Translocal Pottery is a remote collaboration project envisioned in response to the covid-19 pandemic. By exploring collective ways of making pots with wild clays foraged from across the world, the project investigates how social, material, and spatiotemporal boundaries are configured and negotiated in practice.
Concept:
Luis Vega
Potters:
Claudia Lau, Melbourne AU
Jeff Khoo, Singapore SG
Luis Vega, Helsinki FI
Mie Kim, Montreal CA
Nina Salsotto Cassina, Milan IT
Sol Carranza Sieber, Córdoba AR
Venue:
Online, Remote
Collectively organized
Supported by:
Aalto University, Department of Design
Academy of Finland, Project Nº 331778
Conacyt, Scholar Nº 567923
April 2021 - June 2022
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 (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.