Decoding Ceramics digital platform

The Decoding Ceramics learning platform is the open access repository for the outputs of the Erasmus CRAFT project.

The Platform shares discipline knowledge and specialist techniques and skills, across a range of educational settings the platform holds this repertoire for the ceramics community, enabling access to knowledge, sharing, and the ability to learn ceramic techniques and skills by hosting the following project outputs

The interactive map visualises the European discipline of ceramics,identifying existing knowledge and where various typologies of skills exist and/or can be acquired, including information on available local materials and historical traditions. The Mapping tool provides the ceramic community with access to fundamental knowledge.

The Decoding Cards - innovative pedagogical approaches gathered enable the application or adoption of the teaching resources from the toolkit across a diverse range of contexts from HEI to individual studios.

Multilingual tool glossary - designed to enable knowledge transfer across language barriers.

The design development and roll-out of the interactive platform integrated the different ICT technologies including React for the frontend, Java Spring Boot for the backend, Leaflet for mapping, and d3 for data visualization.

The Platform establishes a tangible legacy of the project by acting as the host of a new network of Higher Education Institutes committed to providing sustainable ceramic education and acting as subject custodians and a home intangible cultural heritage.

• http://decodingceramics.org