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posted by duncan
Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:30:00 GMT

Hey, Due to a mistake, i am facing a difficult (sad) situation.
Before, when I had to find members here in ALBANIA, I was told that my presence as a NC didnt count to the national quota, and, thinking that I could pick up to 5 members, I did form a nice group in which, in all these days, every single member has been active in contributing ideas and solutions about fund-raising, booking details, etc.
It was only when I sent the filled application forms last night, that I learnt that the NC counts inside the approved quota.
I find it difficult and for sure it will have lots of emotive consequences on the chosen person, because everyone of them deserves it and I can find no reason to pick between them.
So at this point it would be the most neccessary thing to luckily gain a single extra-place for the “removed one”..I am aware that chances are weak, but I’d do my best not to remove anyone of them, because it’s not their mistake…

The main help I’d need, is to know how can I make a formal request if so is needed, and how it is selected which country gains any extra place.

now hoping for a good thing to happen,
…and waiting for any clue.

Thanks,
Klejdi Eski
ALB NC

posted by odin modvalsen
Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:58:00 GMT

Hello all!
and in particular comrades turkish and otherwise currently in Istanbul >
On the 16th april I’m flying over from London for seven nights to oversee the install of a design exhibition at the Istanbul Modern.
The opening is on Monday 21st so should be calm by then leaving two days spare if anyone can tear themselves away from their desks!

Everyone else I hope you are well, whether with diplomas or your irish lessons.
Best wishes! >
Simon

posted by simon k
Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:38:00 GMT

Hey people… who knows where and when is INCM 2008?

posted by sarhat
Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:26:00 GMT

Hello, EASA people!

So finally (I know I’m a slowpoke, but better late than never, right?) I’m happy to announce that there will be SESAM in Minsk, Belarus, that will take place from the 11th to the 20th of May 2008.
The topic of the SESAM is “Rediscovering the City”.
Information about the topic can be found on this page: sesam008.goshaz.com

Please pay no mind to the grammar mistakes, the guy who’s in charge of the “concept” part, and who, obviously, wrote the text, forbid me to fix them =)

All the latest news will appear on this blog: sesam008blr.blogspot.com

This is the link to the application form: sesam008.goshaz.com

This is a link to the file with the timetable and some general info: sesam008.goshaz.com

We need about 10-15 foreign participants. Participation fee is 5euro. The deadline for applications is on the 10th of April, but it would be better if countries that need visa and invitation letter to come to Belarus contacted me even sooner.

The accommodation will be at Belarusian participant’s homes, and lunch is provided.

Organizers:
Iryna Balunenka no.need.in(at)gmail.com
Olga Ermolina _ermolina_(at)mail.ru
Concept of SESAM, workshops:
Gosha Zaborski gzaborski(at)yahoo.com

posted by iryna_balunenka
Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:18:00 GMT

Adapt-a-bale
Dermot Ryan (IRL)
Construction and research workshop exploring the use of straw-bale construction techniques.
15 participants

Designing the Inevitable
Sasa Grujic (SLO)
Jerica Živa Puterle (SLO)
Exploration of weaving techiques and craft – a continuation of the Sophia Sturge’s basket-making tradition in Letterfrack.
10 participants

Lightscapes
Steffen Impgaard Pedersen (DK)
Rune Boserup Jacobsen (DK)
An investigation of natural and artificial light through installations in the Connemara landscape.
15 participants

Light & Space
Sándor Lilienberg (HU)
Dániel Dömölky (HU)
András Csiszér (HU)
Exploration of light and space, with lectures, model-making, digital modeling and photography exercises.
10 participants

Small Interventions
Arvid Wölfel (DE)
Design and one-to-one realisation of small but useful interventions that will address the context and benefit the community.
15 participants

Make your adaptor
Héloise Cousin (FR)
Julie Bart (FR)
Adaptors (XS structures) made during the workshop will reveal spatial potential, recreate and regenerate space, instigate events, fill voids, and help the large assembly of students adapt to their context.
15 participants

Nomadic Instamatic
Paul Farrell (UK)
Georg-Christoph Holz (DE)
Exploring the nomad as an architectural methodology, participants will design and build a component system for flexible, interactive, fun and beautiful structures.
10 participants

REPP
Jurriën van Duijkeren (NL)
Inara Nevskaya (RU)
The adaptation of local patterns into contemporary architectural solutions concluding in the construction of a 2.5d installation.
10 participants

