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'Design has to be emancipated from itself - there's another history to tell'. This was keynote speaker Tony Fry's clarion call at the DHS Conference on Design and Displacement.
ReportsBack in January 2018, I was very excited to see a call for papers for the inaugural conference of the newly-created International Society for the Study of Surrealism.
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Emin Artun Ozguner, a PhD candidate on the RCA/V&A History of Design programme, was awarded a DHS Conference Bursary to attend the 2018 DHS Conference, Design and Displacement. Here, Ozguner shares some of his highlights.
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Facilitated by a generous grant from the Design History Society, my research towards the exhibition 'Typing in tongues: writing machines around the world' examines how technological modernity and literacy were mediated globally through writing machines – that is, through everyday technologies of inscription and duplication.
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From 6-8 September, design historians from all over the world gathered in New York, USA for the 2018 DHS Conference, Design and Displacement. The DHS Ambassadors, Vivien Chan and Simon Spiers, along with the Society's Student Officer, Lydia Caston, review some of the activities that took place as part of the event.
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With the generous support of the Design History Society, and the assistance of Laura Weill, Assistant Curator of Typography & Graphic Communication at the University of Reading, I spent a week in September 2018 immersed in the Otto and Marie Neurath Isotype Collection.
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DHS Research Travel & Conference Grant recipient, Fiona Anderson, reviews her participation in the 2018 DHS Annual Conference.
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Earlier this year, PhD student Suzanne Rowland was granted a DHS Student Travel Award to conduct further research in the US.
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