local earth course: underground irrigation with clay pots

La Escocesa Summer camp is back with the pottery workshop. Over 4 sessions we will model pots for the construction of an irrigation system that aims to use water efficiently and sustainably during the summer months.

These will be theoretical-practical sessions where, apart from working with our hands, we seek to document and rethink pottery as a technology to contribute to the regeneration and sustainability of urban environments.

Maria Roy and Jocelyn Muñoz will be responsible for leading the workshop where they will propose a territorial investigation of pottery from two different perspectives and territories: Catalonia and Valparaiso (Chile).

Local resources (clays extracted from plots of land in Poble Nou) and traditional processes will be used.

program

session 1

Tuesday 2^nd July from 18 to 21h
Theoretical-practical session (3h)

From 18h to 19h
Introduction to the course: what is clay, where is it found, how to identify clay, types of clay, how to classify it and how to process it.

From 19h to 21h
Collecting soil from the neighbourhood's wastelands and processing the soil to obtain clay pastes.

session 2

Tuesday 9^th July from 18 to 21h
Theoretical-practical session (3h)

From 18h to 19h
We will talk about the use of ceramics as an irrigation system, its history and we will see examples in different cultures.

From 19h to 21h
Introduction to the two modelling techniques we will use: churro and pinch technique.

Session 3

Tuesday 16^th July from 18h to 21h

Practical session (3h)
The third session will be entirely practical and we will model the pots.

Session 4

Tuesday 23^rd July from 18 to 21h

Practical session (3h)
In the last session we will focus on burnished finishes, earthenware sigillata, engobes, textures and inlays.

bios

Maria Roy (Barcelona, 1993) is an artist and designer who works with both traditional and experimental craft techniques to explore and assimilate the world around her. Her main subject of study is the earth, as living matter that narrates about history, politics and ecology from the local. Using the resources that the earth provides, she forms ceramic sculptures that are closely linked to the geographical context in which she develops her practice. With a keen interest in ceramics as an archaeological material, she aims to recover narratives that connect us to the environment through objects. Over the last few years, Maria has been teaching on the Arts and Design Degree at the Massana School and teaches ceramics workshops with the aim of linking the community with the environment and its resources. She also shares her knowledge of ceramics at La Escocesa.

Jocelyn Muñoz Báez Researcher and visual producer, with a transdisciplinary approach that integrates art and ethnography. She has extensive experience in the management of art spaces, curatorship and teaching. She is currently studying for a master's degree in Anthropology and Ethnography at the University of Barcelona. She has a master's degree in visual culture studies, where she focused on archiving and politics of representation. She is the creator of the expanded research programme Dé_Tour [ethnography and drifts]: a methodological tool that has explored the relationship between visual documents, social memory and visual and political practices in Chile and Latin America.

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