V&A Dundee

The Young People's Collective presents What the Hat?!, a podcast where invited guests share their tactics, strategies, hopes, and dreams while reflecting on the many hats we choose to wear—and those we must—as creatives navigating overlapping political, social, economic, and climate crises. These conversations explore the approaches most essential for sustaining artistic and cultural practices in response to the urgent challenges of our time.

In the pilot episode, co-programmed by a committee of young people at V&A Dundee, invite Dundee grassroots heavyweights Volk Gallery and City Flower Garden Studio together, to share practical strategies, demystify creative practices and careers, and envision bold, alternative models for the creative sector’s future.

Future episodes will spotlight Dundee’s dynamic community of emerging designers, artists, curators, activists, and organisers who sustain and champion the city’s grassroots cultural ecosystem.

Hosted Bethan Ferrie & Leyla Hussain

Produced by Tana Pennock, Isla McConnachie and Mehr Un Nisa Syed

Art work by Leyla Hussain

Music by Meg Jenkins

Supported by Ryan Mcleod

Edited by Callum Mackie

Design in the Diaspora is developed in partnership with We Are Here Scotland and New Architecture Writers, join us to explore the work of contemporary designers and creatives from diasporic communities across Scotland.

This series brings you a new guest, selected by We Are Here Scotland, paired with a host from New Architecture Writers. Together, they will explore creative practice and career journeys – amplifying and celebrating diverse identities, cultures, and heritages across the creative industries. In January 2023, we were joined by architect and writer Ewa Effiom and multidisciplinary artist Leo Robinson.

Join world-renowned Scottish actor Alan Cumming and Simon Sladen, V&A South Kensington's Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Theatre and Performance, as they talk about all things tartan and the ways that tartan has influenced Alan's life and career while delving into tartan on screen, in performance, as costume and more.

This was a live event recorded at V&A Dundee in May 2023.

Creative Programmer: Nichol Keene

Design in the Diaspora is developed in partnership with We Are Here Scotland and New Architecture Writers, join us to explore the work of contemporary designers and creatives from diasporic communities across Scotland.

This series brings you a new guest, selected by We Are Here Scotland, paired with a host from New Architecture Writers. Together, they will explore creative practice and career journeys – amplifying and celebrating diverse identities, cultures, and heritages across the creative industries. In February 2023, Nana Biamah-Ofosu interviewed textile designer Hannah Sabapathy.

Sincerely, Valentines – From Postcards to Greetings Cards is the latest exhibition in our Michelin Design Gallery.

It tells the story of Scotland’s most pioneering and successful commercial photographers, best known for popularising the holiday postcard on a global scale.

Hear from Ishbel McLeane, a former employee as she shares her memories working at Valentines.

Ian Schrager is the legendary co-creator of the world’s most famous nightclub: Studio 54, and since then has revolutionised the entertainment, residential and hospitality industries. He has created spectacular experiences where design, technology and music meet.

Joining Ian Schrager is Benji B, a Radio 1 DJ, music director of Louis Vuitton menswear, and founder of the Deviation club nights and record label.

Their conversation explores their lives in and around clubs and club culture, spanning five decades.

Welcome by Joanna Mawdsley, Head of Learning, V&A Dundee

Moderated by Nichol Keene, Creative Programmer, V&A Dundee

Find out more about Night Fever and our upcoming programme here: https://www.vam.ac.uk/dundee/whatson

Follow Ian Schrager and Benji B on Instagram @ianschrager and @BenjiB.

Find out more at https://www.vam.ac.uk/dundee/articles/ian-schrager-interviewed-by-benji-b

Find more podcasts from V&A Dundee at https://www.vam.ac.uk/dundee/series/podcasts

苏格兰艺术设计的典范通过一系列小文章展现了苏格兰独特而出色的艺术设计。

本月，艳阳谈到一件特殊的展品使她回想起童年的故事。本文是与Amina MWRC合作项目的一部分，该项目是培训当地的穆斯林，黑人和少数民族（BME）妇女作为自由职业者，以英语和她们的母语为我们苏格兰设计画廊提供导游服务。

Scottish Design Icons is a series of small articles showcasing the big hitters of Scottish design. This month, Yanyang reflects on how one particular object takes her back to the stories of her childhood.

This piece is part of a collaborative project with Amina MWRC to train local Muslim, Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) women as freelancers to deliver guided tours of our Scottish Design Galleries in both English and their native language.

Scottish Design Icons is a series of small articles showcasing the big hitters of Scottish design. In this one, Yan Xia tells us how one particular object, the Oak Room, evokes powerful emotions for her.

This piece is part of a collaborative project with Amina MWRC to train local Muslim, Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) women as freelancers to deliver guided tours of our Scottish Design Galleries in both English and their native language.

Edi Stark in conversation with fashion revolutionary who lifted the mood as well as the hemline of female fashion in the twentieth century.

Reproduced on our channels with the generous permission of Edi Stark. See 'Mary Quant' at V&A Dundee until 17 Jan 2021.