EASA 'Hospitality'
Finding the Framework
Fredericia, Denmark, 2017
The theme “Hospitality. Finding the framework” resonates with the history of Fredericia and the challenges the city now faces, as well as it relates to the current political situation in Europe and the world. The theme is divided into two practical sub-themes, linked to research on hospitality and to endeavors of finding a framework for it. These follow the classical division of EASA workshops into theoretical, practical and workshops, which combine the two parts of the theme. We are addressing a particularly important and urgent contemporary issue - the crisis of hospitality. In this world of obliged and desired mobility, the way we welcome each other is essential.
We believe our cities need to be open and friendly for social diversity, as we are when we welcome guests to our homes. Nowadays, the concept of hospitality is being commercialized and the initial idea is being misinterpreted. It implies that some categories of people (immigrants, newcomers, refugees, people with special demands or differences) face challenges and difficulties in their everyday life. Ones are not able or not allowed to come to certain areas or even countries, others need to pay for help or be outcasted. To respond to this, we need to find, understand and implement new hospitality in the current social framework. We believe that only through an ongoing process of formal and informal interactions within and between individual communities and different cultures, new humanity will emerge. Architects are believed to be in charge of the form of the built environment, not its content. Nevertheless, architectural framework affects content. Through architecture we can sense how new forms can make a difference for the progress of world civilization. We, young architects, should learn how to construct the new physical environment for hospitality, and provide solutions for social mistrust.
Pictures by Alexandra Kononchenko
Foreigner Bodies workshop
EASA Hospitality Summary Video - by Alexandra Kononchenko
About hospitality - documentary directed by Lucas Bonnel - sound by Bart Bellamy
workshops
Babel
Type: Desigh and Construction
Tutors: Paula Brücke, Michael Hammerschick, Christoph Holzinger, Clemens Hoke, Marina Urosevic
Participants: Dorien Tulp, Nick van de Werdt, Milos Petrovic, Alden Bajramspahic, Oana Dascaloiu, Konul Shirin, Tahmina Gasimli, Karina Picus, Nele Bergmans, Laura Frediani, Anneleen Brandt, Martin Kunc, Klea Sulka, Konstantin Frolov, Aleksander Gadomski, Michael Ivanov, Andrej Krokhin, Reyes Liébana Blanco, Flora Offra, Lluis Montoliu, Marta Soler, Begoña Torreira, Miguel Hernandez, Enia Kukoč, Vana Pavlić, Gleb Ivantsov, Maykal Mateev, Fedde Holwerda, Nikita Akulenko
Taking the bible story of the tower of BABEL as a starting point the workshop offered creators (aka participants) the chance to construct their ideas on a defined site without long planning processes, creating structures that served all easians. The tutors just took care of the framework that was necessary to allow the creators to start building from day one and mediated and communicated with the creators to ensure a connected structure is created.
Babette
Type: Architectural Activism / Research-based Design / Urbanism
Tutors: Atelier Kite, Kata Fodor, Seosamh O'Muircheartaigh-joe, Florian Siegel
There is a fascinating complex system behind feeding 600 people at a festival - one that is a matter of design as much as hospitality. Our workshop actively engaged with all this entails from supply to waste - challenging how we relate to the effort, mechanisms, products and people involved; and discovering what new urban constructs these might enable in Fredericia. EASA’s own collaborative kitchen, inside Fredericia’s hospital, was gradually transformed into a permanent public facility for the town: Babette’s - Fredericia Food Lab.
Biosphere
Type: Crafts
Tutors: Patrycja Czaplinska, Sara Czerwinska
Participants: Anu Hakola, Miisa Lehtinen, Rhea McCarthy, Victoria Ananyan, Emil Srbljanin, Lida O'Shea
„Life exists only in the biosphere; organisms are found only in the thin outer layer of the Earth’s crust, and are always separated from the surrounding inert matter by a clear and firm boundary (...). In its life, its death, and its decomposition an organism circulates its atoms through the biosphere over and over again, but living matter is always generated from life itself. A considerable portion of the atoms in the Earth’s surface are united in life, and these are in perpetual motion. Millions of diverse compounds are constantly being created, in a process that has been continuing, essentially unchained, since the early Archean, four billion years ago.”
