An event organized by the University of Brighton Design Archives and the Centre for Design History.

Tuesday 18 March, 3-4.30pm (GMT)
online via MS Teams

Among the rich collections of the University of Brighton Design Archives is the archive of the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID), now known as WDO (World Design Organisation). Rich in its documentation of design activities in diverse global regions and contexts, the archive, like that of Icograda (International Council of Graphic Design Associations, now Ico-D), also held at Brighton, continues to facilitate new research which can decentre perspectives and understandings of global design cultures. This event brings together three researchers to share their recent research in the ICSID archive in relation to design in Latin America, and to discuss it with other scholars studying design organisations. The event will focus on the individual research subjects and the way that the particular characteristics of international design organisations’ archives both foreground certain narratives and enable new readings of design’s global histories. 

Participants:
João Bittar Flamenghi (University of São Paulo, Faculty of Architecture, Urbanism and Design)
Fernando Portal (Universidad de las Américas, Santiago de Chile)
McKenzie Stupica (Art History, Northwestern University, Evanston – Chicago).

Discussion panel:
Dr. Dora Souza Dias (Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London)
Dr. Tania Messell (FHNW Academy of Art and Design, Basel)
Professor Alison Clarke (University of the Applied Arts, Vienna).

Chairs:
Sue Breakell (University of Brighton Design Archives)
Professor Jeremy Aynsley (Centre for Design History, University of Brighton)

 

Please email centrefordesignhistory@brighton.ac.uk for joining info