[chasil]

I am wondering what of this could be used in high-volume industrial processes.

"We had the privilege of spending two days with this skilled craftsman, learning how to identify and collect the clay, and how to model and fire it using old, dry branches collected from the forest ground."

[jedimastert]

I think the entire point of the project and potentially the research group is looking at manufacturing while explicitly/intentionally steering away from high volume and industrial processes.

[kennywinker]

You can buy clay industrially, if you don’t care where it’s from.

But I think the point of this project is to do small-scale production, not develop new techniques for mass manufacturing

[pjc50]

I think they're sufficiently opposed to high-volume industrial processes as a concept that they would select techniques that cannot be scaled in that way. Part of the art, I suppose.

Edit: ages ago, I thought of but never finished writing down an idea I had for an "anti-masterwork" for electronics. A traditional "masterwork" demonstrates knowledge of the craft by using standard techniques extremely well. So an "anti-masterwork" would demonstrate knowledge by using nonstandard techniques, or deliberately violating best practices, within the constraint of still having to actually work. A bit of a joke or troll.

One of the subideas was "design against manufacturing". Nonreproducible techniques that have to be done by hand. I considered glass and wood but this ceramic would have fit right in.

With a bit more aesthetic consideration you could even make electronic jewelery using ceramic and glass.

[tripzilch]

I love that idea (the "anti-masterwork")