Hi Hrvatska,
I’ll be in Zagreb on Saturday night for one night only if anyone wants to meet for a pivo, you know my email address!
Ronan
posted by ronan_mc
Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:32:06 GMT
it’s been rather silent since the awesome website was released, on which Hana and Dijana were working on. I still think its’s a important matter, for reasons mentioned in a earlier post. Obviously there’s still a lot of work to do and a lot of things to discuss in order to get a decent appearence on the web. There won’t be a workshop this summer and i’d like therefore to give a short overview about the current situation and maybe suggest further moves.
I’d say it was a quite anticipating idea to digitalize the physical archive during the last two years, since, well, it’s gone. correct me if i’m wrong ( and I truly hope i am), but there were only two physical easa-archives: One in Copenhagen, which has been thrown away. And now guess in which faculty building the second was… exactly! does any dutch know anything about it whether it was somewhere else or if it somehow escaped the flames for some reason? And does anyone know if there’s another archive somewhere?
If not, then there’s not much left except for two harddrives (one with pernille in cph and one here in Zürich), which are not at all complete (entire years are missing), but at least they have a decent amount of information, pictures and films.
There’s also some stuff spread all over the world in the shelters of some estimated 10000 easians…
other things that were developed but hardly discussed/agreed on during last easa/INCM/blog are the use or uselessness of a eas-calendar, blog vs. forum (i changed my minde a little bit) and the Logo once again.
Not too many easians join the discussions here on the blog, wherefore i suggest we’ll also talk about it during a nc-meeting in Ireland. If they’re in any way similar to the ones in elefsina (“are there any problems with anything?… not?… some cookies anyone?” ;) ) it should be possible…
cheers!
posted by luishilti
Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:34:11 GMT
Hello all mighty organisers and others, a question about accommodation in Dublin.
Me and the rest of the Norwegian participants / students / crew / bloodthirsty Vikings ready for a long yearned new raid on the Irish islands (it’s been quite boring just staying home the last 1000 years..) arrives in Dublin the day before the first day of EASA (i.e. the 8th of August). So now we’re looking for a – preferably cheap – place to stay the first night. Something that is close to where we are supposed to stay the nights in Dublin would also be nice.
Any suggestions?
Cheers,
Erlend.
posted by erlend
Sat, 07 Jun 2008 10:15:00 GMT
Hello easa,
i am fresh around here and i thought maybe this project deserves to be taken in consideration….call it organic, funny, SF, still…an unusual object….made almost completely out of steel by the artist robert bruno…as the dutch editor of the site says: It has something of a re-assembled old submarine, or a stage-piece of an old Star Wars film.
My opinion is that it can be seen that it is not a house designed by an architect, but a piece of sculpture in which you retire everyday
www.eikongraphia.com
posted by horiabrh
Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:20:00 GMT
Greetings folks, can someone from this community write down the dimensional standards for lumber used in Ireland?
What are standard dimensions of planks, boards, beams, etc. used in production?
One more thing, what kind of measurement system is used? Metric or imperial?
Thanks
posted by baltazar
Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:16:00 GMT
Dear all,
We have been working on INCM preperations since January. There are some achivements about diffrent things; we are in process to apply for funding from UNDP-ACT in Cyprus and some private sponsors will be found with the help of Chambers of Architects & Engineers…
The dates are 1st-11th of November; first 7days are designed for INCM and last 3 days for workshop since we have an interesting situation in Cyprus…
We will have various activity spaces and meeting spots in old city of Nicosia that you ll find all its deatils at our web site end of june…
For the event program, we have prepeared a draft verion similar to Motovun one which will be finilized especially in EASA008 Ireland, besides you could start to inform us about your topics that you want to be discussed and any presentations that you want to do.
erhan & elina
posted by erhan.oze
Wed, 28 May 2008 08:52:00 GMT
It was a tiring struggle to finish the well-polished visa-application [ Irish VIOSA :-) ] cover letter, where I could explain reasons of the trip, financing details, and undertaking the turning back from Ireland…
I virtualy reviewed it with Sean, and we think it fits well.
tell me if anyone needs me to share it, so I trim some private content and post it here :-). I would have done it now if I hadnt been spending golden time (for projects) on a sweet birthday-journey…aww
posted by odin modvalsen
Sun, 25 May 2008 17:10:00 GMT
Congratulations Russia! I’m overcome with emotion. What a powerful song! Uk 14 points. We’re getting better. watch out everyone Im sure there’s another Bucks Fizz out there!
posted by carla smyth uk
Sun, 25 May 2008 08:48:00 GMT
“Be realistic, demand the impossible”
From a time when architects DID change the world.