Lunch Box
Ronan Costello (IRL)
Joe Mc Mahon (IRL)
Dermot Reynolds (IRL)
Design and construction of an outdoor pavilion for the students of Letterfrack Furniture College
20 participants

Green Room
Competition Winners
EASA Ireland
Design and construction of a mobile pavilion to educate the young on matters of sustainable construction and design.
20 participants

Kraftka
Gizem Candemir (TR)
Christopher Maloney (UK)
Dijana Omeragic (MK)
Construction of a pavilion inspired by the writings of Franz Kafka. Spatial, acoustic, visual and tactile sensation will disorientate the user.
20 participants

Zauna
Alper Derinbogaz (TR)
Frederik De Smedt (BEL)
Nil Aynali (TR)
Design and construction of sauna and plunde pool with integrated environmental technologies.
20 participants

DAB
Luka Kukric (BiH)
Milan Blagojevic (BiH)
Exploration of traditional construction techniques followed by design and construction of a herb-graden and drying hut for the Letterfrack community.
20 participants

Too Cool for Stool
Mirjana Uzunovic (SER)
Aleksandar Popovic (SER)
Investigation of a traditional stool and it’s fabrication followed by design and realisation of a number of furniture pieces.
15 participants

Flux Culture
EASA Ireland
A seminar/thinktank/workshop addressing the effects of migration on the built environment of Europe. It is intended to develop new maps, uncover new layers of the city and investigate new architectural typologies.
26 participants

Adapt-a-lab
Anna Sochocka (PL)
Michał Golanski (PL)
Justyna Juchimiuk (PL)
Research workshop exploring festivals, temporary architecture and the methods by which it can transform a rural context.
10 participants

Adopting Green
Iva Marcetic (HRV)
Pavle Stramenovic (SER)
Ivan Grcic (SER)
Research workshop where participants will explore the effects of diverse scales and scenarios on a rural village such as Letterfrack.
10 participants

Architectural Answers to the Digital Revolution
Luis Hilti (LI)
Research workshop addressing the digitalisation of our world and in particular the architectural profession – exploring both the potential and the pitfalls.
10 participants

HUM:ARC
Åshild Aagren (FI)
Noora Aaltonen (FI)
Inari Virkkala (FI)
A workshop that seeks to address humanitarian issues through architecture, producing an exhibition, documentation or any plausible media that will raise awareness of critical issues.
10 participants

Material Adaptable Jouer
Filippo Lodi (IT)
Kyriakos Chatzyparaskevas (GR)
Michele Albanelli (IT)
Investigation of materials, geometry and forms through digital and physical experimentation.
6 participants

Exaptation
Yelta Köm (TR)
Zeynep Hazar Arasan (TR)
Doruk Çiftçi (TR)
An investigation of exaptation in design. (exaptation: ‘an unlooked for side effect of evolved behaviors.’)
6 participants

Extended me
Emilie Bergrem (NO)
Tine Bernstorff Aagaard (DK)
An exploration the very basic relation between body and space, challenging conventional beliefs of how the surroundings adapt to the body and vice versa.
8 participants

Umbrella (Print/Radio/EASA TV)
Kotryna Sokolovaite (LT)
Alkistis Thomidou (GR)
Marten Dashorst (NL)
The publication and recording of the events of the easa assembly through print, video and audio. This year the three media will integrate allowing participants explore the different platforms and opportunities between.
12 participants

Teleology
Gary Gallagher (IRL)
John Murray (IRL)
Workshop exploring digital film-making, including the input of professionals from the digital filmmaking industry. The workshop will produce extensive video documentation of the assembly.
10 participants

posted by ronan_mc
Tue, 01 Apr 2008 18:13:00 GMT

Hi everybody!
With great sorrow I inform you that today, 3 days before the application’s deadline, I have no applications or intentions of participation from any of the people I’ve been keeping contact with for that purpose.
For those who are not familiar with the situation, Portugal doesn’t have a strong participation in EASA since a couple of years, neither has a good NC organization/structure… I try my best to cover the spot, but considering that I live out of Portugal since 2 years ago (which means loosing personal contacts with new people) and that all I can do is write enthusiastic e-mails to those who contact me, to my friends whom can forward it through their networks, or to student associations who never reply, I can assume that my best will never be good enough for this cause. We need not only participants but a new NC.

