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	Writing Design; Object, Process, Discourse, Translation: the Design History Society Annual Conference
location and travel key dates programme keynote speakers abstracts participant biographies panel of referees style guide tVAD home page	BOOKING FORM (PDF) BOOKING FORM (Word) CONFERENCE BOOKLET Writing Design; Object, Process, Discourse, Translation The Design History Society Annual Conference, de Havilland Campus, University of Hertfordshire, 3-5 September, 2009. Co-convenors: Dr Grace Lees-Maffei and Jessica Kelly How do we find out about design, as both practice and object, including the processes of designing, crafting and manufacture, marketing and consumption? Students, scholars, critics and commentators use words, whether written or spoken, both to research design through observation, participation, interview and oral history, object analysis and documentary and visual interpretation, and in preparing resultant outcomes. Writing Design invites delegates to reflect on their sources, historiography and methodology, research, dissemination and teaching processes to examine the issues mobilised by articulating design and material culture with language, and the ways in which writing about objects has conditioned our understanding of design. The conference is inclusive in its interests, and will attract designers, design historians, and practitioners of design studies, material culture studies, popular culture studies and literary studies, among others. Keynote speakers are Professor Jeffrey L. Meikle (University of Texas) and Dr Paul Jobling (University of Brighton). Writing Design will showcase 72 double-blind peer-reviewed papers, which will enhance the practice of design history and design thinking. Panels will explore a range of issues, including... What is at stake in the translation of objects into words, written or spoken, for research, communication and understanding? How does typography - the design of words and writing - impact upon their interpretation? What does writing on design - from popular and specialist design journalism and trade journals to academic studies - tell us? What has been the value of designers' writings and how have designers attempted to shape their personae/biographies? How have interview and oral history practices functioned to enlarge understanding of design? What pedagogical issues are raised by learning about designed objects through lectures, seminars and written assignments? Based in the School of Creative Arts at the University of Hertfordshire, the tVAD (theorising Visual Art and Design) research group examines relationships between text, narrative and image. See home page for more information about tVAD and the excellent air, road and rail transport links UH enjoys, being only 20 minutes from central London. We look forward to welcoming you to Writing Design!
Dr Grace Lees-Maffei MA RCA ILTM Co-ordinator, tVAD Research Group Senior Lecturer in the History & Theory of Design & Applied Arts Editorial Board Member, The Journal of Design History University of Hertfordshire Faculty of Art and Design College Lane, Hatfield, AL10 9AB, UK Tel: 00 44 (0)1707 285369 Fax: 00 44 (0)1707 285350 Email: g.lees-maffei@herts.ac.uk Web: click here