The focus of the project is on the landscape of post industry, explored through artistic research projects with a foundation/taking its point of departure in workshops/residencies in the closed Spode Factory site in Stoke on Trent. This site offers multi-faceted scope for creative interpretation through its socio-economic histories, industrial architecture, production- and material remnants.

Funding: The Project Programme under the direction of The Norwegian Artistic Research Programme and KHiB
Duration: 2012-2015 (three years)
Project Leaders: Anne Helen Mydland, Professor and Neil Brownsword, ProfessorII of Ceramics and Clay, Department of Fine Art, KhiB
Project Assistants:
Jane Sverdrupsen (MA at KHIB 2013)
Corinna Thornton (MA 2011)

Read more at Topographies of the Obsolete's website 

http://topographies.uib.no/

Publications (downloadable):

1. Topographies of the Obsolete. Vociferous Void

2. Topographies of the Obsolete. Critical texts

3. Topographies of the Obsolete. Site Reflections

4. Topographies of the Obsolete. Ashmolean Papers

5. Topographies of the Obsolete. Rhizomatic Trajectories