Dr Benjamin Wild

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Why do you run?

As a runner-researcher, I’m interested in the stories people tell about their running & the role it has in their life.

If you run, I’d be grateful if you’d fill in & share my survey.

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Between July 2-4, @drbenjaminwild will participate in 'Polyphony of Emotions: Thinking Affect in Heritage, Memory and Material Culture', hosted by the Amsterdam School for Heritage Memory and Material Culture from July 2-4.

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Group lead @drbenjaminwild.bsky.social recently spoke with @wired.com about the changing aesthetics of Mark Zuckerberg and his multi-billionaire, media mogul ilk.

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Royal Fashion: A History

I’m pleased to share details about an upcoming online course I am leading for the Victoria & Albert Museum about royal dress from 29 April 2025.

Details below 👑

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Highlights for me were the Duchess of Windsor’s provocatively placed lobster, how Princess Diana’s wedding dress has stood the test of time, and the (few) times the royal wardrobe has not been up to scratch… The show is available online from 24/01/24. More details via lovemondaytv

By Royal Appointment — not really… but it was fantastic to join Afua Hagan and Jane Eastoe in conversation with Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen on Royal Beat’s ciphered cushions.

In the second episode of season 2’s Book Club, we chatted about the changing look and meaning of royal dress.

Made in Europe, it is a bitter irony that manillas were smelted down by artists in Benin to make the beautiful bronzes that Europeans proceeded to loot — One of many fascinating, disquieting things I learned visiting Hew Locke’s ‘What have we here!’ exhibition at @thebritishmuseum.bsky.social

Messy histories — This innocuous-looking bronze object is a manilla. They were used as a form of currency in West Africa between the fifteenth and twentieth centuries to purchase, among other things, enslaved people.

It’s interesting how much emotion-based research is still framed by the essential idea that emotions are universal, predictable and defined at birth, and discernible through changing face expressions. Emotions are social constructs that produce myriad physical responses.

External signs of the passions — or how my research on emotions is making me look. This nineteenth-century composition is derived from drawings by Charles le Brun.

These are that resources have inspired our research and the outputs we have created to share it. Demonstrating the diversity of our work, we hope these selections will spur other people’s research in 2025.

Have a look via Instagram at: www.instagram.com/ffashion_narratives

To reflect on the year that has been and to ready us for the one to come, the F/fashion Narratives Research Group that I lead at Manchester Metropolitan University (@manmetuni.bsky.social) is sharing its 12 Days of Christmas…

Knock, knock — I love the lustre of the hand-smeared brass in the Kunsthaus Zürich extension by David Chipperfield Architects, but what is the significance of the donkey-headed door handle?

It was great to speak with The Telegraph about Burberry’s decision to renew its focus on its English heritage. This aligns with moves by other European luxury brands to emphasise local and emotional storytelling to retain consumer interest & loyalty

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Flying visit to Amsterdam to talk fashion research with European colleagues from IFFTI (Int. Foundation of Fashion Technology Institutes). Great to share strategies, projects, challenges and ideas!

What’s in your wardrobe? — it was fantastic to be involved in the final day of the Being Human Festival, hearing diverse & incredibly moving stories about people’s relationships with their clothing.