The Design History Foundation and the Alfaro-Hofmann Collection are launching the second grant for the study of domestic appliances. In this edition object of study is the vacuum cleaner
Continuar llegintThe aim of the grant is to encourage international research on the history of the vacuum cleaner, and the sope of the grant is the Alfaro Hofmann collection, which includes more than 300 vacuum cleaners from all over the world, a library and a documents archive.
Applications must be submitted to info@historiadeldisseny.org
Key dates:
Article of the I Research Grant for the Study of Domestic Appliances (2013).
Now you can read and download the first of two articles resulting from First research grant for the study of domestic appliances organised by the Design History Foundation together with the Collection Alfaro Hofmann.
It is a study on the sewing machine seen from a gender perspective.
The author, Li Zhang is design history professor at the Beijing Information Science and Techonology University.
The article, written in English can be downloaded here: Zhang, Li-Bisexual and Invisible Memory- Gendered Design History of Domestic Sewing Machine, 1850-1950