Only one week to go till our online symposium ‘Crafting Furniture in the Global South: Contemporary Practices, Histories and Futures’. Book your place for the symposium here:https://buff.ly/qbxpM22

Deadline tomorrow! Submit your abstract for our upcoming student conference Ephemeral Encounters. Find out more: buff.ly/71Gh70f

Our conference programme is here! It may still evolve, but it’s here to help you start planning your trip. More updates coming soon! buff.ly/6HN00uS

Don’t forget to book your place at our ‘Crafting Furniture in the Global South: Contemporary Practices, Histories and Futures’ symposium, taking place online on Saturday 9th May 2026. Book your place here: buff.ly/pxltx95

Don’t forget to submit your abstract for our upcoming student conference Ephemeral Encounters, convened by our Ambassadors Aurore Damoiseaux, Katherine Easthill, Abigail Egwunyenga and Alice Ji-Won Kim. Find out more: buff.ly/71Gh70f

Listen to 2025 Design Writing Prize winner Rosa te Velde, theory tutor at the MA Industrial Design department at KABK, in conversation with guest judge Elizabeth Guffey, Professor emerita in Art History at the State University of New York. Listen to their conversation here: buff.ly/WrVkKdP

Thank you to our outgoing Ambassador, Dan Mu! Dan has been a key part of the organising committee for last year’s student conference, as well as a regular collaborator on our podcast series ‘Routes to Design History’. We wish her all the best for the future!

We are delighted to announce the full programme for our upcoming symposium – ‘Crafting Furniture in the Global South: Contemporary Practices, Histories and Futures’ – taking place on Saturday 9th May 2026, 9am-5pm (BST) and co-convened with Dr Rukmini Chaturvedi. Find out more: buff.ly/qbxpM22

Early bird tickets are now available for our upcoming annual conference 'Design in an Age of Uncertainty', hosted by Masaryk University Brno:

This month’s Provocative Places blog – written by Nirjari Upadhyay, a student of Strategic Design and Management at Parsons School of Design, New York – explores the unseen design of the airport and how design systems control movement through rituals of normalcy. Read it here: buff.ly/ipgTdkB

The deadline for applications for the Chair of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Design History is today! Submit your application here:

Save the date for our upcoming online symposium – ‘Crafting Furniture in the Global South: Contemporary Practices, Histories and Futures’ – taking place on Saturday 9th May 2026, 9am-5pm (BST). Full programme announcement and booking link coming soon!

The next Design History Society 'Routes to Design History' podcast drops today! This time, we chat to Dr Sabrina Rahman, Lecturer in Art History and Visual Culture at the University of Exeter. Listen here: buff.ly/AotpZjZ

The Design History Society is looking for the host for its 2027 annual conference, which falls in the 50th Anniversary Year. Find out more here: buff.ly/nIGCycJ

Time is running out to apply to be the new Chair of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Design History. If you have a strategic vision for the JDH, a highly esteemed record of research and extensive experience of editorship we want to hear from you! buff.ly/QTdcNjk

Deadline next week! Applications for our Inclusion Officer role close on Friday 17th April. Find out more about the role and submit your application here: buff.ly/L5Aqqrl

The Journal of Design History is seeking proposals for Virtual Special Issues (VSIs). These are selections of previously published articles, prefaced with an introduction by the editor. Find out more, or propose a VSI, here: buff.ly/juoNpJf

A reminder that we are recruiting for an Inclusion Officer. As a voluntary, unpaid member of the Executive Committee, the Inclusion Officer will work towards ensuring that the best practices of inclusion, equity, and diversity are enacted across the society. Find out more: buff.ly/L5Aqqrl

The Design History Society invites proposals for an Affiliated Society panel at the College Art Association conference to take place in New York City in 2027. Find out more: buff.ly/blBwX39

We are pleased to introduce the newest members of the Design History Society team: our new Ambassadors! Our final new Ambassador is Alice Ji-Won Kim, a recent graduate of the MA in Fine and Decorative Art and Design at Sotheby’s Institute of Art. Find out more about Alice here: buff.ly/Oj1jFpK

Could you be the new Chair of the Editorial Board of The Journal of Design History? More info and apply here: buff.ly/QTdcNjk

This month's Routes to Design History podcast interviews Rick Poynor, one of the most influential voices in the study and critique of graphic design and visual culture. Listen to our conversation with Rick here: buff.ly/R9chJ5x

We are recruiting! The Inclusion Officer will work towards ensuring best practices of inclusion, equity & diversity are enacted across the society & will be responsible for developing a set of guidelines for inclusive practices across the conference, student conference and membership buff.ly/L5Aqqrl

The Design Writing Prize 2026 is now open for applications! The award invites scholars, researchers, critics, practitioners and educators, both from within the Society and the vibrant community beyond, to champion the cause of critical debate in design through writing. Find out more: buff.ly/OtO34nj

In celebration of International Women's Day, this month's Provocative Objects blog, written by Sufiyeh Hadian, looks at the history of the suffragette rosette and its place in the history of British feminism #IWD2026 buff.ly/HAZHOpg

