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Provocative Places: Soviet Playground Design in Lithuania
Provocative Places: Soviet Playground Design in Lithuania

Welcome to the final Provocative Places and Objects blog of 2023. This time, Ieva Daujotaite, a Design History Postgraduate from the Royal College of Art / Victoria & Albert Museum shares research on Soviet Playground Design in Lithuania.

8 December 2023 -

Provocative Objects / Spaces
Provocative Objects: VHS tapes
Provocative Objects: VHS tapes

Welcome to the next in our Provocative Places and Objects series, in which our contributors look at places and spaces that challenge and confront us as design historians. This time, Justin Childress, Clinical Assistant Professor in the Master of Arts in Design & Innovation at the Southern Methodist University, looks at VHS tapes as memory objects.

9 November 2023 -

Provocative Objects / Spaces
Provocative Places: The Arab Hall at Leighton House
Provocative Places: The Arab Hall at Leighton House

Welcome to the next in our Provocative Places and Objects series, in which our contributors look at places and spaces that challenge and confront us as design historians. This time, Isabella Warnham, a student on the V&A/RCA History of Design MA, looks at the Arab Hall at Leighton House in London.

11 October 2023 -

Provocative Objects / Spaces
Provocative Objects: Barbie Velina
Provocative Objects: Barbie Velina

In the wake of the Barbie fever, this month's guest contributor to the Provocative Objects series Amelia O’Mahony-Brady (independent design researcher, archivist and recent Trinity College Dublin graduate) introduces us to Barbie Velina: a limited-edition doll exclusive to Italian audiences, released in Summer 2002.

25 September 2023 -

Provocative Objects / Spaces
Provocative Places: Capitol Complex, Chandigarh
Provocative Places: Capitol Complex, Chandigarh

This month, guest contributor to the Provocative Places series Vinod Bhatia, Assistant Professor of the National Institute of Fashion Technology, Panchkula (Haryana), explores the Capitol Complex in Chandigarh

2 August 2023 -

Provocative Objects / Spaces
Provocative Objects: Surrey County Asylum Photography
Provocative Objects: Surrey County Asylum Photography

This month, guest contributor to the Provocative Objects series Evangeline Rouse, MA History of Design student at the Royal College of Art/Victoria and Albert Museum, discusses the practice and ethics of presenting and taking photographs of asylum patients in the mid-nineteenth century

13 July 2023 -

Provocative Objects / Spaces
Provocative Objects: tiara with flowers made of translucent fish scales
Provocative Objects: tiara with flowers made of translucent fish scales

This month, guest contributor to the Provocative Objects series Amber Kim, MA History of Design student at the Royal College of Art/Victoria and Albert Museum, introduces a 19th century tiara with flowers made of translucent fish scales held by the V&A

5 June 2023 -

Provocative Objects / Spaces
Provocative Objects: The Gathri Stool - from wholesale to limited edition
Provocative Objects: The Gathri Stool - from wholesale to limited edition

This month, guest contributor to the Provocative Objects series Dr Rukmini Chaturvedi introduces the Gathri Stool designed in 2017 by Delhi based designer Parth Parikh.

18 May 2023 -

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