Dear Design History Electronic Mailing List Subscriber
The annual Design History Society conference 2007, Design/Body/Sense:
Physical and Psychical Embodiment in Design, has opened its registration office.
To book a place as a delegate, please find attached a conference booking form.
Should you have any queries, please email the convenors through
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www.designbodysense.co.uk.
Kind regards and we hope to see you in September.
Juliette Kristensen
Design History Society Communications Officer
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From: "Dr Claire I R O'Mahony" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 1 May 2007 12:30:49 BDT
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Subject: Garden History Conference
‘The laurel, the palms and the paean’: Gardens of the Aesthetic Movement
The Institute for Garden and Landscape History, Saturday 30 June 2007
Hestercombe Gardens, Somerset
Is there such a thing as an Aesthetic Garden? Much scholarly attention has
been devoted to the architecture and interiors of the Aesthetic Movement,
but what kind of garden surrounded the House Beautiful? Aestheticism is
often associated with the city, the interior, and decadence; gardens are
associated with the countryside, the out-of-doors, fresh air and health.
Yet landscape gardening is a division of painting in the founding text of
modern aesthetics - Kant’s Critique of Judgement - and there is no reason
why a garden should not exist for the sake of beauty, or of art, alone.
This conference will explore real and fictional gardens of the later
nineteenth century, in both England and France, which renounced utilitarian
aims and claimed to exist for beauty’s sake. It will ask how gardens could
reflect or influence the distinctive concerns of the Aesthetic Movement –
for example, with formal perfection and pure beauty, with antiquarianism and
historical revival, with artifice and exoticism. In short, was there a
Garden Beautiful that corresponded to the House beautiful, and if so, what
did it look like?
Speakers: Professor Elizabeth Prettejohn (University of Bristol), Professor
Anne Helmreich (Case Western Reserve University), Professor Juliet Simpson
(Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College), Dr Morna O’Neill (Yale
Centre for British Art), Dr Claire O’Mahony (University of Oxford) and Mr
Michael Liversidge (University of Bristol).
For more information and details of how to book contact Kate Concah,
Business Administrator, Hestercombe Gardens on 01823 414180 or email:
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From: "Julier, Guy" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 30 April 2007 16:19:01 BDT
To: "Design History Society" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Call for Contributions
Counting Creativity: Understanding the Systemization of Design Practices.
Leeds Metropolitan University, 12-13 July, 2007
Call for Workshop Contributions
Contributions are sought for the second workshop of the 'Counting
Creativity' project. This exists within the AHRC's 'Nature of Creativity'
programme. It takes place in Leeds, UK on 12-13 July and is convened by
Professor Guy Julier (Leeds Metropolitan University) and Dr Liz Moor (Dept.
of Media and Communications, Middlesex University).
This workshop will feature papers by academics interested in the causes and
effects of systemization, measurement, evaluation and audit culture in the
design profession. The event will take both an external view, looking at the
broader changes in political economy, public policy and management that have
led to the rise of accountability systems, and an internal view, by
reviewing how notions of creativity and professionalisation are affected by
these within design practice.
Apart from the workshop convenors, other participants include James
Heartfield (independent scholar), Jane Pavitt (Victoria & Albert
Museum/Brighton University), Damian Sutton (Glasgow School of Art), Paul
Springer (Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College), Lucy Kimbell (Said
Business School, Oxford University), Annemarie Ennis (Karo/Concordia
University, Montreal), Doug Sandle (RKL Consultants/Leeds Metropolitan
University). A publisher for an associated edited book is currently being
sought.
If you are interested in contributing to this workshop by giving a paper,
please send an abstract (max. 200 words) to Guy Julier (e.mail:
[log in to unmask]) by Friday 25 May.
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Professor Guy Julier
The Leeds School of Architecture, Landscape and Design
Leeds Metropolitan University
Calverley Street
Leeds LS1 3HE
+ 44 (0)113 283 6752
www.designculture.info
www.leedsmet.ac.uk/as/artdesresearch
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From: [log in to unmask]
Date: 27 April 2007 15:29:40 BDT
To: Design History Society <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Design History Society in North America?
Greetings,
Does anyone know of organizations like DHS that are focused primarily on
North America? While I am pleased that such an active organization exists in
Europe, I do not have the funding to attend the very interesting DHS and
related conferences announced on this list. I need something a little closer
to home, if only to reduce the costs.
Thanx,
Joe Austin
Department of History
University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
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