Transcultural Pottery was a collaborative workshop designed to unsettle traditional ways of creating. The design process was documented to investigate how thinking and making, individuality and collectivity, and sociality and materiality shape one another in practice.
Concept:
Luis Vega
Makers:
Amedeo Martines
Erin Türkoglu
Luis Vega
Tzuyu Chen
Venue:
Designmuseo · Aalto University
Supported by:
Academy of Finland, Project Nº 331778
Conacyt, Scholar Nº 567923
November 2020 - January 2021
publications
Vega, Luis (2024). Thinking with people and pots: A practice-led design study of sociomaterially distributed thought processes. PhD thesis, Aalto University.
Vega, Luis; Valle-Noronha, Julia; Markle, Gary; Latva-Somppi, Riikka; Hulkkonen, Sara; Falin, Priska; Korolainen, Hanna-Kaisa; Suomi, Maiju; & Giabardo, Gianluca (2024). Making things that change: Reconsidering the fluid nature of creative productions in research through art, design, and craft. Research in Arts and Education, 2024(1), 152–65.
Vega, Luis; Mäkelä, Maarit; & Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, Pirita (2023). Listening to the sociomaterial: When thinking through making extends beyond the individual. Design Studies, 88(1), 101203.
Vega, Luis (2021). Distributed thinking through making: Towards a relational ontology in practice-led design research. Matters of Scale, Proceedings of the Nordic Design Research Conference NORDES 2021, 9(1), 270-80.