“I’m attached to the word ‘artifact’ in a very different way in terms of something that has its own presence separate from any type of mediation—in something that is very physical and material.”
- Joshua Stein
Joshua G. Stein
Professor of Architecture
(Woodbury University)
radical-craft.com
Joshua G. Stein is the founder of Radical Craft and the co-director of the Data Clay Network, a forum for the exploration of digital techniques applied to ceramic materials. Radical Craft is a Los Angeles-based research and design studio operating between fields of architecture, art and urbanism. Radical Craft advances design saturated in history (from archaeology to craft) that inflects the production of contemporary urban spaces and artifacts, evolving newly grounded approaches to the challenges posed by virtuality, velocity, and globalization. Recent projects engage earthen materials that resist easy manipulation, whether in raw or consolidated states. Stein has taught at the California College of the Arts, Cornell University, SCI-Arc, and the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design. He was a 2010-11 Rome Prize Fellow in Architecture, and is currently Professor of Architecture at Woodbury University.
Joshua G. Stein
Professor of Architecture (Woodbury University)
radical-craft.com
Joshua G. Stein
Professor of Architecture (Woodbury University)
radical-craft.com
Joshua G. Stein is the founder of Radical Craft and the co-director of the Data Clay Network, a forum for the exploration of digital techniques applied to ceramic materials. Radical Craft is a Los Angeles-based research and design studio operating between fields of architecture, art and urbanism. Radical Craft advances design saturated in history (from archaeology to craft) that inflects the production of contemporary urban spaces and artifacts, evolving newly grounded approaches to the challenges posed by virtuality, velocity, and globalization. Recent projects engage earthen materials that resist easy manipulation, whether in raw or consolidated states. Stein has taught at the California College of the Arts, Cornell University, SCI-Arc, and the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design. He was a 2010-11 Rome Prize Fellow in Architecture, and is currently Professor of Architecture at Woodbury University.
Lecture
Artifacts, Data, and Otherwise
Joshua Stein introduced his practices on data exploration using digital techniques and ceramic materials. He explained his studio, Radical Craft, and various projects, including Isochronic Mountain Buffalo, the Geological Atlas of the Built Metropolis, and Quarry Cast. Isochronic Mountain Buffalo is a topographic model that documents the collective time devoted to moving from the periphery of the city to its center, specifically Buffalo City Hall. The Geological Atlas of the Built Metropolis reimagines the city’s seemingly discrete architectural objects as a continuous geological landscape that traces material trajectories backward in space and time, suturing the city with the sites of extraction and production and the laboring populations it has historically attempted to push outside its identity. This Quarry Cast identifies the large-scale, land-form sculptures inadvertently created through the human process of mineral extraction as it “liberates” a precise form from the “overburden” of the surrounding landscape.Laurie Frick’s lecture focuses on using data about mood, exercise, and personality to turn them into vibrant, carefully crafted art using various materials. The results look like abstract paintings and beautiful sculptures. Laurie wants to help create a future in which self-delusion is impossible. She thinks this shift is inevitable once people wake up to the transformational power of big data. In her lecture, she also introduced the public arts she created. Data may seem abstract, but Laurie aims to make it personal. She says the moment in time where the data that’s gathered about us is astronomical. Her lecture enlightened SJSU students about how data can turn into not only beautiful art pieces but visually compelling measurements of personal narratives through big data.
Workshop
Radical Craft Workshop
Joshua Stein had a great workshop with Interior design students and graphic design students. They used the current state of the seven reservoir data in Santa Clara County and cast the data with interior design students. Graphic design students came up with ideas about incorporating augmented reality design on the sculptures.

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