Jenny Maidment, the University of Brighton’s Head of Library Content and Discovery Systems, attended the Centre for Design History’s October 2024 event, Material Memoirs: Telling Tales through Things. Her account reflects on her own material life story. As I’ve… Continue Reading →
Event | IOTA II – The Rise and Fall of the Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture, 20 March 2025
Join the Centre for Design History for another installment of our IOTA II seminar series. In this session, curator Dr Zoë Hendon will discuss her experience of working in the UK’s museum sector. 20 March 2025, 4-5pm Design Lab, Mithras… Continue Reading →
Join us for an afternoon workshop with Mathilda Tham organised by CDH’s Sustainability Research strand leads Sally Sutherland and Chantal Spencer, and programmed as part of the University of Brighton’s Global Challenges Week (2-5 December 2024). Monday 2 December, 2-5pm… Continue Reading →
The Centre for Design History (CDH) seeks to appoint a Postgraduate Research (PGR) student as a Social Media Assistant to help us to further develop our social media presence to continue to enhance our profile and reach new audiences with… Continue Reading →
Anne Nielsen – PhD student and co-leader of CDH research strand ‘Museums, Archives and Exhibitions’ – reflects on our recent ‘What is Curating?’ roundtable Reflecting on “What Is Curating?” roundtable session (Mithras House, 27th September 2024) Anne Nielsen, University of… Continue Reading →
Join the Centre for Design History and the University of Brighton Design Archives for the November instalment of our IOTA II seminar series, with archival artist, writer and poet, Pauline Rutter. Pauline will be speaking on Designing for ‘Radical, Informed… Continue Reading →
Chantal Spencer is a first year PhD student in the School of Architecture, Technology and Engineering at the University of Brighton. She identifies as a disabled feminist academic, working in the subject areas of design justice, disability justice and mobilities…. Continue Reading →
Join us for the first session of this year’s IOTAII seminar series, a joint book discussion with Susan Sainsbury, author of Undressed, and Suzanne Joinson, author of The Museum of Lost and Fragile Things, chaired by Annebella Pollen. IOTAII – Material… Continue Reading →
Dr Harriet Atkinson is a Senior Lecturer in History of Art and Design at the University of Brighton. Art on the Streets, a globally-acclaimed documentary that Atkinson co-directed with Jane Dibblin and narrated by Michael Rosen, and made with charity Four… Continue Reading →
Youjin Choi, an Exhibition designer at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) in South Korea was a CDH/University of Brighton Design Archives International Visiting Research Fellow (VRF) at the University of Brighton in 2024. She visited the… Continue Reading →
