DHS Reading Groups 2022
Design History & Language Rights

Call for Papers: collaborative publishing workshops

• The first draft will go through a round of collaborative peer review: Participants will provide feedback on one another’s papers by August 15.
  
  
• A second submission and round of peer review will follow in November. 
  
  
• Two editors of the Journal of Design History, Claire O’Mahony and Daniel Huppatz, will join us for one special workshop session (date to be announced).

Design History & Digital Humanities

• How can theories, methods and technologies of the digital humanities be applied to research in design history?
• Case-studies of projects that apply digital humanities theory and methods to design historical practice.
• The relationship between information networks and research in design history.
• Challenges and opportunities for the application of the digital humanities to design history.
• Digital humanities as related to exhibitions, public engagement and the preservation of (tangible and intangible) objects.
• Role of the digital humanities in design historical pedagogy.

Design History & Language Rights

• Intersections of Design History and the broad discursive field of Language Rights, including indigeneity and language maintenance, language policy, and language activism.
• Participatory methods in design historical inquiry: challenges and opportunities posed by collaborating across linguistic divides.
• Impact of design and technological change on linguistic diversity.
• Case studies in design responses to language revitalisation: how have designers contributed to language reclamation initiatives and to language documentation projects?
• Representing multilingualism: How has multilingualism been represented through a variety of media and what have been the effects of these representations in language practice of particular communities?