Open Call for Abstracts and Panels — Displaying Design: History, Criticism, and Curatorial Discourses

Description

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.

We invite authors to send creative and unpublished proposals that surprise, relearn and rethink design history and design stories.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:

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.