FORM: Public Workshop

Tuesday 16 & Wednesday 17 September 2025, 13.30 - 17.30

No booking required. All welcome.

The Pitt Rivers Museum is home to many objects that have been formed, in a variety of ways and in many materials. Thinking about forming invites questions about the temporality and processes of making, about the politics of labour, and about the materials we choose to make with. What can placing museum objects in dialogue with contemporary practitioners and researchers reveal about their original makers, and by extension the very museum itself? Can a renewed focus on form and forming help us recover new information about makers in instances where archival information about makers has been lost or is missing from the historical record?

In this multi-day workshop, academics and practitioners will come together to discuss and explore through practice what it means to form something.

Access the workshop programme here.