Level 2 show starts in Truro Tomorrow ! !

Some exciting news about a project happening here at Falmouth.

A Music Memory Box for people with dementia, a flying lampshade that communicates feeling, and coins that trigger invaluable experiences: these are all part of Watershed's new Craft + Technology Residencies at Autonomatic, a research group based within Falmouth University's Academy of Innovation and Research (AIR).

The Craft + Technology Residencies, funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation and supported by the Crafts Council, bring together makers Heidi Hinder, Chloe Meineck and Patrick Laing, with technologists at Autonomatic in Falmouth, Pervasive Media Studio in Bristol and i-DAT in Plymouth, to explore how new technologies embedded in objects  (the Internet of Things) can enable remarkable interactions.

Imagine a music box that invites dementia sufferers to hold familiar objects, which activate songs, and magically stir inaccessible memories. Chloe Meineck's Music Memory Box does just that, but what if it could do even more? Setting out to develop this extraordinary project, Chloe will investigate the potential of communal experiences for care homes, which could even break out of the box to pervade the everyday.

Chloe Meineck and the music memory box

box owner

Beatrice Mayfield, Maker Development Manager at the Crafts Council, says "The Craft + Technology Residencies provide an opportunity for makers to collaborate with other industries. We look forward to how the makers and technologists will bring their unique skills to the production of a physical prototype and the impact this can have on each others' practices for maximum effect."

family tree

Codesigning

Craft + Technology Residencies will commence on 7 January 2013. Makers will receive research, development and production support for their projects. Residencies will last for three months, beginning with a public talk on 11 January 2013, and will culminate in a showcase event at Watershed on 28 March 2013.

http://www.chloemeineck.co.uk/

http://air.falmouth.ac.uk/research-groups/autonomatic

Two of our recent graduates are exhibiting at the Get Fresh show at Devon Guild of Craftsmen this week.

 

 

Emerging designer-makers
from the South West
12 January-24 February 2013 

http://www.crafts.org.uk/ 

Rebekah Lockley
Figurative and politcal ceramics

And Josh Kerley with his enigmatic Glass and mixed media assemblies



 

Some more of the Level 2 fashion Collaboration  work for your attention...

 Recent Graduate Felix McCormack recently invited us to the gorgeous Espressini coffee bar in Falmouth.

 

https://www.facebook.com/Espressini?filter=1

Just before Christmas and it was Espressini's first birthday. Felix had created amongst other things some really splendid syphon stands for their new Killibrew room. 

mmmmm waterjet cut marble

looks like something out of a Toulouse Lautrec painting

Felix Laughing at his own work

Read more about them here

http://felixmccormack.co.uk/syphon-stands/

 

 

Sri Lankan Design and Contemporary Crafts at Falmouth.

The venue..(behind the boats)

Alongside colleagues  from Fashion and Graphic Design Contemporary Crafts Course Leader Jason Cleverly has just returned from The Sri Lanka Design Festival. 

printing block

terracotta

 http://www.srilankadesignfestival.com/

The aim of the trip was to examine the possibility of Contemporary Crafts Students collaborating with artisan makers over the next few years to develop a range of affordable sustainable products utilizing the traditional skills and materials favoured by the Sri Lankan makers.

Palm weave

http://dfsd.lk/island-craft.html

The trip, Instigated by Patrick Gottelier Head of the department of Design featured a whole range of lectures, debates, exhibitions, fashion shows and networking opportunities. It is hoped that future students will make the trip both to the Festival and and to meet the makers around the island.

The collaboration will also draw upon our relationship with students and staff from our  partners in the Academy of Art and Design Sri Lanka. The founders of the
Sri Lanka Design Festival.

http://www.aod.lk/

back end of an elephant!

  

ONE OF THE LANTERNS AFTER AN OUTING AT THE FALMOUTH PARADE

FOR MORE IMAGES GO TO

http://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/pictures/GALLERY-Truro-City-Lights-2012/pictures-17330258-detail/pictures.html

AND

http://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/pictures/GALLERY-Truro-City-Lights-2012/pictures-17330258-detail/pictures.html

The theme for this Year's City of Lights was Kings and Queens

Some shots of the making process- Level 2 worked in the studio as well as with local schools

Level 2 have recently Finished A collaborative project with Fashion students. 

Students from both courses worked on the same predictive inspirational themes to create body adornment and swimwear

We are hoping to have a fashion show in the Spring with fashion students at the Gylly beach Cafe meanwhile here's a preview.

Suits you sir

who you looking at

Flapper