POTTERS OF DHARAVI - KUMBHARWADA

Abstract

Today, in Mumbai / India, Dharavi is one of the largest gettos of Asia, there is approx. 1.500 families, which live within unimaginably primitive conditions and earn their living through pottery. Here, jammed into a tiny neighbourhood, lives an enormously large ceramic industry. Though relying on traditional basis, the production is entirely oriented to daily want. The main idea that makes this region's production worth examining is rather than the originality of the end-product, the amazing working system, milieu and conditions. Dharavi pottery offers a case, indicating how one customizes the primitive nature of the first encounter of human being with ceramic to certain social structures in our era and should be re-interpreted under varying subtitles.