What is CRÆFT?
In our initial investigation, we had to define the definition of craft through collage. Many of the people who specialize in their craft came from different backgrounds with different nationality to ethnicity. This is makes each person unique to their craft because they will all interrupt the same craft in multiple ways. In a city, you notice that the many buildings serve a different purpose with their own individual craft. Throughout my collage I tried layering the same crafts on top of each other to mimic buildings. Craft can build an entire city and bring people from different cultures together.
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The architect that I selected was Olson Kundig who is a practicing architect duo based in Seattle, Washington. A unique trait about their firm is that they have tradespeople, fabricators, textile designers, and artists. Within their big projects, they have little elements in the project that make up the whole of it. They also focus on sustainability by recycling the environment and incorporating the environment into their designs.
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Within my investigation collage, I noticed that ceramics was being used in a lot of our daily lives without realizing it. I wanted to showcase the beginning of how clay comes in and the original colors that it can come in. I expanded my collage further to the different tiles and pottery that are unique to the persons individual culture. I showed the environment and workspace that you would see in many workshops because ceramics is not a craft that you do alone. You’re always socializing with people while working on your craft and asking for their criticism to improve your work.
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Concept Sketches
In my first concept design, I wanted to focus on the social aspect of the craft and make it the center. So I had everything revolve around the central social place while the steps to ceramics were going in a circle around it. My second design focused more on the steps of the craft as individual spaces because they can become extremely time consuming on each step. I wanted to emphasize that the process to ceramics was not quick but a really slow process. Similar to my first design, I wanted to keep a flow between the different steps so I tried organizing everything in a circular flow. I ended up choosing my 2nd design as my final product.
AutoCAD Drawings
Wunderkammer Drawing + Model
My main focus of this project revolved around ceramics and how the products from this craft function in our daily lives. Through my Wunderkammer model and drawing, I wanted to express the emotions of the user through color. The clay material used in ceramics can molded into anything that the user wants it to be. Often times, the user will come in different types of emotions to produce the end product. The end product always varies from being a ceramic bowl to significant house that people live in. Ceramics is really versatile with how the user wants interrupt their emotions into products. I used the beads as a way to represent the final product coming from the users mind.
