If you wish to stay in a hostel, we recommend the Old Monastery Hostel, Stephen Gannon is your man. If you say you are with EASA, he will give you a discounted rate of €15. He is contactable at +353872349543. We can offer you a bedroom in our apartments but unfortunately only until 23rd and at €20 a night.
Guest fee is €10 a day for your breakfast, lunch and dinner.
posted by conor
Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:32:57 GMT
The weather is looking like it will be standard Irish weather for the next two weeks, changeable, temperature range 10 -20 Celcius, guaranteed to rain so please don’t forget your rain gear and boots.
posted by conor
Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:01:34 GMT
Salutations Coffee aficionados of Europe!
As you may have heard a good coffee is quite rare and even if you find it – quite expensive – in this little tea-drinking island (No.1 in the world for consumption baby! who needs the olympics or the eurovision for that matter!)
We have procured a super-dooper coffee machine and lots of lovely fresh coffee beans from illy Ireland for our Letterfrack bar. You will have to pay for your morning espresso/latte/cappucino however the prices will be uber-dooper-competitive.
Sleepmonster, Sándor, Dade and yours truly have undergone a grueling several hours training course and have recently graduated as international top-class baristas – we shall be training our minion army of coffee makers to provide with you with the bitter sweet caffeine kick you will need for those fuzzy-mouthed bleary-eyed mornings.
Henceforth excuses for not getting up in the morning and attending will not be accepted by your delightful organisers!
posted by ronan_mc
Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:46:24 GMT
Saturday Night
Mano Le Tough
Sunday Night
You Kiss by the Book
Beatpoet: Good
Sándor Lilienberg
Thursday Night
Jennifer Evans & The Ripe Intent/a>
The Dead Flags
Music For Dead Birds
Saturday Night
Rory Grubb and the Mammals
Tom Walsh & Kevin Walsh
Sunday Night
Mr Whippy
posted by conor
Tue, 05 Aug 2008 20:08:19 GMT
Hello everyone!
I’m writing to you all to WARN you that Letterfrack is home to a very healthy population of mosquitos, or more accurately midgies, which exist there in ridiculous numbers. When there is no wind and no sunshine they are at their worst…so pray for sunny windy weather!
There is very little we can do to solve this problem so we are strongly advising people make preparations to protect themselves.
Therefore everyone who wishes to sleep peacefully should bring mosquito nets and insect repellent. The local people recommend Avon’s ‘Skin So Soft’ product, a moisturiser which coincidentally acts as a repellent, so try and source some of this before you arrive in Ireland. We will have a limited amount for sale at the Info Point during the event.
We will do our best to prevent these insects from accessing the sleeping accommodation but this is nearly impossible so we would encourage everyone to bring their own mosquito nets.
These insects have the potential to seriously upset sleep and workshops so please come prepared.
Could all NC’s ensure that this message has been received by all their participants.
See you all soon in midge-free Dublin!
Seán
posted by irish_sean
Sat, 02 Aug 2008 18:52:52 GMT
EASA Ireland is proud to announce a Photography Competition kindy sponsored by Conns Cameras .
The theme is once again Adaptation.
First prize €500
Second prize €250
Third Prize €150
These are all in the form of vouchers for Conns camera shop and online store. Don’t worry, they post worldwide.
I hope everyone will be snappy happy!!!
More details will be announced during the assembly,
Paddy,
posted by paddy_roche
Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:08:24 GMT
Just a thought for the organisers of EASA009. It would be really great if the Italian team managed to bring an external hard drive (500GB) with them to EASA Ireland. This way you can load up on all our documents and excel files. Believe me when I say this will save you and the past organisers a lot of email traffic.
See you all soon,
Paddy
posted by paddy_roche
Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:41:04 GMT
stupid, i know, but does letterfrack have an atm that us foreigners can use as well?
thanks,
j.
posted by jera
Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:23:46 GMT
I found a story relating to living conditions in the mighty Ireland. (readers of environmental graffiti or indeed digg.com may well have spotted it all ready).
It’s totally (mildly) inappropriate for the blog (the name is in the link)… so here it is:
www.environmentalgraffiti.com
I thought it might be nice if we blogged any stories we stumble upon related to Ireland in the few weeks running up to the event. A way of adding a bit of colour to our understanding of the place, while also satiating my desire to get there I suppose. (22 days)
posted by chris – manchester
Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:18:26 GMT
Hope everyone is keeping well.
Can everyone attending EASA 2008 please answer this poll as we need to get some bookings in place for the Sunday excursions.
posted by conor
Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:05:02 GMT
Dear NC’s, we have noticed a small error in the application form that excludes participant’s email addresses from the form. We kindly request that you please send us (team{at}easa008{dot}ie) an email with an excel or google spreadsheets document containing the following information;
Participant’s Name/////////Email Address/////////Arrival date
We would hugely appreciate this information as soon as possible.
