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DHS Ambassador Alexandra Banister meets Monica Tuşinean, a doctorate student at the Technische Universität Berlin, to further discuss her research.
Interviews
Welcome to the next in our "Provocative Places and Objects" series, in which the DHS Ambassadors look at places and spaces that challenge and confront us as design historians. This month, Alexandra Banister discusses the Great Mosque of Aleppo in Syria and issues of architecture, heritage, and conflict.
Provocative Objects / Spaces
Tomorrow sees the launch of our new seminar series "Hidden Histories: Gender in Design." The theme to begin the series is ‘Gender in Design Histories: Historiography and Methodology’. DHS Ambassador Alexandra Banister meets Dale Gyure, Ph.D., Professor of Architecture and Chair of the Architecture Department at Lawrence Technological University, to further discuss his research.
DHS EventsDHS Ambassador Alexandra Banister meets Dr Lee Wright, Senior Lecturer in the History and Theory of Design at Liverpool John Moores University, Dr Melanie Levick-Parkin, Senior Lecturer in Design at Sheffield Hallam University, and Dr Eve Stirling, Principal Lecturer in Design at Sheffield Hallam University, to further discuss their research.
DHS Events
This week the DHS Ambassador Wiktoria Kijowska takes on the lead with Provocative Objects. In this post Wiktoria puts the gendered pink razor under the lens and offers a provocative account of how objects are mutually defined by and are used to define gender constructs.
Provocative Objects / Spaces
Provocative Objects / Places is back with a new post! This week, Alexandra Banister reflects on International Women’s Day, and discusses gender and architecture at The Woman’s Building at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair.
Provocative Objects / Spaces
The DHS Ambassadors continue to investigate 'Provocative spaces/objects.' This week Wiktoria Kijowska explores the RM58 armchair by Roman Modzelewski and the experimentations with global modernism in the context of Poland in the later half of the twentieth century.
Provocative Objects / Spaces
Follow the DHS blog for a new series: Provocative Objects / Places! From now on every other Wednesday the DHS Ambassadors Alexandra Banister and Wiktoria Kijowska will be exploring the design histories and rhetoric underlaying everyday objects and places. This Wednesday Alexandra Banister takes us to the Basildon Park in Berkshire, England and discusses issues of colonialism. Stay tuned for more!
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