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Will Worsley recording some modular synthesizer parts for the exhibition soundscape.

Videogames – an interview with sound designers Coda to Coda

Videogames: Who are Coda to Coda and what do you do? Coda to Coda is an audio production company set up by composers and sound designers Will Worsley and Sam Britton around 2007....

Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt

Parallel Worlds 2019 – A Conference on Videogame Design and Culture

Matteo Menapace, games designer in residence 2018-19, while playtesting a game prototype with A-level students

Artists in Residence at the V&A

People who make games were once people who never made a game

6 things we didn’t anticipate before publishing Videogames

Moving Backgrounds, the Accessible Way.

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ReACH (Reproduction of Art and Cultural Heritage) Dialogue

Scottish agency in the V&A Cast Court collection

Image 1. Cast of Nigg cross-slab in the V&A. Image, Johanna Puisto © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Caring for our collections

Cast Courts Update – Four Months To Go!

The power of global collaboration

ReACH (Reproduction of Art and Cultural Heritage) is a global initiative spearheaded by the Victoria and Albert Museum in partnership with the Peri Foundation which explores how...

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Culture in Crisis

Culture in Crisis

Culture in Crisis: Conference Announcement and Call for Papers

CULTURE IN CRISIS: Cross-Disciplinary Learning Opportunities for Natural and Cultural Heritage Preservation University of Pretoria, South Africa 17th-21st October 2018 Conference...

Culture in Crisis

Against a Pile of Ashes

The following is the lead catalogue essay for ‘A World of Fragile Parts’, the inaugural exhibition for the Pavilion of Applied Arts at the Venice Biennale, which was...

Culture in Crisis

Culture in Crisis

‘Culture has moved to the front-line of wars and conflicts, both as collateral damage and as a direct target. When armed conflict, intentional destruction and looting damage...

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Reviving the V&A's Cast courts

Guest Post: Part 2 – David’s journey from Florence to V&A

Giuseppe Rizzo is an art historian with a specialism on the life and works of Clemente Papi. Giuseppe works at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Although there are many copies of...

Scottish agency in the V&A Cast Court collection

Image 1. Cast of Nigg cross-slab in the V&A. Image, Johanna Puisto © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Caring for our collections

Cast Courts – One Day to Go!

The crosses are displayed next to a gigantic copy of the Trajan's Column from Rome. Image © Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Caring for our collections

Up close with the V&A’s fabulous casts of early Christian monuments

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The V&A Research Institute (VARI)

Architectural Models Network

Paper Pinnacles: The conservation of an Architectural Church Model

Artists in Residence at the V&A

Community Engagement is a Paper Rainbow

‘What does your making practice mean to you?’

Artists in Residence at the V&A

Things Unsaid and Unheard with Aqui Thami, VARI Artist in Residence

Deciphering Little Dorrit at the Dickens Universe, July 2018

Transcribing Little Dorrit

Artists in Residence at the V&A

VARI Artist Rachel Ara introduces mixed reality nuns to the V&A

Artists in Residence at the V&A

New open call for a Design Thinker in Residence

We are delighted to announce a new yearlong residency opportunity for a Design Thinker in Residence at the V&A starting in November...

Dye analysis of the psychedelic Leman silk

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Research

Architectural Models?

This post has been written by Vanessa Norwood, one of the leading curators of architecture in the UK. Vanessa is a Network Partner in Architectural models in context:...

Vanessa Norwood

‘What does your making practice mean to you?’

Fashioned from Nature

Dumb Animals: Lynx’s Campaign Against the Fur Industry

Seventeenth-century embroidered smock

Sweet Peas and Snails – Design Transfer in Tudor and Stuart Embroidery

Fashioned from Nature

Female Founders of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds

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Fashioned from Nature

Mending Our Garments

With Fashion Revolution week underway, we would like to share these stories of the favourite mended garments of V&A staff. From an upcycled wedding dress to everyday garments...

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Architectural Models Network

Architectural Models Network

Paper Pinnacles: The conservation of an Architectural Church Model

Architectural Models Network

Modelling Euro-centricity? Revisiting Architectural Models in the Ottoman Empire

Architectural Models Network

Research and Representation

Architectural Models Network

Models After Sculpture

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