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Subject: New Research into the History of Design - seminars in London in
January-March 2007
Date: 8 January 2007 14:13:04 GMT
New Research into Design, Decorative Art and Material Culture
V&A/RCA Research Seminars Spring Term 2007
Open to all - details of location, etc. at the foot of the email.
January 18
Dennis Doordan, University of Notre Dame, Indiana
“Reflections on Materials and Materiality in the History of Modern Design”
January 25
Frank Mort, University of Manchester
“Striptease: Live Sexual Entertainment and the Erotic Female Body in
mid-twentieth century London”
February 1
Charlotte Ashby, Viennese Café and fin-de-siècle Culture Research Project,
Royal College of Art
“National Style and National Identity in Finland around 1900”
February 8
Sabine Wieber, Birkbeck College, University of London
“Historicist Design Practices and Applied Arts reform in late
Nineteenth-Century Germany”
February 15
Hans Stofer, Royal College of Art, London
“2nd Life- Not Virtual but Real”
February 22
Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov. University of Cambridge, and Olga Sosnina, Kremlin
Museums, will speak on the ideas and exhibits in their exhibition ‘Gifts to
Soviet Leaders’ (Dary Vozhdyam) in the Kremlin Museums, Moscow, in autumn
2006 as well as the response it provoked.
March 1
Guy Julier, Leeds Metropolitan University
“What is Design Culture? Value, Creation and Practice”
All seminars will be held at 4pm on Thursdays, in Seminar Room A of the
Research Department at the Victoria & Albert Museum. The seminars are free,
no booking is required and all those with a research interest in the field
are welcome to attend. For more information please contact Katrina Royall at
020 7942 2574 or [log in to unmask]
Access to Seminar Room A is via the Research Department offices. To get
there, go to the top of the Ceramic Staircase decorated with ceramic tiles
that leads from Gallery 11 on the ground floor, past the Silver Gallery
(gallery 70) to the very top of the staircase. The research department doors
are on the left.
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Date: 10 January 2007 11:43:01 GMT
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Subject: Visit to animation research centre and crafts study centre -
farnham - final reminder
Visit to Animation Research Centre and Crafts Study Centre
University College for the Creative Arts, Farnham 17th January 2007 10.30am
- 4pm approx
The Arlis Education and Professional Development Committee is running a
visit to both the Crafts Study and Animation Research Centres. In order to
spend sufficient time at each venue, the visits will comprise a whole day,
with a break for lunch in between (not provided but visitors are welcome to
explore the various cafes Farnham has to offer).These centres will be of
interest to anyone who has an interest in animation history and research and
crafts history and practice.
For details on the Animation Research Centre:
The Animation Research Centre (ARC) was established in 2000 to promote
scholarship in the under-researched area of animation studies. With an
emphasis on British and auteur animation, and less socio-historically
oriented, the ARC initiates, fosters and engages with the interdisciplinary
relationships between animation, visual and film theories, architecture and
the fine arts.There will also be an opportunity to view the Spacetricks
animation exhibition the Foyer/James Hockey Gallery
For details on the Crafts Study Centre:
The Crafts Study Centre, established as a charity in 1970, has an
international standing as a unique collection and archive of twentieth
century British Crafts. The Chair of the Crafts Study Centre is the eminent
potter and writer Professor Edmund de Waal. Its collection embraces
ceramics, textiles, calligraphy and wood, accompanied by reference books
including makers' diaries, documents, photographs and craftspeople's working
notes. The collection includes work by influential figures such as Bernard
Leach, Lucie Rie, and Hans Coper in ceramics; Ethel Mairet, Phyllis Barron
and Dorothy Larcher in woven and printed textiles; and calligraphy by Edward
Johnston and Irene Wellington; and furniture by Ernest Gimson and Sidney
Barnsley.
N.B. Transport to the Animation Research Centre may be limited, and it may
be necessary to use public transport/taxi services, which will need to be
financed by attendees. Details on this will be available closer to the time.
If you would like to book a place on this visit, please contact Chris Fowler
(email address and details on the Arlis Events Calendar)
Mandy Cumbridge BA (Hons) MA
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Subject librarian (Graphic Design, Graphic Design New Media, FE courses)
Multimedia, slide librarian - Epsom
University College for the Creative Arts at Canterbury, Epsom, Farnham,
Maidstone and Rochester,
Ashley Road, Epsom, Surrey, KT18 5BE
Tel: +44 (0)1372 202459 Fax: +44 (0)1372 202457
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