It will focus on the development of innovative approaches and creative opportunities for glass. It will bring together a number of high profile keynote speakers and glass professionals, such as Dr David Bricknell, Dr Vanessa Cutler, and Prof Kevin Petrie who work with new technologies or use traditional processes in new ways to expand creative vocabularies and technical possibilities.
The symposium seeks to explore similarities & differences across the differing attitudes to the special nature of the material glass. We have invited papers from a wide spectrum that reaches from the position of individual craft practitioners when faced with the new formal vocabulary inherent in a new manufacturing or making process, to that of a glass technologist seeking to develop a new type of glass product.

Keynote speakers include:

• Dr David Bricknell – The Float Process: An invention working with nature.
• Dr Vanessa Cutler – Combining Industrial Technology
• Craft Prof Kevin Petrie – Glass and Print: Blending approaches for innovation in creative glass

Speaker selected from open call include:

• Teresa Almeida – Luminescent Glass-Art Works
• Heike Brachlow – Shaping Colour: Density, light and form in solid glass sculpture
• Jessamy Kelly – The Hot State Combination of Glass and Ceramics
• Tavs Jorgensen – Universal Tooling for Kiln Forming Sheet Glass