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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.
Provocative Objects / Spaces
Ahead of our ‘Designing the Domestic: Innovation in the Home’ symposium, DHS Ambassador Alexandra Banister met Paloma Carignani, a Master’s Degree candidate in Urban Studies and Housing in Latin America Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism at the University of Buenos Aires, and Gabriela Gugliottella, Professor of Arts at the University of Buenos Aires, to further discuss their research.
DHS Events
Sara Hume reports on the publication of her monograph titled Regional Dress: Between Tradition and Modernity, which was partly funded by the DHS Research Publication Grant.
Reports
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
Provocative Objects / Spaces
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
Provocative Objects / Spaces
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
Provocative Objects / Spaces
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.
Provocative Objects / Spaces
This month, guest contributor to the Provocative Objects series Cas Bradbeer explores a music sheet held by the V&A entitled 'If I Hadn’t Ha’ Been So Shy' (1897). This music sheet was published by Francis, Day & Hunter (1877-1972), whose founders often performed in blackface.
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