Kandidatuppsatser / Steneby - Institutionen för Konsthantverk och Designhttps://hdl.handle.net/2077/282402024-03-28T15:32:13Z2024-03-28T15:32:13ZHarmony, a sense of time difference in urban societyErlandsson, Jenshttps://hdl.handle.net/2077/674772021-02-02T02:40:39Z2021-02-01T00:00:00ZHarmony, a sense of time difference in urban society
Erlandsson, Jens
In this text I will describe my work process, which for this project is based on how to use the traditional technique of blacksmithing in an innovative way. I want to help people forget their surroundings for a brief moment and get a sense of harmony, by constructing a decorative panel design from recycled iron and steel, which can be applied to building facades in public space. My goal is to create a peaceful and harmonious look that will reduce the feeling of stress in everyday life.
I denna text kommer jag att beskriva min arbetsprocess, som i detta projekt bygger på hur jag kan använda det traditionella hantverket smide på ett mer nytänkande sätt. Jag vill låta betraktaren glömma sin omgivning för ett kort ögonblick och uppleva en stund av harmoni, genom att utforma en dekorativ panelkonstruktion tillverkad av återvunnet järn och stål, som kan placeras på husfasader och dylikt i det offentliga rummet. Målet är att skapa ett stilla och meditativt uttryck som reducerar känslan av stress i vardagen.
2021-02-01T00:00:00ZEnamelled steelPostlmayr, Johanneshttps://hdl.handle.net/2077/672102021-01-06T02:40:46Z2021-01-05T00:00:00ZEnamelled steel
Postlmayr, Johannes
This exam project is about a material that developed with the rise of the industrial revolution, became almost obsolete in recent decades, and that I now use in the field of applied art, craft, and design.
Enamelled steel is a material mostly known for its use in domestic kitchenware and colourful road and advertising signs. A compound material, where a thin coat of glass gets fused onto a metallic base material.Through extensive historical research, I learned about makers and scientists across 19th century Europe, who addressed public health issues, like lead-poisoning through improper cooking utensils. Their inventiveness and approach, to solve problems with scientific thoroughness and high-quality craft, informed and inspired me to develop my work further. This project and its physical artwork pay tribute to the early inventors and their experimental methods, as well as to the mass-production manufacturers later, who were able to distribute safe and affordable cooking utensils to the general public.
Slightly interrupted by the outbreak of a global pandemic, this project has a contemporary approach to craft, in combination with digital tools and modern manufacturing processes, but not losing sight of the value of carefully crafted, handmade work.
2021-01-05T00:00:00ZCARVING STEELHalkosaari, Arttuhttps://hdl.handle.net/2077/665822020-09-26T01:34:18Z2020-09-25T00:00:00ZCARVING STEEL
Halkosaari, Arttu
This exam project will be a conclusion for a long working process which started a year and a half ago. During this time, I have developed my own way of working with a plasma cutter and use that with different forged forms to create sculptures with varying textures. To me my work talks about
the long learning process and trying to find my own language in the world of art and forging.
The pieces focus on tactility and the experience the viewer gets while they interact with them. The interaction between my work and the viewer is highly touch based, as having these differently
textured sections provide the viewer with more ways of investigating my work than just visual. By using organic shapes, the viewer is given a contrast of shapes and textures between the exterior and
the interior.
My exam pieces are upscaled versions of a set I had made earlier during my third year. This was done to see what would happen to the tactile expression of them as they get bigger and how the viewer changes their way of investigating the objects.
2020-09-25T00:00:00ZNågon syr, är det du? Det är jag som syr. Jag syr mig själv en ny kropp.Starfelt, Tovehttps://hdl.handle.net/2077/663012020-09-04T01:33:21Z2020-09-03T00:00:00ZNågon syr, är det du? Det är jag som syr. Jag syr mig själv en ny kropp.
Starfelt, Tove
In my bachelor’s thesis, I explore the tension between the expected and the unexpected concerning my own body and a doll’s body parts. I was in my bedroom; in my bed, surrounded by piles of fabric, when this work initiated. In this closed room, protected from the possible gaze of others an intimate examination of my own body took place. I study my body’s shape, I feel with my hands, the feeling of my body is stored in my fingers which then recreates the shapes that become a textile doll’s body parts. The intimate encounter that arises between my body and the textile doll is fascinating. For countless hours, my skin touches the textile, and the textile touches my skin. I´m struck by the feeling reminiscent of how an intimate relationship with another human being can be experienced; when I´m not sure where I end and you begin. I then photograph when I interact with the doll’s body parts. They become my dentures, by interfering we become less definable and a new body emerges. A hybrid.
2020-09-03T00:00:00Z