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CRAFTING DATA

Workshop hosted by Lukas Wegwerth in Radovljica, Slovenia. Organised by Museum of Architecture and Design.

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#1 CRAFTING DATA
SOURCING THE MATERIALS & EXPERIMENTS

The workshop was dedicated to the vastly neglected material earth. It was an attempt to study possibilities of facilitating it in the context of design and architecture. The cross disciplinary group of participants and potter Urban Magušar, architect Nicolas Coeckelberghs and designer Lukas Wegwerth approached the matter through a hands-on exploration by sourcing raw material in the direct surrounding, processing and firing samples. Alongside this process the group held round tables and lectures.
After building a fundamental understanding and filtering research questions, the participants worked on individual experiments that utilized locally found materials in a defined range of processes. The resulting samples form a grid that shows the wide potential of earth as a resource in the current discourse on authenticity and environmental challenges.

 

Credits: Lukas Wegwerth (mentor), Caspar Frowein (mentor assistant), Patricia Bascones, Patrik Benedičič, Emily Dietrich, Florian Fend, Rok Oblak, Joana Schmitz, Eva Štrukelj, Jera Tratar in collaboration with Urban Magušar (Manufaktura), Kristina Rutar (Assistant) and guest architect Nicolas Coeckelberghs (BC Architects)
Organised by: Maja Vardjan, Cvetka Požar, Nikola Pongrac (MAO); Photos: Luka Karlin. Special thanks: Mojca Makovec Haložan, Tanja Horvat, ZRP Pomelaj, z. o. o.; Franc Jaklič; Franc Žuk; Janez and Andreja Bojc, Lončarstvo Bojc; Katja Žagar, Tina Zajc Zver, Rokodelski center Ribnica.

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#2 CRAFTING DATA
RESEARCH FILM BY LUKAS WEGWERTH, GIULIA BRUNO IN COLLABORATION WITH GIUSEPPE IELASI

Crafting data is a multi-perspective approach to a range of professions for which earth and its properties are central to their daily activity. The focus of observation are the widely invisible systems, structures and methods associated with the material.
We examine the material earth, the stakeholders who are working with the material and their interests in it. We look at ways these professionals are approaching earth, which manual, mechanical or intellectual gestures they perform towards it and for which reasons they are moving and processing it into information, into bricks or into objects.
Conceiving our practice as an ongoing work in progress, digging deeper and deeper, we propose a continuous discovery of an omnipresent yet mostly neglected material and its relation to geological history, economy, design, crafts, tradition, experiment, building, ecological destruction, sustainability and circularity.
Instead of presenting fixed knowledge, but resembling bricks of information condensed in different semantic layers of the material, generates a diverse understanding of its complexity and meaning.

 

Director: Giulia Bruno, Sound: Giuseppe Ielasi, Editing: Giuseppe Ielasi, Giulia Bruno, Assistant: Paola Raheli, Photos: Giulia Bruno. Contributors: Štefan Zelko, Saša J. Mächtig, Miloš Bavec, Duška Rokavec, Bogomir Celarc, Mirka Trajanova, Geological Survey Of Slovenia. Partner: Geological Survey of Slovenia. Special thanks: Miha Špiček, Slovene Ethnographic Museum.
With the generous support of: The Ministry of Culture, Republic of Slovenia.With the generous support of: Centre for Creativity, operated by the Museum of Architecture and Design in Ljubljana and co-financed by European Union from European Regional Development Fund and by the Republic of Slovenia.

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CRAFTING, CLEANING &
CARING
Workshop hosted by Rianne Makkink in Andelsbuch, Austria. Organised by Werkraum Bregenzerwald.

SUPERLOCAL CRAFTING THE EVERYDAY
Workshop hosted by Andrea de Chirico in Zagreb, Croatia. Organised by Oaza together with Museum of Arts and Crafts.

DESIGN BY DOING
Workshop hosted by Tamara Panić in Belgrade, Serbia. Organised by Nova iskra.