The goal of my graduate thesis is to design a dinner service set suitable for mass manufacture. The purpose of completing an academic study of dinnerware as an industrial designer is to gain a mastery of a product used everyday in and out of the home. With such a rich history in ceramics, it is challenging to design a new dinner service set that is functional, enhances the aesthetics of a meal and sustains the intimate relationship of everyday use by adapting to lives. My particular design ideals are expressed in the line quality, section, volume, breadth and visual language of the Galaxy Collection. This document is a record of the research and decision making process for the design of the dinner service. / Master of Science

Em Campo Largo existe uma concentração de fábricas para a produção de louças de mesa branca de uso doméstico e por conta disso, em dezembro de 2010, a Lei no. 16.773, declarou \"O Município de Campo Largo como Capital da Louça, Porcelana de Mesa e da Cerâmica do Estado do Paraná\", tal evento pareceu confirmar um processo de formalização e de uma ritualização, que carrega do passado práticas desenvolvidas por meio de uma tradição. Para realizar o estudo que envolveu a história da produção de louças nesse município, uma questão central norteadora foi formulada buscando responder ao que se pode depreender do design de louças de mesa branca de uso doméstico, produzidas em Campo Largo, nas décadas de 1920 a 1960? Para responder à essa questão um estudo voltado para o paradigma qualitativo, na modalidade histórica, foi aplicado e como métodos de coletas de informações, entrevistas individuais e semiestruturadas, além delas, também foram feitas consultas a acervos particulares, de museus, memoriais, documentos históricos e consultas a dados da hemeroteca. As informações geradas pela coleta dos dados foram interpretadas e depois disso, divididas em categorias temáticas, utilizadas para responder a 4 questões que derivaram da questão central. A reconstituição realizada a partir dos dados encontrados de fábricas que existiram no início do século XX possibilitaram a geração de um documento que resgatou um passado, resultado da formação de uma rede de máquinas e equipamentos, associadas a assentamentos humanos que formaram um parque industrial que impactou no design da louça de mesa branca e também foi impactado por ela. Identificar oficialmente a cidade como sendo a Capital da Louça é indício de que um produto pode ser reflexo da sua história cultural, política e econômica além de ter, também, influenciado a construção de valores e hábitos nesse território. / In Campo Largo in the State of Paraná - Brazil, there is a concentration of factories that manufacture white tableware for domestic use, and because of that, in December 2010 the law no 16.773, decreed Campo Largo as \"Parana\'s white tableware capital\". Such event might have confirmed a process of formalization and a ritualization which carries from the past practices developed by means of a tradition. In order to carry out the research that included the history of the manufacturing of white tableware in this city, a fundamental guiding question was made up, seeking to answer what can be understood from the design of white tableware for domestic use manufactured in the city of Campo Largo, from the 1920\'s to the 1960\'s. To answer such question, a study focused on the qualitative paradigm with emphasis on the historic genre has been carried out using as data collect methods such as: in-depth interviews, visits to museums, visits to private collections, memorials and also the analysis of historic documents and newspapers. The information generated by the data collect was interpreted and then divided into thematic categories used to answer four questions derived from the fundamental one. The reconstitution made from the data found from factories that had been around in the early twentieth century enabled the generation of a document that rescued a past, which was the result of the formation of a network of machines and equipment, associated with human settlements, which in turn made up an industrial complex that impacted on the design of white tableware, and was also impacted by its design. Identifying officially the city of Campo Largo as being the capital of white tableware implies that a product can reflect its cultural, political and economic history and also this product has influenced the construction of values and habits in that territory.

"Hawaiian glossary": leaves 604-615. / Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1990. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 616-639) / Microfiche. / xxiv, 639 leaves, bound ill. 29 cm

