On the 28th of November, 2013,
we played with clay




  • What you need for the workshop:
  • • Clay
  • • a Lamp and Timer
  • • Pen and Paper
  • • a List of ca. 40 words
  • Instructions for the workshop:
  • • Play in rounds, each round lasts about 1 minute
  • • Take a hand full of clay
  • • The first player picks the first word on the list, the following player the second word etc.
  • • Write down the word on the paper and model it from the clay.
  • • React to the existing clay shapes on the paper, you are free to modify existing shapes
  • • Explain your creation to your fellow players

Clay Analytics is a workshop format that tries to approach the vocabulary that is touched upon in discourses around participation in art and design in a tangible way. The workshop was designed by Luna Maurer of Moniker in dialogue with the book Participation is Risky by Liesbeth Huybrechts (Social Spaces). It uses clay and light play to make hands-on representations and even stories around words such as participation, user and maker, hybridity, autonomy, authorship, community and so on. Via making (claying), the workshops initiate conversations and idea generation around participation.



List of words taken out of the book ‘Participation is Risky’, by Liesbeth Huybrechts

Imperfection
Collage-making
User and Maker
Potential Participants
Discussion
The Uncertain Space
Releasing Autonomy or Authorship
Risk

People and Objects
Things
Complexity
Professional and Lay
Dynamics
Ongoing Negotiations
Moderated
Exchange
Generativity
Hybridity
Uncertain differences
Digital age

Other Disciplines
Online Communities
Use Time
New Media Tools
Unexpected Ways
Initial Intentions
Comfort Zone
Backgrounds
In-between Qualities
Neighbourhood
Skills and Knowledge
Balance