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In this report, Sophia Tai takes us through her journey into the archives in the search of the history and character of the Tamil script, the official language in Sri Lanka, Singapore and Malaysia. Tai's research journey was supported by a DHS Student Research Access Award.
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In this report reflecting on their participation to the Memory Full? DHS annual conference, Petra Seitz invites us to take a critical position on a potential schism "which appears to exist within Design History; of a discipline unsure of its relationship to the political, to the radical, to the decolonial, to the anticapitalist and to a critical approach to history, theory, and objects."
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Join Nana Wang and their research journey into the fruition of their virtual exhibition project 'ISOTOPIA, the museum of the future,' which aims to explore the museum pedagogy methods and picture education in ISOTYPE.
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Sorcha O'Brien, the recipient of the DHS Virtual Event Grant, provides us with a vivid account of her AHRC funded research project "Kitchen Power: National Parallels symposium." The exhibition mainly looked at the promised lifestyle and everyday reality of rural electrification in 1950s and 1960s Ireland particularly its effect on the lives of Irish women.
ReportsHaving just wrapped up this year’s Oxford Digital Humanities Summer School (DHOXSS), this report gives a summary of my attendance at the school, my reasons for participating, an overview of the speakers and topics addressed over the four days of morning lectures and how what I have learnt might be applied to both my personal research as well as to the digital humanities strand of the DHS student-led reading groups, which Tai Cossich and I are leading in 2022.
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The ‘Eye for Colour’ symposium was held at the National Museum of Scotland on 29 November, 2018 by the Bernat Klein foundation, partially funded by the DHS Day Symposium Grant. In this report, the chair of BKF, Alison Harley, is providing us a glimpse on the aims and wide outreach of the event.
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In this post, the DHS Strategic Research Grant winner, Milia Lorraine Khoury shares the highlights of her research trip to Mozambique’s capital Maputo, where she traces the colonial legacy of architectural history and especially the particular story of surface decorations and their use in the expression of local identities.
ReportsThe 2020 DHS Virtual Event Award winner, Jennifer McHugh talks about the ideation process of her virtual event proposal, which has turned into the DHS Student Forum in collaboration with the DHS Student Representative, Tai Cossich.
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