If you were walking the streets of Paris this month 40 years ago, chances are you would be completely caught up and participating in a time that has since changed French society forever.
Then, France was on the verge of a total revolt with 12 million workers on strike, 122 factories occupied, and millions of students fighting for a radical change in the way the world was working. A spark that boldly called for revolution and dreamed of an end to capitalism appeared to come out of nowhere. Its ripples sparked further questioning and action in other parts of the world including our own little island.
Ultimately, Paris ’68 did not succeed, but that’s not to say that the spark has been fully quelled or, indeed, that it wont boldly appear again in what are still troubled times.
From this explosion of direct action, self control and organisation of space, erection of and life behind barricades, experiments in mass participative democracy and violent confrontation with the powers, new ideas formed and are still forming about how our world works, what alternatives are more desirable and what has to be done to bring these dreams about.
In Ireland the spark seemed to ignite on an already quietly kindling Derry, which directly led to a bitter and bloody 30 year confrontation. The Paris flame was later felt in Dublin’s universities where again students occupied and fought for change, if albeit to a lesser extant then their French comrades. An interesting thing to note is how art and culture played a significant part in these days of action, from the Situationists’ ideas, films, posters, actions in Paris to sometime later, the Free Derry Fleadh with a legendary 23 non stop music session with Luke Kelly and the Dubliners to Tommy Makem’s “4 green fields”.
Today in Barcelona and many other places, May ’68 is being remembered, old films footage of street riots is being shown in cinemas, political spaces are again facilitating dialogue between activists from yesterday and today. This is just a little reminder, that the spark is still alive and kicking…
From Paris ’68 to where?
Paris ‘68
It began when university students in Paris occupied the area of the Sorbonne and Nanterre universities in response to a dispute over visiting rights to a female students’ dormitory. The protests grew into a call for wider university reforms and greater personal freedoms that led to three weeks of mass demonstrations. Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets to protest heavy-handed police treatment. In a show of solidarity, ten million workers, or roughly two-thirds of the French workforce, went on strike. It marked the biggest general strike in French history.
Ireland ‘68
Derry
Inspired by the growing call for civil rights by Martin Luther King and the blacks in the United States, Catholics in Derry started to organise themselves peacefully for change. The city on the edge was on the border of Northern Ireland and was unjustly maintained in a state of apartheid against the catholic “Irish” nationalist community.
In March 1968, a small number of radicals in the city founded the Derry Housing Action Committee, with the intention of forcing the government of Northern Ireland to change their housing policies. They used “direct action” such as blocking roads and invading local council meetings in order to force them to house Catholic families who were on council’s housing waiting list for a long time. By the summer of 1968, this group had linked up with the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association and was agitating for a broader programme of reform within Northern Ireland.
In May, news went out around the world what kicked off in Paris, what it could achieve… it showed the times were changing. Perhaps this gave more hope to Derry that change was possible, but also showed what levels the powers will use to quell such demands for change.
“The Troubles”
On October 5 1968, a civil rights march in Derry, the Royal Ulster Constabulary “booted and bludgeoned” a crowd of teachers and clerics off the streets. In response, two thousand students from Queens University marched to City Hall to protest the brutality. These students were then rerouted and blocked by the police, an event that catalyzed the formation of the country’s most dynamic student movement, People’s Democracy.
On October 5, 1968, activists organised a march through the centre of Derry. However, the demonstration was banned and when the marchers defied this ban they were batoned by the RUC. The RUC’s actions were televised and caused widespread anger in nationalist circles. The following day, 4000 people demonstrated in solidarity with the marchers in Guildhall Square in the centre of Derry. This march passed off peacefully, as did another demonstration attended by up to 15,000 people on November 16. However, these incidents proved to be the start of an escalating pattern of civil unrest that culminated in the events of August 1969….
Beyond ‘68, Free Derry and the battle of the bogside…
On 1 January 1969,a group of students in Queen’s University Belfast, called People’s Democracy, organized a march from Belfast to Derry in support of civil rights. They started out with about forty young people on 1 January 1969. The march met with violent opposition from anti-civil rights counter-demonstrators at several points along the route. Finally, at Burntollet Bridge, five miles outside Derry, they were attacked by a mob of about two hundred wielding clubs, some of them studded with nails, and stones. The police, who were at the scene, failed to protect them. Dozens of marchers were taken to hospital. The remainder continued on to Derry where they were attacked once more on their way to Craigavon Bridge before they finally reached Guildhall Square, where they held a rally. Rioting broke out after the rally. Police drove rioters into the Bogside, but did not come after them.
