Congressos
The material culture of sport

21/11/11

Design History Society Annual Conference The Material Culture of Sport

The Material Culture of Sport

13 - 15 September 2012
University of Brighton, UK

Call for papers

‘An antique pot or painting is a direct and meaningful articulation of an ancient culture ... But football is necessarily about movement, athleticism, fleeting moments and huge crowds; a couple of old medals, a few international caps and a pile of old programmes ... hardly capture the essence of the game.’ (Nick Hornby, quoted in Kevin Moore, Museums and Popular Culture, 1997).

The international 3-day conference coincides with and complements the 2012 London Olympic Games and Cultural Olympiad but is not intended simply to celebrate the Olympics ideal or, indeed, to deal exclusively with the material culture of the Olympic Games. Rather, it will be a timely opportunity to embrace research in the material culture of sport in all its manifestations, from and across various academic disciplines including art, architecture and design, art and design history, material culture studies, history, sports studies, film studies, museum and heritage studies, media and cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, gender studies, economics, and politics.

Further Information:http://www.designhistorysociety.org/events/annual_conference/index.html

logo asociació italiana

21/11/11

Design and its history

1° Convegno nazionale di A/I/S/Design (Associazione Italiana degli Storici del Design)
A/I/S/Design organizza un convegno dal titolo “Il design e la sua storia” nei giorni 1 e 2 dicembre 2011.

 

La prima giornata è dedicata al lavoro di quattro commissioni (alle quali è libera l’iscrizione previo invio di un abstract ) che affrontano:

  1.  il problema de “i musei del design”;

  2.  la storia e il significato dei rapporti tra “design e industria”;

  3.  il tema de “la formazione dello storico” (sia degli storici del design sia degli studenti in merito all’insegnamento della storia del design); 

  4. “il linguaggio della comunicazione visiva e il design”.

 

Ogni commissione presenterà all’incontro del 2 dicembre un résumé dei lavori svolti nella prospettiva di organizzare nei prossimi due anni convegni su ognuno dei quattro temi. Per ogni commissione, due coordinatori hanno elaborato un testo di riferimento per i lavori che è pubblicato più avanti.

 

La seconda giornata del convegno presenta le relazioni di alcuni dei più noti studiosi italiani che mirano a fare il punto sull’attuale situazione degli studi sul design in Italia, sia in senso storico sia storiografico, anche con attenzione a quanto sta avvenendo negli altri paesi.

 

 

 

More information:http://www.aisdesign.org/

 

 

Design History Revolution

21/11/11

Design/History/Revolution Conference

Design/History/Revolution Conference


Deadline: December 7, 2011


Conference: April 27 & 28, 2012, The New School, NYC


Whether by providing agitprop for revolutionary movements, an aesthetics of empire, or a language for numerous avant-gardes, design has changed the world. But how? Why? And under what conditions?  We propose a consideration of design as an historical agent, a contested category, and a mode of historical analysis.

This interdisciplinary conference aims to explore these questions and open up new possibilities for understanding the relationships among design, history and revolution.

Casting a wide net, we define our terms broadly. We seek 20-minute papers that examine the roles of design in generating, shaping, remembering or challenging moments of social, political, economic, aesthetic, intellectual, technological, religious, and other upheaval.


Further information: http://designhistoryrevolution.wordpress.com/


ICDHS

21/11/11

ICDHS 2012 Design Frontiers: territories, concepts, technologies

The International Committee for Design History and Design Studies (ICDHS) is an international working group whose board members are internationally acknowledged design scholars.

ICDHS 2012 will be held in São Paulo (Brazil), 3rd-6th September 2012. It will be the 8th conference organized by the ICDHS Committee, and its theme is Design Frontiers: territories, concepts, technologies.

History marks territories that in some way or another are reflected in design. Since the first ICDHS conference, held in Barcelona in 1999, significant steps were taken to draw attention to the nature of design studies, practice and history in a wider world context. Parallel to that, the configuration of design landscapes has been significantly altered by education, technology and national state policies intended to promote local industries and sites by means of design.

The 8th ICDHS conference, “Design Frontiers: territories, concepts, technologies”, aims to discuss how design history and design studies may push the limits of design knowledge. The frontiers of design may be challenged by the exploration of new territories, by the establishment of new concepts, by the emergence of new technologies, as well as by rediscovering the past and by finding new ways of applying current wisdom.

 

ICDHS 2012 will be held in São Paulo (Brazil), 3rd-6th September 2012

 

Deadline for paper proposals: 29 February 2012

 

 

Further information:http://www.fau.usp.br/icdhs2012/?id=33&s=9

 

The FHD will organise the Design History Society annual conference in 2011 The Design History Society Annual Conference, will take place 7-10 September 2011, Barcelona Call for Papers Theme: Design Activism and Social Change Venues: Facultat d'Hist
Design Activism and Social Change

1/09/11

Design Activism and Social Change Conference

The FHD will organise the Design History Society annual conference in 2011


The Design History Society Annual Conference,
will take place 7-10 September 2011, Barcelona


Call for Papers 


Theme: Design Activism and Social Change
Venues: Facultat d'Història de l'Art de la Universitat de Barcelona and ADI FAD
Convenor:  Guy Julier
Organizers:  Fundacio Historia del Disseny, Barcelona 
 
Design activism has emerged in recent years as a term to denote creative practices that invoke social, political and environmental agency. Typically, it distances itself from commercial or mainstream public policy-driven approaches. Instead, it embraces marginal, non- profit or politically engaged design theories, articulations and actions.

This conference offers an important opportunity for design students, academics and practitioners to participate in the development of historical enquiry into design activism. It welcomes the presentation of original research that helps deepen and widen our understanding of its practices and theories, contexts and discourses.  The types of design expression that this conference includes, but are not limited to, are professional and non-professional industrial, graphic, craft, textile, fashion, urban, spatial, interior, digital and service design. 

Closing date for receipt of abstracts: 31 January 2011


Further details:  http://www.historiadeldisseny.org/congres