Haptic Waste
Inspired by the scrapbooks of Audrey Amiss, artist and dancer Benjamin Skinner reflects upon the processes through which we (dis)engage with waste objects in everyday life. This article is part of a two-week takeover
Thinking Tools
Objects and images have been used to ‘think through things’ since antiquity, explains Sarah Griffin, assistant curator at Winchester College.
EncodingDecoding: a response
Poet Jane Hartshorn responds to Darian Goldin Stahl’s artist book EncodingDecoding.
Desiring Objects
Chase Ledin explores the promises, fantasies and social values inscribed in the sexual objects held by Wellcome Collection.
Set Menu (His and Hers)
Artist Dawn Woolley finds inspiration in the work of Audrey Amiss, held by Wellcome Library.
Presence, absence, and a pocket midwifery guide
Why remove the illustrations from a nineteenth century midwifery manual? What might this tell us about how researchers negotiate presence, absence and access in libraries, archives and collections? Rebecca Whiteley, Shreeve Fellow in the History of Medicine at the John Rylands Research Institute, University of Manchester, explores a material history of absence.
In praise of touching
Why is working with museum objects so appealing to researchers? asks Kristin D. Hussey, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen.