Society News
3 Sep
Writing Design - Call for Papers
The Design History Society Annual Conference 2009, Writing Design: Object, Process, Discourse, Translation, has now opened its call for papers.
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22 Aug
DHS Roles Available
The Society is seeking to fill a number of positions on its Executive Committee, including Secretary, Conference Liaison Officer, Communications Officer, Essay Prize Officer and Student Representative....More
15 Aug
DHS Essay Prize Winners Announced
Awarded annually, the DHS essay prize for undergraduate and postgraduate work was announced last week, and the winners were .......More
Annual Conference 2009
The next DHS conference, Writing Design: Object, Process, Discourse, Translation, will be hosted by University of Hertfordshire, 3-5 September 2009, and will be convened by Dr Grace Lees-Maffei and Jessica Kelly.
How do we find out about design, as both practice and object, including the processes of designing, crafting and manufacture, marketing and consumption? A variety of methods and sources ranging from observation, participation, interview and oral history, to object analysis and documentary and visual interpretation is used in order to understand the processes and products of design and material culture.
In both researching design and preparing resultant outcomes, designers, design historians, practitioners of design studies, material culture studies, popular culture studies and literary studies use words, whether written or spoken, to describe visual and material processes and objects. Understanding design involves the use and translation of sources, both pictorial/material and written/verbal.
As is fitting in the wake of the Design History Society’s 30th Anniversary and the 20th Anniversary of the Journal of Design History, this conference encourages participants to reflect on their sources, historiography and methodology, research, dissemination and teaching processes to examine the issues mobilised by articulating design and material culture with language and the ways in which writing about objects has conditioned our understanding of design. This conference is inclusive in its interests.
For more details and for Call for Papers and poster please see the Writing Design conference website.
Please submit abstracts to Jessica Kelly.
Key Dates
3 September 2008
Call for papers launched
12 January 2009
Deadline for receipt of proposals
16 February 2009
Target date for results of peer review sent to speakers
2 March 2009
Target date for publication of programme; early bird booking commences
20 July 2009
Early bird booking period closes
21 July 2009
Late booking period commences
1 August 2009
Deadline for speakers to submit full papers to session chairs
3 September 2009
Conference begins
30 October 2009
Deadline for receipt of full papers for peer review for publication
2010
Publication of papers