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‘Flightlines’ podcast champions women in ceramics

Beyond the studio and gallery, women ceramicists navigate adaptation, collaboration, and resilience in ways that remain largely unrecognized. Shaped by interaction and coexistence, their practices challenge traditional models of making. Through conversations between ceramicists redefining the field, we bring these…

Designing Countercultural Heritage at New Origins Unconference

On the 25 June 2024, Dr Violeta Tsenova (Anglia Ruskin University) and Dr Anaïs Carlton-Parada (Loughborough University, London) gave respective talks—chaired by Dr Philip Ely, Reader in Design at MMU—at the Transformative Practices‘ research group New Origins Unconference currently running…

New Origins Unconference

In April 2024, the Transformative Practices research group launched the New Origins Unconference. There are, as Prendeville and Koria (2022) have suggested, multiple ways that design is said to be ‘transformative’. Normatively, design practice and research concerned with what we…