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Registration: 12.30am – 1.15pm

Symposium: 1.30pm – 4.30pm


Programme of events
 

1.30pm: Welcome address: Head of the School of Business, Dr Tom O Toole 

1.45pm: Keynote: Glass as local identity and cultural production
Susanne Jøker Johnsen, Denmark is Project Director of European Glass and Ceramic Context at The Royal Danish Academy, School of Design Bornholm / Bornholm Art Museum

2.35pm: The Power of Community: Advantages and opportunities within community based open access facilities
Chuck Lopez,USA is an artist, glass technologist, instructor and studio technician at Pratt Fine Arts Center, Seattle Washington.

3.15pm: Conversation time
With tea

3.45pm: Glass in the Context of Culture: An Artists View
Mark Angus, UK is an artist working in architectural glass based in the glass village of Frauneau Germany

4.30pm: City centre gallery hop
3 x exhibitions at the Central Library Design work of Miroslav Havel, Treasures Museum Masters of the Glass and Refract Contemporary International glass

8.00pm: Social evening
Munster Bar 


Late registrations: 9.00 – 9.45am

Symposium: 1.30pm – 4-30pm


Programme of events
 

10.00am: Making sense from knowhow
V8 designers, Pierre Bindreiff & Sébastien Geissert, France. Industrial Design team based in Strasbourg.

10.35am: Ancient skills, new thinking
Treg Silkwood, USA is a glassblower, artist & instructor at Bay Area Art Glass Institute, Calfornia

11.25am: Conversation time
With tea

11.50am: MEISENTHAL: A new beginning - from industrial heritage to the development of a new economic and cultural context for this famous glass factory
Yann Greinenberger, France is a Director in the Centre International De l’Art des Verriers (CIAV), Meisenthal, France

12.30pm: Discussion Forum: Using craft heritage as an economic commodity. How can Waterford maximise on this?

1.00pm: Lunch

Break out discussions

Break out: Setting up a community access glass studio - The nuts, bolts and ways of making it work.
Chuck Lopez/ Treg Silkwood
Break out: Contemporary Glass Design and Tourism - Who, why, which, where and when?
Susanne Joker Johnsen /Yann Greinenberger
Break out: A career in Art and Design in glass - Is it sustainable?
V8 / Mark Angus

3.00pm: Conversation
With tea

3.25pm: Speaker panel discussion forum: As the world of glassmaking changes, in what ways can Waterford city and community optimise their long heritage of glassmaking and create a sustainable future centred on glass?
Chaired by Susanne Joker Johnsen

4.20pm: Closing remarks
Róisín de Buitléar


For queries contact

Email: [email protected]
Tel: 087 7751938

Booking

Tickets available at here

Information on speakers

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