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Designing digital engagement with Generation Alpha
Generation Alpha – people born in the early 2010s to mid 2020s – are set to be the most diverse, largest generation, with consequently the biggest spending power, and...
Kati Price
Design and Society
Design and society
Confucius for Children: Twenty-Four Cases of Filial Piety
Make Good
dRMM: Building from Forests
Design and society
Design Club launches new product range for Young V&A shop inspired by Making Egypt exhibition
Design and society
London Design Festival: Studiomama, Max Lamb and U-Build celebrate inclusive design and play at Young V&A
Design and society
The 2026 V&A Illustration Awards welcomes your entries!
Caring for our collections
What’s really in a bio-resin? A conservation scientist’s perspective
Design and society
AI’S NEW FRONTIER: collecting early artefacts of generative artificial intelligence
Design and society
Make Good: Rethinking Material Futures symposium 2025
Design and society
World Wide Web: A chrome heater in the age of mass production
Design and society
Material Cultures: Woodland Goods
Design and society
5 V&A objects that represent care and caregiving
Design and society
Watercolours of Industrial landscapes – grey, grimy but gorgeous
Sustainability
Make Good
dRMM: Building from Forests
Caring for our collections
What’s really in a bio-resin? A conservation scientist’s perspective
Design and society
Make Good: Rethinking Material Futures symposium 2025
Design and society
Material Cultures: Woodland Goods
Design and society
A brief history of waste wool
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Pandemic objects
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Pandemic Objects: Japanese Measles Prints
Masami Yamada Japanese woodblock prints produced during the Edo period (1615-1868) are famously known as ukiyo-e (‘pictures of the floating world’). Distributed in their many...
Masami Yamada
Design and society
Pandemic Objects: Postcards
Design and society
Pandemic Objects: Mass Testing
Design and society
Pandemic Objects: Japanese Measles Prints
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Making Design 1900 – Now
Design and society
From a Visitor Experience Assistant’s diary: A gallery like no other
Making Design 1900 – Now
Open-source speculum research
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