Made available in DSpace on 2014-08-20T13:30:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Daniel Minossi Nunes_Dissertacao.pdf: 10901822 bytes, checksum: 65a25d5218a83518cf376be0da39be95 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-03-31 / During the first half of the twentieth century, the city of Porto Alegre/RS, experienced great transformations and urban reforms, such as opening and widening of streets,construction of the new port and the substantial improvement in the harbor area, and the construction of the first skyscrapers and verticalization of the urban landscape. Especially in downtown, the intensification of the modernization process was simultaneously associated with new social practices and new experiences of different social groups in Porto Alegre. In this sense, coffee shops, restaurants, bars and hotels were typically urban public spaces that favored all kinds of social relations, where were propagated and displayed the values associated with modern ideas. Therefore, this research investigates how the commercial tablewares in the state capital acted in the production and maintenance of social groups identified with an urban, elitist and modern lifestyle. The actor-network approach, applied to the present study of historical archeology, allowed tracing the unfailing action of the commercial wares in the chronics, administrative documents, filmic records and daily life of the population of Porto Alegre. By pursuing these objects in different information sources, we sought to emphasize the non-human dimension of social relations, especially considering the participation of the commercial tablewares in the construction and maintaining of the a hegemonic masculinity. Masculinity pattern notably inserted into an urban, industrial, bourgeois and capitalist order - a modern society. / Durante a primeira metade do século XX, a cidade de Porto Alegre/RS, experimentou transformações e reformas urbanas importantes, tais como a abertura e alargamento de avenidas, a edificação do novo porto e o sensível melhoramento da zona portuária, assim como a construção dos primeiros arranha-céus e a verticalização da paisagem urbana. Sobretudo na zona central da cidade, a intensificação do processo de modernização esteve paralelamente associada a novas práticas sociais e novas experiências vividas por diferentes grupos sociais porto-alegrenses. Nesse sentido, os cafés, os restaurantes, os bares e os hotéis foram espaços públicos tipicamente urbanos que propiciaram toda a sorte de relações sociais, onde eram propagados e exibidos os valores associados ao ideário moderno. Assim sendo, esta pesquisa investiga como a louçaria de mesa empregada por estabelecimentos comerciais da capital gaúcha agiu na produção e manutenção de grupos sociais identificados com um estilo de vida urbano, elitista e moderno. A abordagem do ator-rede, aplicada ao presente estudo de arqueologia histórica, permitiu rastrear a indefectível ação de louças comerciais em documentos administrativos, crônicas, registros fílmicos e no cotidiano da população portoalegrense. Ao perseguir estes objetos em diferentes fontes de informação, buscouse enfatizar a dimensão não humana das relações sociais, considerando especialmente a participação na louçaria comercial na construção e manutenção de uma masculinidade hegemônica notadamente inserida em uma ordem urbana, industrial, burguesa e capitalista uma sociedade moderna.

This thesis deals with the development of a body of my own creative work and the teaching of jewelry-working in the secondary schools. Emphasis in both instances was given to the use of the natural environment as a stimulus for design ideas. The philosophy of nature as art forms has been the focus of my creative endeavors for several years. This lead to the design and completion of jewelry, flatware, and holloware in this study. Knowledge gained in my work experiences formed the basis and background of the presentation of these skills to secondary students.

Includes bibliography. / This dissertation sets up a standardised system for analysing mid-seventeenth to mid- nineteenth century Cape colonial ceramic assemblages and then applies it to a number of Dutch and British historical sites in the south-western Cape region of South Africa in order to trace patterns of change in the availability and use of domestic ceramics in the colony. The system accommodates the wide range of African, Asian and European ceramics used during the period of Dutch East India rule from 1652 to 1795, the following Transitional years when the Cape was governed for short periods by both the British and Dutch governments and the period from 1815 onwards when the Cape became a British Crown Colony. A systematic ceramic classificatory system was required to form a framework for the first stage of a proposed study of the role of Asian porcelain in the Cape during the 17th and 18th centuries. The resulting Cape Classificatory System has five sections. (i) Ware Table, a ware based classification, records ceramics by sherd count and minimum number of vessels, and acts as a check list for Cape colonial sites. (ii) Date Table provides the accepted dates of production and references for all ceramics excavated in the Cape. (iii) Form and Function Table lists excavated ceramics by vessel form within functional categories. (iv) The Site Catalogue accessions and references (where possible) all the ceramics in an assemblage. (v) A catalogue of previously unreferenced Asian market ware (coarse porcelain) excavated from 17th to 19th century colonial sites in the south-western Cape. Thirty ceramic assemblages from Cape colonial sites and four assemblages from shipwrecks in Cape waters were analysed or examined. The Cape Classificatory System was applied in full to the ceramics from four sites: the Granary, a late seventeenth century Dutch East India site; Elsenburg, an elite mid-eighteenth century farmstead; Sea Street, Cape Town, a town midden in use from the last quarter of the eighteenth century to ca. 1830; and a well in Barrack Street, Cape Town, that was open from ca. 1775 till the late nineteenth century. The results clearly demonstrated changes in ceramic availability, usage and discard in the Cape over a two hundred year period, differences in refuse disposal practices and the dependence of the colony on Asian porcelain, including Asian market coarse porcelain, during the late seventeenth century and eighteenth century.