This was officially the start of Derry’s “Troubles” and around this time the internationally renowned image “You Are Now Entering Free Derry” mural was established.
Dublin ’68 : the gentle revolution
You can listen to excellent half hour radio show:
What if Irish Students in the 1960’s had been more radical. with Guests: Margaret McCurtain and Jim Lockhart
Architect students played a main part in this call for change, primarly out of working for better housing conditions.
listen now: www.rte.ie
webpage source: www.rte.ie
click on: Programme 15: 10th December 2006
For links to films, more audio, more texts see:
www.indymedia.ie
May 1968 Graffiti
Boredom is counterrevolutionary.
In a society that has abolished every kind of adventure the only adventure that remains is to abolish the society.
Those who make revolutions halfway only dig their own graves.
No replastering, the structure is rotten.
We will ask nothing. We will demand nothing. We will take, occupy.
Down with the state.
It’s painful to submit to our bosses; it’s even more stupid to choose them.
Abolish class society.
We want neither to rule nor to be ruled.
All power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely
Politics is in the streets.
Barricades close the streets but open the way.
People who work get bored when they don’t work.
People who don’t work never get bored.
The boss needs you, you don’t need the boss.
Humanity won’t be happy till the last capitalist is hung with the guts of the last bureaucrat.
A single nonrevolutionary weekend is infinitely more bloody than a month of total revolution.
We refuse to be highrised, diplomaed, licensed, inventoried, registered, indoctrinated, suburbanized, sermonized, beaten, telemanipulated, gassed, booked.
Coming soon to this location: charming ruins.
Our aim is to agitate and disturb people. We’re not selling bread, We’re selling yeast.
You will end up dying of comfort.
Poetry is in the streets.
The most beautiful sculpture is a paving stone thrown at a cop’s head.
Revolution, I love you.
I’m a Groucho Marxist.
Desiring reality is great! Realizing your desires is even better!
Be realistic, demand the impossible.
Those who lack imagination cannot imagine what is lacking.
Arise, ye wretched of the university.
Professors, you are as senile as your culture, your modernism is nothing but the modernization of the police.
Neither God nor master.
If God existed it would be necessary to abolish him.
How can you think freely in the shadow of a chapel?
The more we make love, the more we want to make revolution. The more we make revolution, the more we want to make love.
Revolutionary women are more beautiful.
Make love, not war.
Down with consumer society.
The more you consume, the less you live.
Commodities are the opium of the people.
You can’t buy happiness. Steal it.
The economy is wounded – Lets hope it dies!
I don’t have time to write!!!
Don’t get caught up in the spectacle of opposition. Oppose the spectacle.
No forbidding allowed.
The freedom of others extends mine infinitely.
posted by duncan
Fri, 23 May 2008 11:46:00 GMT
There is a brand new and state-of-the-art MSc Programme in Digital Architectural Design at the School of the Built Environment, University of Salford (Greater Manchester, United Kingdom). The course is open to all the graduates of the European Architectural Schools, and there is a 50% fee support for EU members.
The programme is designed to equip students with critical insight, knowledge and advanced practical skills which will enable them:
· To understand and explore complex design phenomena of architectural design in the framework of a Digital Design Studio
·To understand the contribution and impact of digital technologies in architectural and urban design
· To explore geometrical and generative concepts related to digital design.
·To explore the role of information in design, project representation and information processing and its impact on working modes in design and construction
·To explore concepts of digital collaboration among the various design professions
·To experiment with new digital fabrication technologies
for More information contact T.Kocaturk@salford.ac.uk
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Seeing footage of the burning TU Delft puts several issues besetting the organizing team into context. It’s difficult to fully comprehend the scale of the loss; think of how frustrating it is to lose a drawing or render that you’ve been working on for a couple of days, then imagine how it is for all the people currently studying who have lost their thesis or final project, people down the years who have lost their entire portfolio and all their models – then think how much work and effort goes in every year, all now lost. An entire library destroyed. Studios gutted. History lost. Our commiserations go out to all those attending or who attended Delft: thankfully, there has been no loss of life or injury, but it is still a disastrous loss
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Looking back at the wonderful time we had in Motovun November last, I specifically remember a discussion we had over a cup of coffee at the back of a small smoke-filled dark café built into the ancient walls of this magnificent medieval town. A question was posed, to which everyone had a distinctly unique answer. The question, quite simple really, what is EASA?
