Dear Design History Mailing List Subscriber
After a break, due to technical issues with the Society's email, now
thankfully fixed, I am pleased to bring you a slightly larger digest than
usual, with some of the messages which have been recovered. Some of this
information may be out of date, but may still be of interest to subscribers
in less direct ways.
Secondly, to all those who have recently joined our community, welcome and
we look forward to your contribution to our conversations. If you are not a
member of the Society, please do consider joining. I am attaching a
Membership Application Form and Payment Methods document for your information.
Finally, to subscribers who are members, you will have recently seen a
rebranded newsletter. The new website is drawing to the close of its testing
phase and we will be launching imminently. Any feedback on the new website
will be gratefully received, including suggestions for resources, and links
to archives and museums.
With kind regards
Juliette Kristensen
DHS Communications
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Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture (MoDA), Middlesex University, Cat Hill
Adult workshops
Morris & Traditional English Country Dancing
Saturday 10 May 2008, 2-4.30pm
After appearing at the opening of MoDA's new exhibition, 'The Shell Guides:
Surrealism, Modernism', Etcetera Morris Men return with a special one-off
dance class for adults. Etcetera Folk are an Enfield based group of Morris
dancers and English Country Dance Club. Opportunity to learn some new dance
steps and have a lot of fun. Suitable for beginners as well as for those
with experience.
Tickets: £2.50 per person
Nature-Inspired Designs in Coloured Pencil
Saturday 21st June 2008, 10am-4pm
Be inspired by the Art Nouveau designs at MoDA and create your own coloured
pencil drawings combining design and the shapes and colours of real flowers,
with artist Heather Joliffe, founder member of the UK Coloured Pencil Society.
Tickets: £32, £26 concessions
Green Man Pendant
Saturday 5th July 2008, 10am-4pm
Join Artist Brenda Coyle, and enjoy a creative day at MoDA exploring the
ancient technique known as Millefiori (meaning thousand flowers). Using the
medium of acrylic clays, create your very own unique magical pendant
inspired by the mystical theme of the The Greenman. Suitable for beginners
as well as for those with experience.
Tickets: £40, £32 concessions
Evening Lecture
Silver Studio and Art Nouveau
Thursday 19th June, 7-8.30pm
MoDA's Curator Zoe Hendon will look at what is meant by British Art Nouveau
and then consider the contribution of the Silver Studio in its development.
Tickets: £7, £5 concessions
Whitsun Half Term workshops for Children
Brilliant Bags and Bowls for 8-14 year olds
Tuesday 27th May 2008, 10.30am - 3.30pm
Make your own beautiful 3D objects to wear or display using different
felting techniques. Bring a packed lunch and lunchtime supervision will be
available.
Tickets: £20, £15 for Arts Club members payable in advance.
Negative to Positive for 5-12 year olds
Wednesday 28th May 2008, 10am-12 noon & repeated 2-4pm
Learn how to make a mould and create a plaster cast for your wall - of
flowers, trees, plants or leaves. Working from your own negative design in
clay and casting into a positive image in plaster. Finish off with a wash of
paint!
Tickets: £9 per session payable in advance.
Nifty Notebooks for 5-12 year olds
Thursday 29th May 2008, 10am-12noon & repeated 2-4pm
Design and make your own small book and decorate the front cover using
collage and printing techniques.
Tickets: £9 per session payable in advance.
Bags will travel for 5-12 year olds
Friday 30th May 2008, 10am-12noon & repeated 2-4pm
Design and print your own special bag for picnics and seaside trips.
Plain cotton bag included.
Tickets: £9 per session payable in advance.
To book please call the Bookings Administrator on 020 8411 4394 or email
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For further information about the museum and its activities please see our
web site: www.moda.mdx.ac.uk
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From: [log in to unmask]
Subject: SV: Conference anouncement
CALL FOR PAPERS
Exposing Modernity: Poul Henningsen and the Modern(ist) Design Movement
Conference 26, March 2009 at the University of Southern Denmark
This one-day session makes up the international part of an interdisciplinary
conference on Danish architect, designer, poet, cultural critic, film maker
etc. Poul Henningsen (1894-1967), a.k.a PH. The conference marks the
conclusion of a research project on Poul Henningsen´s role in the process of
cultural modernisation, and his attitude to heritage and the function of
tradition in that process. The research project is being generously
supported by The Danish Research Council for the Humanities, and is being
hosted by the University of Southern Denmark at Kolding (Jutland).
