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AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award

‘Our poor, beautiful and culturally rich country’: the contemporary challenge of Brazilian design

Applications are invited for an AHRC-funded PhD studentship to undertake innovative research on contemporary design practice with a specific focus on designer-led community projects in Brazil. Focusing on the work of selected designers, the project aims to contribute to current research on contemporary design in a world in which the aesthetic experience associated with cultural specificity increasingly permeates consumption. The project will examine not only the impact and consequences of the designers' work but also its legacy. As the V&A is the partner for this research, consideration will be given to the appropriate place and geographical location for the projects to be recorded and archived.

The studentship funding is subject to final confirmation by the AHRC but will be fully funded for three years full-time (or five years part-time) and will begin in October 2014.

This project will be supervised by Dr Luciana Martins, Director of the Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies (Birkbeck, University of London) and Dr Jana Scholze, Curator of Contemporary Furniture at the V&A Museum.

Deadline for applications: 5.00pm on Friday 14 March 2014.

Details of the application process are available here.