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The Centre for Design History is proud to announce new books by its members, Ceren Özpınar and Harriet Atkinson. Join us for a joint book launch to hear from the authors about their respective projects and to celebrate their success. … Continue Reading →
Join the Centre for Design History for another installment of our IOTA II seminar series. In this session, Dr Jo Lance and Dr Charlotte Nicklas will discuss mending and haberdashery in the early twentieth century. 27 March 2025, 1-2pm Design… Continue Reading →
Julia Winckler is a principal lecturer in the School of Art and Media at the University of Brighton and a member of the Centre for Design History. Here Julia shares her research and reports on her experience of co-curating a… Continue Reading →
*This opportunity is only available to University of Brighton staff* We are pleased to announce that this year’s first call for the CDH Individual Research Support Fund is now open for applications. APPLY NOW by emailing this form to Centrefordesignhistory@brighton.ac.uk… Continue Reading →
Jenny Maidment, the University of Brighton’s Head of Library Content and Discovery Systems, attended the Centre for Design History’s October 2024 event, Material Memoirs: Telling Tales through Things. Her account reflects on her own material life story. As I’ve… Continue Reading →
Join us for an afternoon workshop with Mathilda Tham organised by CDH’s Sustainability Research strand leads Sally Sutherland and Chantal Spencer, and programmed as part of the University of Brighton’s Global Challenges Week (2-5 December 2024). Monday 2 December, 2-5pm… 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 →
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. IOTAII – Material… Continue Reading →
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 →
