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The Centre for Design History applies a cross-disciplinary perspective to understand how design in all its forms has shaped things, spaces and actions across time. Our approach extends to other arts and humanities, the social sciences, engineering, health, and community engagement.
We aim to develop wide social and economic impact via our links with the cultural sector, particularly museums and art galleries, government and voluntary sectors and, crucially, creative businesses. Our research makes an important contribution to cultural life and wellbeing.
The centre contributes to an expanded field of design history that embraces the conjunction of professional and non-professional practices; digital and analogue artefacts; the de-centring of design practice away from singular object to complex ecologies, objects and systems, and the embedding of design thinking into management and organisational processes.
While traditionally, design history has been applied to museology, business history and within academia, opportunities have emerged for new applications and forms of impact for the discipline. The current reflexive use of design as a value in policy and planning opens up new fields of investigation both in contemporary design history and re-investigating the past, and offers exciting opportunities to pioneer new research routes and produce new, impactful and high-quality research outcomes.
We also have the following Emeritus Professors: Jonathan Woodham and Lou Taylor
Anyone interested in working with us should contact CentreforDesignHistory@brighton.ac.uk
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
Profiles
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Tom Ainsworth
- School of Arch, Tech and Eng - Subject Lead Architecture and Design, Principal Lecturer
- Centre for Arts and Wellbeing
- Experimental Design Practices Research and Enterprise Group
- Radical Methodologies (RaM) Research and Enterprise Group
- Centre for Design History
Person: Academic
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A Roadmap for a National Training Centre on Multidimensional Digital Media in the Arts and Humanities
Rodriguez Echavarria, K. & Wintle, C.
19/02/23 → 30/06/24
Project: Research Councils / Government Depts.
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Making museum professionals, 1850- the present
Wintle, C., Hill, K., Meyer, A., Russell, T. & de Silva, N.
1/12/22 → 30/11/24
Project: Research Councils / Government Depts.
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Art, Feminism, and Community: Feminist Art Histories from Turkey, 1973-1998
Ozpinar, C., 18 Mar 2024, (Accepted/In press) Oxford University Press (OUP). (British Academy Monographs)Research output: Book/Report › Book - authored › peer-review
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Art without Frontiers: The Story of the British Council, Visual Arts and a Changing World
Pollen, A., 23 Jan 2024, London: Art/Books. 408 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book - authored › peer-review
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Keynote Lecture: Occulture, Aesthetic Cultures of Protest, and the Politics of Weird
Annebella Pollen (Keynote speaker)
23 Oct 2024 → 25 Oct 2024Activity: External talk or presentation › Invited talk
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When do clothes constitute a uniform, and when is dress political? Slippery definitions and contentious applications in British legal contexts
Annebella Pollen (Invited presenter)
4 Sept 2024 → 5 Sept 2024Activity: External talk or presentation › Invited talk
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Stone Club at Timber Festival
Annebella Pollen (Invited presenter)
3 Jul 2024Activity: External talk or presentation › Invited talk