2020 Essays

Thinking and Experiencing Techne

Victoria and Albert Museum/Royal College of Art Postgraduate Programme in the History of Design

Since Spring 2015, the Making and Knowing Project’s laboratory seminar and the Victoria and Albert Museum/Royal College of Art Postgraduate Programme in the History of Design have collaborated on researching and reconstructing Ms. Fr. 640’s recipes. Students and team members have worked together on counterfeit coral, varnishes, and the blue pigment the author-practitioner calls “azur.”