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UNMAKING THINGS is a blog run by the students
on the V&A/RCA History of Design programme.

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Boundaries

by Lovisa Willborg Jonsson and Katie Vann Boundaries are spatial; they cordon off the areas that we physically inhabit and they structure our thoughts. They can be literal dividing lines; borders, walls and crossing points. They can also be abstract and immaterial; ideas, norms and...
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Black History Month: Podcast

by Izzy Rhodes and Katie Vann February is Black History Month in the USA and Canada, and to coincide,...
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Deepest Darkest Africa

The Technological Reproduction of Racial Imaginaries by Katie Vann In my first term studying History of Design at the RCA/V&A, I chose to write about a Victorian print produced by the Electric Lighting company, Woodhouse and Rawson in 1893, entitled 'What is Wanted in Darkest Africa is the Electric Light'. To coincide with Black History month in the USA and Canada, I thought I would offer a few thoughts on what I found out about this object during my research and how the circulation...
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Restarting Hearts

Learning the Heart with the Hands by Katie Vann In my first year at the RCA/V&A, I set out to...
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Simulating Hearts

Rethinking Digitzation in Cardiovascular Medical Simulators, 1968-2015 by Katharine Vann This article is part of  the publication ‘Sooner, or Later’. My essay questioned whether new technologies had...
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Visit1862: Context

Memories of the Future by Katharine Vann This article was originally published on visit1862.com in February 2016. The fourth research post by RCA History of Design students involved in the Memories of the...