An examination of the collections of Blythe House, archive of the Victoria and Albert Museum, by Central Saint Martins researchers in the field of design. This project is mediated by the use of smartphone technology in the creative process.

Sunday 10 August 2014

Drag and paste Facebook communications #5…


good morning everyone. thank you everyone for posting all your trials and tribulations about getting into blythe house. they are very informative. i'll eventually get around to it since i am staying in town all summer. what about you all? getting back to Blythe house, I would like your permission to publish all those related FB conversations on the blog. I have come to the suspicion that this project is not only about us. the exhibit that we foresee and the end of our research is only part of the project and I suspect the carrot at the end of the stick. I believe that we are the lab rats and that is why they wanted the blog. Their objective may be to observe our trials and tribulations and propose improvements to the Blythe house. our benefit is to get into all that stuff. if you don't see any objection, let's give it to them, let's start posting things on the blog and i'll post our past conversations. BUT I WOULD LIKE YOUR PERMISSION TO DO SO.
also i would like to know if , for the final exhibit, you would like to think in terms of individual designs each disassociated from one another or individual designs with a linking thread. Since we have a lovely peer group, the latter would give the exhibition a theme for the viewer to follow through the exhibit rather than be one more 'stuff' as Elizabeth calls it amongst so much other 'stuff'. Obviously the design of the objects remain individual. I await to hear your thoughts on this and the theme could be extremely broad so that we can manoeuvre freely (oops I am starting to sound like Simon!).
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drag and paste Facebook communications #4…



Does anyone know how to successfully go to the V&A website and search for the 4-6 topics that we want plus arrange a meeting? I've been trying to find this but haven't been very successful in it and as they told us that we need to book before leaving London, I need to do it quite quickly because I'm travelling about a week after we finish.
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