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Temporary Exhibition Design Placement

Victoria and Albert Museum

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Join the V&A's mission to revolutionize sustainable exhibition design and achieve net zero by 2035.

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Cromwell Road, London

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The Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), the world's leading museum of art, design, and performance, is at the forefront of addressing the climate crisis. Committed to achieving net zero by 2035, the V&A is inviting early-career PhD students to participate in a groundbreaking doctoral placement program. This is a unique chance to contribute to the museum's radical approach to sustainable exhibition design through material innovation.

  • Organisation summary: The V&A offers a dynamic work environment with a vision to become a pioneer in sustainable exhibition practices, while fostering academic growth and collaboration among its diverse team of experts.
  • Role Summary:
    • Investigate and research approximately 50 potential sustainable materials suitable for museum exhibitions.
    • Focus on plant-based or bio-based materials, grown materials, and locally sourced natural materials.
    • Contribute to the museum's goal of diversifying material sourcing and achieving sustainable exhibition design.
  • Role Requirements:
    • Enrolled as an early-career PhD student.
    • Interest in material design, material science, and sustainable practices.
    • Ability to conduct both collaborative and independent research.

The Role To provide opportunities for early-career training for PhD students, the V&A has made available a range of doctoral placements based in collections departments, archives, the National Art Library, research, and collections care and access. Each placement is a discrete project designed by members of V&A staff (who will also act as the placement’s supervisor), involving collaborative as well as independent research.

The climate crisis is one of the biggest issues of our age. Within the museum, we have set a target to achieve net zero by 2035, this means we are radically rethinking our approach to temporary exhibition design and making and a major part of this is the materials selected for build and construction of exhibitions sets. The field of material design and material science is a rapidly burgeoning area with new material opportunities emerging regularly. Sometimes these are available on an industrial scale, whilst other times these are more experimental. Investigating these emerging materials and assessing these against museum requirements is critical to making progress to improving our carbon impact.

This opportunity will allow you to gain experience within this area with a specific focus on identifying new materials in three categories: • Plant based or bio-based materials • Grown materials • Locally sourced natural materials During the placement you would research a set of c.50 potential materials, all of which could be processed to be ‘museum-ready’ for a range of uses in temporary exhibition making. The project will enable the museum to make significant progress in our ability to diversify our material sourcing and specification to achieve a more sustainable exhibition design.

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