2023 DESIGN HISTORY SOCIETY ANNUAL CONFERENCE: Displaying Design: History, Criticism and Curatorial Discourses Portugal, September 7-9, 2023

By esad—idea, Research in Design and Art

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

We invite authors to send creative and unpublished proposals for individual papers or thematic panels of three papers related to the conference theme. 

For this conference we are calling for papers that, surprise, relearn and rethink design history and design stories, considering five stands:

• Stand 1: Before 1920 — Designing modern design 
• Stand 2: 1920s-1945 — Social Dreaming and Social Utopia; Avant-Garde or Stand Guard
• Stand 3: 1946-1960’s — Media and Messages; Production and Consumption; Retro-Culture and Counterculture 
• Stand 4: 1970s-1990s — Landscapes and Languages; Radical or Rhizomatic; Semantic or Pragmatic
• Stand 5: 2000s-2020s — Post-Media and Social Media; Just-in-Time or Post-production; Fluid and Trans

Guidelines

• The deadline for submissions is 19th march 2023
• Submissions and communications should be made in English
• All submissions will be double blind peer-reviewed by the scientific committee
• Communication of acceptances or rejections will be communicated along april 2023
• The conference will be held in physical format with in-person presentations
• Accepted works will have a 15 minute presentation space at the conference
• Authors will be invited to send the full article in order to be included in the book

To submit paper and panel proposals:

Abstract submission for articles should be 300-400 words and include:

• Title (and subtitle, if applicable)
• Keywords (3 to 5)
• Indication of sub-theme
• Authors’ names and affiliations
• Short biography of 50 words

Panel proposals must include abstracts for all three papers, in addition to a short description of the panel theme.

Committees

Scientific Committee

• (names to be announced)

Organizing Committee

• Maria João Baltazar (Convener)
• Emanuel Barbosa (Co-Convener)
• Joana Couceiro (Co-Convener)
• Magda Seifert (Co-Convener)
• Sandra Fraga (Assistance)

Invited Keynote Speakers

• Helena Souto
• Jane Pavitt
• Saki Mafundikwa

Venue

The conference will be held at ESAD - College of Arts and Design in Matosinhos, Portugal, between the 7^th and 9^th of September 2023.

Address: Avenida Calouste Gulbenkian, 4460-268 Senhora da Hora, Matosinhos.

Notes

*To submit a proposal you need to create an account on EasyChair first. To sign up go to the conference page on EasyChair and click at the “create an account” link at the log in page. EasyChair will send you instructions after you fill in the sign up form.

If you already have an EasyChair account, you can use it for the DHS2023 conference.

After you create an account go to the DHS2023 submission page. Login by entering your username and password. Click at the “new submission” button.

The Design History Society offers bursaries for DHS Student 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