Hybrid Glass Craft - novel approaches to materials and digital tools in glass craft as a model for the synthesis of Art and Technology

In 2022, the UN celebrated the International Year of Glass, to "underline the technological, scientific, economic, environmental, historical and artistic role of glass in our societies" (UN, 2021). Today, most research and innovation in glass takes place in material science and engineering contexts. The potential of research into glass craft as an interdisciplinary model, combining novel techniques and materials, as a cultural and artistic dimension, is often overlooked. There is little understanding of how contemporary craft in Art and Technology, can lead to interdisciplinary collaborative research and innovations in and beyond glass.