So now I found two options to deal with it for the next EASA 2008:

Nr.1: Glorious Option – I seriously need the help of everybody in this! I need all of you to get your Portuguese friends (there must be loads of Portuguese people doing the Erasmus program around the whole Europe) and convince them to take this brilliant opportunity for experiencing EASA… you have only 3 days left to do it, and those who can find me a Portuguese participant will have a surprise reward!!!! There are 4 places left to fill and complete our quota (we have 5 places in total). So 3 days for filling 4 places with 4 portuguese!!!!

Nr.2: Again Lost Country Option – I’ll drop the NC duty even without any replacement and I’ll ask permission to the Irish organizers to participate somehow, but not representing any country.

My e-mail address is in the NC’s list, but just in case you don’t want to bother, here it is again rit_mar@hotmail.com.

Let me hear from you. Really hope someone wins the quest!

Love to all,
Rita

posted by r_i_t_a
Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:52:00 GMT

I have notified tutors of all accepted and declined workshops, if anyone has not received an email about their workshop proposal contact us asap for verification.

NOTE TO ALL NC’S
Accepted tutors (51 in total) will send their application forms directly to EASA Ireland (quotas are for participants only)
NC’s should also be aware that tutors of declined workshops may want to attend as participants and should give them time to send their application forms.

I will confirm the successful workshops on the blog tomorrow afternoon, and there will be information posted on the website in due course.

Ronan

posted by ronan_mc
Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:27:00 GMT

Hi Everybody

In Motovun, we agreed to significantly raise the overall participation fee with the understanding that the tutor fees would be halved.

The motivation for this was that there would be greater competition for tutor places and a higher standard of workshops. This seems to have worked quite well.

We have received more than 50 proposals, and will have to choose approximately 20 workshops.

We would like to thank everyone for their hard work – there are a lot of great ideas and great variety of approaches – we have a very difficult task choosing the best proposals. The majority of proposals are extremely well-developed with well-researched lists of tools, references, graphics, costs and timetables.

It must be said that some people will be disappointed, we promise that we will make sure each proposal will get a fair hearing.

An example of our difficult task is that there are several excellent and ambitious ideas that we unfortunately would not be able to develop – this is disappointing for us.

We had discussions yesterday evening for 4 hours and only got through 15 or so proposals! It will take us a lot of work to narrow our list down to a long-list and finally a short-list.

We will have some sort of decision made in 1 week and will inform potential tutors then. We most likely will have requests for further information for a number of workshops.

Once again, we would like to thank everybody for their fantastic work.

Ronan

posted by ronan_mc
Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:21:00 GMT

Dear NC’s,

Please send all participant application forms to participation(at)easa008.ie

posted by conor
Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:14:00 GMT

Dear all,

We present you: prss release,

recently we (Edwin Gardner + Marten Dashorst) have launched this new type of ‘medium’ which distills the most interesting bits of information from the ocean of data which is the internet and publishes it to paper, ready to print. So you don’t have plough through all the blogs every day, and don’t have to hurt your eyes reading from your monitor. We are your digital-to-analog information converter!

On the website you will find both issue #1 as issue number #2, readily downloadable in pdf format.

here you will also find our editorial statement explaining more about what, how and why.

All the best,

Edwin Gardner + Marten Dashorst

posted by das-horst
Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:24:00 GMT

“Imagine a building that makes oxygen, distills water, produces energy, changes with the seasons—and is beautiful. In effect, that building is like a tree, standing in a city that is like a forest.”


The above design and the ideas behind it come from William McDonough, the green architect par excellence, who built the first solar-powered house in Ireland in 1977 and was entitled “Hero of the Planet” in 1999 by the Time magazine, this latest proposal for the Tower of tomorrow was commissioned by Fortune Magazine. Read more on INHABITAT

You can watch Bill outline his simple, revolutionary, eco ideas in his presentation: The wisdom of designing Cradle to Cradle. These bold dreams are catching on and being realised, from clean fully C2C recylable materials to eco cities in China.

(This talk in its original very inspiring website TED TALKS )



His question:
”How do we love all of the children of all species for all time.”

His goal:
”A delightfullyt diverse, safe, healthy and just World, with clean air, water, soil and power – economically, equitably, economically and elegantly enjoyed.”