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I would like to take this opportunity, as EASA Ireland 2008 fast approaches, to ignite interest again into EASA as a functioning active network of architecture students from every corner of Europe and even farther a field. While the collective activities during the assembly are paramount, another vitally important aspect of EASA is the collective ability of the EASA network to improve itself as a network and push the boundaries of what is possible for it to achieve. One of many astounding things about EASA is the ability to congregate such a diverse body of people – this year over 50 nationalities – to work together, share experiences, and in the process making a hugely positive contribution to architectural thinking and also the community EASA finds itself plunged into for the duration of the Assembly.
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The importance of EASA’s representation to the outside world is one issue that continues to be an integral thread in keeping the network alive and kicking. That’s why we urge important projects such as the Archive project – now running since 2005 – to complete its duty and do this wonderful community, this compilation of experiences, and this immense history of EASA the respect it deserves. EASA deserves the respect of its rightful representation to the wider public, but most importantly, to the EASA participants; past, present and future, those who make EASA such a unique and magnificent experience each year.
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The Irish Dept. of Foreign Affairs have agreed to grant free visas to our guests attending easa008!
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Citylink (twice daily on Fri, Sun, & Mon) and Bus Eireann (except Sundays) each have a daily service out of Letterfrack for aroun €10. They also operate a slightly more frequent service from Clifden. Transport from Letterfrack to Clifden can also be facilitated by the EASA Ireland 2008 organisation team. |
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We also plan on arranging private mini-buses to Galway and we expect the price for these seats to be in the region of €10-€15. In Galway, one can get the train to dublin (€24, no student fares applicable), or several frequent bus services; either the national bus service, Bus Eireann (€12.20 with ISIC student card, €13.10 without), or private bus companies Nestor Link (€15), & Citylink (€19), both of which travel directly from Galway to Dublin Airport for those prices. Citylink also operates a service to Shannon Airport for €16. Bus Eireann also have a service from Galway to Ireland West airport in Knock. Please refer to the websites for the best service that suits your flight times and your pocket and get back to us closer to the event to inform us on how we can facilitate your timely transfer from Letterfrack to Galway. |
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| Recognised as one of the 40 most important architects under 40, and winner of the 2002 young architect of the year, Danish architects, Julien deSmedt Architects will be presenting recent projects at this year’s Assembly. Partner with Julien, and DIT graduate of 2007, Andrew Griffen will give a critique on current Irish architecture and also a presentation on some of the International projects he worked on in JDS, including several projects in Ireland. | |
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posted by conor
Tue, 20 May 2008 01:07:00 GMT
hi nc’s who joined last incm in motovun,
does someone remember the name of the office who made the gym we visited during excursion?
thanks in advance, cheers!
posted by leofromitaly
Mon, 19 May 2008 12:51:00 GMT
Here is a link to BBC videos covering the cities build up to the UEFA cup final tonight. Its the second time in 7 years a major European final has been held in the city, but its fair to say that with the 100,000+ Rangers fans expected (today’s wave started flooding in about 4am and promptly began the drinking session of a life time) it is a more rowdy affair then the all (classic) Italian European cup final at Old Traffod. Good luck to both Rangers and Zenit, here’s to football and good natured banter!
news.bbc.co.uk
posted by chris – manchester
Wed, 14 May 2008 13:35:00 GMT
and we dutch take everything very serious.
so today the faculty of architecture of the TU Delft burnt down. life’s a bitch.
www.dumpert.nl
posted by das-horst
Tue, 13 May 2008 14:18:00 GMT
We just got news from our Dept. of Foreign Affairs that they will grant free visas to our guests to attend easa008!
not only will this be of financial benefit to our guests but the accompanying support of the Dept. will be very useful should any problems arise. they will send us an official letter which we will scan and issue to all of our guests to add to their application documents. they will obviously inform the embassies/consulates directly too.
once we receive this letter we will begin to issue our letters of invitation, along with any other important information regarding your applications.
incidentally, will all participants please ensure that their passports are valid for 6months after the date in which they plan to leave Ireland!
that’s all for now. any questions/queries to sean.feeney (at) easa008 (dot) ie
Seán
posted by irish_sean
Mon, 12 May 2008 10:45:00 GMT