This dissertation assesses the significance of luxury dining ware within Roman society by analyzing the economic and socio-cultural value of these objects. Specifically, I focus on silver and gold tableware from the Roman Republic through the third century CE. Precious metal vessels are particularly well-suited to a study of socio-economical value because they are somewhere between an art object and a commodity. Because these objects are made from silver and gold, they have material value, but they are also valuable for their functionality within the dining context, particularly for hosting guests at the convivium. Their utility is, therefore, expressly social in nature. In the Roman world, silver and gold vessels were also highly decorative and as such served as display pieces and objects of attention. Their ability to communicate was not limited only to their material or their functionality; they were neither mere utilitarian commodities, nor simple stores of wealth. Scholars often note that precious metal vessels were status symbols and stores of wealth, but they rarely analyze the way that these objects functioned within those roles. I seek to address this issue by considering the different forms of attention and the processes of valuation which were applied to luxury products in the Roman period. I will ask how social and cultural contexts affected the value of precious metal tableware and how the monetary value of these items determined the social contexts in which they were used. Additionally, this dissertation includes a study of the epigraphic habits on surviving silver and gold tableware in order to better understand how these vessels were used and exchanged. The inscriptions give a sense of the kinds of attention that was given to these objects and the way in which owners or makers might use them to communicate. I will approach these questions through an analysis of four primary types of value: economic, cultural, social, and aesthetic value. Value can be an economic measure achieved by quantifying the significance of an object and expressing this as price. But value can also be applied through cognitive processes via the attention paid to objects and the attitudes of people towards them. By looking at the significance of tableware as a luxury product, utility object, and display piece, I take account of the different ways in which these vessels could be used to communicate within social contexts. I will show that the value of precious metal tableware, in both an economic and cultural sense, provided its owners with opportunities to convey particular messages aimed at navigating the fraught networks of status that existed in Roman society. Gold and silver dining ware could be a store of wealth, but not one which produced financial returns like other assets. Rather, the benefits of storing wealth as luxury dining products were social in nature. The use of precious metal dining ware at communal dinners, or for display, could project an image of wealth, taste, and, most of all, generosity. The return on assets of silver and gold dining ware was social rather than financial capital. Luxury commodities like silver and gold plate were enmeshed in the social interactions and behaviors of elite Romans and so become agents in defining the social personas of their owners.

[pt] Esta pesquisa tem, como ponto de partida, a mudança da matéria-prima utilizada na produção de utensílios de mesa descartáveis, hoje, em sua maioria, produzidos utilizando insumos derivados do petróleo e sendo gradativamente substituídos pelos insumos derivados de fontes renováveis. Esse processo de substituição se intensificou nos últimos anos devido à poluição plástica, tornando-se uma tendência impulsionada, principalmente, por leis em diversos países quanto à obrigatoriedade de biodegradação mais acelerada. Essa conversão da matéria-prima desencadeia mudanças no fim de vida desses produtos que podem ser compostados, permitindo um ciclo de vida mais sustentável, grande problema encontrado com os similares de plástico, cujo fim de vida gera problemas praticamente sem solução. Diante dessas novas características, e com a possibilidade de sistemas produtivos mais sustentáveis, podemos pensar em nos beneficiar de um hábito que lutamos para mudar, que é o da descartabilidade. Com atributos mais sustentáveis, os novos utensílios de mesa descartáveis podem auxiliar num ponto muito importante, na manutenção dos recursos hídricos. As previsões hídricas para os grandes centros urbanos brasileiros, principalmente em relação à região sudeste, revelam a possibilidade de colapso hídrico em 2040. Na lavagem de um copo, são gastos até 1200 ml, o que nos indica que o impacto hídrico doméstico pode ser significativo e a possibilidade do uso doméstico de utensílios de mesa descartáveis compostáveis pode re-presentar uma opção intermediária e de possível execução, caso necessário. Esse trabalho busca estimular esta discussão e se adiantando a possíveis mudanças, investigar porque os utensílios de mesa descartáveis ainda não são usados domesticamente, a fim de identificar possíveis barreiras à implementação desta nova proposta. Os resultados da pesquisa confirmaram que ainda não temos o hábito de usar utensílios de mesa descartáveis na nossa rotina doméstica e que existem barreiras criadas pelo uso do plástico e suas implicações. Mas que o comportamento vem mudando de maneira silenciosa e fluida, pois mais de 80 por cento dos entrevistados pedem comida em domicílio, configurando o uso de descartáveis no âmbito doméstico. Esses descartáveis ainda são deriva-dos do petróleo, aumentando a poluição plástica e seus impactos. / [en] The starting point of this research is to change the raw material used in the production of disposable tableware, which today is mostly produced using petroleum-based inputs and is gradually replaced by inputs from renewable sources. This substitution process has intensified in recent years due to plastic pollution, becoming a trend driven mainly by laws in several countries regarding the obligation of faster biodegradation. This conversion of the raw material triggers changes in the end of life of these products that can be composted, allowing a more sustainable life cycle, a major problem encountered with similar plastics, whose end of life generates problems almost without solution. Faced with these new characteristics, and with the possibility of more sustainable production systems, we can think of benefiting from a habit we struggle to change, which is that of disposability. With more sustainable attributes, the new disposable tableware can help at a very important point in the maintenance of water resources. The water forecasts for the large Brazilian urban centers, especially in relation to the Southeast region, reveal the possibility of water collapse in 2040. In the washing of a cup, up to 1200 ml are spent, which indicates that the domestic water impact can be significant and the possibility of domestic use of compostable disposable tableware can represent an intermediate option and possible execution if necessary. This work seeks to stimulate this discussion and in advance of possible changes, to investigate why disposable tableware is not yet used domestically in order to identify possible barriers to the implementation of this new proposal. The results of the research confirmed that we are not yet in the habit of using disposable tableware in our domestic routine and that there are barriers created by the use of plastic and its implications. But that the behavior has been changing in a silent and fluid way, as more than 80 percent of the interviewees order food at home, configuring the use of disposables in the domestic setting. These disposables are still derived from oil, increasing plastic pollution and its impacts.

