CONFERENCE PROGRAMME: (2–4 September)
Parallel Sessions
All times in Basel time: CEST (UTC + 2)
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11:00-12:00
S17_GEOPOLITICAL ENTANGLEMENTS
Chair: Johannes Bruder
CURATED PANEL
Designing in Real Worlds – Weaving shared histories through design anthropology
Land reclamation as a speculative material practice
Michaela Büsse, Humboldt University of Berlin
The Settler is a Cyborg: Precursory Notes on Martial Design
Ali H. Musleh, University of Hawaii at Manoa, HI Honolulu
Reconfiguring the Border
Mahmoud Keshavarz, HDKV Academy of Art and Design, University, SE Gothenburg
S30_WORKSHOP A
11:00-13:00
OPEN: Memories, Stories and Recipes for Otherwise Design Histories.
Lead: Livia Rezende, University of New South Wales, AU Sydney, Sarah Cheang and Katie Irani, RCA: Royal College of Art, UK London
Limited to 15 persons. Duration 2 hours. Secure a place here
12:00 – 12:20
Meet the editor: Nina Paim and Mayar El Bakry talk about Design Struggles, presented by Swiss Design Network
12:30 – 12:50
Meet the author: Penny Sparke introduces Nature Inside: Plants and Flowers in the Modern Interior, presented by Yale University Press
13:00 – 14:00
S2_MEMORY AND MATTER
Chair: Dan Huppatz, Swinburne University of Technology, AUS
“Words for a tongue we are losing”
Stefanie Rau, Weißensee Academy of Art and Design DE Berlin
Bark: Situating the memory of a displaced craft
Charlett Wenig, Max-Planck-Institut of Colloids and Interfaces, DE Berlin and Gabriele Oropallo, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, DE Berlin
Designing the Future-Past: Ceramics and the forgetfulness of modernity
Christopher McHugh, Belfast School of Art, Ulster University, IR Belfast
S15_HISTORIES OF DECOLONISATION AND REPAIR
Chair: Michaela Young
Applying the Carrier-bag Theory to Design and Symbolic Violence.
Henry Lee, Parsons School of Design, USA New York; Bryan Howell, Brigham Young University, USA Provo (UT)
Constructed Narratives: Towards a Critical Design History of Chandigarh’s Modernist Furniture
Petra Seitz, University College London; Nia Thandapani; Gregor Wittrick, British Museum, UK London
Reenacting INTEC. Providing a material body to the socialist functionalism of Chile’s Unidad Popular government.
Fernando Portal, University of the Americas, CL Santiago
S31_WORKSHOP B (part 1)
Design History as Site-Specific Practice: Re-mapping the Margins of Institutions and Geographies
Lead: Christina Zetterlund, Linnaeus University, SE, and Sabrina Rahman, Exeter University, UK
Limited to 12 persons. Duration 2 hours. Secure your place here
14:00 – 15:00
S14_HISTORIES OF BODY CONTROL
Chair: Jane Tynan
A final solution for humanity? Modern Design and the Political Imaginary of Postwar West Germany
Natalie Scholz, University of Amsterdam, NL
The Ideology of the Ideal: The Visual Cure
Peter Fine, University of Wyoming, USA Wyoming
A disembodied memory: furniture design for childbirth assistance in Leningrad, late 1930s
Yulia Karpova, University of Copenhagen, DK
S31_WORKSHOP B (part 1), Continuatiom
15:00 – 15:30
Break: Book Fair / Postcards from Switzerland / Networking on After Session Talks and Riverside Walks
15:30 – 16:30
S10_PLURIVERSAL CITIES
Chair: Priscila Farias
CURATED PANEL
Design Hegemonies for Development
Facing coloniality of urbanization: Latin-America and Amereida’s geo-poetic of design
Álvaro Mercado, Université Libre de Bruxelles, BE Brussels
Transition Landscape Atlas: Uses of the past in designing spatial development for a post-industrial landscape in Genk
Mela Zuljevic, Hasselt University, BE Hasselt
Artesanías vs Modern Design: Unveiling Design Hegemonies over Traditional Crafts in Chile.
