easa|ireland|2008

Apr 08 | EASA008 Workshops

Material Investigation based workshops:

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

Light based workshops:

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 based workshops:

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)
A research/intervention workshop in three steps: identification of patterns found in local crafts, design or architecture, reinterpretation into patterns of modern recycled materials. Presented on a large scale room divider as 3D wallpaper or decorative cladding solutions.
10 participants

Constructive Workshops:

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

Furniture Workshop:

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

Research and new media workshops:

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

Abstract + Theoretical workshops:

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

Media workshops:

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

Apr 08 | Workshop Submissions

In Motovun, we agreed to significantly raise the overall participation fee with the understanding that the tutor fees would be halved for a maximum of two tutors, anymore will have to pay the full fee.

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.

Once again, we would like to thank everybody for their fantastic work. Watch this space for more information on the chosen workshops for EASA Ireland 2008.

EASA Ireland | Workshop Team

easa | ireland | 2008