Document Type
Article
Abstract
The “material turn” in HCI has placed a renewed focus on informing design from the relationships found in material-based interactions. While several ethnographic works provide insight into how practitioners converse with materials, it is less understood how these conversations transform into a skilled practitioner’s relationship with a material. We examine the material practice of glazing that gives ceramics its decorative and functional characteristics and involves fusing mixtures of silica, alumina, and flux onto a clay body through kiln firing. This practice evolves over decades developing from multiple trajectories including theoretical foundations, systematic experimentation, and happy accidents. This work describes virtual site visits with six expert ceramicists and documents how material knowledge is externalized in practice, teaching, and the studio environment. We synthesize our findings into a framework
Publication Date
2-22-2022
Language
English
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Moradi, Hedieh; Nguyen, Long N.; Nguyen, Quyen Anh Valentina; and Torres, Cesar, "Glaze Epochs: Understanding Lifelong Material Relationships within Ceramics Studios" (2022). Association of Computing Machinery Open Access Agreement Publications. 63.
https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/utalibraries_acmoapubs/63