Icon's Modern Materials Group brings together specialists interested in the conservation and preservation of modern materials and digital content.
Joined December 2018
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Icon Modern Materials Group retweeted
18 Oct 2024
I'm very excited to be giving a talk for the ICON Modern Materials Group in a few weeks! I'll be discussing recent research on the degradation of plastic museum objects. icon.org.uk/events/complex-u… @IconMMN @UCL_ISH @lomecreu @ucqbbem @Conservators_UK @TheBartlettUCL @makearne
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22 May 2024
Still time to book tickets for our upcoming event on Tuesday 4th June @MuseumofLondon
Docklands. We have joined in a joint venture with
@Icon_Textiles to talk about Fashion x Synthetic textiles and accessories! icon.org.uk/events/textiles-…
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Icon Modern Materials Group retweeted
24 Apr 2024
Great interview with @UCL_ISH PhD graduate Rose King and others in Chemistry World on degrading Barbies and plasticiser loss! chemistryworld.com/features/…
@lomecreu @TheBartlettPhD @SimoniDaRos
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26 Apr 2024
Join us on Tuesday 4th June in a joint venture with @Icon_Textiles at @MuseumofLondon Docklands to talk about Fashion x Synthetic textiles and accessories!
icon.org.uk/events/textiles-…
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19 Apr 2024
Still some time to apply to some exciting vacancies at @MoDiPAUB 's Centre for Plastics Innovation and Curation (PlastIC) aub.ac.uk/working-at-aub/vac… !
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5 Apr 2024
Exciting news from @MoDiPAUB and some interesting vacancies!
We have some exciting roles due to a developing research centre at @inspiredAUB including a Visiting Professor & Co-Director, a Heritage Science Research Fellow, and a Postdoctoral Researcher (Polymers). And best of all you get to work alongside MoDiP. aub.ac.uk/working-at-aub/vac…
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8 Dec 2023
We are excited to start our Christmas mini conference shortly icon.org.uk/events/modern-ma…
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8 Dec 2023
Mrs Potato Head is happy to welcome all delegates both in person and online!
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10 Nov 2023
The end of a wonderful #futuretalks023. Thought provoking conversations, mind blowing techniques, re-situating conservation processes in community not materiality, and sponges. Thanks so much to everyone involved. I'm off to contemplate while posing precariously on a Blow chair
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10 Nov 2023
Final day at #futuretalks023 and off to a great start with the conservation and collection of the icon blow chair
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9 Nov 2023
So many inspiring and innovative interventive treatments at #futuretalks023. From reviving latex and rubber, to laser cleaning plastics and finally methycellulose foams #doublesyringemethod
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9 Nov 2023
Day 2 at #futuretalks023 and a sneak peak of two of our speakers at the MMN Christmas event. More info soon...
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8 Nov 2023
Great first day afternoon session from conserving gremlins to a design key talk by textile designer / sculptor Ursula Wagner #futuretalks023
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8 Nov 2023
One of the most challenging materials for the mm conservator.... polyurethane. Thankfully the rest of the day is all about it at #futuretalks023
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8 Nov 2023
Really interesting project on plastics used in design in the GDR - looking forward to future publications
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8 Nov 2023
FutureTalks023 about to get started. Looking at Modern Material projects past, present and future
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8 Nov 2023
Icon: MMN is attending FUTURE TALKS 023. Materials Matter.. let me know if you're here as well
linkedin.com/events/futureta…
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Icon Modern Materials Group retweeted
9 Oct 2023
West Dean College presents
LIVE ONLINE COURSE – AN INTRODUCTION TO PLASTIC MATERIALS
15 November 2023 with Brenda Keneghan @IconMMN @IrishMuseums @ICRI @Conservators_UK @artscouncil_ie @conservators @plastiquarian1 @UCL_ISH
ALT https://www.westdean.ac.uk/short-courses/m1w13590--live-online-course-an-introduction-to-plastic-materials-part-1
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Icon Modern Materials Group retweeted
12 Aug 2023
@IconMMN and @UkNatArchives are running a knowledge transfer event about problems commonly found with modern materials in archives and potential solutions.
📅: 13 Sept 2023, 10am-12pm
📍: @UKNatArchives
Register here: icon.org.uk/events/modern-ma…
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