This video reflects Andrew Lacey's incredibly stimulating experimental residency at Columbia University, NYC 2015 as a visiting expert maker working with students in the Making and Knowing Laboratory. 'Making and Knowing Project' Director Prof.Pamela Smith and her team are working on a 'Research and Pedagogical Initiative to produce a digital critical edition and English translation of a remarkable sixteenth-century French manuscript. The manuscript contains a huge variety of recipes and instructions for technical procedures, especially casting, mouldmaking and metalworking experiments. These recipes form the basis for the work of PhD students and visiting expert makers in the Making and Knowing Laboratory'

Video by Siân Lewis. Piano by Hilary Rhys Osmond - Couperin's 'Les Barricades Mystérieuses'

Making and Knowing Project: www.makingandknowing.org