Centre for Design History

Event | IOTAII – Material Memoirs: Telling Tales through Things – 30 October 2024

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. 5:30-7pm, Wednesday 30… Continue Reading →

Celebrating Dr Harriet Atkinson’s recent successes

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 →

Visiting Research Fellow (VRF) | Youjin Choi

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 →

Call | Funded International Visiting Research Fellow 2024/25

The Centre for Design History (CDH) at the University of Brighton invites applications for a funded International Visiting Research Fellow (VRF) to spend time at the Centre in the 2024/25 academic year to pursue their research within CDH’s themes and… Continue Reading →

Call | Post-doc Visiting Research Fellow 2024/25

The Centre for Design History (CDH) at the University of Brighton invites applications for a Postdoctoral Visiting Research Fellow (VRF) to spend time at the Centre in the 2024/25 academic year to pursue their research within CDH’s themes and to… Continue Reading →

Call | Design Archives/CDH International Visiting Research Fellow 2024/25

The Centre for Design History (CDH) at the University of Brighton and the University of Brighton Design Archives (UoBDA) invite applications for a funded International Visiting Research Fellow (VRF) to spend time at the CDH and the Design Archives in… Continue Reading →

Report | Decadent Costume – Live at the Victoria and Albert Museum – Friday 26th April 2024

Dr Veronica Isaac, CDH member and Senior Lecturer in Fashion Design History in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Brighton, outlines her recent CDH-supported project on Decadent Costume. Background to the Project A collaboration between… Continue Reading →

Reflection | Redressing History Workshop

One of the major research strengths of the Centre for Design History is in Fashion and Dress History. Last month, CDH members Suzanne Rowland, Charlotte Nicklas, Veronica Issac and Aurore Damoiseaux organized a successful research day on the 21st of… Continue Reading →

PGR Success | Zara Arshad on her Artist Residency in Kaohsiung

A fourth-year PhD student at the University of Brighton, Zara Arshad recently embarked on her 3-month-long Artist Residency at Pier-2 Art Center in Kaohsiung, Taiwan with her working partner Yaloo, an artist based out of Los Angeles and Seoul. Together… Continue Reading →

Annebella Pollen’s ‘Art without Frontiers’ longlisted for the 2024 Berger Prize

We are thrilled to announce that Prof Annebella Pollen’s latest book, Art without Frontiers, has been longlisted for the 2024 Berger Prize, the UK’s leading book prize for art history. The announcement was made at the Walpole Society Summer Party… Continue Reading →

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