For the
Jerusalem Design
Week -themed EAST- Unfold tapped into the online network
of
ceramic 3D
printers it spearheaded 10 years ago in order to create a
line of makers around the world traveling from East to West. For
Via Binarii, the teapot is the starting point. Drawing inspiration
from the historic trade routes that delivered goods & knowledge
from the exotic east, we trace the origins of the teapot traveling
from China to England and continue this story in a contemporary
age.
Seven participants received the digital design from the person
who lives East from them and after appropriating, had sent this
design to the maker West of him. Like a chain letter, a line of
teapots arose that are digitally connected around the world, a full
circle that ended back at Unfold's own studio.
Participants:
Ronald Rael & Virginia San Fratello (SF, USA)
Kamm Kai Yu, Tzu-Yi Lu & Zhao-Wei Liu (Taiwan)
Claire Warnier & Dries Verbruggen (Belgium)
For the
Jerusalem Design
Week -themed EAST- Unfold tapped into the online network
of
ceramic 3D
printers it spearheaded 10 years ago in order to create a
line of makers around the world traveling from East to West. For
Via Binarii, the teapot is the starting point. Drawing inspiration
from the historic trade routes that delivered goods & knowledge
from the exotic east, we trace the origins of the teapot traveling
from China to England and continue this story in a contemporary
age.
Seven participants received the digital design from the person
who lives East from them and after appropriating, had sent this
design to the maker West of him. Like a chain letter, a line of
teapots arose that are digitally connected around the world, a full
circle that ended back at Unfold's own studio.
Participants:
Ronald Rael & Virginia San Fratello (SF, USA)
Kamm Kai Yu, Tzu-Yi Lu & Zhao-Wei Liu (Taiwan)
Claire Warnier & Dries Verbruggen (Belgium)
Via Binarii was on show during Jeruzalem Design Week from
13-20 June, 2019
fig. 01, 04, 06-07, 10: photography by Unfold
fig. 02-03, 11-12: photography by Jonathan Keep
fig. 05, 13: photography by Keith Simpson
fig. 08, 14: photography by Noam Dover
fig. 09: photography by Emre Can
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