Congresos

Design History Society Annual Conference The Material Culture of Sport

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:43:00 +0100

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

Design and its history

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:26:00 +0100

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:

il problema de “i musei del design”;
la storia e il significato dei rapporti tra “design e industria”;
il tema de “la formazione dello storico” (sia degli storici del design sia degli studenti in merito all’insegnamento della storia del design);
“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 Conference

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:18:00 +0100

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 2012 Design Frontiers: territories, concepts, technologies

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:06:00 +0100

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

Design Activism and Social Change Conference

Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:47:00 +0200

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

Interior Lives , the Modern Interiors research Centre annual conference

Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:55:00 +0200

The annual conference of the Modern Interiors Research Centre has established itself as a leading forum for international, interdisciplinary debate on the history and theory of the modern interior. In 2010 the conference will bring together architectural and design historians, theoreticians and practitioners, to explore the theme of Interior Lives.
http://fada.kingston.ac.uk/research/mir/mir_conf.php

7th Conference of the International Committee of Design History and Design Studies (ICDHS)

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 19:03:00 +0100

The conferences of the International Committee of Design History and Design Studies (ICDHS) aim to assess the current state of affairs of design history and design studies.
The seventh ICDHS conference, “Design and Craft: A History of Convergences and Divergences,” brings the relation between design and craft to the fore.
This theme offers an excellent opportunity to gather new design historical and theoretical research from over the world in a focused discussion on regional specificities as well as the impact of global processes of industrialisation.
If, until now, design history has been largely dominated by the Western narratives of industrialization, then moving the focus towards non-industrial design practice might bring non-Western scholars to the forefront.
Moreover, previously marginalized design histories in industrialized countries can finally get a voice.

http://www.designandcraft2010.be/

4T annual meeting

Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:54:00 +0100

Since 2006, 4T (an informally organized group of scholars and designers in Turkey) has discussed various aspects of design history in Turkey by means of annual meetings.
The latter have established a productive platform of communication between the participants and the proceedings have been published.
Starting with the fourth meeting we plan to expand this platform at an international level.
The first stage of this expansion involves bi-lingual (Turkish and English) publication of the proceedings of the 2009 meeting

The Eighth International European Academy of Design Conference

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:26:00 +0200

The Eighth International European Academy of Design Conference "Design Connexity" took place between the 1st and
the 3rd April 2009.
As the trend towards globalisation continues there is a growing connectedness between all our actions and a growing
interdependence between the social, economic and the environmental. This increasing connectedness raises new moral
and ethical issues and challenges. This concept has been termed ‘connexity’ (Mulgan, 1998) and provides the title
for the conference and the backdrop for the themes of the EAD 08 Conference, which seeks to explore the implications
of these trends for design research and practice
http://www.designconnexity.org

Design im doppelten Deutschland

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:11:00 +0200

Am 13. und 14. März veranstaltete die GfDg (Gesellschaft für Designgeschichte) ihre Jahrestagung im Museum August Kestner (MAK) Hannover zum Thema Deutsche Dinge. Design im doppelten Deutschland von 1949 bis 1989. In Zusammenarbeit mit der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung konnte ein Vortrag von Wolfgang Thierse, Vizepräsident des Deutschen Bundestages, und eine Podiumsdiskussion mit Herbert Lindinger und Clauss Dietel organisiert werden. Thierse referierte über 20 Jahre deutsche Einheit aus kulturpolitischer Sicht und diskutierte mit den beiden
Designern über die Rolle des Designs in der ehemaligen DDR.

http://www.gfdg.org

VI International Council of Design History and Studies Conference

Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:00:00 +0200

Themes: 1. Etymology of Design; 2. Design Museums and Museum Design: Another Art Museum or a New Museum? ; 3. Permanent and Transient: Past Present and Future; 4. Decolonizing Design History: Modern Postmodern for the Pheriphery; 5. Natural and Manmade: Medical Design and some other Design Frontiers; 6. Narrative Strategies in Design History; 7. Communication Design in Education, Research and Practice.
http://www.cscd.osaka-u.ac.jp/user/icdhs2008osaka

Secondo Convegno Internazionale di Studi Storici sul Design

Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:21:00 +0200

L’obiettivo era fare il punto sullo stato degli studi storici ma, insieme, affrontare il problema della storiografia del design, intesa come riflessione sui modi di fare storia del design.
Presentazione
www.madeiniuav.org
www.iuav.it

Design History Society Conference Networks of Design

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:55:00 +0200

Responds to recent academic interest in the fields of design history, technology and the social sciences in the 'networks' of interactions that inform knowledge formation and design. Studying networks foregrounds infrastructure, negotiations, processes, strategies of interconnection, and the heterogeneous relationships between people and things.
www.networksofdesign.co.uk

Jornades Internacionals Espais Interiors Casa i Art

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:55:00 +0200

Donat que l’amplitud temàtica i cronològica abarcava múltiples aspectes a tractar es van dissenyar quatre taules de discussió, distribuïdes de la següent manera: L’arquitectura domèstica: evolució i desenvolupament dels models; Representació d’espais interiors en l’art ;Interpretació de gènere i espai interior; Decoradors versus interioristes en el paisatge domèstic. A manera de compendi podem indicar que la resposta va ser molt important i que la trobada va esdevenir un èxit, tant pel públic participant com pels assistents, provinents de llocs i sectors diversos. Vegeu tots els comunicats a: www.ub.edu/gracmon/comunicacions.html

Tercer Congreso Internacional de Tipografía: Glocal. Tipografía en la era de la globalización

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:55:00 +0200

En un ensayo sobre Unicode, John Hudson afirmaba que, a comienzos del siglo XXI, el diseño de tipografía estaba yendo hacia un renacimiento internacional en gran parte debido al deseo de la industria informática de vender software y hardware a gente que habla otras lenguas distintas al inglés. La tipografía se ha visto inmersa en la internacionalización del ordenador con lo que ello supone a nivel económico y cultural pues, como ha señalado Robin Kinross, la tecnología informática ha sumergido a letra en ese fenómeno que denominamos globalización.
www.congresotipografia.com

The Dorich House International Conference 10. Staging the Modern Interior

Thu, 15 May 2008 17:55:00 +0200

A two-day interdisciplinary conference which will examine the role of the interior as a 'stage' - a place where identities are formed and performed. The event will be of interest to artists, designers, architects, art and design historians, film makers, theatre set designers and cultural historians.
www.kingston.ac.uk/dorich

Memoria e raconto. Per una museologia del design

Mon, 07 May 2007 17:55:00 +0200

The themes of museology and museography for design have become – particularly in Italy and in recent years – the subject of discussion and debate from various perspectives. It seems important and necessary to pragmatically address some of the issues still open in the matter of conservation, classification and communication of the cultural assets of contemporary society. The objective of the conference is to examine the current situation and to advance a series of concrete guidelines for museum operators, archives, foundations, universities and all those who have a design heritage to manage.
www2.iuav.it/memoriaeracconto/eng/home_eng.html

V Conference. International Council of Design History and Studies and Nordic Forum of Desig History and Studies: Connecting

Wed, 23 Aug 2006 17:55:00 +0200

A conference on the multivocality of Design History & Design Studies