Handmade: Understanding Creative Gesture in Pottery Making

Project Information

HANDMADE

Grant agreement ID: 771997

DOI

10.3030/771997

Project closed

EC signature date 20 March 2018

Start date 1 April 2018

End date 31 January 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 889 292,00

EU contribution

€ 1 889 292,00

Coordinated by

THE CHANCELLOR, MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
United Kingdom

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (22)

Thinging Beauty. Anthropological Reflections on the Making of Beauty and the Beauty of Making

Author(s): Malafouris, L; Koukouti, MD
Published in: Reti, saperi, linguaggi, Issue 4, 2021, Page(s) 211-238, ISSN 1826-8889
Publisher: Società editrice il Mulino
DOI: 10.12832/99831

Perspectival Kinaesthetic Imaging

Author(s): Lambros Malafouris, Rory Carnegie, Miranda Creswell, Antonis Iliopoulos, Maria-Danae Koukouti, Wendy Ross
Published in: Multimodality & Society, Issue 3, 2026, Page(s) 366-398, ISSN 2634-9795
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/26349795231191023

Mark Making and Human Becoming

Author(s): Lambros Malafouris
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, Issue 28, 2024, Page(s) 95-119, ISSN 1072-5369
Publisher: Plenum Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10816-020-09504-4

Where the touching is touched: The role of <i>haptic attentive unity</i> in the dialogue between maker and material

Author(s): Lambros Malafouris, Maria-Danae Koukouti
Published in: Multimodality &amp; Society, Issue 2, 2026, Page(s) 265-287, ISSN 2634-9795
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/26349795221109231

Handmade Therapy: The Hedonic Impacts of Engaging in Pottery Making

Author(s): Catherine O’Brien, Shaun Gallagher, Lambros Malafouris
Published in: Topoi, Issue 44, 2025, Page(s) 1131-1144, ISSN 0167-7411
Publisher: D. Reidel Pub. Co.
DOI: 10.1007/s11245-025-10181-9

Understanding the hermeneutics of digital materiality in contemporary architectural modelling: a material engagement perspective

Author(s): Kåre Stokholm Poulsgaard, Lambros Malafouris
Published in: AI & SOCIETY, 2020, ISSN 0951-5666
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s00146-020-01044-5

Re-thinging Embodied and Enactive Psychiatry: A Material Engagement Approach

Author(s): Lambros Malafouris, Frank Röhricht
Published in: Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, Issue 48, 2024, Page(s) 816-839, ISSN 0165-005X
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s11013-024-09872-6

<i>Enactychism</i>: Enacting chance in creative material engagement

Author(s): Lambros Malafouris
Published in: Possibility Studies &amp; Society, Issue 1, 2025, Page(s) 300-310, ISSN 2753-8699
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/27538699231178170

People are STRANGE: towards a philosophical archaeology of self

Author(s): Lambros Malafouris
Published in: Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, Issue 24, 2025, Page(s) 685-711, ISSN 1568-7759
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s11097-024-10002-1

Rethinking the “we” in “we” intentionality: intention-sharing <i>with</i> —and not simply <i>about</i> —things

Author(s): Lambros Malafouris, Alexander Aston, Nicolás Alessandroni
Published in: Philosophical Psychology, Issue 38, 2025, Page(s) 3630-3660, ISSN 0951-5089
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/09515089.2024.2381523

Understanding the effects of materiality on mental health

Author(s): Lambros Malafouris
Published in: BJPsych Bulletin, Issue 43/5, 2019, Page(s) 195-200, ISSN 2056-4694
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1192/bjb.2019.7

Material Engagement Theory and its philosophical ties to pragmatism

Author(s): Antonis Iliopoulos
Published in: Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, Issue 18/1, 2019, Page(s) 39-63, ISSN 1568-7759
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s11097-018-9596-5

Mind and material engagement

Author(s): Lambros Malafouris
Published in: Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, Issue 18/1, 2019, Page(s) 1-17, ISSN 1568-7759
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s11097-018-9606-7

Homo faber Revisited: Postphenomenology and Material Engagement Theory

Author(s): Don Ihde, Lambros Malafouris
Published in: Philosophy & Technology, Issue 32/2, 2019, Page(s) 195-214, ISSN 2210-5433
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s13347-018-0321-7

Thinking as “Thinging”: Psychology With Things

Author(s): Lambros Malafouris
Published in: Current Directions in Psychological Science, 2019, Page(s) 096372141987334, ISSN 0963-7214
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/0963721419873349

How the body remembers its skills: Memory and material engagement

Author(s): Malafouris, L.; Koukouti, M.D.
Published in: Journal of Consciousness Studies, 2018, ISSN 1355-8250
Publisher: Imprint Academic

The archaeology of the social brain revisited: rethinking mind and material culture from a material engagement perspective

Author(s): Anna M Barona
Published in: Adaptive Behavior, 2020, Page(s) 105971232094194, ISSN 1059-7123
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/1059712320941945

An ecological approach to conceptual thinking in material engagement

Author(s): Nicolás Alessandroni, Lambros Malafouris, Shaun Gallagher
Published in: Europe’s Journal of Psychology, Issue 20, 2024, Page(s) 84-103, ISSN 1841-0413
Publisher: Europe's Journal of Psychology
DOI: 10.5964/ejop.13227

Steps to an EnvironMental health

Author(s): Lambros Malafouris, Thomas Fuchs, Vittorio Gallese, Frank Röhricht
Published in: Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, 2025, ISSN 1568-7759
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s11097-025-10096-1

Process archaeology

Author(s): Lambros Malafouris, Chris Gosden, Amy Bogaard
Published in: World Archaeology, Issue 53, 2024, Page(s) 1-14, ISSN 0043-8243
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/00438243.2021.2006963

How does thinking relate to tool making?

Author(s): Lambros Malafouris
Published in: Adaptive Behavior, 2020, Page(s) 105971232095053, ISSN 1059-7123
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/1059712320950539

On making futures <i>with</i> human touch

Author(s): Anna M. Barona, Lambros Malafouris
Published in: Adaptive Behavior, Issue 30, 2025, Page(s) 551-553, ISSN 1059-7123
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/1059712321989428

Book chapters (2)

Material Imagination: An Anthropological Perspective

Author(s): Maria Danae Koukouti, Lambros Malafouris
Published in: The Cambridge Handbook of the Imagination, 2020
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/9781108580298.003

Chapter 16 Gesture and Things: A Working Definition and Material Engagement

Author(s): Antonis Iliopoulos
Published in: Gestures, 2024, Page(s) 275-292
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/9783110785845-017

Monographic books (1)

People Are STRANGE

Author(s): Lambros Malafouris
Published in: 2026
Publisher: The MIT Press
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/10284.001.0001