Creative Europe
Desk UK
for Culture

GLASS IS TOMORROW is a European network which aims at establishing a more fluid exchange of knowledge and competencies between glass and design professionals in the north, south, east and west of Europe.

The first phase of GLASS IS TOMORROW – GIT I was launched on 1 June 2011 and will last until the end of May 2013. Supported by the ‘Culture’ (2007- 2013) Programme of the European Union, GLASS IS TOMORROW promotes a high level of craft and design in contemporary glass. Glass aesthetics and techniques will be explored by tandems of designers and glassmakers to develop new typologies of everyday objects.

In its first phase, the project has opened up new potentialities and has generated dialogue about the conception, production and distribution of glass pieces. In its second phase, GLASS IS TOMORROW – GIT II will aim at collaborating with high end design brands specialized into glass design in order to increase the quality of glass production in Europe and the awareness of the European glass culture, tradition and innovations. The evolution of the project will enhance both the education and the profession of glass designer and maker . There will be a series of production residencies at the partners’ glass factories (CIAV, Glass Factory i Boda), which will be organized parallel to a series of postgraduate workshops within specialised design schools and glass research centers (School of High Education in Art and Design of Saint-Etienne, Royal College of Arts in London, Domaine de Boisbuchet with the ‘Glass Lab’ of the Corning Glass Museum). Europe has become once again a center of excellence for glass design and blowing, with some very strong glass centers which are developing a differentiated contemporary glass design mindset. GIT II wants to promote the future of this know how and potential collaborations and diffuse it towards the professionals, the trained and upcoming glass makers and designers and a wider audience, incl. the youth through pedagogical activities.