Seminar: Innovative Glass: From Science to Sustainability

 

The Finnish Glass Museum organizes glass themed professional seminar on Wednesday June 4. The seminar will explore current glass related topics in the fields of art, science and innovations. The seminar programme will offer interesting viewpoints to the glass art, designer/glassblower collaboration, glass architecture, deploying science into making glass art and collecting glass as a private collector. The seminar will end with a panel discussion, which will concentrate on future, innovations and sustainability of glass. Panelists are professionals working with glass in different fields.

The seminar is targeted for professional audience and everyone interested in glass.

The seminar will be held in English.

 

TENTATIVE SEMINAR PROGRAMME

9.30–10.15 Registration

10.15–10.30 Welcome to the seminar / Anna-Riitta Kujala, Director of vitality, City of Riihimäki

10.30–11.00 Developing a successful Designer/Glassmaker exchange / Helmi Remes, artist, designer & Slate Grove, artist, educator

11.00–11.30 Design, Art and Passion in Glass / Markku Piri, designer, artist

11.30–12.30 Lunch (self-paid)

12.30–12.50 Finnish glass as a collector’s choice / Marko Jylli, private glass collector

12.50–13.10 When archaeology meets contemporary glass art and advanced photonics / Ella Varvio, artist- designer

13.10–13.30 Glass, Robots, and Fashion / Sini Majuri, glass artist

13.30–14.00 Glass – light – space / Rainer Mahlamäki, professor, architect (Lahdelma & Mahlamäki architects)

14.00–14.45 Afternoon coffee (self-paid)

14.45–15.45 Panel discussion: Future and innovations of glass

Panelists: Erkka Frankberg (researcher, University of Tampere), Pekka Vallittu (professor, Biomaterials Science, University of Turku), Sauli Suomela (artist), Pauliina Savolainen (factory manager, Fiskars Finland Oy Ab, Iittala Glass), Tuomas Silvennoinen (architect, PES- Architects)

 

Seminar guests can enjoy lunch and coffee at their own expense at the restaurant Fasetti, which is connected to the museum. Changes in the program are possible.

When

4 June, 10 am to 4 pm

Where

SUOMEN LASIMUSEO
Tehtaankatu 23
Opening hours 10 am – 5 pm

Tickets

Participation Fee: 11 €.
Tickets available from 2 May.
Limited number of participants.