Also, we have a couple extra places going on a first come first serve basis. Whomever wants them, come and get them soon!
Cheers ;)
posted by conor
Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:45:41 GMT
The organisers of EASA Ireland are proud to announce the presence of Brian Anson at the Assembly between the 9th and 24th of August. Brian Anson has been an advocator of community inclusion in the process of design and architecture for over fifty years and he promises to play a fundamental role in EASA 2008.
Born into into a working class background in Liverpool, England in 1935, he worked as an urbanist and planner in his native city and the city of Dublin in 1960s. In 1969 and 1970 he worked tirelessly for the preservation of Covent Garden, a small inner city borough of London.The buildings and the community dwelling there were under threat of total annihilation by a group of developers and local planning authorities,instilling a policy which had ripped the heart out of England’s post Industrial cities through out the decade. After rounding the local community and after group consultations, a proposition and compromise was reached which was deemed acceptable by the local authorities. Covent Garden was saved and has since been seen as a successful regeneration project, where old buildings and existing communities can be adapted and evolve without their total demise. Its model has served as a precedent for other projects, most notably the Temple Bar regeneration project in Dublin. A book was published in 1981 entitled “I’ll Fight You For It”, outlining the Covent Garden struggle.
As a result of the Covent Garden success, Brian was accepted by the Architectural Association where he acted as Unit Master from 1972. It was here that Brian was involved with discussions and debates with architects such as Peter Cook, expressing and reiterating the importance of community involvement. Growing slowly disillusioned with the path his colleagues were taking, he strove to create an alternative future to the profession through the founding of the Architects Revolutionary Council (ARC). Brian Anson realised that the problems plaguing the profession, i.e. the pandering to developers and lack of ground roots community communication were a result of a deeply flawed education system. His reaction to this was the foundation of the Schools of Architecture Council (SAC) in 1979.
The role of the SAC was a body whose purpose was to show an alternative to the formal education, then on offer in the schools of architecture. Brian Anson was elected president of the organisation by the students as a protest against the established schools. In summer 1979, over 800 students attended a gathering in a tower block in Sheffield. Students from all over England exchanged ideas and created their own educational systems and architectural proposals, independent of a main organisation. The gathering was repeated in Hull the next year but unfortunately, the SAC was dissolved in 1981. The momentum did not dissipate however and its framework was recycled in the form of the Winter Schools, one of which was held in Anson’s native Liverpool. The Winter School was such a success that the students, among them Richard Murphy decided to invite students from around Europe and England to investigate the urban blight of decay then ravishing the city. This organised gathering, void of any political agenda or motivation would be later regarded as the first European Architecture Student Assembly. It was the legacynof an idea which had germinated in the winter schools of the late 1970s.
Brian Anson continued his community work. He was invited by the community of Gaoth Dobhair, Donegal to propose suggestions for the retention of a culture and a language under siege by inept planning authorities. A dossier was published, outlining coherent plans for future development. It was a plan which had grown from the roots of the community and despite having a lack of the Irish-Gaelic language, Anson portrayed a deep and profound understanding for the people and their history, with a future full of hope. He envisioned a community that would become self dependent over time, utilising and mobilising it’s innate skills and practices. It was rejected however, as being far too radical. Unfazed, Anson took part in the Mobile Unit Scheme between 1983 and 1986. He travelled as part of a team in a converted camper van through Britain and Ireland, uniting community groups and causing a media flurry where ever he went. His journeys brought him form the post-industrial collier towns of Thatcherite England to the war scarred streets of Belfast. It was here that the story of the Divis Street flats came to the fore. Anson unveiled a woefully inadequate housing scheme, where a British Army base was built practically atop the residents dwellings. The case was brought to London and received full media attention at the time. A campaign was instigated which led to eventual demolition of the complex.
Brian Anson has been living in France since 1991 where he has been painting, reading and writing his views on architecture and its possible future. He has run a series of annual modules in the University of Birmingham where students from around the world exchange views and learn from Brian’s vast experience of working within a local and community framework. It is the privelege and honour of EASA Ireland to have him as a tutor and speaker at the Assembly this August and without a doubt, he will play an integral part in the proceedings.
posted by conor
Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:40:24 GMT
Hello Easa people, who live in Vienna. I’m going to Italy at the architectural congress. And It happens so, that I must be in Vienna for 2 days (26 and 27 June)
cause I’ ll be waiting for my tourists group from Moscow. Totally all cheap hostels are full!!!! Because of the european match!!!
I’m also looking for some possibilities to stay 2 nights at hospitabilityclub.org
Maybe there are some variants to get accomodation for only 2 nights?
Cause I’ll never be alone, yeah..?
Daria ^_^
My ICQ number 423192375
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Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:29:35 GMT
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posted by sdj123
Fri, 20 Jun 2008 12:53:18 GMT
