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The Association for Contemporary Jewellery is devoted to the promotion, representation, understanding and development of contemporary jewellery in the United Kingdom and abroad.
Website: http://www.acj.org.uk/
Location: UK
Members: 67
Latest Activity: Oct 11, 2020
is devoted to the promotion, representation, understanding and development of contemporary jewellery in the United Kingdom and abroad.
Founded as a membership association in 1997 and registered as a Limited Company in 2006, it recognises a need to foster discussion, debate and critical review and interaction amongst its members. To this end we organise conferences, lectures, seminars, workshops and an annual general meeting for our members. Our regular newsletter, findings, features reviews, information, comment, book offers and discounts and is of benefit to both our members and the wider public. We also produce a monthly e-bulletin featuring news and opportunities.
We welcome as members practising jewellers, associated designers and crafts people, educators, students, gallery owners and retailers, museum curators, critics and collectors - indeed, anyone with an interest in contemporary jewellery.
The Association for Contemporary Jewellery
PO Box 37807 London SE23 1XJ United Kingdom
Telephone: + 00 44 (0)20 8291 4201
Fax: + 00 44 (0)20 8291 4452
Email: enquiries@acj.org.uk
WHAT WE DO
• promote greater understanding of contemporary jewellery
• support jewellers’ creative and professional development
• develop audiences for this lively field of contemporary craft and design
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Dear All Members, Followers and Likers of our Network pages.We are currently streamlining our pages at the moment and have found that fewer people are now following and using twitter and crafthaus to find out about jewellery events, exhibitions, opportunities, seeing new work and generally chatting about jewellery.If you use these, please head over to our other pages on other platforms: -Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Association.Contemporary.Jewellery/Linkedin Group: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/3628898/Linkedin Business page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/association-for-contemporary-jewellery-limitedInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/acj.org.uk/and of course, our main website…Continue
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Inspired by an origami technique called ‘snapology’, engineers at Harvard University have developed a type of foldable material that can change its size, shape and volume on demand.
The structure comprises extruded cubes with a total of 24 faces and 36 edges. The cubes can be folded along their edges, which act like hinges, to change the structure’s shape. Able to withstand thousands of kilograms in weight, this innovation can be folded completely flat and then bounce back into a 3-dimensional shape.
The engineers additionally embedded pneumatic actuators (air pockets) into the structure, which can be programmed to deform the hinges as desired. The shape of the structure can thus be transformed remotely and without the need for external force.
Another intriguing aspect is that this material is scalable from nanoscale to meter-scale dimensions. This means is can be used in a diverse range of applications ranging from surgical stents, to ‘pop-up’ architecture, to transformable building facades and potentially even retractable roofs.
The research team was lead by Katia Bertoldi, the John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Natural Sciences at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences(SEAS), James Weaver, Senior Research Scientist at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard Uni... and Chuck Hoberman, of the Graduate School of Design. It is described in Nature Communications.
More information via Harvard University news here.
Johannes T. B. Overvelde/Bertoldi Lab/Harvard SEAS
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Are you about to relocate for a major lifestyle and career change? Pi Productions is looking for couples and families planning to quit the rat race for a better life. Whether it’s moving to the countryside to run a crafting school, setting up a photography business by the sea or opening a knitting craft store in a bustling new town - we want to hear your story.
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COLLECT: The International Art Fair for Contemporary Objects, presented by the Crafts Council, is returning to the Saatchi Gallery from 3 to 6 February 2017.
Collect Open offers an unique opportunity to individual artists or collaborations to exhibit alongside international galleries showing the very best contemporary craft from around the world.
Collect Open has been a rich addition to the fair since 2011 and encourages artists to show work which challenges traditional perceptions of craft and design.
We are looking for exciting proposals to show new ambitious works by individuals or collaborations. This is a unique opportunity to present the unexpected to an influential and high-profile audience.
We are interested in receiving proposals to present large scale, conceptual, installation based work.
Criteria for the brief:
Note: Collect Open is principally for contemporary design and applied arts, therefore applications will not be accepted for painting, drawing, graphic design, print-making, photography or fine art sculpture.
Read the COLLECT Open blog to be inspired by the selected makers from the last Collect Open.
To apply you need to create a Crafts Council website account and apply through your dashboard.
Deadline for applications is 26 May 2016.
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