V&A/RCA History of Design

V&A/RCA History of Design (MA, MPhil, PhD). Exploring cultural, social, economic, political and technological history through designed artefacts @RCA @V_and_A

[V&A/RCA History of Design @HistoryofDesign]

HoD student Lavinia Fasano has just contributed some of her excellent research on the impact of military logistics on design and museology to the @V_and_A Blog. A great read.🎯
https://t.co/MQcMYO0zBs

[V&A/RCA History of Design @HistoryofDesign]

Thanks to Ananya, Susan and all involved in Great Mughals @V_and_A for letting HoD students get a sneaky peak of the upcoming #exhibition this morning.
The Mughal empire was an economic and cultural powerhouse so not sure these few shots do the exhibition justice!

[V&A/RCA History of Design @HistoryofDesign]

V&A Research Fellow @syperek has organised an amazing conference with a wild line-up @V_and_A .
Animal Products: Intersections of More-Than-Human Design and Display
📅14 November
https://t.co/rhQkumRfEz
🐯🐍🦊🐞🦤

[V&A/RCA History of Design @HistoryofDesign]

Thanks to @speak_history for giving us an eye-opening 'Women and Power' tour through Westminster last Thursday.
Great ideas, great weather and a great way to begin reading week!

[V&A/RCA History of Design @HistoryofDesign]

Thanks to @HannahMawdsley + colleagues for hosting HoD on a research trip to Ham House today. It's great to see an original collection in situ with experts.
Indeed, Hannah pointed out some nice design hacks.
Back with students soon, hopefully!

[V&A/RCA History of Design @HistoryofDesign]

📅 Fashion Academics Creating Equality (FACE) summit 2024, Decentering Spaces, hosted by @RCA on 7 and 8 Nov. Amazing line up. Tickets via eventbrite ⬇️
https://t.co/TGhmE3cK5D

[V&A/RCA History of Design @HistoryofDesign]

HoD is celebrating the fortieth anniversary of Bourdieu's mighty Distinction being translated into English with an essay competition.
'Cultural capital' is the most important concept in history of design. Discuss.
Length: One post.
🥇Novelty tie

[V&A/RCA History of Design @HistoryofDesign]

HoD students were confronted with this 1770s men's jacket in their textiles and fashion module @V_and_A yesterday.
Orange/peach silk leopard print✔️
Silk plush faux fur lining ✔️
Gold braiding✔️
Apparently owned by Joshua Reynolds✔️
Awesome!

[V&A/RCA History of Design @HistoryofDesign]

Massive congratulations to @connectthreads Connecting Threads: Fashioning Madras in India and the Caribbean team launching their amazing new website and database @V_and_A today
https://t.co/KcQq5WoyJ2

[V&A/RCA History of Design @HistoryofDesign]

How might an artist go about depicting an unfamiliar culture? Read and see our student Tabitha's fantastic detective work - on the @V_and_A Blog
Borrow, Adapt, Combine: Improvising Chinese landscape scenes in late seventeenth-century London • V&A Blog (https://t.co/H254lek5fY)

[V&A/RCA History of Design @HistoryofDesign]

📢Two full-fees bursaries are available to Home students applying for the HoD MA starting Sept. 2024.
📅 Deadline 24 May.
Details: V&A/RCA History of Design postgraduate programme · V&A (https://t.co/H254lek5fY)

[Edinburgh College of Art @eca_edinburgh]

📢 Applications are open until 23 May for a fully-funded @ahrcpress @CDPConnect PhD studentship with ECA & @V_and_A.

The Extractive Museum: The formation, evolution & dispersal of the Museum of Practical Geology collections, 1835-c.1901 - details: https://t.co/tqRsoZ69UO

[V&A/RCA History of Design @HistoryofDesign]

@SarahCheang and @shehnaz_s Shehnaz Suterwalla @RCA are next up in the @V_and_A's marvellous Each One Teach One series of talks. Next Friday lunchtime in the Gorvy. Book!
Each One Teach One: Visibility and Identity - Talk at V&A South Kensington · V&A (https://t.co/H254lek5fY)

[V&A/RCA History of Design @HistoryofDesign]

Simon Sladen @theatrecurator put his gloves on to hand out REAL awards during last week’s @V_and_A Performance Festival. Future @RCA History of Design students got a taste of the course. Applications are still open: https://t.co/LO8T1uWeOl

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...Still more evidence of student activity from the HoD "archive" at the V&A 🤔

[V&A/RCA History of Design @HistoryofDesign]

We're clearing out the cupboards at the V&A and discovering all sorts of stuff from HoD student and staff projects of yore...

[V&A/RCA History of Design @HistoryofDesign]

📢 V&A Foundation have kindly promised to fund FULL FEES bursaries for TWO Home students to join the HoD MA in 2024/5.
Applicants for these awards will have been offered places on the MA. Apply👇
https://t.co/LO8T1uWeOl
📅Open day 4 December.

[V&A/RCA History of Design @HistoryofDesign]

Curated by HoD MA graduate and total genius Janice Li. 🙌🙌🙌

[Wellcome Collection @ExploreWellcome]

Everyone wants to be beautiful, right? We aspire to it, but how often do we question it? 💄

#TheCultOfBeauty is our new, free exhibition exploring notions of beauty across time and cultures.

It’s now open and runs till April 2024
https://t.co/nN3l2Ly8va

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@Valeriani_S spotted the Dutch pavilion @la_Biennale using water to explore finance, capitalism and ecology (https://t.co/3xv7kwQCdP).
A bit like MONIAC, built by Bill Phillips in the '40s to model economic flows with liquids.
Love those contraptions!

[V&A/RCA History of Design @HistoryofDesign]

HoD students are presenting Work in Progress Seminars tomorrow, showcasing their research into objects @V_and_A made before 1970 for this term's assignment.
Knots, kaleidoscopes and DIY are all on the menu by the looks of things!