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.

Management Committee

Chair
Dr Charles Saumarez Smith
Director, National Gallery, London

AHRC Representative
Nichola Johnson
Director, Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts

Other members
Professor Jeremy Aynsley
Director, AHRC Centre for the Study of the Domestic Interior,
Royal College of Art

Professor Tim Benton
Department of Art History, The Open University

Professor Penelope Corfield
Department of History, Royal Holloway, University of London

Sally Hitch
Senior Awards Officer, AHRC

Professor Sandra Kemp
Research Professor, Royal College of Art

Dr Carolyn Sargentson
Head of Research, Victoria and Albert Museum

and one of the Associate Directors of the Centre