Helping Indonesian artisans think like designers
In Indonesia, craft has become an unsustainable industry. We’re helping build cooperation and fair trade into every design.
Sheffield Institute of Arts Degree Show 2019
See work by the talented new generation who will shape the future of our creative industries
Jeff Durber
I am a Senior Lecturer in the Sheffield Institute of Arts where I teach on the BA (Hons) Jewellery and Metalwork course
“I want to set up my own design studio at home in India using both contemporary and traditional practices.”
International MA Design student Divya Potluri plans to set up for own design studio back home in India using both contemporary and traditional practices.
Chris Knight
I joined the jewellery and metalwork team at Sheffield Hallam in 2003. Having graduated Sheffield City Polytechnic in 1987, I worked as a designer goldsmith in the USA for three years followed by a master’s degree at the Royal College of Art. Graduating in 1992, I established my first studio in London which I relocated to Sheffield in 1996. I have been teaching in higher education since 1993 and am currently a part–time Senior Lecturer at SHU, independent silversmith and Director of Si Applied Ltd.
Danielle Muntyan
Lecturer on the BA(Hons) Fashion Management and Communication degree course at Sheffield Hallam University
The Practices and Circumstances that shape Product Attachment in the Home
My article-based PhD contributes to research on design and sustainable consumption, by exploring how and why we keep things.
Objects in Purgatory
The Campaign for Objects in Purgatory is a creative research project that collects the stories of uncherished gifts, which despite their negative associations for the owner, are still kept. These possessions offer rich potential for interpretation, because they usually embody a contradiction in emotional value; as much as a recipient might want to rid themselves of an uncherished gift, they may also feel compelled to keep it.
Exchange Brooches
The brooches pictured belong to a series of over 100, made for The Campaign for Objects in Purgatory. They were given to contributors to the Objects in Purgatory exhibition (Sheffield Institute of Arts Gallery 2011) in exchange for contributing their story or drawing of an uncherished gift. The project has been initiated and developed by designer Julia Keyte.