The main aims of the exhibition were to promote peace and international relations, trade, education, food, spectacle, national identity and commerce. The project will culminate in an exhibition on the 17th December and a number of posts on Visit1862 in the New Year. As visit1862 has always been a collaborative project, we are very grateful to the students for taking on an area of research that we have, as of yet, been able to tackle with any serious intention. Japan would not officially present at an International Exhibition until five years later in Paris. Bucher’s discussion highlights both envy and disgust towards British industry and the outputs of their colonial territories in India. The 1862 International Exhibition, London, on Pictures From an Exposition – Visualising the 1893 World’s Fair, on 1862 Exposition –the International Galleries explored through the notion of the Sensory, on Reception and Reaction: (Un)official Japan at the 1862 Exhibition, on Expo Futures – Memories of the Future – Student Reflections, Pictures From an Exposition – Visualising the 1893 World’s Fair, ‘Pictures from an Exposition – Visualising the 1893 World’s Fair’, 1862 Exposition –the International Galleries explored through the notion of the Sensory, Reception and Reaction: (Un)official Japan at the 1862 Exhibition, A review of the exhibition has been published on Fig.9 Collective website, Expo Futures – Memories of the Future – Student Reflections, Reception and Reaction: (Un)official Japan at the 1862 Exhibition | Visit 1862: exchanging the experience. Thousands of objects from 36 different countries were displayed together to represent the best of the raw, crafted and manufactured. With the piece presented in the Memories of the Future exhibition we raise the question of rules and boundaries present in the structure of the modern Expo, inviting viewers to play a game of chess and, perhaps, make up their own rules. Drawing together students from the RCA’s Information Experience Design (IED) and History of Design (HoD) courses and the editors of Visit1862 this project is an exploration of potential directions that International Exhibitions could be taken in the future. As students of design history, we research the manufacture, use and contexts of consumption for designed objects. What happened in the 10+ years following the highly successful Great Exhibition that made the 1862 International Exhibition a relative failure? This shawl, dyed with Perkin's mauve dye, was exhibited at the International Exhibition of 1862. The 1862 International Exhibition, London, Pictures From an Exposition – Visualising the 1893 World’s Fair, 1862 Exposition –the International Galleries explored through the notion of the Sensory, Reception and Reaction: (Un)official Japan at the 1862 Exhibition, Reception and Reaction: (Un)official Japan at the 1862 Exhibition | Visit 1862: exchanging the experience. ‘Pictures from an Exposition – Visualising the 1893 World’s Fair’ celebrates the 125th anniversary of the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair through the display of many (but by no means all) of the Newberry Library’s collection of books, prints, maps and ephemera associated with the event. 1862 International Exhibition London [Tasmanian exhibit] Posted by Julie Gough on June 15, 2012 at 13:42; View Blog; Hello all. He was notorious for disappearing into odd shops in small villages where he would pick up anything that caught his fancy—from the most expensive to the most vernacular. 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