ADXTUR | Schist Villages

"Do it with your own hands” is a project by the designer Mariana Costa e Silva that designs furniture that is simple to make and good to use.   In this workshop mothers and/or fathers will build together with their children a chair and a table, it will be a novelty in the room of the youngest!

We started from the ancestral technique of the ball to make a set of Chawan tea cups (Japanese cups) followed by thinning with a rudimentary wooden tool to give them their shape.   Looking for the relationship between the object and the hand, we explore the balance of form and dimension in a rhythmic cadence of time like a pulse. We propose the construction of a memory about knowing how to do, the expression that each one can transmit to matter, each moment of contemplation, the reunion with oneself in a cup of tea.   The highlight of this workshop is always the Raku firing! We will decorate our set of cups of tea with glazes and ceramic dyes and then submit them to the action of fire in the Raku kiln, for about 30 minutes. We can enjoy the incandescent pieces when they come out of the kiln and we are surprised by the effects produced by this process.

... with Kerstin Thomas & Renato Costa e Silva   In this course you can learn to handle hand tools like bundle and chisels to make your sculpture. We also introduce you to the work with chainsaw and power tools, we propose a diversity in carving techniques to give form to your final work. Working with wood is a continuous dialogue with the material, respecting its unique characteristics to achieve the result we wish. In order to her vision of resource sustainability, Kerstin prefers to work with wood from fallen trees or left overs from the sawmill.   Each participant will design, with our support, their own project, plan and choose raw material and the appropriate tool at each step of the process. If you have your own project in mind, please contact us in advance so we can better support your plans.