PH is probably best known internationally for his innovative lighting
system, which was introduced, or rather anticipated, in six award-winning
models at the Paris international exposition in 1925. Subsequently, and up
to the breakdown of the financial markets at the end of the decade,
varieties of the ’PH Lamp’ were shown at a number of exhibitions (e.g.
Stuttgart and Leipzig (1927), Barcelona (1929)) and mercantile fairs and
shows all over Europe, and its popularity was ensured. Prominent and
influential architects, including Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe, Hannes
Meyer and Alvar Aalto used various models of the lamp in their interiors,
both in the late twenties, and in later years. However, economic recession
and the world war forced the producer to reduce the range of lamp designs to
a few basic models, which survived until the early 1960s, when, after the
introduction in 1958 of the ’PH 5’, the most popular and widely distributed
model in the series of ’PH Lamps’, glass, the traditional material for lamp
shades, was replaced by metal. In the context of the present craze for
’Danish Design’ from its classic periods, the production of several of the
old models has been resumed, as is the case with others of PH’s designs (his
compact piano in steel, plexiglass and leather, and his furniture in tubular
steel). Along with lamp models for the mass market, PH made a large number
of site-specific adaptations of the basic principles of his system, and some
of these models were later redesigned and introduced to the mass market.
The conference invites submissions for the international one-day session to
be held in either Kolding or Odense. We encourage papers and presentations
of research from a variety of fields, including: design, art and
architectural history, cultural studies, material culture studies,
anthropology, history, and other academic fields. Among topics of priority are:
1) The design history of modern lighting; lighting appliances as a modernist
scheme; modern and postmodern illuminations of public and private space;
illumination and the home – utility, comfort, ambience.
2) Lighting as a possible paradigmatic case of the history of modern design;
the modern interpretation of the function-form relation as technically and
artistically problematic; comparative studies in local or national
adaptations or modifications of mainstream Modernism in lighting design;
what is modern/modernist lighting, anyhow?
3) The role of design in cultural modernisation; heritage, tradition and
custom as a challenge to modernisation – limitation, obstacle, resource; the
role of cultural criticism in relation to cultural change; cultural
modernisation as emancipation or repression.
Papers should preferably consider the status of Poul Henningsen in relation
to the specific cases or arguments, but papers that focus on more general
aspects of the topics suggested are also welcome.
In relation to the conference, and within the context of the research
project, two exhibitions focussing on Poul Henningsen’s works and ideas are
to be organized simultaneously in Kolding (Trapholt Art Museum) and Odense
(the ´Brandts’ Exhibition Hall ) respectively, and a cabaret based on
Henningsen´s many popular song texts from revues, films and cabarets will be
set up. Also to be shown is a reconstruction of Henningsen´s
avant-gardistic, jazzy and, at the time, much disputed documentary, Denmark
(1936), which he directed and produced for the Danish Ministry of Foreign
Affairs. It will be arranged for participants of the international session
to attend these events.
Publication of papers presented to the conference is planned (one volume in
English and one in Danish). Provisional timetable: deadline for submission
of one-page abstracts is September 1, 2008. Notification of acceptance by
October 1. Deadline for written version of papers, March 1, 2009. Deadline
for final version of manuscript, May 15 2009. Conference from Wednesday to
Friday, 25-27 March; the international session will take place on Thursday,
26 March.
Please send preliminary proposals, abstracts and all queries to Jorn
Guldberg, Project Head, University of Southern Denmark, Department of
Literature, Culture and Media, Engstien 1, DK-6000 Kolding. E-mail:
[log in to unmask] Tel: + 4565503478 (office) or +4586525285 (home).
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From: <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 24 April 2008 15:50:27 BDT
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Relaunch of online resource provides unique access to visual arts
collections
Students and academics looking for visual arts images now have online access
to a stunning collection of over 100,000 images with the launch of
www.vads.ac.uk. The website has been developed by VADS (the Visual Arts Data
Service) which re-branded and re-launched itself earlier this month and
contains collections as diverse as the National Inventory of Continental
European Paintings, the Woolmark Company Archive, and the Central Saint
Martins Museum and Study Collection.
