Dear Prof. Ferris Crane,
I will be at university for the most part of today (from about 10 in the
morning till about 3 pm) and you are welcome to visit and we could meet.
The address is Ambedkar University, Kashmiri Gate, Lothian Road, Delhi.
This is near Red Fort-Old Delhi railway station and 10 minute walk from
Kashmiri Gate metro station. My cellphone number is 09825920967. Please let
me know if you would like to visit and when.
Regards
Suchitra
On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 5:14 AM, Ferris Crane <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hello Suchitra,
>
> I am working in the areas of design, culture and technology. It would be
> interesting to meet another design historian. Today I'm in New Delhi. are
> you available for tea or coffee today?
>
> Prof. Ferris Crane
>
>
>
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> Subject: 2013 Design History Society Annual Conference - TOWARDS GLOBAL
> HISTORIES OF DESIGN: POSTCOLONIAL PERSPECTIVES
>
>
>
> *DESIGN HISTORY SOCIETY** **ANNUAL CONFERENCE - 2013***
>
> *TOWARDS GLOBAL HISTORIES OF DESIGN: POSTCOLONIAL PERSPECTIVES*
>
> *National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, INDIA** *
>
> *5-8 September, 2013*
>
> *
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *
> *Convenors:* Suchitra Balasubrahmanyan, Ambedkar University, New Delhi
> and Tanishka
> Kachru, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad*
> Organiser*: National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, INDIA*
> Website: *www.dhs-nid2013.in*
> Language of Conference: *English
>
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> *Towards Global Histories of Design: Postcolonial Perspectives*
>
> Enquiries into design history, so far, have largely privileged European and
> North American cultural spheres, offering rich insights into design as both
> product and process and the contexts shaping both. Equally, studies in
> design history from other geographies are in a nascent stage and scholarly
> voices have been faint and the insights sparse.
>
> These less-explored geographies share much in common. All of them have
> design traditions, often enduring over millennia.. More importantly for
> this conference, many regions within these geographies share a colonial
> past with important cultural dimensions for all the regions drawn into the
> vortex of the colonial order.
>
> Among many possible ways of looking at this ongoing experience, the
> conference has chosen the lens of postcolonial perspectives.
> Postcolonialism has come to be a vexed term with different tonalities for
> different disciplines. But what could it mean for design and design history
> in all the regions brought together by the complex socio-economic,
> political and cultural order of the colonial project? This is what this
> conference seeks to explore. It hopes to provide a setting to amplify
> postcolonial design histories from global geographies. It is particularly
> keen to provide a forum for hitherto faint voices from the global south.
>
> *The conference conveners invite proposals for papers and full panels (of 3
> chaired papers) on the sample themes below and other relevant themes:*
>
> Design and identity in colonial and postcolonial contexts
>
> Design and material culture of independence and de-colononisation
>
> Design and material culture and the imperial ambitions in the context of
> the Cold War
>
> Craft and Design in colonial and postcolonial networks
>
> Design and modernism in postcolonial contexts
>
> Role of design in national reconstruction in postcolonial societies
>
> Design for development/ grassroots movements
>
> Design exchanges in the colonial period and after through exhibitions and
> trade fairs
>
> Design, State and Market
>
> Intersection of traditional and modern design pedagogies
>
> Design Education in colonial and postcolonial contexts?
>
> Design discourses in diverse postcolonial geographies
>
> Views from specialisations within design - industrial design, visual
> communication, textiles and fashion, ceramics and others.
>
> *Call for papers*
>
> The conveners of the 2013 Design History Society international conference
> invite contributions from design history and related academics and
> scholars, design practitioners, design educators, museum professionals and
> students, which would illuminate postcolonial perspectives on design
> history. The Design History Society offers bursaries for successful student
> speakers who are members of the Society; so the conveners do encourage and
> welcome submissions from post graduate scholars. Papers are expected to
> make an original contribution to the field of design history that address
> the conference theme *‘Towards Global Histories of Design: Postcolonial
> Perspectives’*
>
> Papers/panel proposals could respond to the broad themes mentioned above or
> propose others ways and lenses of examining the conference theme.
>
> If you would like to propose a paper or a panel, please submit an abstract
> for refereeing. Paper/panel proposals must follow the rules of submission
> below:
>
> 1. *Proposal for 25 minute papers must be submitted as below,*
>
> *Page 1:*
>
> Author’s(s’) full name(s), (indicate gender (M/F), in brackets),
>
> Title – Position – Institution
>
> Address for correspondence
>
> Telephone – Fax – E-mail
>
> Theme of the paper
>
> Title of the paper
>
> Five keywords
>
> * *
>
> *Page 2:*
>
> Abstract of the paper
>
> (Maximum 300 words, Microsoft Word document, double-spaced on A4, in 11pt
> Arial)
>
> Languages: The abstract should be written in English.
>
> 1. *Proposal for a full panel of 3 x 25 minute papers:* include
> convener’s name, panel title, an abstract of no more than 150 words for
> the
> full panel clearly outlining its thematic interrogation, titles and 300
> word abstracts for each paper clearly communicating structure and
> argument,
> and 50-100 word biography of each speaker with full
> professional/institutional affiliation and contact email or address.
>
> *Please send proposals to: *[log in to unmask]
>
> Proposals will be double blind reviewed and selected by the Conference
> Academic Committee whose members will be drawn from the diverse geographies
> that the conference theme seeks to focus upon, to cover a range of
> historical moments, geographical locations and discursive fields.
>
> *Key dates*
>
> 15 January 2013 Deadline for abstracts
>
> 1 April 2013 Notification of acceptance
>
> 30 June 2013 Publication of Conference Programme
>
> 5-8 September 2013 Conference
>
> *Conference venue*
>
> The National Institute of Design (NID) was the first modern design
> institute in India, set up in 1961 by the Government of India under the
> Ministry of Commerce and Industry as an autonomous national institution for
> design, education, training, service and research. NID has gained
> international recognition as one of the foremost institutions in the field
> of design and as a catalyst for design in Indian industry. The Institute’s
> graduates are active in all sectors of the Indian economy and many have
> distinguished themselves in diverse fields such as textiles, product
> design, craft design and promotion, advertising, development communication
> and education.
>
> Ahmedabad is a 600 year-old city in western India and one of the first
> industrial cities of nineteenth-century India. After independence in 1947,
> it was one of the first cities to incubate modern design, thus making it a
> fitting backdrop for this conference.
>
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