Daniela Salgado Cofré, Université Libre de Bruxelles, BE Brussels
S12_CHALLENGING GENDERED MODERNITIES
Chair: Rebecca Houze
CURATED PANEL
Altering design histories: women’s modernity in Central Europe
A feminine craft: women and the business of design in Central Europe
Julia Secklehner, Masaryk University, CZ Brno
It’s a woman’s world’s fair. Modernity, design and craft at 1920s exhibitions
Marta Filipová, Masaryk University, CZ Brno
There’s no business like show business: women, commerce and the performativity of modern design
Alexandra Chiriac, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA New York
S24_DESIGNERLY WAYS OF DOING HISTORY I
Chair: Sarah Lichtman
A new modus operandi for the critic of interior design spaces
Sara Coscarelli, EINA Centre Universitari de Disseny i Art, SP Barcelona
Stories for industrial design: a close reading of a corded portable electric drill
Berto Pandolfo, University of Technology, AU Sydney
Re-engaging with Design History through the Practical Turn
Wouter Eggink, University of Twente NL Enschede
16:30 – 17:30
S3_COLLECTIVE MEMORY AND URBAN SPACE
Chair: Rebecca Houze
CURATED PANEL
Curating Memories of the City: The Incomplete Yenişehir Exhibition
Creative Remembrance: a workshop and exhibition process for reimagining the city
Cigdem Yonder, University of Liège, Liège BE; Ozlem Yalcinkaya; Seda Sen, Baskent University, TR Ankara
Combating spatial segregation through visualisation of migration memories: The case of “7 Pieces”
Sezen Savran Penbecioğlu, Osmaniye Korkut Ata University, TR Osmaniye
S13_DISCLOSING DESIGN CAREERS
Chair: Penny Sparke
Bea Feitler: Graphic Designer and Brazilian Firebrand
Amanda Horton, University of Central Oklahoma, USA Oklahoma
Interior Decoration as a Profession for Women: Introducing Katherine Muselwhite
Leticia Cobra Lima, University of California, USA Santa Barbara
A missing narrative of Ghana’s graphic design history
Mark Okyere, University of Bern, CH and Eric Anane-Antwi, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, GH Kumasi
S21_DESIGNERLY WAYS OF DOING HISTORY II
Chair: John Potvin
CURATED PANEL
Clothing for children
A Closer Look at Boys in Frocks
Martin Kamer, independent researcher, CH Zug
The Clothes of Three Brothers around 1900
Katharina Tietze, Zurich University of the Arts, CH Zurich
About Boys and Girls
Maria Spitz, Draiflessen Collection, DE Mettingen
17:30 – 18:00
Break: Book Fair / Postcards from Switzerland / Networking on After Session Talks and Riverside Walks
18:00 – 19:30
DHS Opening Greeting at Conference Launch by DHS chair Claire O’Mahony
Welcoming words by Michael Renner, FHNW Academy of Art and Design
Introduction to the Conference by Convenors Meret Ernst and Monica Gaspar
Introduction to the Keynote by Meret Ernst
Keynote 2
Alexandra Midal, Geneva University of Art and Design
Shadows: The Dark Sides of Design History
20:00
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11:00 – 11:20
Meet the authors: Robert Lzicar, Davide Fornari, Sarah Klein, Sandra Bischler and Sara Zeller talk about Swiss Graphic Design Histories and its underlying research project.
