We invite authors to send creative and unpublished proposals that surprise, relearn and rethink design history and design stories.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
Displaying Design:
History, Criticism, and Curatorial Discourses
Design History Society Annual Conference 2023
September 7–9
ESAD · College of Art and Design
Design exhibitions and exhibition design have a central place in the history of design, providing us with significant milestones for understanding how designers, schools, companies, and organisations have publicly displayed work, values, and ideas. In parallel to the exercise of exhibiting design, either by following the vision of a curator or the programme of a museum or gallery, we have encountered different ways of collecting, archiving and musealizing design and its history. Considering, both the importance of design exhibitions and curatorship in the construction of design history over the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century, as well as its relative peripheral dimension (within design history studies and outside a perspective dominated by Anglo-Saxon historiography), the DHS 2023 conference unfolds under the motto: Displaying Design: History, Criticism and Curatorial Discourses.
Call for Papers and Panels
Before 1920
Designing the Design’s Field: From Division of Labour and Division of Taste towards the New as Modern Value
1920s–1945
Social Dreaming and Social Utopia; Avant-Garde or Stand Guard; Good Design and Totally Design
1946–1960s
Media and Messages; Individual or Corporation; Production and Consumption; Retro-Culture and Counterculture
1970s–1990s
Landscapes and Languages; Radical or Rhizomatic; Formal or Informal; Semantic or Pragmatic
2000s–2020s
Post-Media and Social Media; Just-in-Time or Post-production; Fluid and Trans
We are calling for individual papers or thematic panels.
Panel proposals must gather three different papers and include their abstracts, in addition to a short description of the panel theme.
All the submitted abstracts will be double blind peer-reviewed by the scientific committee and accepted works will have a 15-minute presentation space at the conference.
GUIDELINES
The conference will be held in physical format with in-person presentations.
Submissions and communications should be made in English.
Abstract submission for articles should be 300-400 words and include:
- Title (and subtitle, if applicable)
- Keywords (3 to 5)
- Authors’ names and affiliations
- Short biography of 50 words
KEY DATES
- 19th March 2023: Deadline for submissions.
- 2nd April 2023: Extended deadline.
- 28th April 2023: Communication of paper acceptances or rejections.
TO SUBMIT PROPOSALS, FOLLOW THE LINK
REGISTRATION
- Early bird Full member attending in person — €150.00
- Early bird Student member attending in person — €110.00
- Early bird Non-member attending in person — €240.00
- Full member attending in person — €170.00
- Student member attending in person — €130.00
- Non-member attending in person — €260.00
Tickets available on the website esad—idea—store
Notes:
The Design History Society offers bursaries for DHS Students and/or precariously employed members. The bursary covers the DHS member concessionary conference fee. For more information please visit the society’s website.
For any queries please contact dhs23@esad.pt
Keynote Speakers
Jane Pavitt
United Kingdom
Head of Research and Learning at Zaha Hadid Foundation
Professor Jane Pavitt is Head of Research and Learning for the Zaha Hadid Foundation, London, with responsibility for academic partnerships, curatorial projects, and public programmes. She is a curator, writer, and historian of architecture and design, and has curated and co-curated several major international exhibitions of 20th-century design and culture at the Victoria and Albert Museum. She has held teaching, research, and management roles at the University of Brighton, V&A, Royal College of Art, and Kingston University. She is on the exhibitions advisory committee of the London Design Museum and is a Visiting Professor at Kingston School of Art.
Maria Helena Souto
Portugal
Researcher at UNIDCOM/IADE
Maria Helena Souto, Associate professor at IADE-Universidade Europeia, holds a PhD in Art Sciences (Universidade de Lisboa) and a master’s degree in Art History (Universidade Nova de Lisboa). Her research field is the Design History, with a focus on the relationship between Portuguese Design and Gender Studies. On these topics, she has published several articles and books, curated exhibitions and coordinated national and international research projects, namely she was one of the Scientific Responsible at the European cooperation project “MoMoWo - Women’s Creativity since the Modern Movement” and currently, she is a member of the research project funded by FCT “Women Architects in Portugal, 1942-1986”.
Saki Mafundikwa
Zimbabwe
Founder and director of the Zimbabwe Institute of Vigital Arts (ZIVA)
Saki Mafundikwa is the recipient of the 2022 Lifetime Achievement Award from Design and Art Direction (D&AD), the UK’s premier design and advertising organization. He is the founder and director of the Zimbabwe Institute of Vigital Arts (ZIVA) a design and new media training college in Harare. He has an MFA in Graphic Design from Yale University. He has been published widely on design and cultural issues and is currently working on a revised edition of Afrikan Alphabets: the Story of Writing in Afrika. His award-winning first film, Shungu: The Resilience of a People had its world premiere at 2009’s International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA).
