Author Claire Wintle

CDH are delighted to be co-hosting the upcoming conference Everyday Resistance: Thinking, making, and living in the material world. Proposals for contribtions are welcome. Everyday Resistance: Thinking, making, and living in the material world November 7, 2025 Keynote: Anna Feigenbaum, Professor… Continue Reading →

CDH PGR Pragya Sharma reflects on this year’s annual Centre for Design History celebration of our PhD research The day-long Centre for Design History’s annual Symposium was held on the 13th of June at the Grand Parade Campus in Brighton…. Continue Reading →

The University of Brighton’s Prof Emeritus Jonathan Woodham reflects on the profound impact of Paddy Maguire (1950-2025). Patrick J Maguire: A hidden but significant voice in the historiography of twentieth-century British design Paddy and I go back more than forty… Continue Reading →

Join the Centre for Design History for another installment of our IOTA II seminar series. In this session, Isabel Duarte (University of Brighton) and Nuno Coelho (University of Coimbra) will share their respective research on Design as Resistance and Reflection: Feminist… Continue Reading →

Aurore Damoiseaux – PhD student and co-lead of CDH research strand ‘Fashion & Dress Histories’ – reflects on the recent international conference Domesticity Under Siege, organised by CDH members in the School of Architecture, Technology and Engineering at the University… Continue Reading →

Cathy Lomax, Visiting Research Fellow with the Centre for Design History, shares her experience of her fellowship so far, her art, and an insight into her forthcoming exhibition with CDH member Tamar Jeffers McDonald I am a film academic, artist… Continue Reading →

The Centre for Design History is pleased to welcome Professor Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi as a Visiting Research Fellow in March 2025. Join us for her public lecture, entitled “The Domesticity of Enclosures: From Camp to Commons and Beyond”. This lecture… 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 →