Nr 27/2025 Pogranicza designu
5 Engaged Ceramics

Nr 27/2025 Pogranicza designu

Biblioteka
  1. Wstęp 27

  2. W obronie wyobraźni – co może dać nam fikcja? O fantastyce projektowej (design fiction) i projektowaniu spekulatywnym (speculative design)

  3. Spekulatywne myślenie przyszłością. O wyobraźni jako poznawczej prowokacji i sensorycznej immersji

  4. Od przedmiotów do rzeczy. O krytycznych praktykach projektowych

  5. W poszukiwaniu sprawczości. Manifesty techniczne i projektowe a rzeczywistość

  6. Ceramika zaangażowana

  7. Projektowanie krytyczne a realia rynkowe. Okiem świeżego absolwenta uczelni projektowej

  8. Temida nie dostrzega projektantów. A projektanci nie znają łaciny


5 Engaged Ceramics

Revalidating Ceramic Studio is a project run since 2020 based on the authors’ own experience of studio work. The article presents the evolution, from a niche project to a broader conception, founded on openness to diversity of needs. The study of the offered model of applied ceramics workshops stared with working with people with disabilities, while at the second stage, the group of participants of the ceramic crafts program also included able-bodies persons. On completion of the total of 130 workshop hours with people of various abilities and physical and emotional needs, the project was evaluated as attractive to the majority of participants. It confirmed the thesis that we are all disabled and we all need therapy. The revalidating studio became a universal project, which avoided the schema directed at thoughtless consumption. As the project develops, the key concept is the influence of work on the quality of life. The work in question is done by hand, collectively, with regard of individual needs and possibilities. In order to achieve the goal, that is the non-specific therapeutic effect, participants are included in the design process. Manual and workshop skills, in turn, are acquired with the use of plaster working mould as a frame, which helps concentrate on technique, and skills necessary for ceramic craft. The revalidating studio functions based on the model of factory craft1. This provides a possibility of separating individual elements of technological process with attention to the sense of agency of all participants. Team building, making decisions about the final effect of the item, and using the frame, were studied in the series of workshops by means of participatory observation, in-depth interview, and survey. The effects of research and workshops were concluded as Guide to Organisation of Revalidating Ceramics Studio, and the original program of applied ceramics course with therapeutic application, developed for the School of Crafts Cieszyn and Studio of Inclusive Ceramics of the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Katowice, faculty of Art Therapy, the intercollegiate, interdisciplinary, and inter-sectoral MA program2.

Keywords: ceramics, work, people with disabilities, universal design, non-specific therapeutic effect

Publikacja 30.12.2025