Andy Goldsworthy

Abandoning the project was incredibly stressful after having gone through the process of building the room, installing the kiln, collecting the stones, sitting with the kiln day and night as it came to temperature, experiencing the failures.

British Artist

J. Kenji Lopez-Alt

Most ceramic plates, bowls, and cups have an unglazed rim around the very bottom, where the piece was in contact with the floor of the kiln. This unglazed ceramic is harder than metal and can be used just like a sharpening stone.

American Chef

Lisa Frank

Both of my folks were into art. My dad was an art collector, my mom had a little kiln in our basement, and we would make pottery. I think from about age five on, they sent me to art classes, and I was a huge colorer.

American Businesswoman

Once the fired stone is out of the kiln, it is still possible to mentally reconstruct it in its original form.

Kilns are essential in industries dealing with materials that require high temperatures to transform.

Industrial Usage

Kilns operate at very high heat, much more than a standard kitchen oven.

High Temperatures

Kilns are crucial for creating durable and permanent art from clay and other materials.

Creative Artifacts

 into lime and carbon dioxide. Now at this point, you're probably thinking that I'm nuts. It's actually generating carbon dioxide. But the key point is, all of the carbon dioxide generated, both from the fuel cell and from the lime kiln, is pure, and that's really important,

Can we stop climate...

 than these people. Back in the kilns, I wanted to cry, but the abolitionist next to me quickly grabbed me and he said, "Lisa, don't do that. Just don't do that here." And he very clearly explained to me that emotional displays are very dangerous in a place like this,

Lisa Kristine: Photos...

 remodify them and give them a chimney, and design them in a way that limits the amount of oxygen that goes into the combustion process. We go back to the villages, find farmers with the help of local leaders, train these farmers how to use these kilns,

Sanga Moses: Using Waste...

 using bricks and stones from local kilns. Averaging 23 feet high and 21 feet wide, the walls 5500 miles were punctuated by watchtowers. When raiders were sighted, fire and smoke signals traveled between towers until reinforcements arrived.

What makes the Great...

 what is the purpose of this class and I use the example of my my mother-in-law who's an educator and she's a ceramics teacher she she so she teaches in a form that is deeply physical right and you actually need certain materials a kiln

How to create meaningful...

 Each one was pinched or carved out of a ball of clay, and it was the imperfections that people cherished. Everyday pots like this cup take eight to 10 hours to fire. I just took this out of the kiln last week, and the kiln itself

4 Lessons in Creativity...

 Take the humble house brick. The cement industry generates around eight percent of global CO2 emissions. That's more than all the planes and ships each year. The cement process requires materials to be fired in a kiln

Why "biofabrication" is...

 older life chose life friendly chemistry that terrible does not put his head in a kiln to make that ceramic and yet in a few weeks a tough tough ceramic is created we use a lot of high heats a lot of pressure

Creating a Bio-Industrial...

 In another portfolio that I help to oversee, we're focused on investing in the innovations that make this kind of ambition possible. Like, investing in novel designs for the kilns that produce cement,

Nili Gilbert: The...

 you do is use fire to get a clay kiln nice and hot and pop inside your recipe and the soda though is the melting point of the silica sand so you can melt it into a mixture and the lime helps to