18/02/10

7th Conference of the International Committee of Design History and Design Studies (ICDHS)

The conferences of the International Committee of Design History and Design Studies (ICDHS) aim to assess the current state of affairs of design history and design studies.
The seventh ICDHS conference, “Design and Craft: A History of Convergences and Divergences,” brings the relation between design and craft to the fore.
This theme offers an excellent opportunity to gather new design historical and theoretical research from over the world in a focused discussion on regional specificities as well as the impact of global processes of industrialisation.
If, until now, design history has been largely dominated by the Western narratives of industrialization, then moving the focus towards non-industrial design practice might bring non-Western scholars to the forefront.
Moreover, previously marginalized design histories in industrialized countries can finally get a voice.

http://www.designandcraft2010.be/

30/03/09

The Eighth International European Academy of Design Conference

The Eighth International European Academy of Design Conference "Design Connexity" took place between the 1st and
the 3rd April 2009.
As the trend towards globalisation continues there is a growing connectedness between all our actions and a growing
interdependence between the social, economic and the environmental. This increasing connectedness raises new moral
and ethical issues and challenges. This concept has been termed ‘connexity’ (Mulgan, 1998) and provides the title
for the conference and the backdrop for the themes of the EAD 08 Conference, which seeks to explore the implications
 of these trends for design research and practice
http://www.designconnexity.org