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Provocative Objects: Xcent Stool
Provocative Objects: Xcent Stool

For this month's Provocative Places blog, Dr Rukmini Chaturvedi discusses Hardik Gandhi's modern reimagining of the cane mooda

25 September 2024 -

Provocative Objects / Spaces
Provocative Places: The Heygate Estate, Elephant & Castle
Provocative Places: The Heygate Estate, Elephant & Castle

For this month's Provocative Places blog, Design History Society Ambassador Pippy Stephenson discusses issues of heritage and identity in the regeneration of the Heygate Estate in Elephant & Castle

9 July 2024 -

Provocative Objects / Spaces
Provocative Objects: Shanzhai Smartphone
Provocative Objects: Shanzhai Smartphone

For this month's Provocative Objects blog, Design History Society Ambassador Dan Mu discusses the Shanzhai smartphone and the cultural narrative of counterfeit goods.

17 June 2024 -

Provocative Objects / Spaces
Provocative Objects: The Queen Elizabeth Virginal
Provocative Objects: The Queen Elizabeth Virginal

To me, the most exciting part of history is the moment of connection that stretches through centuries, an ‘I do that too’ moment. My research into the Queen Elizabeth Virginal was not just a healthy dose of a historian’s curiosity, but a connection to a long-dead queen upon encountering the beautiful object. My name is Molly Gisbourne, a 2023 graduate of the V&A/RCA History of Design MA and now working in facilities at the Design Museum, this blog explores the Queen Elizabeth Virginal in the V&A collection.

9 May 2024 -

Provocative Objects / Spaces
Provocative Objects: The Dabbawala Coffee Table
Provocative Objects: The Dabbawala Coffee Table

In this month's Provocative Objects blog, academic writer and researcher Dr Rukmini Chaturvedi discusses the Dabbawala coffee table, designed in 2016 by Parth Parikh.

11 April 2024 -

Provocative Objects / Spaces
Provocative Objects: Good Squish x Lace History
Provocative Objects: Good Squish x Lace History

In this month’s Provocative Objects post, Design History Society Ambassador Rowan Adamson discusses this history of lace and its modern interpretations by Good Squish.

14 March 2024 -

Provocative Objects / Spaces
Provocative Places: paraSITE project
Provocative Places: paraSITE project

Welcome to the next in our Provocative Places and Objects series, in which we look at places and spaces that challenge and confront us as design historians. This time, Alexandra Banister looks at artist Michael Rakowitz’s paraSITE project, which uses an interdisciplinary approach to art and architecture to highlight issues of homelessness.

8 February 2024 -

Provocative Objects / Spaces
Provocative Places: Pathra Temple Complex
Provocative Places: Pathra Temple Complex

In the first Provocative Places and Objects blog of 2024, Souhardya De discusses Pathra Temple Complex and the Rural Bengali European Connect.

9 January 2024 -

Provocative Objects / Spaces

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