Digitally co-created ceramic objects as metaphors for damage, renewal and repair.

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Abstract

This paper describes a practice-based investigation into a research collaboration with a particular digital technology (*ceramic 3D digital printing) and how it has been used to create 'new' data objects that are centred around damage, renewal & transformation. As a visual cartographer and object maker this work emerges from a *South West Creative Technology Network Automation Fellowship (* Research England CCF, 2020) which focused on enhancing ideas and enquiries around the theme of broken lines and regeneration. In many cases, objects can be a vital source for human well-being; these can include artefacts with historical happy memories or plants which boost and encourage positive thoughts of evolution and lifecycle. Whilst artefacts play a key role in how we sense and make sense of the relationships between ourselves and our non-human environments there is much to be explored when ‘designing’ new ‘things’ for the purpose of understanding disruption and rebuild. The presentation will include describing a new working partnership with a ‘non-human’ and the ‘designing’ and ‘co-creating’ of objects to preserve, re/generate and nourish our affective, sensory and conceptual relationships with artefacts in order to embrace perceived understandings of damage, disruption and repair.
Original languageEnglish
Publication statusPublished - 12 Apr 2023
EventAn Unwell World? Anthropology in a Speculative Mode - SOAS University of London, London, United Kingdom
Duration: 11 Apr 202314 Apr 2023
https://www.theasa.org/conferences/asa2023/

Conference

ConferenceAn Unwell World? Anthropology in a Speculative Mode
Abbreviated titleASA 2023
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityLondon
Period11/04/2314/04/23
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Keywords

  • Symbols and metaphors
  • collaboration
  • coding
  • digital fabrication
  • data
  • 3D ceramic printing
  • porcelain objects
  • kintsugi
  • damage
  • repair and new interpretations

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