DHS Conferences

Conference

"How we live, and How we might live": Design and the Spirit of Critical Utopianism

11 September - 13 September 2015

California College of the Arts, San Francisco, California

Inherent in every act of design is a vision however modest, however inarticulate of a better world: We design because...

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Design for War and Peace

4 September - 6 September 2014

Department for Continuing Education, University of Oxford, UK

2014, the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, is an apposite moment in which to reflect upon the...

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Towards Global Histories of Design: Postcolonial Perspectives

5 September - 8 September 2013

National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India

The Design History Society is delighted to announce that the DHS Annual Conference 2013 will be held at the National...

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The Material Culture of Sport, University of Brighton, UK

6 September - 8 September 2012

Brighton, UK

The international 3-day conference coincided with the 2012 London Olympic Games and Cultural Olympiad but was not...

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Design Activism and Social Change

6 September - 8 September 2011

Barcelona, Spain

Convened by Guy Julier

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Writing Design: Object, Process, Discourse, Translation

6 September - 8 September 2009

University of Hertfordshire

Convened by Dr Grace Lees-Maffei and Jessica Kelly, this conference encouraged participants to reflect on their...

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Networks of Design

6 September - 8 September 2008

University College Falmouth, Cornwall, UK.

This conference responded to recent academic interest in the fields of design history, technology and the social...

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Design/Body/Sense

6 September - 8 September 2007

Kingston University London, UK.

This conference explored the histories of bodily and sensual experiences of design. It was convened by Dr Trevor...