MORE PARAMETRIC, LESS DIGITAL POTTERY BY GREAT THINGS TO PEOPLE

 

This is part of an exploration on how to create standard machines that generate non-standard results, mixing analog numerical control with traditional material and techniques integrated in one real-time process, suggesting that the parametric design is not necessarily a digital computation methodology. Crossing these formal and material results with some functions we can create tableware, candle holders, hanging lights and appliques, for example. We even have the possibility to change scale and produce larger objects, as tables, stools, mirrors, etc., using wax instead of pottery for lost wax casting processes (aluminum, brass, cooper) or catalyzed resin and so on. Three kinds of fabrics have been used (Gauze, Muslin and Lycra) and two kinds of potteries (Gres and Translucent porcelain).

 

This project gives us a new scope “More parametric, less digital”, allowing us to speak about parametric design without computers and digital fabrication laboratories which generates dialogues from academic contexts to communities of artisans.”

 

GT2P about the Less CPP Nº 1 Pottery