The practice of crafts is about investigating the world and bringing it to life through material, body, use, history, culture, time, place… the list is as extensive as the count of components which the world is comprised of and indeed the people that live within it. Here, different conceptions of the world are the basis of the diversity of voices in our society.

Ädellab’s bachelor’s students are the next generation of crafts practitioners within their respective practices: jewellery art and corpus. Over the course of a three-year programme, they are encouraged and challenged in various ways to critically investigate and problematise their preconceptions and conceptions of these practices. Through unreserved experimentation, they establish individual experience-based, material, theoretical and contextual reference frameworks surrounding jewellery art and corpus in particular, but also crafts in general.

In the students’ questions and creations, we find their voices. They focus their attention on the exploration of material cultures in which, through practice, they create stories which express a contemporary world filled within human activity and lived experiences.

Through the students’ work we see inclusive conceptions of what jewellery art, corpus and crafts can be, how they can be examined, and where and for whom they can exist.

Miro Sazdic
Senior Lecturer in Crafts, specialising in jewellery