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Design History and Material Culture Research Group

Description

This research group brings together specialisms in design history, material culture, museology, and object-based research. It investigates the nature of consumption, its history, its objects and its cultures.

The study of Material Culture is central to the research group and this covers aspects of the domestic sphere, the retail environment and museums in conjunction with consuming designed objects.

Areas of expertise and research interest include Design History, Cultural Theory, Fashion and Textile History, New Materialism, and Museum Studies. In addition, staff members have research interests that cover aesthetics, working class taste and the politics of taste, museology and museum practice, aesthetic education in the 19th century to present day, heritage science, the politics of the archive, object biography, fashion cities, everyday dress, and the relationship between materiality and memory.

Research into the production and consumption of everyday fashion has contributed to a growing appreciation of the importance of preserving, displaying and researching everyday fashion objects through collaboration with a number of different museum and collection partners. Through hands-on workshops and exhibitions, researchers working with the Yorkshire Fashion Archive have also raised public awareness about the history of local fashion cultures and shared knowledge with museums and other institutions.

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No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

Contact details

University Of Leeds
Woodhouse Lane
Leeds
LS2 9JT
United Kingdom
Website: https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/archives-design-history/doc/archiving-design-history

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  • University-based infrastructure
  • Group

Project Tags

  • Cultural studies tag
  • Design tag
  • Fashion tag
  • Fashion studies tag
  • History tag
  • Material studies tag
  • Museum studies tag

University affiliation(s)

University of Leeds
Leeds

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2025-01-21 11:18:42

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