The Biosphere, Vladimir I. Vernadsky
BioSPHERE workshop was a place where the HOSPITALITY theme was explored within the collaboration of the city and EASA community. Located in the city center, we invited both EASA participants and citizens of Fredericia, to join us in creating jar enclosed ecosystems.
While creating, we discussed ecology issues, the place of nature in the city, circular economy and mimicry in architecture. The materials used during the workshop were recycled or reused, coming from the local shops and organizations.
Pictures by Maciej Marszal and Alexandra Kononchenko and the participants.
The Bubble
Type: Design & Construction, Community
Tutors: Hugo Cifre, Margarita Fernández, Álvaro Gomis, Miguel Ángel Maure
The purpose was to create a space which reacts and adapts to the experiences that are taking part inside. A bubble whose form is never the same, that catalyses a diversity of activities and is able to generate a framework in which everyone’s ideas can fit in. From a meditation unipersonal space to a crowded dance salon the Bubble’s form would change every day reflecting the different scales of activity that take place during the two weeks of EASA. Along the two weeks The Bubble was available for other workshops to interact and develop a part of their activities inside. A place to interact with local collectives, a place to rest, a place of celebration, meditation, exhibition.
A City with Many Sounds
Type: New media
Tutors: Lorenz Krauth, Maria Freimann
Participants: Tigran Asatryan, Ričardas Bertašius, Jigyas Bora, Luīze Eglīte, Dravis Kavaliauskas, Busisiwe Mgwenya, Kira Brentano, Anna Valstrøm, Beāte Zavadska
Finding the framework through two canals: sound (passive) and encounter (active). Every process and outcome of the workshop was bound to one of these aspects. The outcome became an auditive map of Fredericia and special furniture which also adapted the city’s grid. The grid-installation, the special stools and the sound installation were built during the workshop.
Pictures by Luīze Eglīte
The Cool workshop
Type: Crafts & Performance
Tutors: Ionuț Popa, Dana Cucoreanu
Participants: Alžběta Nováková, Kaisa Lindström, Mario Peko, Filip Pračić, Teodora Lungu, Vjera Sleutel, Sandra Draganić, Nika Gabiskiria
One of the main topics of thecoolworkshop was diving into personal researches towards the subject(s) of borders and limits while triggering aspects of intercultural tolerance in a physical and performative manner, by different ways of putting the questions in the planned (and unplanned) agenda. The workshop was concentrated around working with the least amount of requested materials from the organizing structure (its aim being therefore the cheapest workshop) on stressing out individual explorations by doing a lot with as little as possible.
The process was structured on a daily basis in different chapters, transcending slowly from body-related actions (group cohesion and physical environment cognition centered) towards crafting (eg. linocut atelier) and spatial/social interventions (questioning the cultural and physical limits between the inner aspects of EASA - seen as a collage of different individuals) toward the end.
Colour
Type: Community & Construction
Tutors: Louis Pohl, Ben Rea, Sam Atkinson, Rémi Buscot
Paticipants: Yara Abu Aataya, Matteo Armenante, Sveta Devyatkina, Mattea Fenech, Liza Goncharenko, Luka Smišek, Cazembé Henry, Ella Kaira, Emily Karras, Clothilde Kerstin Josserand, Kristijan Mamic, German Mitish, Jakub Pagacz, Maria Pastukh, Adéla Peclová, Dragan Petrovic, Shreyansh Sett, Mayya Rozhonovskaya
The colour workshop proposes a new international art residency and gallery programme which kick-started in EASA 2017.
Misinformation is becoming a signature of the information age. The world is closing borders. Because we are the designers, we must act quickly to create positive platforms for sharing culture. Through artistic residencies, we can break down barriers at the most powerful level, the domestic domain. By living with people we may never have a chance to spend time with and making art together we can liberate our everyday lives. Developing a gallery which explores culture on a national level is a proven way to shift wider perception on a subject. This mobile pavilion was made to move inside the city, gathering the neighbours, and activating streets and public spaces.
