Skip to main content

Research Repository

Advanced Search

All Outputs (7)

In a new Context, we are all Apprentices: How Dialogue Between the Three States of Craft Education is a Catalyst for Adaptation (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kerlaff, P. (2023). In a new Context, we are all Apprentices: How Dialogue Between the Three States of Craft Education is a Catalyst for Adaptation. In A. Lazet (Ed.), Design for Adaptation: Cumulus Conference Proceedings Detroit 2022 (pp. 438-449). Cumulus. https://cumulusassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/CumulusDetroit2023_Proceedings.pdf

This essay argues that dialogue between the three states of craft education is a key mechanism for adaptation. Adaptation here is taken as the act or process of adjustment to changing circumstances (Merriam-Webster 2022), with a particular focus on c... Read More about In a new Context, we are all Apprentices: How Dialogue Between the Three States of Craft Education is a Catalyst for Adaptation.

Remanufactured Furniture Experiments aiming to minimise material loss and raw material addition – practical workshop at Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, Henan, China, February 2019 (2019)
Physical Artefact
Kerlaff, P., & Cairns, A. (2019). Remanufactured Furniture Experiments aiming to minimise material loss and raw material addition – practical workshop at Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, Henan, China, February 2019 [Photographs of furniture outputs, data set, written comments]. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/1697571

Remanufactured Furniture Experiments aiming to minimise material loss and raw material addition – practical workshop at Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, Henan, China, February 2019
This project aimed to identify strategies for adaptation to i... Read More about Remanufactured Furniture Experiments aiming to minimise material loss and raw material addition – practical workshop at Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, Henan, China, February 2019.

Re-defining Finishing, Performance and Durability: User Re-Manufacturable Surfboards (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kerlaff, P. (2018). Re-defining Finishing, Performance and Durability: User Re-Manufacturable Surfboards. Proceedings of Making Futures 2017 Conference. https://www.plymouthart.ac.uk/documents/Paul_Kerlaff.pdf

This paper makes the case for surfboards being a prime archetype of user-object relations. It goes on to argue that design for remanufacture involves redefining notions of finishing, performance, and durability that underpin our relationship to mater... Read More about Re-defining Finishing, Performance and Durability: User Re-Manufacturable Surfboards.

Now I Sit Me Down by Witold Rybczynski, Review Paul Kerlaff (2016)
Journal Article
Kerlaff, P. (2016). Now I Sit Me Down by Witold Rybczynski, Review Paul Kerlaff. Interiors, 7(2-3), 191-193. https://doi.org/10.1080/20419112.2016.1242267

A simple but profound point opens Now I Sit Me Down: that chairs illustrate a kind of democratic manifestation of our relationship to things. Unlike architecture, and to a lesser extent built in furniture, chairs bear witness to our capacity for chan... Read More about Now I Sit Me Down by Witold Rybczynski, Review Paul Kerlaff.

Whisky Table and other experiments (2011)
Digital Artefact
Lambert, I., & Kerlaff, P. (2011, September 9). Whisky Table and other experiments. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/8357

Using the SFC Innovation voucher scheme, Edinburgh design company With Kerlaff worked with the Institute for Creative Industries in researching the potential for the use of exhausted whiskey barrel staves, an abundant industrial by-product, in the de... Read More about Whisky Table and other experiments.