Advance Notice Forty Years On: The Domain of Design History – Looking Back Looking Forward 22 May 2015, Open University, Milton Keynes Convenor: Professor Elizabeth McKellar, Open University In 2015 it will be forty years since the Open University launched its pioneering course A305 History of architecture and design 1890-1939 in 1975. The course has been widely acknowledged as a landmark in the study of modern architecture and design both in the UK and internationally. This conference will take A305 as its starting point to trace some central themes in the history of the discipline in this country from the 1970s onwards. Key figures involved in the writing and broadcasting of the course will discuss its making and impact. Other developments in the spread of the subject in the 1970s and 1980s will also be considered; notably the first design history degrees, undergraduate and postgraduate. Later sessions will focus on the dissemination of the discipline through exhibitions and by the founding of the Design History Society and Journal. The conference will end with a series of reflections on the discipline today by noted scholars in the field. Conference Strands: Teaching Architectural and Design History Disseminating Modern Architecture and Design Exhibiting Modern Architecture and Design Design History Today Speakers and contributors will include: Tim Benton, Nick Levinson, Pat Kirkham, Chris Breward, Liz Farrelly, Jane Pavitt, Barry Curtis, Jeremy Aynsley and Cheryl Buckley. Further Information will be available in due course on the OU website: open.ac.uk.
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