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E A S A . 2 0 1 4 . B I D D ING bulgaria vS portugal
EASA 2014 is going to Bulgaria Theme: Symbiosis
Both teams did a great job. Themes of the proposals were so different, that it was very difficult to compare the two proposals.
Symbiosis is about coming together: living together, thinking together, creating together. Symbiosis starts now – it’s not only the two weeks in 2014. It seeks a massive input from all European countries during the process of organization. A platform will be created, where organizers, tutors and participants will exchange their ideas for the assembly and develop the workshops and events together. All easa media workshops have already reserved their studio in the old post office so muuve your minds and get the hot talks going. Veliko Tarnovo provides a huge amount of spaces, awaiting your (small, or not that small) interventions. The beer factories have scheduled extra-productions for 2014, so the summer heat will be treated appropriately. Bring you sunglasses and your swimming suits, easa is going south!
Each theme had very strong and important points for easa an event, and in order to choose what is more related to an easa event, Ncs spent lots of hours discussing and figuring out, what is easa all about. Lots of Ncs found the theme of Portugal “Rehab” very challenging and interesting to work with, but at the same time there were concerns about the depth of this subject and the lack of time to solve it properly. In contrast, the Bulgarian theme was more open, and was considered as «spatial solid foundation»for an AWESOME EASA! A big «thank you» to the Portuguese team. Thanks to you also a very important question was raised:should the easa theme be more constraint, cause the more limits you have the more creative you think, or should it be more open and provide “space” for experiments. it depends... it depends on EASA Spirit at that time.
In 1879, the German mycologist Heinrich Anton de Bary defined it as:
«the living together of unlike organisms.» The Team spoke the language of EASA. The NC s thought, that this is what EASA is about. What a nice Theme. Congratulations to Bulgaria. Team Bulgaria: Their Moment at INCM2012 in Vienna
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i m p u l s e _ L e c t u r e n i g h t _ o n _ a r c h i t e c t u r e INCM2012 presented the Impulse Lecture evening «Night on Architecture» at Az W Architekturzentrum Wien, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Vienna, Austria Speakers: Dietmar Steiner (Az W) Michael Obrist (feld72) Hermann Czech Marlies Breuss (Holodeck architects) Jakob Dunkl (Querkraft) Kristina Schinegger (soma) Iris Podgorschek (podpod design) Günter Katherl (Caramel) Kabru (Propeller Z) You should all look them up in the Internet. We were highly impressed by these austrian architects. We have picked 2 projects we really liked and will first focus on Michael Obrist from Feld72: The Million Dunkey Hotel: http://www.milliondonkeyhotel.net 2005 – 73% of the European population are living actually in cities. This constantly increasing number does not result only in a constant enlargement of the cities and suburbia, but has a direct reflection in the disintegration of large areas of cultivated landscape by migration which in its complexity and negative consequences for the larger eco- and social system is hard to predict. The future of that areas is also the future of Europe. “PaeSEsaggio – Azione Matese” has invited a group of international artists to the regional parc of the Matese to create projects with the partecipation of the population. The projects should focus on the relation between identity, territory and social space. The Million Donkey Hotel of feld72 Prata Sannita is a town on the base of the Massiccio del Matese and is divided into the “borgo”, a medieval part on a hillside situation on the river Lete, called Prata Inferiore and the Prata Superiore of the last century. Whereas the medioeval town has suffered a lot by
migration – right now its population is mainly formed by older persons-, Prata Superiore has had a bigger success with its different building typologies and the urban grid shaped by the impact of the revolution of the car and other paradigmata of modernity. How could one transform this lost spaces of migration into a new potential for the future whithout denying its past? How could the spatial complexity of some already forgotten parts of Prata Inferiore again be part of a living public space? Prata Sannita will be perceived as a big diffuse hotel, which has some free rooms left: The abandoned spaces. Those will not be considered just as space of memory, but as a space where everything is possible. This cells through the bigger concept of the million donkey hotel all become interconnected and the whole town of Prata Sannita changes into one space of interaction. With the help
of more than 40 volunteers of Prata Sannita and with a very low budget in a month full of improvisations the spaces were transformed into new ones of experience, becoming so a big extension of the public space. The Million Donkey Hotel is a new perception of the whole town of Prata Sannita (21km²) and has re-given forgotten parts of the town to a broader audience of people, also the young ones. They can be used as meeting places, bedrooms, siesta spaces and a public bathroom. Occasionally they are filled with the protagonists of a new, much more contemporary kind of migration: the nomad of nowadays, the tourist, which in some moments can transform these spaces into a non-commercial version of a “Hotel”. But this all depend on the public itself – on their own responsibility how they use and how they share their new spaces.
