Balloon Bowls
- Designer: Julia Bujak, Julia Karnaś, Eugenia Griesznikowa, Wiktor Pawlak, Vladyslav Smalii
- Project advisors: Sara Boś, Arkadiusz Szwed, Jakub Franczuk
- Materials: clay mass, balloons
Hack the process
Creations of Mechanical Hands
Not much has changed since the mass production of porcelain was invented in the 19th century. Students at the School of Form decided to break this pattern and use KUKA robots to produce porcelain dishes. They wanted the results of their experiments to be a record of their struggle with the material, but also to answer their design questions: If we can do everything with two hands, can we do it with one (robotic) hand? How will porcelain behave when we add breakfast cereal, yeast and vitamin C tablets, or hygroscopic granules? Will the resulting objects be useful, precisely made? It turns out that by interfering with the material and the unusual way of forming, the students achieved amazing results.
Balloon Bowls
Balloon Bowls
WHAT KUKA DOES: it holds an inflated balloon using a vacuum cleaner, then it dips the balloon in a rotating bowl filled with clay, and puts the balloon away to dry.
HOW: Once the clay is dry, the balloons are deflated to prevent the walls of clay moulds from cracking. With the balloons removed, what’s left are bowls ready for the firing process. Moulds created this way are delicate and thinner than the ones cast in traditional moulds.
Designers
Bowls was created by Julia Bujak, Julia Karnaś, Eugenia Griesznikowa, Wiktor Pawlak, Vladyslav Smalii - students of School of Form SWPS University.
Project was a part of "Hack the Process" exhibition, which was presented for one month at the gallery of the Polish Institute in Vienna as part of the Vienna Design Week (17.9-3.11.2022).