Casting New Traditions seeks to demonstrate a model of sustainable production in the urgent context of pressing societal changes and deepening global ecological concern. The project aims to discover and develop pathways to ecologically responsive ceramic production in partnership with traditional industries and centers of excellence in the US, The Netherlands, and Japan.

Initially, the project will investigate approaches to lessening the overall carbon cost associated with conventional ceramic production by substituting natural fiber forms for plaster in the ceramic workflow. In 2023, the investigation will expand to include development of local (wild) clay.