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«WE WANT TO GIVE SPACE TO PEOPLE», QUERKRAFT Jakob Dunkl (Querkraft) http://www.querkraft.at
ML MUSEUM, LIAUNIG The museum liaunig projects out on two sides over steep-sided ground, high up in the landscape. A cut through the hill marks a precise intervention in nature. Planted into the site the new museum emerges more like a work of landart. Only a small part of the outstretched museum building is visible. Cut through the hill, the main body of the museum slices through a densely-wooded, steep-sided embankment, providing an unparalleled view over the river drau seventy meters below. The building cantilevers an impressive thirty meters out, over a steep bank towards the approach road – clearly visible to approaching visitors. The museum entrance zone is orientated toward both the centre of neuhaus and the nearby historical castle owned by the museum’s patron. The substantial viewing storage depot is one of the main areas of the museum. Stretching the whole length of the gently sloping approach to the main exhibition hall, visitors are accompanied by this ‘wine cellar of art’. This underground volume offers the possibility to organize a variety of exhibitions by virtue of flexible screens and lighting arrangements. The building’s core is a 160metre long, fully daylight exhibition hall, with protected terraces at each end. The continuous 13metre wide, 7metre high room is covered by a part translucent curved-skin – an industrial element permitting daylight. the hall is organized with mobile exhibition panels.
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P a r ty - R e v i e w - p r e v i e w f r i day NIGH T , 2 9 O K T 1 2 aT louvre-Bar Party People vol. 2 It was good, cause it was only EASA people and it was easy to find home to the dorms: drunk. it was not too far away from our Gym. Ali and Heschi, both from Vienna, Waste-Bikes Workshop-Tutors in Helsinki popped in, everyone was delighted to see them, especially the ladies. We were also celebrating Kamila Kawecka`s Birthday! Alle the best Kamilla. The Good Bye-Wien-Party (before we Post EASA Trip to Bratislava) also is in Louvre - Bar.
Hello-Wien Party
Date: 31okt12 Place: top Secret and special When: after dinner, but on time! thursday, 1NOV12 is a holiday --> the metros are running all night!
10 Last-Minute Halloween Costumes for Halloween 2012
Link: http://www.collegehumor.com/article/6840169/10-last-minute-halloween-costumes
What you need: -A tan stocking -Markers/Makeup -A robe -Desire to offend devout Christians
What you need: -A hangover -Gatorade -The remains of a once glorious costume
What you ll Need: -2 pieces of posterboard -Twine -A vagina
News and FUN NOT ANOTHER AR- * LOST and FOUND mainly lost things: CHITECTURE PARTY -iphone cable, pls check if you have FEAT, WOLFRAM ELIPHINO
2? and several phones. give it to umbrella. also: the INCM012 Banner.
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WEATHER 30OKT12: +5 partly sunny. bid cold.
