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HoD's Simona Valeriani is at a conference in Venice and seems to have had an amazing workshop tour of a mosaic factory.🤩🤩🤩

We made some films earlier this year celebrating HoD's 40th Anniversary with some amazing luminaries of the course, asking what design history is now. They are finally out 👉 bit.ly/40M7v1L Thanks to all involved!

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

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

📢 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👇 rca.ac.uk/study/programm… 📅Open day 4 December.

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

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

Simon Sladen Simon Sladen put his gloves on to hand out REAL awards during last week’s V&A Performance Festival. Future Royal College of Art History of Design students got a taste of the course. Applications are still open: rca.ac.uk/study/programm…

📢 Applications are open until 23 May for a fully-funded Arts and Humanities Research Council CDP Connect PhD studentship with ECA & V&A. The Extractive Museum: The formation, evolution & dispersal of the Museum of Practical Geology collections, 1835-c.1901 - details: edin.ac/3wetzab

📢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 (vam.ac.uk)

How might an artist go about depicting an unfamiliar culture? Read and see our student Tabitha's fantastic detective work - on the V&A Blog Borrow, Adapt, Combine: Improvising Chinese landscape scenes in late seventeenth-century London • V&A Blog (vam.ac.uk)

Massive congratulations to Connecting Threads Connecting Threads: Fashioning Madras in India and the Caribbean team launching their amazing new website and database V&A today connectingthreads.co.uk

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

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

📅 Fashion Academics Creating Equality (FACE) summit 2024, Decentering Spaces, hosted by Royal College of Art on 7 and 8 Nov. Amazing line up. Tickets via eventbrite ⬇️ weareface.uk

Thanks to Dr Hannah Mawdsley + 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!

Thanks to History Speak 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 Research Fellow dr pandora has organised an amazing conference with a wild line-up V&A . Animal Products: Intersections of More-Than-Human Design and Display 📅14 November vam.ac.uk/event/bXK6AoWE… 🐯🐍🦊🐞🦤

Thanks to Ananya, Susan and all involved in Great Mughals V&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!

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&A Blog. A great read.🎯 vam.ac.uk/blog/projects/…