Mining the archive at the V&A

  • Leanne Manfredi

Mining the archive is my final major project for MA Publishing at LCC. The Museum holds many of the UK's national collections and houses some of the greatest resources for the study of architecture, furniture, fashion, textiles, photography, sculpture, painting, jewellery, glass, ceramics, book arts, Asian art and design, theatre and performance. This project explored the publication process using an interactive learning tool to disrupt and re-think content from the museum collection. The notion of the publishing circuit was reconfigured to include the archive and participation as valid engagement practices.