Could you be our new Grants Officer? Applications must be received by 23:59 UTC on 31 October 2026. Interviews will be held on a Monday or Friday in November with an envisaged start date of early December. Find out more about the role and apply here: buff.ly/zZYD9HS

The Design History Society Annual Conference 2027 comes to Chelsea College of Arts, UAL, exploring Veiling/Unveiling: The Politics of the Unseen in Design. Find out more: buff.ly/EUFR0oc 📍 Chelsea College of Arts, UAL 📅 2–4 September 2027

We are pleased to announce that the recordings of our online symposium ‘Crafting Furniture in the Global South: Contemporary Practices, Histories and Futures’ have been published on our YouTube channel: Panels one and two: buff.ly/Y3mp3BK Panels three and four: buff.ly/8v8A5te

2026 Student Publication: ‘Threads, Traces, and Artefacts: Revisiting Global Design History’ now available online! This volume is Open Access and can be downloaded here: buff.ly/0kJmwwQ

Listen to the latest Routes to Design History podcast! This month we speak with Johanna Agerman Ross, the Conran Foundation Chief Curator at the Design Museum. Listen on Spotify here: buff.ly/Z8FRFFS

Our 2026 Student Conference ‘Ephemeral Encounters’ is now available to watch on YouTube! Take a look at Day One here: buff.ly/KRpRLak And Day Two here: buff.ly/YigGzAB

Our Annual Publishing Workshop session ‘Developing an Academic Book Proposal’ with Suzie Nash, Commissioning Editor at Bloomsbury, will now be held on 14th September, 12:30pm-2pm BST. Find out more: buff.ly/i52m3ZZ

Conference in pictures. All the photos are now available on our website: buff.ly/xsH5ELa Photographs by Eden Bican & Jakub Straka, please mention our photographers when using photos for promotional purposes.

This week, doctoral researcher Metini Krivanish shares research examining unequal global resource distribution and the socio-technical networks of teak extraction as part of our Crafting Furniture in the Global South blog series. Read it here: buff.ly/LnN2rjS

Thank you to everyone who attended and contributed to the DHS annual conference this year, including all of our speakers and panel chairs. Particular thanks to the team at the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University for welcoming and hosting us all!

Deep dive into the programme of ⚡ Design in an Age of Uncertainty ⚡ The programme will wrap up on the 5th of September 2026 🗓️ #designuncertain #dhsconference2026

Deep dive into the programme of ⚡️ Design in an Age of Uncertainty ⚡️ The programme will wrap up on the 5th of September 2026 🗓 #designuncertain #dhsconference2026

Deep dive into the programme of ⚡️ Design in an Age of Uncertainty ⚡️ The programme will wrap up on the 5th of September 2026 🗓 #designuncertain #dhsconference2026

Deep dive into the programme of ⚡️ Design in an Age of Uncertainty ⚡️ The programme continues on the 4th of September 2026 🗓 #designuncertain #dhsconference2026

Deep dive into the programme of ⚡️ Design in an Age of Uncertainty ⚡️ The programme continues on the 4th of September 2026 🗓 #designuncertain #dhsconference2026

Deep dive into the programme of ⚡️ Design in an Age of Uncertainty ⚡️ The programme continues on the 4th of September 2026 🗓 #designuncertain #dhsconference2026

The Annual Report for the period 2025-26 has now been published online ahead of the AGM on Friday 4th September at 9am CEST in room B2.13 in Building B2 (Arna Nováka 1) of Masaryk University, Brno, as part of the 2026 Annual Conference. All are welcome to the AGM. Read it here: buff.ly/RXIOYIO

Deep dive into the programme of ⚡️ Design in an Age of Uncertainty ⚡️ The programme continues on the 4th of September 2026 🗓 #designuncertain #dhsconference2026

Session 2 of our annual Publishing Workshop takes a look at 'Explorations: Alternative Approaches to Writing in Design History', with Sarah A. Lichtman and Livia Lazzaro Rezende. Find out more and register here: buff.ly/vPayhNJ

Deep dive into the programme of ⚡️ Design in an Age of Uncertainty ⚡️ It all kicks off on the 3rd of September 2026 🗓 #designuncertain #dhsconference2026

A reminder that we are running two Publishing Workshops at our annual conference. Session 1 looks at 'Developing an Academic Book Proposal' with Suzie Nash, Commissioning Editor at Bloomsbury. Find out more and register: buff.ly/vPayhNJ

Deep dive into the programme of ⚡️ Design in an Age of Uncertainty ⚡️ It all kicks off on the 3rd of September 2026 🗓 #designuncertain #dhsconference2026

Deadline coming up! Submit your abstract for the DHS Affiliated Society panel at the 115th CAA Annual Conference, New York, 3-6 February 2027: 'The Global Architecture of Fashion'. Find out more: buff.ly/AZwAQp4

Tomorrow! Before we gather in Brno for the conference, we have a special online roundtable 'The Promise and Peril of Digitization in Design History Research'. Find out more: buff.ly/KFT5Dw9

In the next instalment of our Crafting Furniture in the Global South blog series, Francesca Vita, post-doctoral researcher at the University Institute of Lisbon (DINÂMIA’CET), shares research on Portuguese modern design and the contemporary materialities of the Empire. Read it here: buff.ly/LnN2rjS

Reminder of the call for papers for the DHS affiliated Society panel ‘The Global Architecture of Fashion’ at the 115th CAA Annual Conference, New York, 3-6 February 2027. Find out more: buff.ly/chnwtl2

Announcing student events at the annual Design History Society conference! Materialising the "Immaterial": How to Make Design Historical Interventions in Cyberspace Day 2: Friday 4.9.2026 9.00-9.45 Register here: buff.ly/bRX45Uk

Before we gather in Brno for the conference, join us for a special online event – the Design History Society Virtual Roundtable titled The Promise and Peril of Digitization in Design History Research on August 27! You can find all the details about the event here: buff.ly/Hx45n7A

Announcing student events at the annual Design History Society conference! Writing an Abstract in Design History Day 1: Thursday 3.9.2026 11.30-12.30 Register here: buff.ly/bRX45Uk

In the first of our new blog series 'Crafting Furniture in the Global South', design and architectural historian @pooskipie.bsky.social shares research on Chandigarh's modernist furniture and use-based furniture history as an anti-colonial technique buff.ly/V9pWVII