Date: 28th April 2017

Time: 01:00 pm

Venue: IDS, Building 8, GTU, 75 Kostava Street, Tbilisi Event: Ceramics. A Material of Past and Future 

Format: Erasmus+ Staff Mobility Visiting Lecture

Speaker: Özgür Cengiz, PhD, Afyon Kocatepe University, Turkey

Poster © Özgür Cengiz

The workshop was conducted within Erasmus+ mobility project, coordinated by Afyon Kocatepe - AKU University. Dr. Özgür Cengiz is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Ceramic of Fine Arts at AKU. The lecturer demonstrated her findings in researching the development of ceramic wall tile body compositions for energy saving and eco-friendly production, actually leading to zero carbon dioxide emission. She had also shared with the IDS students certain information from the neighboring Mid- Anatolian region on the use of local clays in traditional ceramics, as well as showed the examples of the evaluation of bentonites of Turkey and an investigation of their utilization in ceramic tile manufacturing – a very useful information since a Western Georgian region of Guria just across the border with Turkey is very rich with bentonites and the Turkish technologic know-how in this industry will be the most accessible.