Author Myra Stuart

New Thinking in Design History: A Report

By Chiara Barbieri (RCA) On Friday the 15th of April the University of Brighton hosted the one-day workshop ‘New Thinking in Design History’. Organised by Professor Jeremy Aynsley, Dr Catharine Rossi and Dr Sarah Teasley, and funded by the TECHNE… Continue Reading →

On producing the Most Beautiful Book in Switzerland

By Annebella Pollen Annebella Pollen reflects on the collective process of book making in the wake of winning an international design award. It’s a prize that makes people laugh. The title, ‘The Most Beautiful Swiss Books’, strikes an odd note…. Continue Reading →

A report of the Second General Assembly of the European RIG-ACORSO Special Research Interest Group for Dress History and its first conference: Producing the History of Fashion in the West.

By Marie McLoughlin RIG-ACORSO Second General Assembly The International Design History cluster, together with Brighton School of Humanities, very kindly funded the Brighton Dress History Collective, represented by Professor Lou Taylor and Marie McLoughlin, to attend the Second General Assembly… Continue Reading →

Attending Critical Dialogues Workshop for design postgraduate research students

by Dora Souza Dias & Alessandro Esculapio On Wednesday February 10th Clive Dilnot, Professor of Design Studies at Parsons the New School for Design and Visiting Professor at the University of Brighton, ran the workshop ‘Critical Dialogues for Design Research… Continue Reading →

International Remakings of Picasso’s Guernica: Action, Collaboration and Creation.

By Dr Nicola Ashmore Inspired by the experience of collectively remaking Pablo Picasso’s anti-fascist painting Guernica (1937) as a protest banner, I began researching other collaborative remakings of Picasso’s Guernica. For more information on the creation of the banner see:… Continue Reading →

News from the Bauhaus

By Professor Jeremy Aynsley To mark the centenary of the founding of the Bauhaus in 2019, the Berlin Bauhaus Archiv will be opening a new extension to provide expanded exhibition facilities for an anticipated growing public, allowing the original Gropius… Continue Reading →

70 Years since Britain Can Make It exhibition

‘Facing the World Differently? Seventy years on from the Britain Can Make It Exhibition’, 7 October 2016, University of Brighton. This one-day symposium asks how could Britain make it in the context of its colonial legacies and the parallel ambitions… Continue Reading →

A short history of the DRS newsletter

Peter Lloyd recently contributed to one of our monthly IDH lunchtime sessions, which enable informal discussion of participants current research in Design History. At this, he discussed the history of the Design Research Society, who are holding their next conference… Continue Reading →

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