VADS has been providing services to the academic community for some 11 years
and has built up an impressive portfolio of visual art collections. The
image resources are free and copyright cleared for use in UK Higher and
Further Education, providing a valuable resource to students and academics
which can be incorporated into lectures, seminar presentations and essays.
VADS is continuously adding to its catalogue and just this year has added a
collection of photographs from the East End archival project which includes
500 images of the Spitalfields area from the 1970s to the 1990s - a period
of rapid social and physical change; furniture from the Frederick Parker
Chair Collection which demonstrate 350 years of British chair design and
manufacture; as well as the archive of post-war British sculptor Peter King.
Other memorable collections available online through the site are 'Spanish
Civil War Posters', 'Concise Art', and 'Posters of Conflict' all from the
Imperial War Museum, and the Design Council Archives and Slide Collection
from University of Brighton and Manchester Metropolitan University
respectively.
In addition to providing and building on its online visual arts resource,
VADS also offers expert guidance and help for digital projects in arts
education. The expert VADS team also offers web development and hosting
services for visual arts organisations and projects.
Press contact: Amy Robinson at VADS on 01252 892723 or [log in to unmask]
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From: Kristina Niedderer <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 23 April 2008 09:38:24 BDT
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: EKSIG2009 conference announcement
EKSIG 2009: Experiential Knowledge, Method and Methodology
International Conference 2009 of the DRS Special Interest Group on
Experiential Knowledge
The EKSIG International Conference 2009 will address the theme of
“Experiential Knowledge, Method and Methodology”. It will be convened by the
DRS Special Interest Group on Experiential Knowledge (EKSIG), and hosted by
London Metropolitan University.
Date: Friday 19 June 2009
Organisers: Linden Reilly, Chris Smith, Kristina Niedderer, Seymour
Roworth-Stokes
Venue: London Metropolitan University, London, UK
Conference home page: http://www.experientialknowledge.org.uk
Contact: [log in to unmask]
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT
For EKSIG 2009, we invite submissions for the theme “Experiential Knowledge,
Method and Methodology”. With this theme we aim to provide a forum for
debate about methodology and methods for the inclusion and communication of
knowledge in research and practice in the creative disciplines.
The need to be more explicit about research methods, frameworks, and
methodologies has arisen from the increasing use of creative and
professional practices as part of the practice of research in recent years.
While research guidelines and regulations have been either generic enough,
or were adjusted, to accommodate the use of some creative and professional
practices under certain conditions, the debate about the nature, aims,
validity, evaluation, and necessity of such research has continued.
While all research has a method, and disciplines are characteristically
driven by debates about the best methods for achieving their aims, that
which constitutes a research method in design and related disciplines is
still a matter of debate. The debates about research methods in design in
many ways echo questions addressed in the design methods movement of the
1960s and 1970s, such as: 'What are design methods?' Now framed in terms of
design research, questions address the conditions under which design methods
might be used as research methods as well as the nature of discipline
specific methodologies.
The developing understanding in this debate is that the inclusion of
practice in the research process or as a research outcome helps to integrate
and/or communicate those kinds or parts of knowledge that cannot easily be
made explicit, such as the tacit part of experiential and procedural
knowledge, commonly known as tacit knowledge. With this conference, we wish
to explore the different ways in which tacit knowledge can be integrated and
communicated within the framework of research.
Questions of interest are, for example:
- What are design methods and what are design research methods?
- How is knowledge/knowing created within the process of research?
- What frameworks are there to guide discipline specific methodologies?
- How can we integrate and utilize tacit knowledge in the process of
research?
- Why is the use of tacit knowledge important in research?
- What contribution can the use of practice make to the inclusion of
tacit knowledge in research?
- What contribution can the use of design practice make to the
development of design research?
- What methods are there for the communication of tacit knowledge
within research?
- Can we talk about the communication of tacit knowledge, or should we
talk about a transfer?
- What means and methods do we have to transfer tacit knowledge?
We wish to bring together people from different fields and disciplines with
different approaches to address these issues. We invite contributions from
the design disciplines (design, engineering, craft, media etc), philosophy,
education, health and knowledge management that are concerned with methods
and methodology in research and in creative and professional practice; with
the nature, role, and management of knowledge within research; and with the
role and use of creative practice (both as process and outcome) as a means
by which to develop and manage experiential/tacit knowledge within research.
Further details for submission will follow with the first call for papers,
see timetable below.
