Japan's Plant-based Leathers
Exploring Japan's history of making 'leather' from paper, and how this became an object of modernity within the domestic interiors of Victorian Britain.
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Material Culture, Modern, Europe, Asia, Applied Arts, Technologies, Interior Space, Natural Objects
Designing Digital Childhood
This research focuses on offering a voice through interviews to the designers of digital technology for children.
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Material Culture, Contemporary, Europe, Technologies, Methods of Documentation, Oral Histories, Untold / Marginalised Narratives
The Transcultural Values of Flower Pyramid
The Cultural Values of Dutch Delftware and its use in the UK Country House Between the Seventeenth to the Eighteenth Century
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Material Culture, Early Modern, Europe, Applied Arts, Methods of Documentation, Conservation, Transcultural Values
Museum Seats: Hidden Scripts
This work looks at embedded messages and meanings in museum seats to reveal a different angle on how museums see their collections and themselves in different times.
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Material Culture, Modern, Contemporary, Europe, Built Environment, Applied Arts, Interior Space, Museum Studies
Transformed Soviet Housing
A micro-historical exploration of transformations in the lived environment of a Soviet district, Troparevo-Nikulino in Moscow.
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Material Culture, Contemporary, Europe, Asia, Built Environment, Interior Space, Oral Histories, Lived Experience