Parmi les grands secteurs de fabrication de vaisselle du monde romain, Lezoux constitue le principal centre de production céramique aux IIe et IIIe s. ap. J.-C. en Gaule, et influence d’autres ateliers, principalement situés dans le bassin de Clermont, la Grande Limagne et la basse vallée de l’Allier. Ce sont surtout les productions de table à pâtes fines de ces ateliers, habituellement qualifiées de « céramiques fines », qui sont les mieux connues. Les productions de transport, de stockage, de préparation et de cuisson des aliments, à pâtes généralement plus grossières, sont quant à elles qualifiées de « céramiques communes » et ont moins suscité l’attention des chercheurs. Dans ce travail de recherches, l’accent a d’abord été mis sur l’antagonisme « céramiques fines » / « céramiques communes », sur ses différentes acceptions et sur son emploi par les chercheurs. Les recherches ont ensuite traité des vases à pâtes grossières et semi-fines généralement destinés au transport, à la resserre et à la cuisine. L’objectif était de les traiter dans une perspective technologique (façonnage, finition et cuisson des vases), culturelle (origine/acculturation, fonction et usage des vases) et économique (organisation de la production et diffusion des vases). L’étude de ces productions ne pouvait s’entendre sans celle, conjointe, des vases à pâtes fines qui leur sont presque toujours associées et souvent fabriquées dans les mêmes ateliers. En outre, l’artisanat céramique du Haut-Empire et ses productions standardisées ne pouvaient être abordés sans connaître au préalable ses antécédents du Ier s. av. J.-C. Pour ces raisons, ces recherches se sont également consacrées aux céramiques des ateliers du val d’Allier de la fin de l’époque républicaine et du début de l’Empire, qui présentent des pâtes semi-fines à fines et que l’on retrouve d’abord sur les tables arvernes (coupes, assiettes, pichets...), mais aussi dans la resserre ou pour le transport des denrées (amphorettes, grandes cruches...). / During the second and third centuries AD, Lezoux becomes the main production centre among the well known Gaulish pottery workshops of the Roman Empire, and influences other pottery producing centres mainly located in the Clermont-Ferrand basin, in the Grande Limagne and the lower Allier valley. Gaulish fine ware manufactured in these workshops, and especially the tableware, represents the best known and most studied production of Roman Gaul. Ceramics in coarse ware used for carrying and storing goods and for preparing and cooking meals are generally called “common ceramics” and have drawn much less attention of researchers. In this thesis work, emphasis was first placed on the antagonism “fine ware” / “coarse ware”, on its different meanings and on its uses by researchers. The research then dealt with jars in coarse and semi-fine wares which were mainly intended for transport, storage and cooking. The main goal was to treat them in a technological perspective (shape, finishes and firing of wares), cultural perspective (origin/acculturation, function and uses of wares) and economic perspective (production organisation and distribution). The study of this type of production must of course be combined with that of the fine ware which is almost always produced in the same workshops. Furthermore, the manufacture of pottery and its standardised productions couldn’t be treated without taking into consideration its precursors of the first century BC. Due to the facts mentioned so far, this research has also focused on ceramics from the Allier valley workshops of the end of the Roman Republic period and of the beginning of the Imperial era, which present semi-fine and fine wares found first on the Arvern tables (cups, plates, pitchers…), but also in the cellars or used for carrying goods (small amphoras, big jugs…).

In collaboration with Under ytan, a company cultivating algae locally on Åland, I have designed tableware made from and for algae-based food. Using the framework of the Set Table, I explore algae in a local context and reflect upon the usage of algae in marine restoration. The Set Table is full of symbols regarding culture, history, life and festivals. By gathering around the table, we share food, stories and create consciousness of the Baltic Sea.