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The Centre for Design History is delighted to welcome Dr Livia Rezende, UNSW Art & Design, Sydney, Australia, and Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Brighton Design Archives and Centre for Design History. Livia will be presenting her research… Continue Reading →
The Centre for Design History is delighted to welcome curator of art and design Laurie Bassam, Brighton & Hove Museums, to discuss her career and socially engaged practice. Finding your Curatorial Voice: Contemporary Practice in Historic Institutions Laurie Bassam, Curator: Art,… Continue Reading →
We are pleased to announce the 2025 series of CDH research seminars entitled IOTA II (image-object-text-analysis). Events are free and open to all. Centre for Design History IOTA II Seminars Autumn/Winter 2025 (image-object-text-analysis) October 1st 2025 What is Curating? Join… Continue Reading →
The Centre for Design History is delighted to announce the first instalment of our IOTA2 seminar series –Introducing ‘On Reflection’ with Visiting Research Fellow Dr Cathy Lomax. Introducing ‘On Reflection’: Mirrors, Film and Beauty October 3rd, 12 noon-1pm, Grand Parade… Continue Reading →
The Centre for Design History is proud to announce Harriet Atkinson’s new international research project on graphic design and street protest Centre for Design History member Dr Harriet Atkinson is part of the team for an exciting new research project focusing on… Continue Reading →
The Centre for Design History (CDH) at the University of Brighton invites applications for a funded International Visiting Research Fellow (VRF) to spend time at the Centre in the 2025/26 academic year to pursue their research within CDH’s themes and… Continue Reading →
The Centre for Design History (CDH) at the University of Brighton invites applications for a funded Post-doc Visiting Research Fellow (VRF) to spend time at the Centre in the 2025/26 academic year to pursue their research within CDH’s themes and… Continue Reading →
Earlier this summer, CDH hosted British Museum curators Isabel Seligman and Billie Duch Giménez from the museum’s Prints and Drawings Department, who shared insights into the process of co-curating the recent exhibition Hew Locke: What Have We Here? with renowned… Continue Reading →
We are delighted that CDH member and PhD researcher Pragya Sharma is this year’s recipient of the Textile Society’s Brenda M. King Prize for Critical Writing in Textiles. Pragya was awarded £1,000 for her essay titled The Sari Body. In… Continue Reading →
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 →
