Students Enrolled in Current Class: Please note that if you are unable to give us at least 48hrs notice that you will be missing a class, we are unable to promise that we will be able to schedule a make-up class. Katie Treggiden is a design writer, editor, curator, lecturer and consultant. Treggiden writes for the Guardian Magazine, the Telegraph Magazine, Elle Decoration and Icon, among others. She is the author of The Makers of East London and of The Residents: Inside the Iconic Barbican Estate.

Written by design journalist Katie Treggiden and published by Ludion, the book introduces 28 young ceramicists in their six respective cities – exploring their work, studios and inspiration. The book introduces 28 young ceramicists – including Helen Levi – and explores their work, studios and inspiration And so while the well-documented rise of industrial pottery was taking place in Stoke-on-Trent, studio pottery was quietly asserting itself in opposition. Denmark’s mid-century studio pottery movement similarly developed in parallel to Royal Copenhagen’s factory-made porcelain. Private lesson pricing is tiered. If your group size changes from when you originally booked, you are expected to pay the price-per-person of your actual group size. So if the original studio pottery movement was a reaction against industrialisation and urbanisation, what is driving the contemporary revival – and why is it happening in cities? The obvious answer to the former is that artists are reacting to the digital revolution in the same way that they reacted to the Industrial Revolution and Adamson’s work bears this out: ‘Our own era is just as potentially traumatic and disruptive as the time of the industrial revolution.’ Indeed, he describes craft as ‘an understandable response to the crises of modernity.’ News about our Dezeen Awards China programme, including entry deadlines and announcements. Plus occasional updates.

Any cancellation made less than 48hrs will result in a cancellation fee. The amount of the fee will be equal to 50% of the amount paid for any Friday Night Throw Down and Private Lessons. Please note that we will do our best to work with you to reschedule. Discover the slow, tactile art of hand-building ceramics and express yourself through the act of creating unique, timeless pieces for your home. News about our Dezeen Awards programme, including entry deadlines and announcements. Plus occasional updates. Dezeen Events Guide We do our best to avoid holidays when scheduling these classes, however if a holiday lands amidst a 6 week class, the class will go ahead as scheduled. This cookie is used to remember display settings for colour contrast and font sizes set by the user in the accessibility options panel.

The book also maps out the shift from the standardisation and mass-manufacturing of pottery, to the revived interest in handmade ceramics Week Classes - Please ensure when signing up for a course that you will be able to attend all lessons scheduled for that course. Ceramics are typically completed on a weekly basis (just like our courses are laid out)! This is very important to maintain due to the drying time required for your pieces each week. Missing a class may mean your pieces become too dry to work with, and need to be disposed of.

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Editor of Crafts magazine Grant Gibson cites more expansive reasons for the current resurgence of craft, including increasingly risk-adverse manufacturers driving new designers to find their own routes to market, a recession-driven ‘make do and mend’ culture and conversely the rise of ‘an uber-rich class’ in cities such as London providing a market for expensive one-off pieces, together with the ‘intellectual boost’ provided by publications such as The Craftsman by Richard Sennet, Matthew Crawford ’s The Case for Working With Your Hands, and The Hare With The Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal, alongside exhibitions such as The Power of Making at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in2011. See more competitions with great prizes currently on Dezeen › Urban Potters: Makers in the City documents the revival of ceramics in six major cities Weekly updates on the latest design and architecture vacancies advertised on Dezeen Jobs. Plus occasional news. Dezeen Awards The book also maps out the shift from the standardisation and mass-manufacturing of pottery, to the revived interest in handmade ceramics – which has seen Turner prize-winning Assemble "squish" coloured clays to create one-of-a-kind products, and Alissa Volchkova create porcelain bowls that look like paint blobs.