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V&A Africa Fashion call out

Today we share our plans to stage Africa Fashion, our first exhibition to focus on the African fashion scene; a scene that is as eclectic and varied,...

Christine Checinska

Africa Fashion

Co-designing and collaborating with young people for the Africa Fashion exhibition

Co-design member smiling, whilst holding an Africa Fashion exhibition mannequin head

Making Africa Fashion

Desk with moodboard images of models, mannequin arms and mannequin heads

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Open-source speculum research project

Making Design 1900 – Now

Open-source speculum research

Making Design 1900 – Now

The open-source speculum research project

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Beirut mapped

Beirut Mapped: Madfoun Checkpoint

Beirut Mapped: Applause

Beirut Mapped: My mother’s balcony

Black and white photograph of a family seated outside

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Culture in Crisis

Culture in Crisis

Inside the Milan Triennale’s UK Pavilion with Forensic Architecture

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...

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The V&A Research Institute (VARI)

Painting and polychromy on medieval wooden ceilings in Spain

Artists in Residence at the V&A

Call-out for two VARI Residencies: Championing Newham’s histories of making and manufacture

‘There was once a palace with rich artistic treasures…’

Search by object, artist, maker…

The dome from the Torrijos Palace in the Museo Arqueológico Nacional (Madrid)

Designing for serendipity in the museum – surprise encounters with objects and stories

The serendipity of meaning and concrete surfaces

Two days in Madrid with Crafting Medieval Spain

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Research

Painting and polychromy on medieval wooden ceilings in Spain

Fragmented Illuminations Symposium on 7 – 8 July

Cloth as archive: contemporary Dioula weaving in northern Côte d’Ivoire

Call for Project Grant applications

‘There was once a palace with rich artistic treasures…’

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Architectural Models Network

Architectural Models Network

Architectural Avatars: Uncover the link!

Architectural Models Network

The value of the studio workshop

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

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