bronte schwier
'co-creation'
This project is to act as an informative and interactive project, which investigates how the use of hand building processes can inform ideas through making. A project inspired by the idea of tacit knowledge.
As a designer Bronte feels a social responsibility and connection into how the ‘digital age’ has affected the way in which we learn, build, and understand space and materiality. Through workshops with different materials, weights, textures, etc., Bronte has tested how people within a creative context, such as Central Saint Martins, understand and design in an improvised manner. A series of workshops were arranged and limitations were provided, such as materials used, function, and dryness/wetness of clay, and so on. By using the recordings of the details of colour choice, joinery and contrast of materials, she has represented the movements and layers of construction, to create a series of objects that highlight the processes. The final result being an extrusion kit that produces a series of building blocks that can be sliced to create a repeat pattern. The kit should encourage a sharing of skills between the users, for eample between a parent and child.
The directness and speed of the process of extrusion highlight the issues of our fast pace, consumer lifestyle. We have become so accustomed to receiving information and products there and then, and with the increased development in processes such as 3D printing, the extruded pieces should hint on this, acting as almost a ‘primitive’ 3D printer.
material: basalt, mdf
