EXPLRING RITUAL IN ARCHITECTURE CREATIVE PLACEMAKING THROUGH CRAFT

Abstract

A ritual can be described as an act, a celebration, a movement in space, a ceremony, worship, or tradition. Architecture has the capacity to realise social relations through developing meaningful linkages between spatial practices of the users. These practices can range from the mundane to the grand in scale. In particular, we will be exploring the process of ceramics architecturally by considering the steps in the process to be similar in nature to "ritual" in architecture. This will not only be applied to spatial relations on a micro level but also in the urban context through serious leisure. This aims to contribute to the revival of the craft on both institute level and community level through creative place making. Combined with the technical nature of the process itself, the resulting experiential quality is functional, with importance in hierarchy to the core parts of the process stitched together by liminal space that bring about a holistic experience.