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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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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.

WorkshopGlass 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.

ThemeThe 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)* makers

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,www.promateria.be, www.glassistomorrow.eu

Exhibition & PublicationGLASS IS TOMORROW