More and more traditional manual crafts in Switzerland are threatened with extinction or have already disappeared. What do crafts need to survive?
Taking rustic Bern ceramics, I establish the core design principles of the craft. By reducing the design, I then give the craft a new accessibility. In doing so, I focus on the engobe painting, which is applied to the leather-hard clay. Using a stencilling that adopts traditional elements, the result is a reduced design idiom coupled with a tool for the inter-generational transfer of knowledge.
