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DHS Ambassador Alexandra Banister meets Dr Lee Wright, Senior Lecturer in the History and Theory of Design at Liverpool John Moores University, Dr Melanie Levick-Parkin, Senior Lecturer in Design at Sheffield Hallam University, and Dr Eve Stirling, Principal Lecturer in Design at Sheffield Hallam University, to further discuss their research.
DHS Events
This week the DHS Ambassador Wiktoria Kijowska takes on the lead with Provocative Objects. In this post Wiktoria puts the gendered pink razor under the lens and offers a provocative account of how objects are mutually defined by and are used to define gender constructs.
Provocative Objects / Spaces
Provocative Objects / Places is back with a new post! This week, Alexandra Banister reflects on International Women’s Day, and discusses gender and architecture at The Woman’s Building at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair.
Provocative Objects / Spaces
The DHS Ambassadors continue to investigate 'Provocative spaces/objects.' This week Wiktoria Kijowska explores the RM58 armchair by Roman Modzelewski and the experimentations with global modernism in the context of Poland in the later half of the twentieth century.
Provocative Objects / Spaces
Follow the DHS blog for a new series: Provocative Objects / Places! From now on every other Wednesday the DHS Ambassadors Alexandra Banister and Wiktoria Kijowska will be exploring the design histories and rhetoric underlaying everyday objects and places. This Wednesday Alexandra Banister takes us to the Basildon Park in Berkshire, England and discusses issues of colonialism. Stay tuned for more!
Provocative Objects / Spaces
In this report reflecting on their participation to the Memory Full? DHS annual conference, Petra Seitz invites us to take a critical position on a potential schism "which appears to exist within Design History; of a discipline unsure of its relationship to the political, to the radical, to the decolonial, to the anticapitalist and to a critical approach to history, theory, and objects."
Reports
Join Nana Wang and their research journey into the fruition of their virtual exhibition project 'ISOTOPIA, the museum of the future,' which aims to explore the museum pedagogy methods and picture education in ISOTYPE.
Reports
Sorcha O'Brien, the recipient of the DHS Virtual Event Grant, provides us with a vivid account of her AHRC funded research project "Kitchen Power: National Parallels symposium." The exhibition mainly looked at the promised lifestyle and everyday reality of rural electrification in 1950s and 1960s Ireland particularly its effect on the lives of Irish women.
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