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> From: David Crowley
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> Sent: Thursday, October 5, 2000 1:35 am
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> Subject: Representing Design: conference notice
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> Representing Design
>
> Design History Society conference at the Royal College of Art and Victoria
> and Albert Museum, London, 21-23 September 2001
>
> This interdisciplinary conference will be a forum to investigate the
> changing nature of the representation of design in different historical
> periods. The conference will explore the significance of representation
> for our understanding of the concept of design in the cycle from
> origination, manufacture, dissemination to consumption.
>
> As well as seeking to support new research in design history, the
> conference organisers welcome contributions from economic and business
> history, the social sciences, art history, anthropology, and material
> culture studies. In particular, we are keen to
>
>
> receive proposals or papers addressing the following themes in any period
> or context:
>
> * innovation and convention in the representation of design
> * the transmission of design knowledge: available and interpretative
> methodologies
> * the process of mediation and the reception of meaning
> * the literature on representation and design or representation of design
> * design ideals - lived realities
>
>
> The following strands have been proposed. The organisers welcome further
> suggestions from potential convenors:
>
> * Representing the Renaissance Home
> * Representing the World of Goods: Attitudes to Consumption in the
> Renaissance
> * Design Knowledge, 1600 - 1850: pattern books, sample books and design
> transmission
> * Design in Economic History
> * Words & Pictures: Communicating Ideas about Design in Early Modern
> Europe
> * Representing Fashion
> * The Domestic Interior in Europe and America 1850 to the present
> * Popular representation of design in film, television and magazines
> * Design Historiography: The Representation of Design History
> * Objects in the Museum: Museum Objects
>
>
> The conference will also include receptions, keynote addresses and visits
> to design collections in London. Delegates will be able to preview the new
> British Art and Design Galleries at the V&A scheduled to open in autumn
> 2001.
>
> A 'call for papers' and further details of the programme will be
> distributed by the end of this year. If you would like to be put on the
> conference mailing list or propose a paper or strand, please contact the
> conference organisers by post or email:
>
> Design History Society Conference, Humanities, Royal College of Art.
> London SW7 2EU or [log in to unmask]
>
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