Winchester Luxury Research Group

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Established in 2014, the Winchester Luxury Research Group (WLRG) undertakes leading edge investigations into the social, cultural and economic impact of luxury. Embedded in the prestigious Winchester School of Art, the members of WLRG engage in research that recognises the artistic and cultural aspects of luxury in the contemporary globalised world.

The Winchester Luxury Research Group encompasses luxury-based production including fine art, design, and media. The aim of the group is to develop research projects that engage with the theory and practice of concepts such as pleasure and sumptuousness, excess and waste, extravagance and consumption. Yet the Group also seeks to build a critical appreciation of luxury that investigates the intersections of theories of desire and necessity, practices of luxury, and applications of these theories and practices within historical and contemporary cultures.

The Group is a focused platform for established and emerging research on ideas of indulgence, enjoyment and comfort, and builds upon and fosters members' connections with the luxury and creative industries (branding, management, fashion, media, and design) as well as with other academic disciplines within the social sciences and the humanities. There is a special emphasis on the interplay and relationships between notions of sumptuous living, necessity, satisfaction of desire, and luxury. The Group is located within the Winchester School of Art at the University of Southampton.

The Group's academic research is concerned with questions of necessity and needs, abundance, sumptuous environments, pleasure, indulgence, and the satisfaction of desire. This research is published in the form of monographs and edited collections, journals, book chapters, and articles and is disseminated to a global community of scholars, practitioners and the interested public.

Research Themes:

• Children and Luxury
• Fur
• Luxury and Knowledge
• Luxury and Fashion
• Luxury and Visual Culture
• Luxury Brand Management and Marketing
• Luxury and Space

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No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

Founding year

2014

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University of Southampton
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Southampton
SO17 1BJ