CSDI - The Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior, based at the Royal College of Art in London, brings together three institutions: the Royal College of Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the Bedford Centre for the History of Women at Royal Holloway, University of London. Launched in September 2001, its goal is to develop new histories of the home, its contents, and its representation. It pursues research into the changing appearance and layout of rooms in a range of buildings, from tenements to palaces; the objects that furnished those rooms; the ways rooms and objects were depicted; the manner in which people used them; and how they thought about them.

Links to related institutions and projects and other sites of interest

Arts and Humanities Research Council
http://www.ahrc.ac.uk

The AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) funds postgraduate training and research in the arts and humanities, from archaeology and English literature to design and dance. AHRC Research Centres provide a focus for collaborative research in areas of strategic importance. Although the social and natural sciences have long had access to funding to establish centres of research expertise, it was not until the launch of the AHRC's Research Centre's Scheme that researches in the arts and humanities have benefited from a similar opportunity.

Royal College of Art
www.rca.ac.uk

Victoria and Albert Museum
www.vam.ac.uk

RCA/V&A Programme in the History of Design
www.hod.rca.ac.uk

Royal Holloway, University of London
www.rhul.ac.uk

CHORD: The Committee for the History of Retailing and Distribution
http://pers-www.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/chord.html

Cultures of Consumption
www.consume.bbk.ac.uk

DEMHIST: ICOM's International Committe for Historic House Museums
www.icom-italia.org

Design History Society
www.designhistorysociety.org

Design Museum - London
www.designmuseum.org

Domestic Consumption
www.domesticconsumption.org.uk

Domestic Kitchen Practices
http://www.dur.ac.uk/Sociology/dkp/

Domestic Space
www.sfu.ca/domestic-space

Geffrye Museum
http://www.geffrye-museum.org.uk

The Material Renaissance: Cost and Consumption in Italy, 1300-1650
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/arthist/matren

Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture
http://www.moda.mdx.ac.uk

Spatial Culture
http://www.spatialculture.org

Yorkshire County Houses Partnership Project
http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/cecs/ych.htm