Scientific Committee
Alex Todd
University of Brighton, UK and Pratt Institute, US
Alice Semedo
DCTP-FLUP/CITCEM, Departamento de Ciências e Técnicas do Património da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, Centro de Investigação Transdisciplinar Cultura, Espaço e Memória, Portugal
Ana Luísa Marques
UNIDCOM/IADE, Universidade Europeia, Unidade de Investigação em Design e Comunicação, Portugal
Ana Raposo
ESAD/esad—idea, Escola Superior de Arte e Design, Investigação em Design e Arte, Portugal
Ana Sofia Cardoso
ESAD/esad—idea, Escola Superior de Arte e Design, Unidade de Investigação em Design e Arte, Portugal
Ana Tostões
Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto Superior Técnico/CiTUA, Centro em Território, Urbanismo e Arquitetura, Portugal
Bárbara Coutinho
Universidade de Lisboa, Instituto Superior Técnico/CiTUA, Centro em Território, Urbanismo e Arquitetura, Portugal
Bernardo Pinto de Almeida
FBAUP, Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Cat Rossi
University for the Creative Arts, UK
Dora Souza Dias
University of the Arts London, UK
Eduardo Côrte-Real
E-IADE, Universidade Europeia, Portugal; esad—idea, Investigação em Design e Arte, Portugal
Elli Michaela Young
London Metropolitan University and Middlesex University, UK
Emanuel Barbosa
ESAD/esad—idea, Escola Superior de Arte e Design, Unidade de Investigação em Design e Arte, Portugal
Fiona Anderson
Edinburgh College of Art, UK
Grace Lees-Maffei
University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK
Harriet Atkinson
University of Brighton, UK
Helena Barbosa
Departamento de Comunicação e Arte, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Jane Tynan
Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Joana Couceiro
ESAD/esad—idea, Investigação em Design e Arte, Portugal; CEAU/FAUP, Centro de Estudos de Arquitectura e Urbanismo, Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto, Portugal
João Paulo Martins
FAUL/CIAUD, Faculdade de Arquitetura da Universidade de Lisboa, Centro de Investigação em Arquitetura, Urbanismo e Design, Portugal
Kjetil Fallan
University of Oslo, Norway
Leah Armstrong
University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
Livia Rezende
University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Manuel Ferreira Rodrigues
Universidade de Aveiro, Departamento de Educação e Psicologia, Portugal
Maria João Baltazar
ESAD/esad—idea, Escola Superior de Arte e Design, Unidade de Investigação em Design e Arte, Portugal
Marta Filipová
Masaryk University Brno, Czech Republic
Naomi Reid-Evans
Priscila Lena Farias
University of São Paulo, Brazil
Romy Shah
Independent designer and working with Saffronart
Rosa Alice Branco
ESAD/esad—idea, Unidade de Investigação em Design e Arte, Portugal; ID+ Instituto de investigação em Design, Arte, Media e Cultura, Portugal
Sally-Anne Huxtable
The National Trust, UK
Sandra Senra
CITCEM/FLUP, Centro de Investigação Transdisciplinar Cultura, Espaço & Memória, Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto, Portugal
Sarah Lichtman
Parsons The New School for Design, New York, USA
Teresa Fradique
SAD.CR-IPLeiria, Escola Superior de Artes e Design do Instituto Politécnico de Leiria; CRIA, Centre for Research in Anthropology, Portugal
Yasmine Nachabe Taan
Lebanese American University, Beirut
Venue
ESAD
College of Art and Design
Located in Matosinhos, ESAD College of Art and Design is close to Porto city center, accessible by car, bus, or underground, and only a few minutes from various amenities and points of interest. ESAD offers degrees in design and arts, a master's in design, several postgraduate courses, an open training programme, workshops, and summer labs. It annually grants scholarships to candidates for undergraduate and master's degrees.
HOW TO GET THERE
BY AEROPLANE
From Sá Carneiro's Airport to ESAD is a 10 minutes drive by car. The metro takes 15 minutes from the airport metro station to ESAD. Look for the Blue line Estádio do Dragão - Senhor de Matosinhos and get out of the metro at the Estádio do Mar station. From there, ESAD is a 5 minutes walk.
BY TRAIN OR BUS
From Campanhã station (Porto) take the metro to Estádio do Mar. The Blue Line (Estádio do Dragão - Senhor de Matosinhos) will take you there. It's a 30 minutes distance by metro and 17 by car.
Organized by
esad—idea
Research Center of ESAD
Created in 2014, esad—idea, ESAD’s research centre, takes on the mission of contributing not only to the development of teaching, but also to the advancement of research, culture, and science, in the fields of design and the arts. esad—idea, Research in Design and Art is an R&D unit focused on doing, shaping ideas, and looking for solutions to problems. It is dedicated to fundamental and applied research, consulting, cultural programming, and design services. With the objective of contributing to the development, application, and transfer of knowledge, esad—idea integrates the critical dimension inherent to a polyphonic time, assuming the ability to anticipate the present and to frame the future.
Organized by
ESAD - College of Art and Design
esad—idea, Research in Design And Art
Promoted by
Design History Society
Convener
Maria João Baltazar
Co-conveners
Emanuel Barbosa
Joana Couceiro
Magda Seifert
Project Manager
Maira Biza
Administrative Assistant
Sandra Fraga
Graphic Design
Emanuel Barbosa
Web Design · Development
Diogo Vilar
Paulo Ferreira
Communication
Inês Pinto