Fired Up Glass Symposium

Sustainability - History - Architecture - Industry - Art TUT Arts Campus, 01 October 2022

The Fired Up! Glass Symposium aimed to open conversations on the future of glass within an African context.

The following speakers were kind enough to share their time and knowledge with us:

- Amanda Esterhuysen (Origins Centre, WITS), Excavating socio-economic networks through glass - Alessandro Mayes (Ardagh Group, South Africa), Manufacturing container glass - Karlien Thomashoff (Thomashoff Architects), Glass in African

Architecture - Chas Prettejohn (Ngwenya Glass, Eswatini), Sustainable glass and the circular economy

All delegates were treated to live glass blowing demos with master blowers from Ngwenya Glass in the TUT glass studio hot shop whilst enjoying a light lunch.

Watch the presentations on YouTube: https://youtu.be/-FF0_64mVcA

Amanda Esterhuysen Alessandro Mayes Karlien Thomashoff

Live Glass Blowing Demos with Sibusiso Mhlanga & James Magagula (Ngwenya Glass, Eswatini), Martli Jansen van Rensburg (Smelt Glass Studio) All photos can be found here: Southern African Glass (Facebook) Tshwane University of Technology, Arts Campus, Glass Studio