In today’s design education programmes, it almost seems difficult to see a place for kunsthåndværk, since the versatile designer is in so much higher demand, and because it is costly to run a studio dedicated to perfecting a single area, such as ceramic, glass or jewellery.
The project is part of Cerama’s (The specialist glass and ceramics supplies shop) project ’Hands for Life’, which offers ceramics-related activities for at-risk citizens, so Cerama contributed to the funding.
One could envision a reality where one could there is touch, hold, and be in direct contact with art and artefacts that would otherwise be locked away behind glass.
Through the colourful layers the participants also articulated their own reflections on the question and left additional traces by writing these reflections on the glass front of the piece in white ink.
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