Current
Type: Design & Construction
Tutors: Katrina Gauci, Lucia Calleja
Paticipants: Tracey Sammut, Leanne Cassar Mallia, Chrysostomos Sofroniou, Eleftherios Kaimakliotis, Kleanthis Kyriakou, Polly Amery, Ucha Zgudadze, Aseil Al-Refai, Finbarr Duerden, Sean Corcoran, Enrica Perrot, Mario Leonardo Melano, Dovile Seduikyte, Sara Kocevska, Mukesh Byrareddy, Mimi Oldenhave, Katie Jackson, Natalia Malejka, Fraser Birtwistle, Denis Hitrec, Elias Grip, Angela Shepherd Diaz
The concrete pavilion serves as protection from and celebration of Fredericia’s continuous rainfall. The series of spaces is crafted from impermeable and permeable volumes creating places for both seclusion and interaction that flow seamlessly into one another. Water not only flows away from the structure but through it; the concrete controlling its movement and enabling its visitors to watch and listen, engaging their senses from a sheltered space. The pavilion provides the grounds for recreation, encouraging users to strip away formalities and ultimately provide a hospitable social environment.
DWG / KOSMOS XENIOS
Type: Crafts
Tutors: Giorgos Kyriazis, Sofia Stylianou
Paticipants: Ioana Alexandra Radu, Christine Jørgensen, Aida Selenica, Andi Cenollari, David Grahn Hellberg, Alba Kuci, Heljä Nieminen, Jack O’Hagan, Maris Mänd, Diana Ferro
DWG X KOSMOS XENIOS emerged out of the interest to understand the capabilities and processes related with drawing/image as an architectural tool in conveying concepts and operating relevantly in today’s complex world. At the same time the transformation of the ‘complete’ drawing into an image alongside with its mass reproduction and exposure in the media calls for an immediate reappraisal of the relationship between the author and the beholder. The workshop confronts this issue and explores its potential by proposing alternative ways of understanding and practicing the concept of hospitality.
ESA: Enhanced Space for Aliens
Type: Analysis & Design
Tutors: Diana Taukin, Ura Taubkin
Participants: Ana Stanoevska, Gogi Kamushadze, Isabella Măldăianu, Marko Ivancic, Maykal Mateev, Tekla Gedeon, Viliam Fedorko
The main aspiration of the workshop was to challenge the idea of human-oriented design approach and to come up with an alternative way of thinking about who or what the end-user is and what its needs might be. Through series of discussions and brainstorming sessions, a team of architecture and design students was broadening their understanding of what the building blocks of inhabitable spaces are. Architecture and design have always been human-oriented. Recent advances in science made it strikingly clear that we cannot look at ourselves as if humans were the apex of creation. Intelligence can manifest itself in many forms. In our experiments and discussions, we wanted to switch the focus from human-inclusive design to something even broader - design for any living creature, terrestrial or extraterrestrial. At the end of the conceptual phase, we came up with guidelines containing ingredients for anything-oriented design.
Express your cell
Type: Design & Construction
Tutors: Mara Wörner-Schönecker, Phillip Sandner, Georg Fischer
Participants: Marte Aateigen Marum, Nargiz Abasova, Cecilia Aintila, Josipa Basnec, Martina Baverova, Bertta Röning, Szimonetta Bodi, Anushka Coutinho, Miriam Gonzáles Fernández, David Henderson, Juho Kekkonen, Joanna Lewanska, Lambrina Lyrou, Karoliina Mäenpää, Sladana Mikanovic, Ashwin Nambiar, Tayfun Saman, Dorian Sipos
We live in an age of generic buildings. Negating the role of the local affiliation, history and emotions play in our experience of architecture, they often degenerate to structures of functionalism.
In Contrast, Express Your Cell is a timber framing structure that shows each participant’s personal background visualized in a cell. Europe’s cultural richness expressed through form, color and material will create a contemplative space that evokes the spiritual dimension of our physical environment.
Foreigner Bodies
Type: Analysis & Performance
Tutors: Pablo Encinas Alonso
Participants: Helena Eichlinger, Velislava Petrova, Pauline Algerod, Polina Moroz, Alexander Mehren, Sonya Rokmaniko, Maria Pastukh, Vasil Trifonov, Joakim Kling, Elina Torma
The workshop tried to explore the limits of hospitality by understanding the concept as the interaction between a host and guest (denying the perspective of tourism). Roles attributable to any individual. The medium was the artistic performance linked to architecture among others.
Understanding this condition both in one individual and several individuals (Derridá exposes that exclusion forms part of our "SELF"), including ourselves as agents that harbor both roles manifesting the ineluctable need to generate complicity between both. different scales. The program considered a route from the closest perspective "e1: 1" as in a community to the scale of the city of Fredericia "e1: 10, e: 100, ...".