WOLFRAM (Permanent Vacation) ELIPHINO (Somethinksounds) COLT AUS GOLD / FLOWJOB EXTRATURBO VISUALS BY THE29NOV Wolfram is a musician and producer whose record intelligently and lovingly sings the praises of the significant contributions that the euro sound from those early days of electronic music dance has made on pop music. Wolfram is an aesthete, operating in that Warholian tradition of seeing beyond what is considered by many to be “trash” and finding the beauty in it. The songs are listenable; so listenable, that in a way, listening feels like a guilty pleasure. When truly analyzed and contextualized however, the listening experience becomes a more substantial oneone might go so far as to even say a challenging one. - Andy Butler (Hercules & Love Affair) Like many producers, Leeds native Eliphino took to beatmaking at a young age. His first productions were strongly influenced by hip-hop, garnering comparisons to
artists like Madlib and other LA experimentalists based on his «Out of Phase» and «Seasons» EPs. Eliphino has fast been picking up praise from some of the scenes most influential taste makers and producers. As well as support from Giles Peterson Eliphino›s previous releases have made their way on to Zane Lowe and Mary Ann Hobbs Radio 1 shows and
Mistajam›s 1Xtra show and Eliphino can count Martyn and Illum sphere as big fans of his work. It is going to be legendary!!! HO TO GET HOME TONIGHT: it WOULD BE BEST to take taxis. one taxi to the dorms is 16 Euros-travel in Groups of 4. AROUND 5 AM, YOU CAN TAKE THE FIRST METRO «U2» TO RATHAUS.
What is the best thing about living in Switzerland? Well the Flag is a big plus ! Cecily Weeks from Ireland, now living in ZHR, Switzerland.
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Graphisoft QUESTION OF THE DAY WE ASKED THE LECTURERES: wine If you were the King or Queen of Architecture what would you change first?
I only knew its software but not its hardware! Hey its graphisoft plugin! Some might think, Is the wine as bad as its software? Wine! now in 3d! Could you please upload a bit to my glass? It’s rendering my brain! Tastes like ink! Oh! That’s how archicad tastes!
Michael Obrist (feld72) I would change the idea of “kingdom”. I would make it democracy first. I think we shouldn’t work at the greatness of people, at their skills, they are already brilliant. The main focus right now on the society attach, but the main problem is that society does not give them the money that they sustain. The main problem of architect is not what or how they are doing, but what they are allowed to do and how they are paid for their projects. So as a King, I would give them one big gold bar, so they could sustain kind of a living. Jakob Dunkl (Querkraft) I don’t want to be the King of Architecture, if then I would like to be the democratic leader of architecture and bring everybody good architecture. That is what I want to do. Because architecture is good for the people. Marlies Breuss (Holodeck architects) “Status of the architecture , in general thinking of people. Because architecture is a lot more than making objects. Architecture has a lot of social impacts, a lot of important facts for how we love together, and I think that there should be a lot more honored and taken into account for the students, teacher and the society.” Günter Katherl (Caramel) I would get rid of ALL THESE houses! No more houses in the world. We don’t need them! No more kings because there won’t be any Kingdom!
«BAUSTELLENBESICHTIGUNG» AND OFFICE VISITS. 31OKT12 9:00 starting at the dorms/infopoint.
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Kabru (Propeller Z) I wouldn’t be the King I would be the Queen or may be Caliph like. And I would spend more money on education. And I would make people open their mind. It would change everything. podpod design If we talk about the light) we would change the light of architecture. Well nowadays lighning architecture is something that is thought of after the project is already developed. But it should roll together. And as for architecture itself there should be more communication between architects and users. Because usually architects are hired by developers, so they design some nice shape or functional structure and what happens next is that when this building goes to other owner it faces new demands of new users. An also human aspect is very important. As Jakob said: «People are important, not buildings.» Architects should develop a space where some «flowers» can appear. Kristina Schinegger (soma) First I would abolish to queen. Because the biggest problem then would be that architecture has a Queen. For sure everything is so relative. There is no true and no false , no right and no wrong. And architecture just proves it every day. So I would also abolish “the right” and “the wrong” and any trends. And architecture has to be experimental.