The Riga Porcelain Museum takes part in a four year project “Ceramics and its Dimensions” co-supported by the Creative Europe (2014 – 2020) Programme of the European Union.
The project “Ceramics and its Dimensions” brings museums, universities, and companies together to investigate the various aspects of the issue from all angles – culturally, academically, and industrially – and thus to create sustainable results. The project aims at connecting European cultural institutions, industry, science and technology in the field of ceramics and porcelain, as well as documenting the use of ceramics in different European geographical, historical and cultural contexts, starting from the Baroque period up to the present time, with reference to future challenges.
Through the use of digital media, the results of the project will be made available to a wide audience: https://ceramicsanditsdimensions.eu/
The project comprises 10 thematic modules whose holders are different European institutions (museums, universities, etc.) and it will take place from December 2014 to November 2018.
The Project coordinator is Porzellanikon – Staatliches Museum für Porzellan, Hohenberg a. d. Eger / Selb (Germany).
18 European partners from 11 countries:
The Museum of Applied Art (Muzej primenjene umetnosti), Belgrade, Serbia;
The International Museum of Ceramics (Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza), Faenza, Italy;
Porzellanikon – Staatliches Museum für Porzellan, Hohenberg a. d. Eger / Selb (Germany);
The National Museum of Ceramics (Museo Nacional de Cerámica y Artes Suntuarias “González Martí”, Valencia, Spain;
The Pottery Museum and Art Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent, the United Kingdom;
Aalto University (Aalto –yliopisto, Taiteiden ja suunnittelun korkeakoulu, Muotoilun laitos), Helsinki, Finland;
University of Ulster, Institute for Art & Design (Belfast, UK);
The Berlin Weissensee School of Art (Kunsthochschule Berlin Weißensee), Germany;
Ilmeanu Technical University (Technische Universität Ilmenau), Germany;
Muzeum of decorative Arts (Uměleckoprůmyslove museum v Praze) in Prague, Czech Republic);
Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design (Eesti Tarbekunsti- ja Disainimuuseum),Tallinn, Estonia;
General Chemical Engineering Institute, Riga Technical University (Vispārīgās Ķīmijas Tehnoloģijas Institūts, Rīgas Tehniskā Universitāte), Latvia;
Riga Porcelain Museum of the Association of Culture Institutions of the Riga City Council (Rīgas pašvaldības kultūras iestāžu apvienības Rīgas Porcelāna muzejs), Latvia.
The contribution of this project is reflected in the documentation of the cultural tradition of ceramics based on the history of its use in a variety of European cultures, in research pertaining to changes in the way of its use to the present day, as well as in pointing to future challenges and opportunities that lie ahead of ceramic products. The main objective of the project and all its modules is to promote creativity and define the vision of ceramics in the European context, which includes complex cultures and different nations. Common cultural heritage will be presented through databases, catalogues and other joint exhibitions which will be organized once the project has ended. All this will serve as a source of ideas for new products in the field of art, craft and design.
Project`s newsletter can be found here: https://www2.tu-ilmenau.de/ifmk-newsletter/ceramics_news/2016-01/Ceramics_newsletter.html