3D-Printed Glass - Mediated Matter Group - MIT
Challenging Glass is an international bi-annual conference that aims at gathering world class designers, engineers, researchers and industry partners to discuss on the architectural and structural use of glass. The conference is organised by Jan Belis (UGent), Freek Bos (TU Eindhoven) and Christian Louter (TU Delft) and has been held at TU Delft (2008, 2010, 2012 & 2018), EPFL (2014) and Ghent University (2016 & 2020). In 2020, Challenging Glass 7 was held as a two-hour webinar. The upcoming edition, Challenging Glass 8, will be held 23 & 24 June 2022 at Ghent University in Belgium.
Challenging Glass Conference 8, will be held in-person on Thursday 23 & Friday 24 June 2022 at Ghent University.
Download the preliminary program.
Location: Het Pand, Onderbergen 1, 9000 Gent, Belgium.
The conference focuses on the following topics:
Architectural Design, Geometries & Lighting
Curved & Bended Glass
Glass Circularity
Glass in Facades
Hybrid & Composite Glass Components
Insulating Glass Units
Joints, Fixings & Adhesives
Laminated Glass & Interlayer Properties
Numerical Modeling & Experimental Validation
Projects & Case studies
Stability & Strength
Structural Glass Design Philosophy & Structural Safety
PC Hooftstraat 138- UNStudio - Photographer: Eva Bloem
The fees for the conference and the associated dinner are given in the Table below.
Conference registration types | Until 5 May 2022 | After 5 May 2022 |
Participant or Speaker | € 445 | € 495 |
PhD-student* | € 345 | € 395 |
Conference dinner | € 95 | € 95 |
All fees are excl. VAT.
* A scan of student ID (with picture), valid on the conference dates, needs to be provided upon registration.
If you have received a positive response to your previously submitted abstract, you are now invited to submit your full paper following the instructions below. If you have not yet submitted an abstract, but still would like to do so, please contact the organisers to discuss the possibilities.
Please follow the steps below to submit your abstract.
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures - Photographer: Patrick W. Price
Prof. Christian Louter - TU Delft
Prof. Jan Belis - Ghent University
Dr. Freek Bos - TU Eindhoven