Congresos
icohtec

14/05/12

Technology, the Arts and Industrial Culture

39th ICOHTEC Symposium

The 39th ICOHTEC Symposium will be held in Catalonia from 10th to 14th July 2012. The main theme of the meeting will be Technology, the Arts and Industrial Culture. The aim is to examine technology in a multidisciplinary framework.

The aim is to examine technology in a multidisciplinary framework. The key questions are how technological development has interacted with design, architecture, the arts as well as popular culture and whether we can regard industrial culture as a melting pot of various influences. Reflecting on the theme of the previous conference we hope also to explore the role of consumers in this dialogue.

http://icohtec2012.atlantacongress.org/

dress, textiles and heritage

14/05/12

CHORD Workshop, ‘Dress, Textiles and Heritage’

 13 June 2012 - University of Wolverhampton

The University of Wolverhampton is organising a conference exploring the collection, display, conservation and all other uses of dress and textiles in heritage settings, including museums and historic houses, in Britain and beyond. Themes of interest include – but are not limited to:

•       The uses of textiles in recreating and restoring historic interiors
•       The collection and display of dress, from haute couture to everyday dress
•       The historic development of dress and textiles collections
•       The use of dress in re-enactment
•       The role and development of ethnographic and specialist collections
•       The conservation of historic dress and textiles
•       Exhibitions and displays beyond heritage settings
•       The ‘consumption’ of dress and textiles in heritage settings

http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/histextiles.html

balkan locus focus

14/05/12

1st symposium on Balkan communication design histories

BALKAN LOCUS-FOCUS | 29-30 June 2012 | Izmir Turkey

This two-day symposium held at Izmir University of Economics, Turkey (Faculty of Fine Arts and Design, Visual Communication Design Department) in collaboration with Parsons, USA (School of Art and Design History and Theory), intends to offer first insights on the yet silent and poorly recorded histories of communication design in the Balkan peninsula, focusing on the period from the late 19th century to the present. This is the first attempt to comprehensively map visual communication (in the areas of graphic design, advertising, typography, web design, media, and inclusive of non-commercial examples, private initiatives and state/civil service design) in the socio-political and mental territories of the region. The aim is thus threefold:

First, to present and document existing and/or unpublished research through paper presentations.

Second, to initiate a forum for emerging issues to be investigated and for new projects to be launched (e.g. more comprehensive national and transnational trajectories, oral histories, comparative studies). This aim will be achieved in moderated academic workshops with the intention of generating co-authored papers to be published on the conference website, and if possible, a design journal special edition.

Third, to see design practice presentations by contemporary designers of the region feed and inspire new thinking, and generate oral histories for future research.

http://fadf.ieu.edu.tr/balkanlocusfocus/?page_id=36

art visual culture

14/05/12

Art, Illustration and Visual Culture in Infant and Primary Education

2nd International Conference
Art, Illustration and Visual Culture in Infant and Primary Education: Creative processes and childhood-oriented cultural discourses

July 23rd-25th, 2012
Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal

The singular and plural coexist in daily life. The conference organizers are interested in how these forces interact and how this balance is achieved, or, how this relationship unfolds the past, builds on the present and is projected into the future.

The uniqueness of each person as a seed of collective identity (Memory and Memories) the individual expressions that manifest in collective expression (Author and Authors), the individual visual representations that participate in the collective discourse (Project and Projects), the manipulation of resources (Technology and Technologies), and engagement with experimental pedagogy (New Approaches to Education), are situations that we want to see explored within the theme of the conference.

http://congresoarteilustracion.web.ua.pt/?page_id=61

colour, commerce consumption

14/05/12

Color, Commerce, and Consumption in Global Historical Perspective

June 21-23, 2012
Conference at the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.

Historians of business, technology, and industry have examined the role of the nineteenth-century German chemical industry in revolutionizing the production of dyes, paints, and pigments. We know a good deal about chemists, R&D directors, and managers in the global chemical industry, but we know less about how their color inventions and innovations had an impact on markets, product design, and consumer culture during the great industrial era that stretched from the 1850s through the 1970s.

This workshop seeks to attract scholars in various disciplines (including history, anthropology, art history, design history, sociology, and cultural studies) whose original research on broad historical topics (e.g., the history of marketing, the history of international business, the history scientific knowledge) touches on the history of color in some way. We hope to assemble a diverse group of scholars for an interdisciplinary dialogue that makes sense of the global history of color, consumption, and commerce in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Further information: http://arthist.net/archive/2552.