GTU

Can You Weave Glass?

30/04/2018

Dates: 30th April – 24th May 2018

Venue: IDS, Building 8, GTU, 75 Kostava Street, Tbilisi

Event: Can You Weave Glass?

Format: Workshop and the IDS Student Competition Instructor: Claus Hipp, Honorary professor of GTU (Germany) 


More information on the Munich workshop: https://www.editionvantreeck.com/


Photo © Elisa Strozyk Poster © David Droni



Can you weave glass? This creative idea competition for the IDS senior bachelor (Year 3 and Year 4) and master students was initiated by Prof. Klaus Hipp, who on 30 April 2018 delivered a fascinating lecture on the work of Gustav van Treeck - company based in Munich, Germany, which is a stained glass manufacturer with over 130 years of history. The company is currently involved in novel exploitation of huge potential provided by woven glass. There are objects designed by various artists and made by Gustav van Treeck from weaved glass like toys, jewelry, origami items, dress, lamps, furniture, or simply pure artefacts. The task given by Prof. Hipp who initiated this competition among the IDS students and volunteered to sponsor the travel and stay of the two winners to the Munich workshop for a month-long summer practice, was to create a functional object made of woven glass nobody thought was possible.

As a result of a three week-long effort, the two best works chosen by Prof. Hipp and Raphaela Knein, Managing Director of Gustav van Treeck, were the bus stop, a free- flowing biomorphic structure by Giorgi Bekauri, and the kitchen hummer with woven glass head fior meat processing by Ilya Licheli. Both are the first-year master students of IDS. They travel to Germany in August 2018.