Animal Products: Intersections of More-Than-Human Design and Display

Taking the V&A’s historical Collection of Animal Products as a starting point, this symposium will explore the natural-cultural histories of animal materials alongside innovative contemporary approaches to making, designing and curating with the more-than-human in diverse cultural contexts.

Researchers and practitioners will consider legacies of colonial extraction, collection, trade, knowledge transfer and display, both in the wild and in the museum. The aim is to look beyond the Victorian paradigm of animal-as-product and its Eurocentric legacies, as well as traditional sustainability discourse, to explore interspecies relationships across art, design, curatorial practice, ecology and cosmologies.

This event is organised by Dr Pandora Syperek, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Institute for Creative Futures, Loughborough University London, and Visiting Fellow, V&A Research Institute.

Full programme to be announced.

Supported by the Leverhulme Trust and Loughborough University London.