Output details
34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
Falmouth University
Creativity in the Bronze Age: A Response, The Makers Engagement Project.
This research project produced a series of physical artefacts for exhibition. The project was under the aegis of ‘Creativity and Craft Production in the Middle and Late Bronze Age (CinBA),’ a three-year cross-disciplinary HERA-funded project led by Dr. Jo Sofaer at the University of Southampton. CinBA partners were the University of Cambridge, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, The Archaeological Museum – Zagreb, National Museum of Denmark, Natural History Museum Vienna, and the Crafts Council. The project uniquely sutures crafting and archaeological practices.
My rôle within the wider project was to offer a contemporary crafts response to Bronze Age artefacts in a maker’s engagement project. The maker’s engagement explores the geneses of creative possibilities and their subsequent adaptation throughout the longue dureé. Made objects are foregrounded as bases for innovative heritage experiences wherein the creative potential of objects are explored as offering new roles for contemporary craft. The principal output from this project has been objects produced for exhibition. There has also been a paper presented at the final conference, University of Cambridge, Magdalene College in April 2013, ‘Creativity: An exploration as a maker in the CinBA Project.’
CinBA outputs have circulated through the CinBA website, the HERA project network and the HERA website. My personal outputs have disseminated through the CinBA website, two exhibitions and a feature in Crafts Magazine.
• Cambridge Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology – April 2013.
• Wiltshire Heritage Museum, ‘Inspirations from the Bronze Age’ – July 2013.
• University of Cambridge April 2013 Creativity: An exploration as a maker in the CinBA Project.’
• Crafts Magazine July/August 2013 - Crafts Council executive director, Rosie Greenlees: Inside Edge Article.
www.CinBA.net
http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/professional-development/research-and-information/cinba-research-project/
