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The Light/House
Glass is Tomorrow teams up with Nude for an un-matched
workshop at Denizli handmade glass factory. Turkish glass
making were challenged by international designers, glass
makers and master craftmen throughout the theme of The
Light/House.
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Design meets
craftsmanship...
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Glass is Tomorrow is a European network that aims to establish a more
fluid exchange of knowledge and competence between glass and design
professionals across Europe.
The first phase of Glass is Tomorrow promoted a high level of craft and design
in contemporary glass. Glass aesthetics and techniques were explored by mixed
teams of designers and glass makers to develop a new language for everyday
objects. The project opened up new possibilities and generated debate about the
conception, production and distiribution of glassworks.
In its second phrase Glass is Tomorrow II focuses on further collaboration with
high-end glass centers and postgraduate departments specialized in glass
design, in order to increase the quality of glass production in Europe and the
awareness of European glass culture, traditions and innovations. The project has
evolved to embrace both the pedagogy and the professions of glass design and
making.
Three professional residencies at the Glass Factory in Boda (SE), the CIAV
in Meisenthal (FR) and Şişecam Handmade glass factory in Denizli (TR) were
organized in parallel with three postgraduate workshops with Domaine de
Boisbuchet / CIRECA (Centre International de Recherche et d’Education
Culturelle et Agricole) with the GlassLab™ of The Corning Museum of Glass in
Boisbuchet (FR), ESADSE (École Supérieure d’Art et Design de Saint-Étienne) in
collaboration with Saint-Just Glasworks in Saint-Etienne (FR), the Royal College
of Art (RCA) with Vessel Gallery, London (UK).
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With the support of the ‘culture’
programme of the European Union
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Initiated by Pro Materia with Glass is Tomorrow and Şişecam
with Nude, this workshop in autumn 2014 brought together
international designers including: Autoban, Nigel Coates,
Benjamin Hubert, Tomas Kral, Tamer Nakışçı, Adrien Rovero,
Studio Rygalik and lead glassmakers: Vincent Breed, Clément
Le Mener and Marika Kinnunen.
Alongside with Nude design team: Sinem Hallı, Sevgi Kes and
Şişecam’s master craftsmen, a one week studio glass workshop
was held at Şişecam’s handmade glass factory in Denizli, Turkey.
During this workshop, participants experimented
co-creation and worked with Venetian glass recipe, used since
the Ottoman period.
Turkish glass roots go back to the Byzantine period in Anatolia
where beads, bracelets and colorful glass products were
produced using ancient glass techniques such as casting, press
and core molding as well as glass windows and glass oil lamps
using plain glass for decorative and lighting effects.
Workshop
Glass is Tomorrow
meets Nude
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The Light/House is a metaphor not only for the presence of
the Bosphorus but also for East and West living experiences.
Lighting and tableware are at the essence of modern Turkish
and global cultural identity and are re-invented and re-created
through the fruitful collaborative work of the designers,
glass artists and master craftsmen.
On the one hand, Light/House combines the idea of a ‘beacon
of hope’, a tower designed to emit light from a system of lamps
and lenses and used on waterways to guide the boats at night.
On the other hand, the house of light is full of enlightened ideas
and living concepts for seeding the glass of the future and
can be seen as a composition of elements – vessel, glassware
and more decorative items, all of which are opening up new
typologies of form and function.
Theme
The Light/House
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Autoban: Seyhan Özdemir & Sefer Çağlar (Turkey)
Cercle du Verre: Vincent Breed / Clément Le Mener (France) *
Nigel Coates (United Kingdom)
Studio Benjamin Hubert: Luca Corvatta (United Kingdom)
Marika Kinnunen (Finland) *
Tomas Kral (Slovak Republic)
Tamer Nakışçı (Turkey)
Nude Design Team: Sinem Hallı & Sevgi Kes (Turkey)
Adrien Rovero (Switzerland)
Studio Rygalik: Gosia Rygalik & Tomek Rygalik (Poland)
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Designers and
Makers
The results of this workshop were exhibited during Istanbul Design
Biennial.
A touring exhibition and a publication are planned in 2015. The
exhibition will travel in 4 European cities - Musée de la Mine
during Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Étienne in France,
Nationalmuseum / Kulturhuset in Sweden, Milan during Salone del
Mobile (TBC) and Royal College of Art - Battersea Building Gallery in
United Kingdom.
Curator: Lise Coirier - Project coordinator: Winnie Kwok, Pro Materia,
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Exhibition & Publication
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