TIMETABLE
8 September 2008 First call for papers
8 September 2008 Submission of abstracts open
15 November 2008 Submission of abstracts
15 December 2008 Notification of accepted abstracts
1 March 2009 Submission of full papers
1 April 2009 Notification of acceptance of papers
1 May 2009 Submission of revised papers
19 June 2009 Conference
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From: Roger Horowitz [log in to unmask]
The symposium “Commonplace Yet Extraordinary: Design Histories of Everyday
Objects” will take place Friday May 16, 2008 at the Hagley Museum and
Library in Wilmington, Delaware between 9 am and 5 pm. Elizabeth Shove
(Lancaster University) will deliver the opening keynote and Glenn Porter
(Director Emeritus of the Hagley Museum and Library) will summarize the
symposium’s proceedings in a closing address. In addition several speakers
will discuss the design of ordinary household objects, including stoves,
crockery, and kitchen appliances such as the Cuisinart. Other presentations
will consider the design of objects such as the merry-go-round, camping
gear, and subway turnstiles. Noted industrial designer Sam Highberger,
creator of many products including the Secretary Thermo-Fax machine, also
will address the meeting. Registration is free but required. To register or
for more information contact Carol Lockman, Hagley Museum and Library,
[log in to unmask], 302-658-2400. The program (with the schedule of papers)
may be found at
http://www.hagley.org/hagley-center-2008-industrial-design-poster.pdf .
Dr. Roger Horowitz
Associate Director
Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society
Hagley Museum and Library
PO Box 3630
Wilmington DE 19807
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302-658-2400, ext. 244
302-655-3188 (fax)
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From: "Ugolini, Laura" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 10 March 2008 11:51:09 GMT
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: conference cfp: Clone Towns?
CHORD Conference Call for Papers
Clone Towns?: The High Street in Historical Perspective
10 - 11 September 2008
University of Wolverhampton, UK
CHORD invites submissions for a conference devoted to exploring the changing
nature of the high street, from the medieval to the contemporary period, in
Britain and elsewhere.
Proposals are invited for papers exploring any aspect of this topic, and
focusing on any geographical area. Areas of interest include (but are not
limited to):
· Shops and Selling
· Buildings and Architecture
· Window shopping, Strolling and Leisure
· Globalisation and Branding
· High street businesses
· Lighting, Transport and 'Improvement'
· High street fashions
· Crime and Disorder
· The Impact of Out-of-town Shopping
Please send proposals (including title and c.200 words abstract) to the
address below by 4 April 2008. For further information, please see:
http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/clones.html
or contact: Dr Laura Ugolini, HAGRI / HLSS, Room MC233, University of
Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, WV1 1SB, UK.
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
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From: Bobbye Tigerman <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 29 February 2008 22:40:17 GMT
To: [log in to unmask]
Cc: Bobbye Tigerman <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: CFP: California Design, 1940-65, College Art Association 2009
Call for Papers for California Design, 1940–1965: “Living in a Modern Way”
This session at the 2009 College Art Association meeting in Los Angeles
examines the role of California designers in shaping the material culture
of the United States in the period just before and after World War II. As
California became the center for the shipping and aircraft industries
essential for the war effort, the state experienced intense growth and
radical change. The migration of people to California in search of
economic opportunities, the creativity spurred by restrictions on
materials and manpower, followed by the imperative to apply newly
developed materials and production methods to peace time use—all
contributed to an unprecedented efflorescence of experimentation and
optimism. The session examines the specific influences of designers,
architects, graphic artists, and craftsmen on California design, and how
the new environment shaped them and transformed their work. The session
chairs, Wendy Kaplan and Bobbye Tigerman, are organizing a major
exhibition on the subject for October 2011, and welcome new research on
objects, materials, and individual designers.
A complete proposal includes:
1. Session participation proposal form, located at
http://www.collegeart.org/pdf/CallforParticipation2008.pdf. (It is page 27
of this PDF document.)
2. Abstract of one to two double-spaced, typed pages.
3. Letter explaining speaker’s interest, expertise in the topic, and CAA
membership status.
4. CV with home and office mailing addresses, e-mail address, and phone
and fax numbers. Include summer address and telephone number, if
applicable.
Please send proposals by May 9, 2008 to [log in to unmask] or
Bobbye Tigerman
Assistant Curator, Decorative Arts and Design
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
5905 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90036
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