Ballet: Staging Britishness
This research explores how ‘Britishness’ was presented in Sadler’s Wells’ Sleeping Beauty (1946) through the notions of ‘Gesamtkunstwerk’ and ‘nostalgia’.
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Performance, Modern, Europe, Media, Textiles, Methods of Documentation, Lived Experience, Conservation, Memory Studies
Fashion and Film in 1960s London
This research synthesises multiple disciplines into a design history framework to elucidate the overlap of costume and fashion when designing for contemporary narratives.
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Material Culture, Modern, Europe, Americas, Media, Textiles, Oral Histories, Lived Experience, Gender Studies
Hidden Japanese Men’s Dress
Looking under the plain outer layers of Japanese men's dress to study the spectacular and symbolic imagery that lines beneath.
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Material Culture, Early-Modern, Modern, Asia, Textiles, Applied Arts, Decolonisation, Lived Experience, Prints
Exotic Skins Victorian England
This research traces the history of exotic cats as living creature to designed object, to question the human allurement of embodying a second skin.
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Material Culture, Europe, Textiles, Technologies, Methods of Documentation, Untold / Marginalised Narratives, Lived Experiences, Natural Objects
Why We Mend
This research explores the position of mending within design and society.
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Material Culture, Contemporary, Europe, Textiles, Applied Arts, Lived Experience, Knowledge Production, Conservation