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WHAT WE DO at the FHD

Objectives

The Design History Foundation was created with the aim of researching, advancing and promoting design history. The Foundation’s field of study is the evolution of design over time, as well as the industrialisation process that have made this possible. By “design”, we understand the full array of products of physical or virtual substance.

We refer here to products in visual communication, furniture and objects of daily use, however they may be used (whether manual, mechanical or electronic), as well as clothing and textiles that have been produced in a more or less serialised manner, using industrial methods and marketed in circuits of mass consumption.

We also include all of those interiors, ephemeral constructions, systems and processes, digital projects and artifacts which, albeit unique, have required a complex project process before being made. Design is thus also understood as the discipline of the project or the profession, which has been developed historically to determine how products are ultimately presented.

The Foundation also works against the destruction of design’s documentary heritage, both in terms of individual designers and companies or studios which have been significant in the project field.

The FHD has the aim of researching, advancing and promoting design history.

The Foundation’s area of research is the evolution of design over time, as well as the industrialisation processes that have made it possible.

  • Research
  • Outreach
  • Promotion
  • Protection

Research

The Foundation has the aim of advancing new knowledge and research methods for design history, carrying out projects that shed light on the evolution of material culture, both in terms of objects and in relation to disciplines. In providing incentives for research, the Foundation regularly organises encounters of researchers, which give rise to new areas of knowledge in global history, local history, historiography and methodology.

These projects are carried out by the Foundation itself or through collaboration with universities, associations, museums and other public and private institutions.

Outreach

The Foundation strives to spread awareness of existing knowledge and other areas of constantly emerging understanding on the history of design, through academic publications, exhibitions, its own website, social media and the organisation of brief courses conceived to spread understanding.

Promotion

One of the main objectives of the Foundation is to disseminate understanding of the history of design as a branch of history. That is, the aim is to advance it as an academic discipline with an area of study and methods that characterise it and set it apart from other disciplines close to it, such as art history, the history of technique, social history, economic history, sociology and anthropology, all of which it simultaneously draws from. The Foundation organises encounters and conferences, as well as offering support to others who have organised with the likeminded aim of focusing on design history, whether on a local or international scale.

Protection of Documentary and Corporate Heritage

The Foundation labours against the disappearance of documentary archives in design, while seeking to inform researchers where they can be found.

The Foundation responds to commissions for the conservation of the corporate heritage of enterprises with a design orientation. This means consulting with them in the organisation of their archives of documents and collections of objects, dating products and assisting in the reconstruction of their history in the context of corporate policies.

Corporations and entities interested in this service are encouraged to contact the Foundation.

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Realm of Action

The Foundation has its headquarters in Barcelona, and carries out its activities primarily in Catalonia. However, in accord with its statutes, it has the objective of acting throughout Spain, while likewise collaborating with foreign institutions. The Foundation strives to ensure the presence amongst its trustees of notable personalities in the international panorama of design history.

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Who is it conceived for?

The Foundation seeks to broaden the knowledge of professors, researchers and students of design history, while further collaborating with all institutions (be they museums, schools, universities or associations) and manufacturing companies where the scientifically rigorous practice of design history is required.

Professionals

The Foundation seeks to spread knowledge of the collective of design and fashion historians in Spain and Latin America while raising its visibility, collaborating as well in its articulation. All professionals who become Friends or Donors of the Foundation resultantly join this collective, correspondingly raising its profile.

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Consulting for the dating and documentation of historical objects, and for historical studies and the cataloguing of archives featuring products, graphic material, clothing and so on.

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2021

III Colloquium of Researchers in Textiles and Fashion, Enseñar y aprender (Teach and learn). Museu Tèxtil de Terrassa.

2021

Creation of the new FHD website

2020

Publication and presentation of the book Diseño y franquismo. Dificultades y paradojas de la modernización en España (Design and Francoism: Difficulties and Paradoxes of Modernisation in Spain).

2020

Implementation of Digital Object Identification (DOI) for digital publications

2020

III Symposium of the FHD, To be or not to be. El papel del diseño en la construcción de identidades (The Role of Design in the Construction of Identities).

