Building Memories

Help create a ‘mosaic of hope’ through wax rubbings, polaroid photography, self-reflection and sensory interactions with one of the most famous buildings on Exhibition Road.

Join the Royal College of Arts’ Carmen Mariscal to engage with the scarring and pockmarks of the Victoria and Albert Museum, these scars were left visible to keep the memory of wartime destruction alive for future generations. By create waxing rubbings and using them to decorate messages of hope, Carmen hopes the experience will remind visitors of their emotional connections to the built environment, and reflect on ways that we can care for each other, and for our buildings.

Carmen Mariscal is a practice-based doctoral candidate at the Royal College of Art. Her cross-disciplinary practice explores traces of memory in dwellings. These include the body, as humans´ first habitat, followed by their clothes, homes, public spaces, and cities. Her recent research also investigates entropy and ruin in architecture.

Visitor information

This is a drop-in event for visitors of all ages. Children must be accompanied by an adult. 

The event has step-free access.

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