Society News
1 Jun
Design History Tutor
The Royal College of Art is seeking to make two appointments within the School of Humanities: a full-time Tutor to work across the departments of History of Design and Critical and Historical Studies, and a part-time Tutor to work two days a week in Critical and Historical Studies (salary pro rata)....More
27 May
The Viennese Café as an Urban Site of Cultural Exchange
The cultural significance of the café provides a central theme for scholars from the fields of visual, social, literary and cultural history to meet and explore the similarities, differences and shared points of interest in recent research into Vienna 1900....More
18 May
Something Old, Something New
The Textile Society is holding its annual conference, Something Old, Something New, in Winchester on 5-7 September 2008....More
Welcome to the Design History Society
Welcome to the Design History Society, the leading organisation for design historians, curators and practitioners.
The Society undertakes a range of activities intended to encourage and support research and scholarship, to offer information and enable networking opportunities, as well as to foster both student participation and public recognition of the subject.
These activities include publications, conferences, events, lectures, special projects, and writing awards.
The Society encourages liberal and inclusive definitions of design history and its methods, approaches and resources. These definitions take in the function, form and materials of artefacts of the pre-industrial and industrial periods, up to and including the present day. These definitions also include artefacts' production, dissemination and consumption as well as their cultural, economic and social meanings.
Membership to the Society is open to all.