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Review: Educating the Interior Designer conference in Ghent, September 8, 2023 by Benoît Vandevoort, Els De Vos , Fredie Floré, Sam Vanhee On September 8, 2023, the conference ‘Educating the interior designer’ took place in an unusually warm and sunny Ghent, Belgium. It gathered scholars interested in the history of educational practices specific to interior design, convinced of their valuable contribution in situating the professionalization of the design discipline throughout the twentieth century. Participants reflected on how educational institutes have influenced the emergence and evolution of professional interior design in their respective countries. To do so, they looked at the role played by individual andRead More →

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During the first few weeks of September 2023, several international conferences will feature presentations by HIG members: the Design History Society’s Annual Conference on 7-9 September 2023, in Porto, Portugal (https://displayingdesign.esad.pt/) and Educating the Interior Designer on 8 September 2023, an international conference in Ghent, Belgium (https://www.educating-the-interior-designer.com/), and SAH Virtual component of the Society of Architectural Historian’s 76th International Conference, online during 20-22 September 2023 (https://www.sah.org/2023/program). Displaying Design: History, Criticism and Curatorial Discourses. DHS Annual Conference 2023 Educating the Interior Designer. 8 September 2023, Ghent, Belgium. SAH Virtual Conference, 20-22 SeptemberRead More →

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Upcoming Conference “Educating the Interior Designer” The International Conference ‘Educating the Interior Designer’ will take place in Ghent (Belgium) on September 8th, 2023. Deadline for the call for papers is February 1st, 2023. See www.educating-the-interior-designer.com This conference is organized within the framework of the research project ‘The emergence of interior architecture in Belgium, 1945-1999. Assessing the impact of education on the identity formation of the design discipline’, funded by the Research Foundation Flanders and conducted at the University of Antwerp and KU Leuven.Read More →