Meanwhile in ireland…



After many many years of asking and hoping, EASA is finally coming to Ireland….a long journey since the early days, nearly 6 years ago now, when Ireland recovered from being a “Lost country” and a few Paddys wandered out to participate in EASA 02 @ Samogar, Vis, Croatia…


Other interesting eco things happening in Ireland:
Convergence 13: Transition Strategies…Post Carbon Cities, Transition Towns and Eco-Villages

It seems that a lot of things have moved in the last 2 years since: that eco city idea is starting to take off in china, and even more since those special days in Banja Luka, Bosnia trying to make our first eco city.

So with all this talk and action, maybe some day Dublin city might actually get its Botanic Spine



and the aul town might become an eco city, as Torbjorn Lahti pointed out “changing the world is easy, we’ve done it”



Anyway, thats enough from EIG (eco intelligent growth) here in Barcelona

oiche mhaith a chairde

Dunk

PS

7 last things:

this picture:


and these questions:
1- What is an architect in today’s society?
2- Define “innovative architect”
3- How should one practice architecture?
4- What are the architect’s responsibilities?
5- What or where is architecture’s laboratory?
6- How can architecture be taught today?

add your answers in:
Six Simple and Hard Questions About What Architects Do Today and Where Their Profession Might Go Tomorrow: And Your View Is ….

posted by duncan
Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:26:00 GMT

…thanx to pure luck we are back in contact with Albania! We have a new NC (one, but a great start), his name is Klejdi Eski (we had a great chat online=) He is in 2nd year at the Faculty of Architecture in Tirana.
So thats that for now!
cheers to all!!

posted by dijana omeragic
Sun, 09 Mar 2008 21:58:00 GMT

Ok, the EASA site is almost being almost finished… so u can all get a look at it and share your opinion.

so u can take a look at it at:

www.chickme.org/easa
>> HUGE credit to Hana Draskovic (Serbia) for doing such a great job!!!! and offcourse ALL of Archive team!

take in consideration:
1. that the logo which is to stand in the left up corner is not done yet and that the site is still under construction!
2. GO TO easa005 Switzerland to see how it works—only that link is finished (except for the gallery)!
3. Someone mentioned a DOMAIN we already have so please come back to us for that… Hana needs to upload this stuff we have, so Luka can continue uploading the whole archive!!
4. FAQ’s is empty because we never discussed about them after INCM in Motovun. So, PLEASE read through this following list of FAQuestions (from INCMMotovun) before we put them on the site so we can hear different opinions on it.
FAQ LIST:
1. What is EASA?
2. What is the aim of an EASA?
3. How do I participate?
4. Who chooses the participants?
5. When does EASA happen and how it is decided where?
6. Who chooses the theme of every EASA?
7. How much it costs to participate?
8. Can someone that finished University attend?
9. What are duties of a participant?
10. What should one bring to EASA?
11. What’s the accomodation like?
12. What is a NC?
13. What is an INCM?
14. What is a SESAM?
15. My country does not have a NC, who should I get in touch with?
16. If I am not from Europe can I still attend?
17. If I am not an architect can I still attend?

Thanx,
Dijana

posted by dijana omeragic
Sun, 09 Mar 2008 20:11:00 GMT

 

