After today’s lecture, I keep thinking about how my past experience and practice have informed my current practice and what direction my current practice is headed.
My connection with the ceramic craft community trained me in a particular way to approach materials. Because craft is a material based practice. When I was reading Neri Oxman’s Phd thesis, she proposed that the future of design will be a more material-based instead of form-based. I can’t help but keep thinking, isn’t it what craft practice all about? How a basic principle or practice in craft community are praised in the design community as visionary and novel?
Because of that experience in ceramics, it really shaped my design practice as a material based and community centric practice. Also I was able to transfer my knowledge from developing glaze recipes to developing bioplastic recipes. Same methodology applies to different materials. It fostered the fluidity within my own practice and helped me to construct my design practice as cross-disciplinary and multi-medium. My own curiosity drove me to explore and experiment with the possibilities of a material and its potential application that may bring positive social impact.
RCA Graduate diploma 2019 