Dear Colleagues,
I would like to draw your attention to the following panel that I am organizing with Prof. Bess Williamson (SAIC) at the Midwest Art History Society’s annual conference in Chicago in April 2016.
Chicago Design: Histories and Narratives
While the concept of a “Chicago School” has long been central to the architectural history of the city—even if in recent decades it has served primarily as a foil for critical revisions to the founding myths of that history— scholars have given little attention to thinking about the design history of the city in similar terms. This session proposes just such a place-based approach to the history of design in Chicago with the aim of identifying and interrogating any unifying conditions that might distinguish design produced here from that produced elsewhere. Conceiving “design” in the broadest terms, papers may consider examples of any scale, from the individually crafted to the mass produced, and from any period in the history of the city. In putting together a varied and diverse survey of design in Chicago, this panel hopes to explore the very boundaries—formal, technical, and physical—of Chicago design.
Co-Chairs: Jonathan Mekinda, UIC, [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>, and Bess Williamson, SAIC, [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Proposals of no more than 250 words should be emailed directly to us by December 1, 2015. You can find more information about the conference at: www.mahsonline.org <http://www.mahsonline.org/>.
Please do not hesitate to be in touch if you have any questions.
Sincerely,
Jonathan
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Jonathan Mekinda
Assistant Professor
Art History | Design
University of Illinois at Chicago
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