The Fired Material Design is a comprehensive study in ceramics. The students work with different types of clays from terracotta, earthenware, stoneware to bone china, and porcelain bodies.
The discipline covers processes like forming, glazing, firing, fusing, surface design, and decoration. The Institute has set up a fully functioning laboratory and workshops facility with various types of clays, minerals, oxides, and chemicals required for low fired earthenware to high fired bone china. This imparts the knowledge of individual and artistic practice as done by studio potters. Classroom projects are also carried out in terracotta clusters along with potters from various parts of the country. Ceramic industrial design and aspects of mass manufacturing are learned on-site by doing student projects in ceramic factories. The design work produced encompasses utility objects, lifestyle products for interior and exterior spaces as well as contemporary expressions of crafts.
Career Prospects
- Working with NGOs, pottery and design studios specifically working with lifestyle goods
- Tableware industry, Tile industry
- Ceramic and Glass Studios
- Graduates are encouraged to be entrepreneurs and set up their own business.
