Temporal Reliquaries | VCU-Q
Collaborating with Doha-based makers and industrial partners, graduate design students and faculty from VCUarts Qatar produced these two-part ceramic and marble artifacts during carefully sequenced workshops in 2020. Temporal Reliquaries, the projects feature enduring materials, but celebrate ephemera. Project responses include a didactic piggy bank, a pair of memorial urns for beloved pets, and a vessel for perfuming the air with scented oil. The collection showcases the range and ingenuity of designers responding to a structured brief and working within a fixed methodology.