In response to Stoke-on-Trent's rich ceramic history and declining economy, the project proposes a mint that produces an alternative clay currency and a pottery workshop for six artisans who collaborate to create unique ceramic artworks to be sold as NFTs. Reinterpreting the themes of transparency, randomness, uniqueness, and encryption, the architecture is a metaphor for the blockchain to amplify the value of the objects made in the building. The programme celebrates the uniqueness and imperfections of ceramic handcraft through architecture and questions the dialectics of financial and craft value.

The framed views of the layered spaces in the building bring visitors on a journey; at the same time, controlling how the knowledge of craft is shared and creating moments of obstruction and illusion during the secretive parts of the crafting process. It explores how the unpredictability, imperfection and uniqueness of handcraft can be brought into the digital fabrication of the building and create a ‘Non-Fungible’ experience.