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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