Ceramic Futures

CERAMIC FUTURES

ceramic futures

Cersaie, the leading international exhibition of ceramic tiles and bathroom furnishing values young talents as the next generation of leading thinkers and innovators. With this in mind, together with Elio Caccavale and Stefano Mirti have developed this project to challenge 4 groups of young design students to work together during June and July 2013.

The project seeks to explore and challenge the versatility of ceramic both as a creative and functional medium – a material that is universal and unique, sustainable and enduring, whilst also being both one of the oldest.

Ceramic Futures involves the partecipation of four design schools: Glasgow School of Art, Politecnico di Milano, Abadir, Ied Roma.
The students have been encouraged to develop design propositions that may encompass poetry, narrative, functionality, fiction, and have complexity and ambition, taking full consideration of the relative social and cultural contextual drivers.
Combining the traditional medium of design with a dedicated online project diary connected to Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, the participants will actively observe, comment, ask questions and interact.

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