V&A / RCA History of Design Research Seminars

Design and Material Culture 1800 to Present Day

Thursday 20th January
The Flaneur in late 19th century/ early 20th century modernity
Professor Elizabeth Wilson, London College of Fashion,

Thursday 27th January
“Changing Rooms”: Mapping the Domestic in Late Nineteenth Century
Naturalist Theatre
Dr Chris Megson, Royal Holloway, University of London

Thursday 3rd February
Performing, displaying, showing off: the material culture of ceremony in
Ireland, 1922 - 1939
Lisa Godson, RCA

Thursday 10th February
The Ruins of War and Empire: redesigning the post-war tourist city in Europe
Dr Fiona Henderson, Royal Holloway, University of London

Thursday 17th February
Ideas of the Opposite: Chemistry and the Magic of Colour in Weimar and the
Third Reich
Dr Esther Leslie, Birkbeck College, University of London

Thursday 24th February
Into the Great Wide Open - the West German modernist bungalow and its
cultural symbolism
Carola Eburt, independent scholar, Berlin

Thursday 3rd March
(In)visible Revolutions: Space and society in the Barbacoas of Havana
Dr Patricio del Real, Clemson School of Architecture, South Carolina /
Barcelona

The seminar meets weekly on Thursdays during the autumn term at 4.30 pm in
the Victoria and Albert Museum. It takes place in V&A/RCA Course Seminar
Room A, which is on the premises of the Museum's Research Department.
Access to Course Seminar Room A is via the entrance to the Research
Department, opposite the Metalwork Department offices. To get there, go to
the top of the staircase decorated with ceramic tiles that leads from the
Italian Renaissance Gallery (Room 11) on level A past the Silver Gallery
(Room 70a) on level B. All those with a research interest in the
respective fields are warmly welcome. Admission to the Museum is free.
Allow at least five minutes to get to Course Seminar Room A from the
Museum entrances.