Unfold presented Stratigraphic Manufactury for
the first time in the inaugural Istanbul Design
Biennial.
Joseph
Grima, curator of the Adhocracy exhibition and former editor of
Domus Magazine, commissioned the project featuring Unfold's
continuing work on ceramic 3d printing and its implications on
design and manufacturing.
In Stratigraphic Manufactury, Unfold builds on their Stratigraphic
Porcelain series started in 2010 with their internationally
acclaimed installation
l'Artisan Électronique
and explores methods of manufacturing and distributing design in
the dawning era of digital production. Stratigraphic Manufactury is
a new model for the distribution and digital manufacturing of
porcelain, which includes local small manufacturing units that are
globally connected. One that embraces local production variations
and influences.
Unfold presented
Stratigraphic Manufactury for the first time in the inaugural
Istanbul Design Biennial.
Joseph Grima, curator of the
Adhocracy exhibition and former editor of Domus Magazine,
commissioned the project featuring Unfold's continuing work on
ceramic 3d printing and its implications on design and
manufacturing.
In Stratigraphic Manufactury, Unfold builds on their Stratigraphic
Porcelain series started in 2010 with their internationally
acclaimed installation
l'Artisan Électronique
and explores methods of manufacturing and distributing design in
the dawning era of digital production. Stratigraphic Manufactury is
a new model for the distribution and digital manufacturing of
porcelain, which includes local small manufacturing units that are
globally connected. One that embraces local production variations
and influences.
A set of digital 3d files of
designs first presented in
April 2011 in Milan by Unfold has been e-mailed to various
manufacturers around the world who have acquired the ceramic 3d
printing production method that Unfold pioneered and open sourced
in 2009. They were instructed not to alter the digital files but
were free to incorporate personal and local influences, like
different clays or glazes, during the production process. These new
sets were presented in Adhocracy in the context of a local
manufacturing shop. Two Turkish ceramists, Mustafa Canyurt and
Ahmet Gülkokan, ran the Istanbul manufacturing shop in the
exhibition and printed more localized sets of Stratigraphic
Manufactury tableware.
During the Adhocracy exhibition in New York and London, two
more temporary manufacturing shops were operational. The latest
addition was during the 2014 Taiwan Ceramics Biennial in Yingge,
Taipei. These temporary shops each add another new local variation
to the growing family of Stratigraphic Manufactury
tableware..
In collaboration with
Jonathan
Keep (UK), Eran Gal-Or (Israel),
Ahmet Gülkokan (Turkey),
Mustafa Canyurt (Turkey),
Eric Hollender (USA),
Larisa Daiga (USA),
Jen Poueymirou (USA),
Benjamin
Matthews (UK) and
Alicia
Ongay Perez (UK),
Shih-Dea Tseng (TW),
Chia-Feng Chen (TW), Chih-Min Hsu (TW),
Kamm Kai Yu (TW)
Stratigraphic Manufactury has been exhibited in, amongst others:
Adhocracy at Istanbul Design Biennial (TN);
Taiwan
Ceramics Biennale, Taipei (TW);
New Morphologies at
Alfred Ceramic Art Museum (US) &
Henry van de Velde
Awards at Bozar Brussels (BE)
photo courtesy:
fig. 01, 10-21: photography by Unfold
fig. 01, 03, 04: photography by Jonathan Keep
fig. 05-07: photography by Eran Gal-Or
fig. 02: photography by Ekin Kayış
fig. 08, 09: photography by Ahmet Gülkokan
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