This two day symposium in the department of Design History and Theory, University of Applied
Arts Vienna, invites scholars working on objects, practices and identities of design in its widest sense, including fashion,
craft, product, architecture and the built environment, alongside scholars of gender studies, cultural history, business history,
organization studies, material culture and technology studies, in any time period and in a global context, to propose papers
that respond to the following themes and questions:
• How can we theoretically and historically contextualise the
relationship between different forms of masculinities and design culture more deeply? How has this relationship been formed
over time, across social and geographical spaces and between design practices?
• What or who are the agents in shaping,
performing and representing cultures of masculinities in design?
• How does the study of masculinities in design culture
put different emphasis on gender binaries and boundaries, such as public / private; professional / amateur; industrial /domestic,
design /making?
How can we move beyond these binaries?
• What is the relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation
and masculinities in design?
• How do designed objects themselves illuminate, or efface, gendered narratives?
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How might a more nuanced history or theory of masculinities in design better inform the politics of gender and sexuality in
design culture?
Proposals should be sent to
masculinitiesindesign@gmail.com
before the 14th January deadline and should not exceed 500 words, including references.
Selected papers from the
symposium will contribute to a forthcoming Special Issue in the journal Design and Culture.
Keynote Speaker:Dr Joseph McBrinn, University of Ulster, UK
Organising committee:Leah Armstrong,
University of Applied Arts Vienna, Austria
Leah.Armstrong@uni-ak.ac.atLuca Csepely-Knorr, Manchester Metropolitan University , UK
L.Csepely-Knorr@mmu.ac.ukPınar Kaygan, University of Southern Denmark
kay@iti.sdu.dkZoë Thomas, University
of Birmingham, UK
Z.Thomas@bham.ac.ukOnline event, 24-25 May
2022
CFP Deadline: 14th January 2022