The Design Symposium for Waterford glass city will take place from May - September 2015 . It will be supported by WIT, Irish Design2015, Waterford Viking Triangle, Waterford City Council, Glass Society of Ireland, as part of the Year of Design 2015.
The line up of speakers is almost complete and will be announced shortly.
May 28th – 19th September
Exhibition
Refract - Glass Object and Architecture
Location: Exhibition City Hall Waterford
International Exhibition
Products in glass from small to large scale, showcasing contemporary design and new technologies.
Curated by Róisín de Buitléar
This exhibition showcases a selection of designers from Europe, and the United States working with glass design with innovative ideas, in contemporary interpretations of traditional glass making techniques. Lighting, architectural glass, and tableware, from the Czech Republic, France, Britain, Germany and the USA will be presented in Waterford’s glorious city hall. Supported by Viking Triangle Trust, Waterford City Council and IrishDesign2015
Date May 29th 2015 – September 19th
10am – 4.30pm Monday – Friday
May 28th – 19th September
Exhibition
Masters of ‘The Glass’ master pieces from Waterford’s glassmakers past and present
This exhibition celebrates the unique heritage of glassmaking in Waterford, city and county. Curated from private and family collections, this exhibition includes Cut crystal centre pieces, Friggers, and apprenticeship pieces.
Curated by Róisín de Buitléar
Treasures Museum Waterford
This exhibition celebrates the unique heritage of glassmaking in Waterford, city and county. Curated from private and family collections, this exhibition includes Cut crystal centre pieces, Friggers, and apprenticeship pieces.
Curated by Róisín de Buitléar
May 2015
Design Workshops
Hot and Cold Glass prototyping
Design development
WIT
A skilled unemployed workforce exists in Waterford. Opening new possibilities to up-skilling and sharing competencies and knowledge is pivotal to the economic development of this craft as a potential catalyst for development in Waterford. The missing link is design and collaboration with skilled glassmakers to evolve new answers for glass in Ireland. This is first step in developing a strategy for future collaborations and building awareness of potential outcomes.
May 2015
Waterford Institute of technology, Viking Triangle Trust, Waterford City Council and IrishDesign2015
May 22nd
Lecture
‘The first designer at Waterford Crystal’ Prof Brian Havel
St Patrick’s Centre Waterford
Presented by the Waterford Archeological and Historical society
September 7th – 19th
Exhibition: Design Heroes
Miroslav Havel (1922 –2008)
Chief Glass Designer Waterford Crystal
Waterford Central Library
This exhibition will show original design drawings and archival engraved and cut glass pieces from the Havel Family archive
Curated by Róisín de Buitléar
Waterford Central Library
Lady Lane
10:00am- 5.30pm Monday to Friday
Supported by Havel Family, Waterford Central Libraries and IrishDesign2015
Workshop Children’s and Adult hands on workshops - glassmaking for beginners Central Library
The History of Glass in Waterford Lecture Series
Tracing the history of glass in Waterford from the start to contemporary work, including the establishment of the Penrose factory and its history. September October Weekly
Central Central Library
Supported by Waterford Central Library IrishDesign2015
Workshops September Waterford city
Cold glass and hot glass prototyping ( 14th 17th September inclusive)
Tregg Silkwood – Hot Glass
Greg Sullivan Cold Glass
September 18/19th
Symposium
Future Legacy – Contemporary contexts for Glass in Tourism, Design and Technologies
Waterford Institute of Technology
Waterford is at a turning point in its glass history. Its legacy of crystal production, has helped and hindered the growth of new directions for innovations in design, education, and production of glass. New advances and technologies that explore the availability of heritage, culture and skills in the town, can offer new possibilities and build liaisons to create a new future for glass in Ireland in design, education, and tourism.
This event aims to engage members from various community and social groups both in Ireland and internationally in an effort to explain and experience first hand the advances in the sector, from that of factory worker to designer, creator, educator, engineer and entrepreneur.
These include: Local unemployed glass workforce, glass practitioners, artists, product designers, architects, city councilors, tourism sector, glass retail sector, design academics, green technology specialists, engineers, students, glassmakers entrepreneurs, and general public.
Keynote Speaker: Susan Joker Johansen of Denmark’s European Glass Context and Project director for the school for design, architecture, and conservation
Designing a future for a living tradition. Concept /Design/ Exhibition
Yann Greinenberger Fr Director Centre International De l’Art des Verriers (CIAV) Meisenthal France
Glass Making - Ancient skills, New thinking
Treg Silkwood USA Artist, Member of the Corning Museum Roadshow, Historical Glassblowing expert, and instructor at Bay Area Glass Institute (BAGI) California USA
Education and Glass Technologies
Advantages of a community-led open access facility, in a disadvantaged area.
Chuck Lopez USA, Glass technologist, Studio manager, Pratt Fine Art Seattle USA
From Rendering to object – New materials, new directions
Pierre Briendrieff V8 FR
Product designers Strasbourg France
Glass canvas - Public Art and Interiors
Mark Angus GB Independent Artist and Educator
Supported by Waterford Institute of technology, Viking Triangle Trust, Waterford City Council and IrishDesign2015