We are pleased to introduce the newest members of the Design History Society team: our new Ambassadors! Our third new Ambassador is Abigail Egwunyenga, a Nigerian PhD student at the School of Design and Creative Arts at Loughborough University Find out more about Abigail here: buff.ly/41axg1z

We have extended the deadline for applications to be the new Chair of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Design History. The new deadline is Monday 20th April 2026. More details can be found here: buff.ly/QTdcNjk

Deadline next week! Submit your abstract for our upcoming symposium Crafting Furniture in the Global South: Contemporary Practices, Histories and Futures. Find out more: buff.ly/qiiZrO8

We are pleased to introduce our new Ambassadors! Aurore Damoiseaux is a PhD student at the University of Brighton. Her AHRC-Techne funded research project focuses on the use of clothing and textile objects in British anti-nuclear activism. Find out more: buff.ly/wKQLRpT

This month, Ishan Khosla, Associate Professor at the School of Design at UPES, Dehradun, discusses research into the Jhāŗu (broom), and its role as a politically loaded, symbolically charged object deeply entangled with questions of caste, gender, labour and power. Read it here: buff.ly/0cht73n

Have you submitted an abstract for our new symposium: Crafting Furniture in the Global South: Contemporary Practices, Histories and Futures? The full call for papers can be found here: buff.ly/qiiZrO8

We are pleased to introduce the newest members of the Design History Society team: our new Ambassadors! First up is Katherine Easthill, is a design history researcher and graphic designer. Find out more here: buff.ly/wKQLRpT

The deadline for applications to be the new Chair of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Design History is next week! Please submit your application by Friday 27th February. For more details and to apply: buff.ly/p8JvO2P

Call for papers: Crafting Furniture in the Global South: Contemporary Practices, Histories and Futures. Full details can be found here: buff.ly/qiiZrO8

The first Routes to Design History podcast of 2026 is now available. This time, we talk with Dr Yaw Ofosu-Asare, Ghanaian-Australian designer, educator, and researcher. Listen here: buff.ly/5fiMzzf

Did you know that you can keep up to date with all Design History Society events, deadlines, and membership info on the Key Dates section of our website? Take a look here: buff.ly/Ni8zbBZ

Brand new! Call for Papers: Crafting Furniture in the Global South: Contemporary Practices, Histories and Futures. Find out more: buff.ly/qiiZrO8

The DHS is looking to appoint an Inclusion Officer. This is a new Trustee role which has been created to ensure that the best practices of inclusion, equity, and diversity are enacted across the Society. If this sounds like you, find out more: buff.ly/L5Aqqrl

A reminder that we are recruiting for a new Chair of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Design History. For more details and to apply: buff.ly/p8JvO2P

In the first Provocative Objects blog of 2026, Anneke Coppoolse, Assistant Professor in the Department of Visual Communication Design at Hongik University in Seoul, South Korea, examines stranded marine waste as revealing design decisions and material economies. Read it here: buff.ly/15S4Pvf

The Trustees of the DHS and Editorial Board of the Journal of Design History sincerely thank outgoing Editorial Board members Sarah Cheang and Jane Tynan. Their expertise and thoughtful contributions have strengthened the quality and direction of our publication. We wish them both the very best!

Remember that the Call for Papers for our 2026 annual conference ‘Design in an Age of Uncertainty’ closes next week! Find out how to submit your proposal here: buff.ly/kkePXYX

The DHS is looking for a new Chair of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Design History! For more details and to apply: buff.ly/p8JvO2P

Several of our 2026 funding streams are now open for applications, including our Research Access Grant, Decolonising Design History Grant, Accessible Design History Grant, and Research Publication Grant. For further details, please see the Awards section of our website: buff.ly/pAyBfub

A reminder that the Call for Papers for our 2026 annual conference ‘Design in an Age of Uncertainty’, hosted by Masaryk University in Brno, closes on Sunday 1st February. Find out how to submit your proposal for individual papers and for thematic panels here: buff.ly/kkePXYX

We are pleased to welcome Livia Rezende, new Explorations Managing Editor of the Journal of Design History. Find out more here: buff.ly/AGvR1Ge

If we tried to recommend all the amazing galleries and museums worth visiting in Brno during our conference, you’d probably have to take an extra week off. So instead, we picked the crème de la crème – the spots you simply can’t miss!

Get ready to meet the host city of the 2026 DHS Conference! Design in the Age of Uncertainty will take place in vibrant, innovative, and culture-packed Brno. Over the next few posts, we’ll be introducing this Czech gem – so stay tuned! 📸 from Czechia Digital Media Library by Jiří Kružík

If you’ve been seriously side-eyeing every thematic focus we introduced don’t worry – we’re open-minded! We gladly welcome any theme that engages with uncertainty in design! Deadline is 1st of February 2026 Find out more: buff.ly/XXu0w0L #designuncertain #callforpapers #dhsconference

Introducing thematic foci of the 2026 DHS Annual Conference ⚡️Design in an Age of Uncertainty ⚡️ 3. Ecology and Responsibility ♻️ The Call for Papers is officially open 📣 Find out more: buff.ly/XXu0w0L Deadline? 1st of February 2026 ⏳ #designuncertain #callforpapers #dhsconference