peer-reviewedThis article describes a developing creative practice whereby digital creative processes
adapted from mobile music making are used in the data driven design and subsequent
digital instantiation of ceramic vessels. First, related work in mobile music creation and
recent developments in the digital design and fabrication of ceramics frames the research
and puts it in a broad context. A pilot study is then detailed, concluding that although
largely successful, a number of areas of the process needed to be improved and refined.
The results of a further iteration of the process, consisting of the digital creation and
instantiation of location-specific vessels is presented, before the current state of the
research, where ceramic vessels are 3D printed, is outlined. We show that mobile phones
can become integral to a practical design process that allows the digital forms it creates to
be instantiated using 3D printing, and that these become high-quality, end-use artefacts.
The final section discusses what has been learned and contemplates how the described
practice will be developed yet further