Social Experiments: Knowledge Is Power: 6 Towns, Spode Factory, Stoke-on-Trent, 23 September - 5 November 2017.

<b>Social Experiments</b> brings together 2 projects, <b>Material Environments: Bad Shit </b>and <b>Knowledge is Power: 6 Towns</b>. Rooted in place and history, both projects research the capacity for material and socio political transformation through live scientific experimentation, production and participation to suggest new ways of thinking.<br><br>This item contains a project outline and BCB Festival Invitation (courtesy of the British Ceramics Biennial 2017), 13 Exhibition Views, 2 images of the Clay Book Making Workshops, 2 developmental drawings, audio of the firing sound, and a <b>Ceramic Values Congress Programme</b>, courtesy of Ulster University and the Ceramics and its Dimensions Congress.<br><br>This item documents <b>Knowledge Is Power: 6 Towns </b>an interactive installation commissioned for the British Ceramics Biennial in 2017, in collaboration with Stoke On Trent Libraries and Archives. Inspired by the history books in Stoke-on-Trent’s special 6 Towns Collection Harrison worked with local schools, businesses and community groups to create a complete set of clay replica books. Housed in 6 large adapted shelving units, the replicas were fired daily in accordance with the library’s lending figures. The project celebrates the changing role of Stoke-on-Trent’s libraries as cultural agents, repositories of local knowledge and sources of inspiration, invention and pleasure.<br><br>To coincide with the 5th BCB Harrison delivered a keynote speech at the <i>Ceramics And Its Dimensions Congress </i>held to extend the debate on the value and role of ceramics in society.<br><b><br>Photography by Darren Washington. Images used with permission courtesy of the Photographer and the British Ceramics Biennial.<br></b><b><br>The work is under copyright and may not be used without permission. Use of this repository acknowledges cooperation with its policies and relevant copyright law.</b>