Activating Pedagogy for Ceramic Education Futures Erasmus Project

Project Title

Activating Pedagogy for Ceramic Education Futures

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for higher education

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Pedagogy and didactics; Creativity and culture; New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses

Project Summary

CRAFT considers a cohesive and inter-disciplinary solution to the ever-widening issue of loss of intangible cultural heritage and knowledge. It also addresses the global, imperative concern in arts education of invaluable crafts and skills being lost due to lack of innovation and lack of a solid, established repository of knowledge. The project offers a tangible way forward, and enlists key players in the European ceramic field, to offer a specialised and complementary approach to bring together these fragmented practices, consolidating them into a range of forward-thinking pedagogical approaches. Ceramic practice and craft could then be shared and taught in a more democratic and reliable manner, to reach wider audiences and learners.

CRAFT – Activating Pedagogy for Ceramic Education Futures is a 3-year project aimed to support ceramic knowledge retention and transfer by:

– Mapping ceramic places, skills, process, technologies, intangible knowledge and training practices for making ceramics (O1);
– Developing pedagogical approaches and innovative teaching methods to teach ceramics to sustain the future of the subject (O2);
– Developing skills resources, offering repertoires of knowledge and practice for making ceramics (O3);

Moreover, three short-term staff training events (M13, M18 and M25) will be delivered to co-design and test the intellectual outputs, involving all partners to carry out observations, gain feedback, evaluate the activities and integrate into these in the outputs and shape long-term impact.

The project delivery methodology relies upon critical and creative thinking, participatory methods, problem and challenge-based learning approaches, design for transformational practices and collaborative methods. The project results will be research and industry informed, and implemented into each partner HEI’s teaching practice and pedagogies.

Project results will be widely disseminated as open educational resources and their impact shall be maximised through dissemination and communication activities carried out by the partners, including the organisation of two multiplier events for industry and academic stakeholders.

The project is delivered by a partnership of five leading European design HEIs pioneering heritage and future ceramic training. CRAFT will be undertaken by a multidisciplinary team committed to unleashing meaningful and innovative approaches to the planned activities. Partners in this project have connected through a recognised imperative and a shared commitment to providing ceramic education and the potential to scale the initiatives that they are each developing at BA and MA levels. CRAFFT reach out and impact is further extended through a network of five associate partners representing academic, societal and industry stakeholders. This partnership will be forming together the basis for a European network focused on the preservation and modernization of the ceramics craft, its effective dissemination through knowledge exchange, and the optimization and maximization of the ceramics curricula by developing new pedagogies. This partnership will enable the designer makers of the future through a new EU training network for ceramic learning, making and research at the university level.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 401603 Eur

Project Coordinator

THE UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS LONDON & Country: UK

Project Partners

• Vysoka skola umeleckoprumyslova v Praze
• UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA
• KUNSTHOGSKOLEN I OSLO KHIO
• KUNSTHOCHSCHULE BERLIN-WEISSENSEE HOCHSCHULE FUER GESTALTUNG