11:45 – 12:00
Convenors’ Review of Day 1
12:00 – 13:00
S5_FORENSIC APPROACHES
Chair: Gabriele Oropallo
Silent witnesses: a groundbreaking idea in the 1st Mill BC changed the ancient textile industry and laid the foundation for modern clothing production
Ulrike Beck, Universität der Künste Berlin DE Berlin
Impossible Vantage: Modeling and the Manufactured Image
Oliver Graney, independent researcher, NO Oslo
Changing aesthetical taste in Ottoman interiors in the 1740s
Nazli Songulen, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library, US Minnesota
S19_TRANSMODERN SPACES
Chair: Claire O’Mahony
Capability of Design for ‘Modernizing’ the Memories of History: The Jerusalem Committee’s Ambitious Challenge
Ariyuki Kondo, Ferris University JP Yokohama
Whose memory is it anyway? Indefinite Faces of Modernism: Notes on Industrial Forms / Design in Interwar and Socialist Romania
Mirela Duculescu, National University of Arts Bucharest, RO Bucharest
Houses, Drawing Rooms and Attics: Contemporary Spatial Practices and Historicity of Alternative Memory in Colonial Kodava Houses (1834-1947)
Chinnappa B. G., Field Marshal KM Cariappa College, IND Kodagu
Sibyl Moholy-Nagy: Between Memory and Polemic
Jeffrey Lieber, Texas State University USA Texas
S11_ALTERNATIVE GENEALOGIES
Chair: Sarah Cheang
Rock Cakes, Rations and The Public Good: Performing Postgraduate Design Education
Rachel Carley, Auckland University of Technology, NZ Auckland
An Irish Industrial Tribute to the Blessed Virgin Mary
Tom Spalding, Technological University Dublin IR Dublin
Decolonizing the Concept of Design as the Artificial
Joana Meroz, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, NL Amsterdam
13:00 – 14:00
Break: Book Fair / Postcards from Switzerland / Networking on After Session Talks and Riverside Walks
13.30 – 13.50
Meet the author: Sara De Bondt talks about her book Off the Grid: Belgian Graphic Design History, presented by Occasional Papers
14:00 – 15:00
S26_DIGITALISATION: CHALLENGES AND PROSPECTS
Chair: Gabriele Oropallo
How to Train your Machine. Learnings from the Domestication of Industrial Products
Wouter Eggink, University of Twente, Vincent Molumby, University of Twente, NL Enschede
Interface Design in Digital History: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue
Camila Afanador-Llach, Florida Atlantic University, USA Florida and María José Afanador-Llach, Universidad de los Andes, COL Bogotá
S18_CONTESTED BORDERS OF MODERNITY
Chair: Robert Lzicar
Emerging graphic design histories: a roadmap for exploring graphic memory
Niki Sioki, University of Nicosia CY Nicosia
Decolonizing Modernism: Helmi el-Touni and the Politics of Ornament
Zeina Maasri, University of Brighton UK Brighton
Coffee Or Chinese Tea – the trans-cultural exploration of Contemporary Chinese Graphic Design in the 1980s and 1990s
Yun Wang, China Design Museum, China Academy of Art, CN Hangzhou
S16_CRITICAL HERITAGE AND NATIONAL IDENTITIES
Chair: Marta Filipová
A Mnemonic Device for Belfast
Kate Catterall, University of Texas, USA Austin TX
The homeland and the chair: Design, memory, and politics in fascist Italy
Ignacio G. Galán, Barnard College, USA New York
Obscure Memory of Typography: Nationalism and the Redesigning of History by Script Reformers in Japan, 1920–45
Toshiki Kawashima, University of Pennsylvania, USA Pennsylvania
15:00 – 16:00
S25_STORIES OF STORING
Chair: Fedja Vukic
Forms, Folders, and Files: Supplying Organizational Memory
Jennifer Kaufmann-Buhler, Purdue University, USA Indiana Purdue
The Future of our Collective Memory: Design-driven Approaches for Digital Artefacts
Elena Formia and Michele Zannoni, University of Bologna, IT Bologna
The politics and pragmatics of storage and retrieval: CAD, everyday design practice and the archive
Sarah Teasley, RMIT University, AU Melbourne
S20_CHALLENGING NATIONAL HISTORIOGRAPHIES
Chairs: Davide Fornari, Robert Lzicar and Sara Zeller
CURATED PANEL
Beyond Swiss graphic design
Presence Switzerland in Senegal: A case study in postcolonial graphic design?
