Month May 2020
Rachel Maloney, the University of Brighton’s V&A Research Exchange Fellow, discusses how her project has had to adapt during lockdown. Rachel is an artist and researcher whose work focuses on memory and personal narrative within family photographs and archival collections…. Continue Reading →
The Centre for Design History are delighted to announce that Dr Harriet Atkinson, current recipient of an AHRC Research Fellowship, has secured a book contract for a new monograph. Dr Atkinson’s book, to be published by Manchester University Press, will… Continue Reading →
Museum Exhibition Design: Histories and Futures An Online Conference 1-11 September 2020 www.musex-design.org Conference Call for Papers Keynote Speakers: Prof Suzanne Macleod, University of Leicester, UK Prof Andrea Witcomb, Deakin University, Australia The exhibition and its power over objects… Continue Reading →
Annebella Pollen rounds up her digital engagement with design history under quarantine conditions. With the closure of museums, archives, libraries, bookshops and other cultural centres, most key sites for design history research are currently out of bounds. Like many researchers,… Continue Reading →
PhD student Jo Lance offers a view of her exhibition on early twentieth century fashion illustration for department stores at Worthing Museum and Art Gallery. The Ladies’ Paradise is a fashion exhibition in the Norwood Gallery at Worthing Museum and… Continue Reading →
Jeremy Aynsley, CDH director, reflects on some current online exhibitions and virtual resources that enable continuing engagement with design history themes under quarantine conditions. If, like me, at the moment you miss going to see exhibitions to see the… Continue Reading →
