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I design and produce ceramic products.
I live in Warsaw / Poland and work at the School of Form as an Instructor and Head of Ceramic Studio.
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“The Human Trace” tableware has been manufactured as a part of the project “People from the porcelain factory”, carried out in one of the oldest ceramic factories in Poland, Ćmielów, established in 1790 and active in fine porcelain production since 1838.
The porcelain set was produced on a factory production line by workers wearing gloves whose fingertips were dipped in cobalt salts. The traces of their touch remain almost invisible until firing, when they appear on the porcelain body, as the cobalt turns dark blue. In this way the porcelain tableware keeps the touch of the workers’ hands, revealing the role of the “human factor” in industrial manufacturing.
The project combines anthropological research with critical design, with the team consisting of an anthropologist, Ewa Klekot and a ceramist, Arkadiusz Szwed. It is a project in progress, financed by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education within the framework of the National Programme of Development in Humanities.
The project had been recently presented at Design March - Reykjavik, Łodz Design Festival, Designblok - Prague and more...
Authors of the project:
Arkadiusz Szwed — Concept / Design, Curator
Ewa Klekot — Anthropologist, Grant menager,Curator
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Human Trace
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photo credits : Arkadiusz Szwed
exhibition:
Reykjavik - DesignMarch
www.designmarch.is/work/people-from-the-porcelain-factory/
Ćmielow - Porcelain Factory Ćmielow
www.porcelana-cmielow.pl/
Poznań - Condordia Design
www.concordiadesign.pl
Łódz - Łodz Design Festival
http://www.lodzdesign.com/program-2017/wystawy/wystawy-kuratorskie/ludzie-z-fabryki-porcelany/
Prague - Designblok
https://www.designblok.cz/cz/vystavovatele/detail-986
Plzen - Plzeň Design Week
http://plzendesign.cz/vystavovatele/people-from-the-porcelain-factory/
Kraków - Ethnographic Museum / Maculateness/Skazitelność
www.etnomuzeum.eu/wystawy-czasowe/skazitelnosc-o-fabrykach-porcelany
Ljubljana - Slovene Ethnographic Museum / international ceramics triennial UNICUM 2018
www.visitljubljana.com/en/visitors/events/people-from-the-porcelain-factory/
Gdynia - Centrum Designu Gdynia i Pomorski Park Naukowo-Technologiczny Gdynia
http://www.centrumdesignu.gdynia.pl/
Budapeszt - Galeria Platan
https://polinst.hu/pl/node/11855
Sofia - Polish Institute in Sofia
https://institutpolski.org/pl/
London - Victoria and Albert Museum / FOOD: Bigger than the Plate
https://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/food-bigger-than-the-plate
Lille - Lille Metropole is the World Design Capital 2020 / “LA MANUFACTURE: a labor of love” created by Lidewij Edelkoor
https://www.designiscapital.com/en/program/la-manufacture-a-labour-of-love
Helsinki - Helsinki Design Week / the Olympic Stadium
https://www.helsinkidesignweek.com/stadium/
Helsinki - Kulttuurihalli
https://culture.pl/pl/miejsce/kulttuurihalli-helsinki
selected publications:
www.dezeen.com/2017/03/29/human-trace-tableware-people-from-porcelain-factory-designmarch-2017-iceland/
http://culture.pl/pl/wydarzenie/projekt-ludzie-z-fabryki-porcelany
http://www.designalive.pl/ludzie-z-fabryki-porcelany-zdjecia/
www.label-magazine.com/polska-porcelana-z-ludzkim-sladem-ezp-7134.html
design alive awards 2017 / nominacja http://www.designalive.pl/daa/design-alive-awards-2017/
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