The 28th European Architecture Students Assembly will be formally opened in the historic St. Patrick’s Hall, Dublin Castle on Sunday evening 10th August 2008. Photo: Dublin Castle
Press Launch | Competition | Participation | Call for Tutors
400 Design students | 50 Nationalities Represented | 15 days
Royal Institute of Architects Ireland (RIAI) President Sean O’Laoire and Deputy Ruairi Quinn, Labour Party Spokesperson on Education and Science and Qualified Architect, will officially launch the European Architecture Students Assembly Ireland 2008 in the council chambers of the RIAI, No. 8 Merrion Square, at 1:15pm on Monday 10th March.
EASA (European Architecture Students Assembly) is an annual student-led assembly of 400 of Europes most exciting architecture students and young creative professionals which takes place over a two week period every August. This year is the first time that this celebrated and unique multicultural event will be held in Ireland.
The 28th annual assembly will take place in Ireland from 9th to 24th of August 2008. The assembly will be bi-located between Dublin and Letterfrack, County Galway. The theme for EASA Ireland 2008, Adaptation, is an intrinsic part of the Assembly which will unite and focus the explorations, thoughts and work of the participants under one common topic.
One of the flagship workshops of the Assembly is an International Design and Build competition, Green Room. The brief for the competition asks entrants to invent a new learning space where children can learn about sustainable and environmentally friendly living.
International Design & Build Competition | Green Room
European Architecture Students to address quality of learning space and sustainability in Irish Schools.
The organising committee of easa|Ireland|2008 have outlined a hands on experimental workshop that will result from an International design competition.The brief for this competition is to design a transportable pavilion that will function as a learning tool for school children. The aim of this brief is to create a space that embodies a lesson, and successfully explains and de-mystifies ecological and sustainable, architecture and principles.
This competition was launched on the 15th of January 2008 and the deadline for submissions is 1st April 2008. Entry to the competition is unrestricted. A full brief and full details are available online here >
The winning entry will be drafted for construction by an architectural office, and the winning design will be built on-site in Letterfrack during the 2008 summer assembly as a high quality built workshop.
The winning entrant will receive free entry to EASA 2008 and full accreditation in all publications regarding the competition or the pavilion. In addition, the finished pavilion will travel to University College Dublin and be exhibited at the PLEA International conference on Passive and Low energy architecture (October 22-24th).
Participant Numbers Announced
There will be 300 places allocated out to the 48 countries currently active in the EASA network. Iceland and Estonia are designated lost and as such, no places will be allocated out to those countries. However, if a National Contact is found for the countries between now and the application deadline on Friday, 4th April, priority will be put on this countries in the re-distribution of places on Friday 18th of April. We would encouarge National Contacts to use the Green Room Competition as part of their selection process for participants and would expect at least one entry per country as a gesture of solidarity towards the organisers.
Here is the quota allocation for easa|ireland|2008
COUNTRY QUOTA GROUP FEE (euros) ALBANIA 5 20% 60 ARMENIA 5 20% 60 AUSTRIA 6 100% 290 AZERBAIDJAN 5 20% 60 BELARUS 6 20% 60 BELGIUM 7 100% 290 BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA 6 20% 60 BULGARIA 7 40% 120 CLEA 5 100% 290 CROATIA 8 60% 180 CYPRUS 8 80% 240 CZECH REPUBLIC 6 60% 180 DENMARK 7 100% 290 ESTONIA 0 60% 180 F.Y.R.O.M. 7 20% 60 FINLAND 6 100% 290 FRANCE 8 100% 290 GEORGIA 6 20% 60 GERMANY 7 100% 290 GREECE 11 80% 240 HUNGARY 7 60% 180 ICELAND 0 100% 290 IRELAND 11 100% 290 ITALY 11 100% 290 KOSOVO 5 20% 60 LATVIA 6 60% 180 LIECHTENSTEIN 5 100% 290 LITHUANIA 6 60% 180 MALTA 5 80% 240 MOLDOVA 5 20% 60 MONTENEGRO 5 40% 120 NETHERLANDS 7 100% 290 NORWAY 6 100% 290 POLAND 6 60% 180 PORTUGAL 5 80% 240 ROMANIA 6 40% 120 RUSSIA 7 20% 60 SERBIA 6 40% 120 SLOVAKIA 5 60% 180 SLOVENIA 6 60% 180 SPAIN 8 100% 290 SWEDEN 6 100% 290 SWITZERLAND 7 100% 290 TURKEY 7 40% 120 UKRAINE 7 20% 60 UNITED KINGDOM 7 100% 290
The quota system was calculated using the quota excel system agreed at the INCM in Motovun last year.
Application forms are available to download here >
EASA Ireland are calling the architecture students of Europe to action.
Workshops will take place in Letterfrack Furniture College as the focus of the EASA Ireland summer Assembly during August next. Small, medium and large tutorpacks for running a workshop are available at here. Workshop submissions must be made by Sunday March 23rd.
EASA has an esteemed lineage of previous organisers, tutors and participants. Winy Maas, Wiel Arets, Kees Christianse and EM2N architects are amongst the notable attendees, while the inaugural event in 1981 was organised by Richard Murphy. We want to continue to provide this platform for exciting young architects and would appeal to those interested to visit our website. www.easa008.ie
EASA Ireland would like to thank our sponsors and all those helping to realise the EASA008 Summer Assembly;

posted by conor
Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:56:00 GMT