Mapping the Anthropocene: Atelier NL, a Case Study of Place-Based Material Craft Practices

This paper argues that mapping as a methodology can support localised production, exemplified in the case study of design studio Atelier NL which marries contemporary sensibilities with traditional glass and ceramics craft-making techniques. The puts forward argument by paying attention to local ecosystem services through mapping, place-based solutions be developed. Furthermore, methodologies deployed borrow from art creative practices. uses framework Anthropocene situate these practices identified within contextualises 20th-century environmental arts practices, those pioneers Harrisons particular. Finally, are responding conditions increasingly makes clear culture nature enmeshed, an insight 19th-century town planner Patrick Geddes argued for more than century ago.