Ceramic Futures Approach Explained in Little Book

Cookbook to try at home

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This year we had an opportunity to participate in Ceramic Futures for the second time and here we want to share our process thinking that it might be helpful for others when shaping learning environments.

CF is an online/offline workshop between four European design and art schools where groups of students were working locally offline and communicating all the process online in the Google Plus community. It is promoted by Confindustria Ceramica for Cersaie where all the final works of students were exhibited.

We tried to facilitate this process, analyzing past experience and improving it, pushing forward what we learned about ways to design the future.

As we had some time to experiment with the process we tried to have a well structured work this year with “missions” and tools guiding the group.

In the booklet you can find a description of each week with the full text of mission and links to download them if needed. There are also links to all steps of process in Google plus community.

Then tools are spread throughout the book following the order in which they were introduced during process:

We also included templates that were provided to participants.

Then there are of course some students’s works illustrating the process. (All of them you can find in Google plus):

Basically, this PDF works as a guide to navigate the huge and dispersed archive produced by CF2: google drive folders and files, G+ posts, websites.

Download, use, fine tune all formats/templates we produced. It can either be for applying some tools on completely different process/project!

Find yourself any way this can be useful to you!

#designyourowntools

Feel free to share with us (we are actually looking forward to that!) any kind of comments/improvements/ideas you might have on our work.