Falling man 2.0
Type: Analysis & New Media
Tutors: Samuel Cremona, Jean Ebejer
Paticipants: Ella Prokkola, Isabella Rauh, Bettina Varga, Tamara Broćić, Stéphane Sebastian Bidault Delgadillo, Petia Mikova, Rune Arleth
"An exploratory experiment of space and non-space. Existence and non-existence. Groundedness and suspension. Mind and mindlessness. Feeling and numbness. Consciousness and unconsciousness.’’ - Falling Man 1.0, 2016
The workshop called upon the participants to develop their understanding of space and how to communicate experience, feeling and perception through various media. The workshop took an open-minded open-ended approach to the urban exploration of Fredericia, meditation and discussion, while referencing ‘Solipsism’, ‘Method of Loci’ and ‘Floating Man’ theories.
Fragments of Fredericia
Type: Analysis, Design & Community
Tutors: Laura Becker, Theresa Muller, Natalie Hipp
Participants: Anne-Lien Vandenbrande, Alexander Angelov, Gabija Strockytė, Karla Lojen, Povilas Jankūnas, Aaro Timonen, Aliis Mehide, Lotte Luykx
To discover a city in a movement - metaphorical for our nowadays fast and always-running society. While moving between one station to another all day long - physical and mentally, do we still feel and perceive our surroundings? Are we still aware of what our environment consists of entirely? Or is it only fragmental, what we see and feel subconsciously in our daily lives?
In Fragments of Fredericia, we discovered the city in the state of movement - in different dérive and walking tours. We documented what we see and perceive while strolling through the Fredericia in drawings, sketches and for sure text fragments, that pop up in our minds.
The idea was to collect the fragments, that we made during our first days in Fredericia and put them together on a white canvas. In this way, we built and showed our own collective picture of Fredericia.
Pictures by Laura Becker, Alexandra Kononchenko and Lotte Luykx
Frick
Type: Design & Constructin
Tutors: Damien Girard, Timothé Houillon, Katja Marinič, Lea Denša
Paticipants: Nicolás Martínez Rueda, Michal Jablonowski, Anna Cisariková, Nikoletta Michael, Franziska Senz, Blanka Borbely, Tahir Noronha, Florencia Giudici, Julia Frendo, Beatriz Ferreira, Veronika Osmanli
Framing is giving some limits to a space, a view, an idea. As architects we wanted to frame the city, literally. That’s why our pavilion is playing with walls, creating some filter, some pathway, some particular spaces and uses in order to frame the city and frame people who are going to be part of the pavilion.
We wanted our project to possess traits like closeness, density, interaction, cordiality, friendliness, hospitableness, sociability, warmth, welcome and a path - in a sense this is how a city is. Moreover, the idea is closely connected to the structure itself. By making our own brick follows a learning process and idea of using a local material. Using it to create and build an addition to a “lost” place.
Functions and Fictions
Tutors: Natalija Paunic and Marija Bjelic
In collaboration with Lea Collet & Marios Stamatis
Participants: Emma Carlen, Sophie Dorn, Katrina Galea, Nina Krčum, Loti Milošević, Nanna L H Nielsen, Vesna Nišić, Danijela Pavičić, Belçim Yavuz, Eszter Gall, Flóra Offra, Maria Smirnova
Guest: Nika Gabiskiria
Description: The workshop overlaps functions (what we expect from architecture) with fictions (what architecture actually can do). It relies on architecture's two best friends - choreography and play-pretend - to deliver the fiction to its participants and its audience. Together we tried to find hospitality in public spaces and talk about it in imaginative ways, through collaboration, body language, spectacle and surprise.
H!
Type: Technology & New Media
Tutors: Zoltán Kalászi, Bálint Tóth, Mátyás Csiszár
Participants: Polly Amery, Michal Kovac, Romina Bahchevanska, Sergei Tulaev, Dora Banhegyi, Аlina Chiornaia, Sara Garcia, Dan Wang, Johanna, Maciej Marszał, Abdullah Hashish, Maruša Mali, Liviu Ispas, Austėja Balčiūnaitė, Elisabeth Veresceaghina, Anastasiya Prydachyna
The intention of the workshop was to open a communication channel, where strangers can send abstract messages to each other without using a language. The content cannot be expressed by words, it is coded in light, colours and frequencies. This code is new to everyone, compensating the unequal relation between locals and newcomers, be it an EASA student, or a refugee.
