Convened by Dr Artun Ozguner (Senior Lecturer, Contextual Studies, Graphic Design School of Communications, University for the Creative Arts) as a DHS virtual seminar series.
Objects have had their share from the political turmoil and conflict that trouble human lives, they have equally been distressed. Political turmoil and conflict place objects in strict binary narratives, dichotomies of gender, race, religion, politics, or hard-boiled nationalisms. The repressed, oppressed, restricted and distressed object reflects our own troubled world.
Objects in Distress virtual seminar series seeks to explore such changes in our approach to objects today or in the past. These attitudes vary from restrictions on uses and interpretations of objects/images to how individuals and communities use them to construct their identities or to reminisce in times of turmoil.
Join discussions from around the globe, reaching out to object histories from India, Greece, Italy, France, Fiji, Mexico, Germany, Morocco, to Turkey, UK, USA, Philippines, South Africa, and Japan!
Each session consists of 4×10-mins presentations followed by 20 mins discussion. The seminars are free and held online, thanks to the generous support of the Design History Society. Everyone is warmly invited to attend.