Daniel Sciboz, Geneva University of Art and Design, CH Geneva
Design history as a form of activism and repair
Thérèse Moll Elizabeth Resnick, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, USA Boston
Basel – Ulm – Zurich: Principles of graphic design education and their migration across borders
Sandra Bischler, FHNW Academy of Art and Design, CH Basel
S9_DESIGN HISTORY AS DESIGN FICTION
Chair: Sarah Lichtman
Our Friend the Atom: Disney, Design, and the Politics of Memory
Monica Penick, University of Texas, USA Austin Texas
Sharp Objects and the power of fictional narratives
Adán Farías, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London, UK London
Objects of a Memory Loss: Dining Tables as a Cultural Agent in Late Ottoman Istanbul
Esra Bici Nasır, Izmir University of Economics, TR Izmir
16:00 – 17:00
Break: Book Fair / Postcards from Switzerland / Networking on After Session Talks and Riverside Walks
16.30 – 16.50
Decolonising Graphic Design: Historical Perspectives from the Arab World
Meet the author: Zeina Maasri talks about her Book Cosmopolitan Radicalism: The Visual Politics of Beirut’s Global Sixties, Cambridge University Press, 2020
17:00 – 18:00
S27_DANCING ABOUT DESIGN
Chair: Catherine Rossi
CURATED PANEL
Nightclubs, Nights Out and In
Club Culture, New Beat and Belgian Fashion
Katarina Serulus, KU Leuven, Flanders Architecture Institute, BE Leuven and Antwerp
The (Im)materiality of Charles Jeffrey’s LOVERBOY 2015 – 2019
Fenella Hitchcock, London College of Fashion, UK London
The Space of MTV: From Inner-City Clubbing to Basement Suburbia
Léa–Catherine Szacka, University of Manchester, UK Manchester
S22_DESIGNER AS HISTORIAN, HISTORIAN AS DESIGNER
Chair: Artun Ozguner
Title Sequence Designs in Fantastic Turkish Cinema Between 1950-1985
Gürkan Maruf Mihçi, IUPUI Herron School of Art and Design US Indiana and Ozyegin University, TR
Karl Gerstner – A precursor of digital graphics
Jonas Deuter, Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach am Main, DE Offenbach
Reviving the memory of Modernist type designer Joan Trochut
Andreu Balius, EINA-UAB University School of Design and Art, SP Barcelona
S31_WORKSHOP B (part 2)
Lead: Christina Zetterlund and Sabrina Rahman
Design History as Site-Specific Practice: Re-mapping the Margins of Institutions and Geographies
18:00 – 19:30
Introduction by Claudia Mareis
Keynote 3
Jussi Parikka, Winchester School of Art at University of Southampton
A Natural History of Logistics and Other Problem Spaces
19:30 – 21:00
DHS Joint AGM (Chair and Trustees) including Essay Prize Giving Ceremony
21:00
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11:00 – 11:20
Meet the author: Claude Lichtenstein talks about The Gravity of Ideas / Die Schwerkraft der Ideen, presented by Birkhäuser Bauwelt Fundamente (in German)
11:45 – 12:00
Convenors’ Review of Day 2
12:00 – 13:00
S1_MATERIAL AGENCY AND NEW DESIGN HISTORIES
Chair: Claudia Mareis
CURATED PANEL
Material agency for new design histories of Central Eastern Europe
Designing a coal nation
Kasia Jeżowska, University of New South Wales, AU Sydney
Spatial negotiations: non-human agency in Open Form architecture
Aleksandra Kędziorek, PL Warsaw
From bark beetles to a factory. Towards a multispecies perspective in design history
Agata Szydłowska, Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, PL Warsaw
S7_DIGITAL LEGACIES
Chair: Michael Renner
A disorderly archive
Anna Talley and Fleur Elkerton, V&A / Royal College of Art, UK London
HfG-Archiv Ulm Online: from exclusive reality to inclusive virtuality
Carolina Short, University of Waikato, Tomás García Ferrari, University of Waikato NZ Auckland, and Marcela Quijano Salas, independent researcher
Open Graphic Design Archive
Mariana Leão, University of Lisbon and Joana Costa, University of Port, PT Lisbon and Porto
13:00 – 14:00
Break: Book Fair / Postcards from Switzerland / Networking on After Session Talks and Riverside Walks