2020

The collection of the designer Jordi Vilanova is moved to the Museu del Disseny

2020

Execution of statistical studies and plans for the upcoming three years

2019

Development of a database of 1000 libraries for the distribution of the publication Roca. 100 años diseño a diseño (Roca: 100 Years Design by Design)

2019

Anna Titus joins the work team

2019

II Colloquium of Researchers in Textile and Fashion, Nombres en la sombra (Names in the Shadows)

2019

The FHD receives a Bonaplata Prize in Industrial Heritage in the category of studies, for the publication Roca. 100 años diseño a diseño (Roca: 100 Years Design by Design)

2018

Death of Anna Calvera, co-founder of the FHD

2018

11th Conference of the ICDHS, Back to the Future. The Future in the Past

2018

II Symposium of the FHD, Diseño y franquismo (Design and Francoism)

2018

Agreement to cede the historical collection of designer Jordi Vilanova to the Museu del Disseny de Barcelona

2018

Drafting of the Mapa dels Arxius de Disseny de Catalunya (Design Archives Map of Catalonia)

2018

Completion of the publication Roca. 100 años diseño a diseño (Roca: 100 Years Design by Design).

2017

Research and drafting of the publication Roca. 100 años diseño a diseño (Roca: 100 Years Design by Design)

2017

I Colloquium of Researchers in Textile and Fashion

2017

Publication of the Proceedings of the I Coloquio de investigadores en textil y moda (I Colloquium of Researchers on Textile and Fashion)

2017

Publication and presentation of the book Indianes

2017

Patricia Bueno joins the management team

2017

Documentary research on 800 gouache drawings by Jordi Vilanova

2016

Report on the Ramon Bigas archive

2016

I Symposium of the FHD: Modernos a pesar de todo (Modern Despite Everything)

2016

Commission for the centennial publication for Roca Sanitario and development of the company archive

2016

Various design and archival students work on the classification of the historical collection of Jordi Vilanova

2016

Renewal of the website and entrance into Facebook

2016

The student Esther Rodríguez drafts a Guia de fons i centres d’arxiu (Guide to the Collections and Archival Centres) for the Study of Design History in Catalonia

2015

Partial renewal of the Board of Trustees

2015

Move of the Foundation headquarters to the space at Còrsega 176

2015

Presentation of the articles of the 2nd Grant Call for research into appliances, with the Alfaro-Hofmann collection

2015

Seminar Más allá del escándalo (Beyond Scandal), with Norberto Chaves

2014

Raquel Pelta, a trustee, drafts a communication plan for the FHD

2014

The FHD is invited to participate in the debate-workshop entitled The European Province at the ICDHS conference in Aveiro

2014

The historical collection of the designer Jordi Vilanova is discovered to be in danger of disappearing

2014

2nd Grant Call for research into appliances, with the Alfaro-Hofmann collection

2014

The FHD participates in the Wikipedia project led by the Museu del Disseny, which consists in writing entries on Catalan design

2013

Reception of the articles from the 2nd Grant Call for research into appliances, with the Alfaro-Hofmann collection

2013

Drafting of a strategic plan and position paper

2013

Draft of the project Luxe i modernitat. La representació de l’arquitectura moderna i el disseny en el cinema (Luxe and Modernity: The Representation of Modern Architecture and Design in Cinema)

2013

Grant call for papers on Olympic design, for the magazine Monográfica

2013

The monthly edition of the newsletter for researchers begins

2012

Grant to attend the conference Design Frontiers

2012

Call for the first research grants for the history of appliances, with the Alfaro-Hofmann Collection

2012

Sessions Barcelona’92 Una olimpíada del disseny (Barcelona’92. A Design Olympics)

2012

Publication of the Proceedings of the conference Design Activism and Social Change

2011

Design Activism and Social Change conference, organised conjointly by the FHD and the Design History Society

2010

Guy Julier, as a trustee, proposes that the FHD organise the DHS conference on design and activism in Barcelona

2010

An AGAUR grant is received for M. Àngels Fortea to do a research project on pop graphics in Catalonia

2009

Art Déco course

2009

Publication of the book Diseño e historia. Tiempo lugar y discurso (Design and History: Time, Place and Discourse), with Editorial Designio

2008

Creation of the poster collection for the Design Hub and organisation of the study gallery

2008

Creation of the website

2007

Beginning of the administrative processes to make the FHD operative

2006

Constitution before notary public of the Design History Foundation

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