Park Hill, Sheffield, was made the largest listed building/ Protected structure in the UK in 1998 by English Heritage. Docomomo is hosting a talk by Peter Cox of Carrig Consulting and Nick Batt from Urban …
What inspires you to think differently about how we live in the city? And, if you were to transform Dublin, what would you do? Urban Knights is a series of talks that celebrates urban crusaders, …
Submissions in the form of monographs, thematic studies or edited volumes are invited for inclusion in the Ashgate published series entitled ‘The Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 1700 – 1950′. Series Editor: Michael Yonan, …
Share in the story of everyday objects as seen through the eyes of a selection of Ireland’s design professionals in Living with Design. Imagining and designing for the future, designers give shape to something that …
A multi-media exhibition by visual artist Gareth Kennedy exploring ideas around craft and social values, landscape and invented traditions. Over the last two years, Kennedy has been developing an anthropological aesthetic to generate ‘folk fictions’. …
The good/ bad things in question include guns, things in questionable taste, immaterial things, sportified things, criminal things among others. Discussion will start with these objects as crossing points between ideas of virtue, propriety, moral …
Discover alternative historical perspectives and methods in the midst of Canada’s largest collection in science, medicine and technology. Our annual artifact sessions in the CSTMC’s Reserve Collection facility bring together Canadian and international scholars from …
The Tate Gallery has a fantastic new virtual exhibition, The Gallery of Lost Art, an online exhibition that explores the materiality, nature, biography and archive of missing (often canonical) works of art. Through the lens …
‘Bricks in the Rain, Contemporary Ceramics inspired by China’ is a multi-disciplinary exhibition of ceramic art, film and sound. Artworks in the exhibition have been made here in Ireland in response to an extraordinary journey …
Whilst the fashion system persists over time, the relative fashionability of an item of clothing is, by definition, ephemeral; the knowledges and transient meanings that are seen to constitute fashion would seem to be at …