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Kristian Volsing

Senior Curator, Contemporary Programme

Kristian Volsing is Senior Curator for the Contemporary Programme at the V&A, where he collaborates with artists and designers to shape the museum’s Friday Late events and headline festival programming. His curatorial practice investigates how design and pop culture influence everyday life, with a specific focus on digital culture and video games, identity, and social change.

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New Work

Making East London: An Interview with Lawrence Lek 

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V&A East

How to get a job in a museum: curator

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Museum life

Out at Young V&A: LGBTQ+ stories for children and young people

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Design and society

Pandemic Objects: Rainbows

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Design and society

Pandemic Objects: Streaming Services

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Design and society

Change is Coming

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Digital

Nintendo’s ‘Splatoon’ at Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt

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Design and society

Rapid Response Collecting – Burkini and Refugee Flag

A burkini and refugee flag are the two latest acquisitions by the Museum’s Design, Architecture and Digital department, recently installed in the Rapid Response Collecting...

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Design and society

William Morris Exhumed

As a radical socialist, activist, architect, poet and designer of decorative arts, William Morris believed in the power of art and design as a force for social improvement. Artist...

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Design and society

Ways to Be Public

Author James Meek and architectural historian Karen Burns discuss the image of publicness. How do public institutions speak through design? And can we speak back? Moderated by...

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Design and society

The Architecture of Public Truth

What role can architecture play in cases of state and corporate violence? Hear how artists, filmmakers, theorists and architects come together to produce documentary material for...

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Design and society

How to Destroy a Laptop

Dr Richard Tynan from Privacy International and Mustafa Al-Bassam explain what they learned from looking at the Guardian’s destroyed laptop and hard drives, which held data...

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Design and society

Ways to be Secret

Cultural critic Evgeny Morozov and commissioned artist James Bridle discuss our paradoxical digital age: where anxiety over privacy and mass surveillance meets our compulsion to...

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Design and society

Election Night Special

The V&A saw in election night, 7th May 2015, with All of This Belongs to You exhibition curators and a host of guests exploring the intersection of design and politics....

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Design and society

City as Host: Liza Fior and Kieran Long

Our first event in the All of This Belongs to You series featured Liza Fior of muf art/architecture in conversation with Keeper of Design, Architecture and Digital Kieran Long,...

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Design and society

Alan Rusbridger on the Guardian’s destroyed MacBook at the V&A

Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of The Guardian, opened All of This Belongs to You speaking about The Guardian’s destroyed MacBook Air and Western Digital hard drives...

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Clothworkers' Centre

In celebration of old band t-shirts

Today is BBC 6Music’s Annual Wear Your Old Band T-shirt to Work Day. In my display on the history of the T-shirt currently in the V&A’s fashion gallery, T-shirts...

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Clothworkers' Centre

T-Shirts 101 – Part 2

It is 101 years since the T-shirt, one of the world’s most ubiquitous garments, was officially recognised as outerwear. This is the second in a short series of blog posts...

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News and Updates

T-Shirts 101

The T-shirt is one of the world’s most ubiquitous garments, produced for both the high street and haute couture. It is 101 years since it was officially recognised as outerwear,...

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News and Updates

The Rise and Fall of Flappy Bird and the collecting of the V&A’s first App

As part of the V&A’s new Rapid Response Collecting strategy, the Contemporary Architecture, Digital and Design team has collected the museum’s first app, Flappy Bird. A...

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