, provides us a very vivid picture of papers focusing on the intersection of design and industry and her own research examining industrial armaments and aircraft production, during WWI and WWII.
ReportsDeepshikha Jha shares highlights from the International Conference on Design and Technology, held at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, which she was able to attend with her DHS Student Travel Award. Deepshikha also gives us a glimpse of her own research, presented at this event, which focuses on bridging the gap between traditional textile crafts, contemporary fashion, wearable technology (specifically LED textiles) and scientific design research in India.
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DHS Conference Bursary recipient, Courtney Schum, reflects on her participation in the 2019 DHS Conference, The Cost of Design, offering us a vivid perspective on the two panels honouring the Bauhaus centenary.
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