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
Oral History
The Society has initiated an oral history project about the development of the discipline over the last thirty years through an on-going series of life histories and interviews with historians and writers who have played a significant role in establishing our discipline. The life histories format provides a rich resource for understanding how individuals and institutions constructed the concept of �design history� as a separate entity, and the various vicissitudes that have created, and continue to shape, what the subject means in the 21st century.
Extracts from the recordings will be available as podcasts hosted by the Voices in the Visual Arts (VIVA) Oral History project, launched in October 2007 and based at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London. The completed recordings will be stored with the DHS archive at Northumbria University.
For further information about the project, or suggestions for possible interviewees, please contact Linda Sandino, VIVA Senior Research Fellow, Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts, Wilson Road, London SE5 8LU.
Voices in the Visual Arts website
This project has to date documented the life stories of the following
- Adrian Forty, Architectural historian
- Bridget Wilkins, Design historian