Surfacing Stories

V&A South Kensington

The V&A+RIBA Architecture Gallery opened in 2004. Its narrative foregrounded stories of style, architectural design, building types and materials. Since then, political and cultural shifts have prompted the desire to explore issues of provenance, exploitation of people and planet, inclusion, and diversity of race, gender and sexuality.

For the London Festival of Architecture 2023, the V&A+RIBA Architecture Partnership nvited twelve activists, architects, historians and writers to be critical friends of the Architecture Gallery. In this intervention we offered fresh interpretations of objects on display, surfacing stories about provenance, eurocentrism, women, disability, LGBTQ+, colonialism and climate change.

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