Conferences & Symposiums
2024
Making Change Conference: Sustainability & Ceramic Practice
Online: 22 & 29 January 2024
A single conference delivered online in two parts, exploring the meaning of sustainability in the context of ceramic practice in 2024. Recognising that ‘sustainability’ occupies multiple definitions, narratives, and actions in the ceramic community, this conference is a timely marker for the Leach Pottery as it embarks on a significant capital development project, reflecting on its responsibilities and the sustainability challenges it faces.
2022
Making Change Conference: Ceramic Practice as a Medium of Social & Political Change & Resistance
Online: 6 May 2022
The programme, developed by the Leach Pottery as part of its Leach 100 celebrations, will explore ceramic practice as an agent for social change through practice and engagement and ceramic practice as a site and/or medium of political resistance and engagement.
2021
Symposium: Sustaining the Studio - Sustaining Self
Online: 23 & 25 February 2021
An exciting symposium of Zoom talks and panels convened by Prof. Simon Olding, exploring the sustainable pottery studio and how pottery participation through our studios and communities sustains the self through wellbeing. Important and vital to all of us, wellbeing is even more significant in the current times.