ACTIVITATS COMPLEMENTÀRIES:
Taller demostració d'impressió 3D per artesania high tech
Transdisciplinarietat. Treballar, menjar, viure sense pressa
L’Escola d’Art i Superior de Ceràmica, in Manises, was created with the aim of providing artistic and technological education adapted to the professional needs of the omnipresent and innovative ceramics industry of the Valencian Community. Since its creation, it has gone through several stages with continuous changes in the legislation that regulated its study plans, in the aesthetics of the object environment and in the ceramic production processes.
The ceramic objects come within the category of industrial design. These are products designed a priori to be reproduced later by means of iterative mechanised processes.
The project and design processes in ceramics are no different from those used in other industrial sectors. However, ceramics add a differential crux that emanates from the material used and the materialisation phases of the project, forcing the creative processes and technological knowledge to keep a close relationship in order to achieve optimum results.
In spite of the huge role that the ceramics tradition exercised, and still exercises, already in the 80s the ceramics industry had the collaboration of the design for its creative process. Taking advantage of the success of this relationship during this decade, the school defined a work team composed of a teacher (in charge of the creative process) and several workshop teachers (modelling, moulds, silk-screen printing and manufacturing). This structure was the application of the didactic model of the 20s from the Bauhaus, which has still not been interiorised here.
During the 90s, at the height of the Valencian design boom, the situation was normalised and the figure of the designer with all its consequences was introduced. However, it was not until 2000, with the change in the curriculum that raised the qualification of Expert in Ceramics to Diploma in Ceramics, that it was officially incorporated into the curriculum, thus creating specific subjects relating to industrial design applied to ceramics. It is important to note that, although the change represented an advance, it was also a considerable step backwards in relation to the evolution that the former centres of applied arts in Central Europe, now becoming universities, have undergone with the Bologna Process. It took another change, five years later, to acquire the confusing status of the Higher Degree in Ceramics equivalent to the University Degree where we are located.
The exhibition is a journey through the four decades of the evolution of ceramics design that emerged from the classrooms of the EA+SC in Manises. Short series, accessibility to the environment, gastronomy, ecology and high-tech technology…, are some of the distinctive features of the concepts included in the projects presented, which reflect the evolution of the object environment of our society throughout these 40 years.
L’Escola d’Art i Superior de Ceràmica in Manises is up to date in terms of social commitments, trends and new technologies, and establishes links with companies of the ceramics sector, which enable connexion with the real word and feedback on training and quality improvement plans for ceramics production. The exhibition is a claim for a vision of a sustainable, inclusive and beautiful future built with ceramics.
