Sessions 3 and 4 from 40 Years On: the Domain of Design History - Looking Back Looking Forward

Disseminating Modern Architecture and Design
Chair: Linda Sandino, V&A/Camberwell College of Art

The love that dare not speak its name.’ Complexity and contradiction in the conservation of modern architecture – from Pevsner to Po-Mo:
Julian Holder, University of Salford

This paper looks at how A305 built a wider audience for modern architecture and design beyond the academy and in so doing led to calls for the listing of modern architecture.

The Politics of Making: critical craft writing from the 1970s:
Tanya Harrod, Independent Scholar

This paper argues that more recently a broad-based craft perspective has given design history a fresh engagement with production on a local and global level.

Exhibiting Modern Architecture and Design
Chair: Tim Benton, The Open University

Design History on Display: curating and history in dialogue:
Jane Pavitt, Royal College of Art

What has been the impact of design history upon the making of exhibitions and how far has it informed the development of new curatorial approaches and subjects?

Design History at the Design Museum; perfect fit or culture clash?:
Liz Farrelly, University of Brighton

Farrelly examines how the Design Museum (founded 1989) was perceived by a particular audience, through examining two articles from academic journals – Barbara Usherwood writing in Design Issues (1991) and Deborah Sugg Ryan in Home Cultures (2005) – which voiced both expectation and disappointment.