The Centre for Design History
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Cross-disciplinary perspectives on how design in all its forms has shaped things, spaces and actions across time. Account no longer active. Find us on Instagram
University of Brighton, UK
Joined November 2015
APPLY NOW!! Final call for applications for our 3 funded Visiting Research Fellowships –– all closing at 5pm GMT Thursday 19 September 2024 See blog for details on how to apply https://t.co/zHiekssfPE
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OPEN CALL 📣 We are inviting applications for funded International Visiting Research Fellow, Post-doc Visiting Research Fellow and @Design_Archives/ @CDH_Brighton International Visiting Research Fellow. Applications for all close at 5pm GMT on Thursday 19 September 2024
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We're thrilled to hear that the brilliant new book about our art collection 'Art without Frontiers' has been longlisted for the Berger Prize @WalpoleSociety, the leading book prize for art history. Congratulations to author Prof. @AnnebellaPollen! #BritishCouncil90
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Could you be our next VRF? We are inviting applications for the Design Archives/@CDH_Brighton International Visiting Research Fellow, deadline 19 Sept! More info and how to apply:
Reflections from Design Archives/@CDH_Brighton Visiting Research Fellow Youjin Choi up on our blog now https://t.co/jNU2gQwNwf Image ID: cover of 'Exhibition Design', by Misha Black, FHK/25/3, FHK Henrion Archive
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Visit our blog to learn more about the fellowships. Image: Prof Alison Matthews David, Visiting Research Fellow in 2022, with CDH members following her ‘Stained—thoughts on clothing and identities’, in conversation with Dr. Jo Turney and Dr. Ellen Sampson. By Claire Wintle
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OPEN CALL 📣 We are inviting applications for funded International Visiting Research Fellow, Post-doc Visiting Research Fellow and @Design_Archives/ @CDH_Brighton International Visiting Research Fellow. Applications for all close at 5pm GMT on Thursday 19 September 2024
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Interested in writing and publishing about dress and textiles? Join a free and informal workshop/conversation with @c19thdress this Sunday 28th July 2pm BST. Tickets and further information here:
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19th Century Dress and Textiles Reframed 'At Home' - short talks celebrating the joy of research!
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🎉 Celebrating @HRAtkinson1’s recent publication ‘Showing resistance: propaganda and Modernist exhibitions in Britain, 1933-53’ with @ManchesterUP which is out this week! Read more on Atkinson’s recent achievements and upcoming projects on the CDH blog https://t.co/tQT2ro5P97
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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…
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Reflections from Design Archives/@CDH_Brighton Visiting Research Fellow Youjin Choi up on our blog now https://t.co/jNU2gQwNwf Image ID: cover of 'Exhibition Design', by Misha Black, FHK/25/3, FHK Henrion Archive
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If you are an international student and want to study MA History of Design and Material Culture @hoadbrighton @uniofbrighton apply now for a scholarship. Further details here: https://t.co/s1nohNysEB
#designhistory #postgraduatestudy #design
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The Ruby Lee Progression scholarship is awarded to an international student with ambition and ability at the University of Brighton.
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Celebrating a PGR Success: PhD student Zara Arshad recently started her Artist Residency at @piertwoart in Kaohsiung, Taiwan with her working partner @YalooReality Read more on the blog as Zara shares her process, methodology and experiences.
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A fourth-year PhD student at the University of Brighton, Zara Arshad recently embarked on her 3-month-long Artist Residency at Pier-2 Art Center in Kaohsiung, Taiwan with her working partner Yaloo,…
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Really pleased to tell you that I have written an autobiographical essay for the new edition, based on Department Store bags. It is out today! It follows themed issues on Sick Bags, Museums, Bookshops... See more @paper_bag_archive (on Instagram) or here:
A lovely book of ephemera that I have just discovered as a result of announcing my new book about photo wallets: To Have and to Hold, a collection of paper bags from British museums. So many humble, crumpled but emotionally evocative examples! By @paper_bag_archive (on Instagram)
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New on the blog! Dr Nushelle de Silva recently concluded her Visiting Research fellowship at the Centre, hosted by @DrClaireWintle Read her reflections on the blog: https://t.co/nYTVgLXUtT… Image: Exhibit from Runo Lagomarsino, Tales from the Underworld (2020). By de Silva.
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New on the Blog! Matheus de Simone is a visiting PhD student at the @uniofbrighton (April-Sept 2024), from UFBA,Brazil. He is undertaking a PhD on the comparative historical cultures of nudism & naturism in Global North and South. Read more on the blog. https://t.co/ejt99ocm7M
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Watch the winner of @uniofbrighton's Three Minute Thesis competition! Kamal Badhey is researching the @apna_heritage photo archive assembled by @anand4560 She shares stories gathered in fieldwork: https://t.co/NCeq1vKeyD Also tagging lead supervisor @MeghaRajguru @CDH_Brighton
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Looking forward to this Sunday's "At Home" with @c19thdress - we'll be exploring #photographs as a source for #dress & #textile #research - details and free tickets here:
eventbrite.co.uk
19th Century Dress and Textiles Reframed 'At Home' - short talks celebrating the joy of research!
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Last Thursday we hosted the Symposium ‘Visuality, Nationhood and Power Relations: Representation of Korea in World’s Fairs and Organisations’ which drew in a wide audience. We thank all our speakers who shared their research and participants who could join us! #designhistory
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Correspondence Course: Letters on Photography is a new essay series co-authored with @kalophile. During lockdown, Kim and I (who had never met) became photographic pen pals. Our eight letters are now part of @Photomonitor’s Experiments series. Part 1 here:
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Letters on Photography by Kim Beil and Annebella Pollen Correspondence Course began as a creative adventure during the confinement of Covid lockdowns. While the doors to many museums and archives...
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Congratulations to @ClaudiaTreacher who passed her @ahrcpress PhD today with her thesis ‘Radical Art during the Second World War in Britain: Conscientious Objection in the work of Don Treacher’. It’s a sophisticated and moving account of art and family history.
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Free online conference ‘Tailoring for Women: Theory and Method’ held by @CDH_Brighton and @TailoredDress on the 29th of June. There are still tickets available, for more information see the link below https://t.co/S0w9PaZEbW
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Privileged and excited to be part of this panel discussion @Tate. Perfectly timed to provide inspiration for a chapter I'm currently writing about a certain 'beetle wing dress' -
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