1. What major historical point does your project make? I am interested in intellectual property and its dispersion. The idea of sharing information with the masses first emerged in the Enlightenment era, and now in the Information age, we have an extraordinary ability to continue this ambition. Specifically, I see […]
As a graduate student digital fellow for A Virtual Enlightenment, I will be assisting students who are working on the Uses of Space project. The seminar’s approach to the Tessé room in the Metropolitan Museum as a space where bodies moved–both laboring bodies and bodies that resided in the Hôtel–is […]
My contribution to my group’s digital project is to hopefully give viewers a more authentic idea about the daily routines that took place in rooms like the Tesse. Scholarship thus far seems to have explored predominantly the wealthy class and how they spent their time in these types of spaces. […]
For my component of the project, I will recreate various 18th century textiles with watercolor. Specifically, I will focus on the seasonality of the textiles and how the patterns and materials change from season to season. Until the latter part of the 18th century, original French design ideas for textile […]
What major historical point does your project make? The project will relate to the larger theme of the transformation of consumer society and the transformation of the body that took place during the Enlightenment that cut across classes (I do not wish to discount the important role that the presence […]