14:00 – 15:00
S4_RELOADING THE ARCHIVE
Chair: Zara Arshad
CURATED PANEL
Reconstructing Design Archives: Tracing Alternative Narratives of Design History
An Alternative Archive for the Future: Using archives as a method for the Hong Kong Pavilion at the London Design Biennale 2020
Sunnie Chan, Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile (CHAT) Hong Kong and Vivien Chan, COTCA, University of Nottingham, UK
Singapore Graphic Archives: 10 Years On
Justin Zhuang, independent research, SG Singapore
The Book Society (bookshop) as a Para-archiving Practice
Helen Jungyeon Ku, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA), KR Seoul
Wawasan 2020, Malaysia Design Archive
Denise Lai, V&A/RCA and Lim Sheau Yun, Malaysia Design Archive
S28_PEDAGOGIES OF UNLEARNING
Chair: Maya Ober
Points of Inversion: Upending Structural Narratives in Design History
Bonne Zabolotney, Emily Carr University of Art and Design CA Vancouver
To See in Reverse: Decoding and Decolonizing Design Language and Thinking
Clara Meliande and Ilana Paterman, Superior School of Industrial Design, State University of Rio de Janeiro, BR Rio de Janeiro
We Missed the Mark: The Impacts of Well-Intentioned, but Racist, Design
Terresa Moses, University of Minnesota and Lisa E. Mercer, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA Minnesota and Illinois
15:00 – 16:00
S29_CURATING THE ARCHIVE
Chair: Harriet McKay
The Giedions’ World
Almut Grunewald, gta Archives of the ETH, CH Zurich
Data Recovery of Lithuanian Design History: stories and links from visual folders of Antanas Kazakauskas’ archive
Karolina Jakaite, Vilnius Academy of Arts, LI Vlnius
Swiss Game Design Home Computer Era
Beat Suter and René Bauer, Zurich University of the Arts, CH Zurich
S8_COLLECTIVE ANTIDOTES TO AMNESIA
Chair: Fiona Anderson
Affecting objects: clothing archives and the edges of the fashion
Ellen Sampson, Northumbria University UK Northumbria
Fashion Design Practice and Zambian Heritage: (re)constructing self and nation through Design
Nkumbu Mutambo, Northumbria University, UK Northumbria
Exhibiting Collective Memory: The Willi Smith Community Archive
Julie Pastor, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, USA New York
Pre-empting loss through ‘fashion memory’: a ‘postconservation’ perspective
Leanne Tonkin, Katherine Townsend, Jake Kaner, Nottingham Trent University, UK Nottingham
Due to reprogramming this session with a fourth speaker late in the process, this session lasts until 16:20 CEST
S23_CRITICAL HISTORIOGRAPHIES
Chair: Aggie Toppins
CURATED PANEL
Imagining Other Futures: Historical Interrogation and Radical Publishing
Urgentcraft: Radical Publishing During Crisis
Paul Soulellis, Rhode Island School of Design, US Providence
Design Debates, Reader Voices, and the Histories within Design Blogs
Jessica Barness, Kent State University, US Kent
Almanaque: A Collaborative Approach to Design Research and Puerto Rican Identity
Jason Alejandro, The College of New Jersey, US and Laura Rossi Garcia, DePaul University, US Chicago
16:00 – 17:00
Break: Book Fair / Postcards from Switzerland / Networking on After Session Talks and Riverside Walks
16.30 – 16.50
Meet the authors: Monika Dommann and Jonas Voegeli talk about Data Centers: Edges of a Wired Nation, presented by Lars Müller Publishers
17:00 – 18:30
Introduction by Monica Gaspar
Keynote 4
Alfredo Gutierrez Borrero, Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano in Bogotá, Colombia
Dessobons and Archaeodesign
18:30 – 19:00
Closing remarks by Convenors Meret Ernst and Monica Gaspar
Big Reveal: DHS 2022 conference theme and convenors announcement, moderated by Marta Filipová, Conference Liaison Trustee
DHS closing words by Claire O’Mahony, DHS Chair
Farewell by Michael Renner, FHNW Academy of Art and Design
20:00
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