Let’s take a step back from the so-called phenomenon ‘migration’, and imagine the first meeting of a human being and a 5th dimension space-robot on the edge of our Solar system. The unknown is frightening, and communication seems to be impossible. The first intention is to express peace. It can only be hoped that handshake is a friendly act in their galaxy.
Imprint
Type: Crafts & Community
Tutors: Zala Kosnik, Klara Prosek
Participants: Mark Donnelly, Katie Corr, Vesa Turjaka, Anila Ferati, Errita Zuna, Dragana Zorič, Marina Zaiteva, Tringa Hasbahta, Gjiltine Isufi, Tatevik Hakobyan, Dragan Dodoš
Imprint [noun im-print; verb im-print]; transitive verb
1: to mark by or as if by pressure: impress
A: to fix indelibly or permanently (as on the memory)
B: to subject to or induce by imprinting an impreted preference
Imprint workshop deals with hospitality in the big scale. Bringing together participants from easa and locals to connect, discuss, debate and destroy the boundaries and stereotypes through art and graphic using the screen print . The workshop at EASA started with building some of the equipment, and ended with printing designs. The workshop was meant to continue in the Youth House with the help of local participants who would share the knowledge and enthusiasm with other people. All equipment was left behind for the people of Fredericia to use, improve and to help revive the city as a form of hospitality.
Inter of course
Type: Design & Construction
Tutors: Gabrielė Jurevičiūtė, Greta Šidlauskaitė, Aurimas Syrusas, Martynas Brimas
Participants: Boyan Tabov, Christina Andreou, Hülya Yavaş, Tijana Stankovska, Eleni Alexi, Santa Simonavičiūtė, Marc Sánchez Olivares, Vera Cunha, Menios Savvides, Darya Nazarchuk, Anusch Alexanian, Dušica Erić, Valassia Barboutis, Lukas Akelis, Carlota Lopes da Silva
Imagine a person sitting on a bench and having its bag next to him. When a stranger comes, there is a big chance that the first person will not take his bag and will not let a stranger to sit next to him. It is interesting why this behaviour exists nowadays? Or maybe we are afraid of them? Is it possible that our comfort zone is so enlarged that we could not fit in set frames? Who determined how big/small that frame is? The problem is clear, but it should be clear to everyone in order to have visual changes.
INTERofCOURSE is an interactive installation, created to provoke people and let them find the limit of their comfort zone. While placing a person in front of the other, we are able to analyse the boundaries of hospitality on the smallest - human scale by observing their behaviour.
the Inter of Course workshop video by Lukas Akelis
The Lantern
Type: Construction
Tutors: Estelle Roussel, Nicat Nusalov, Ayla Azizova, Delphine Lévy
Participants: Angel Cobo Alonso, Armen Sargsyan, Ayse Tugce Pinar, Catrin frid, Charlotte Middelveld, Dan Pintea, Dennis Tran, Erik Stigland, Giuditta Trani, Juan Carlos Barandiaran, Karolin Kaup, Menandros Ioannidis, Metka Lozej, Natasha Gorbyleva, Pénélope Lallemand, Sam van Hooff, Selma Zosel
In all ages, fire has been at the center of life. People gathered around it everyday to share the heat, the light and the safety, and therefore to share meals, stories, knowledge… Still now, whether it is a chimney fire, a bonfire or a few candles, fire is a symbol of conviviality – and hospitality.
The Lantern was built around a fireplace. It is an installation that reinterprets a very strong element in the city’s identity: bricks, with the aim of creating a welcoming place to chill, enjoy the view, the open-air and eventually a bonfire. And more importantly, to enjoy each-other’s company.
Make yourself a(t) home
Type: Analysis & Performance
Tutors: Angelika Hinterbrandner, Lisa Marie Hafner
What happens when one merges the potential of 500 different EASian minds with Fredericia and its residents? What makes you a guest, and what makes you at home? Where is the difference between these stages? How do we influence these stages as architects — or better: is there any chance to influence these social issues in a spatial form?
The workshop is split into two parts: It starts with theoretical inputs to introduce basic knowledge on the topic. The personal inputs from the participants as well as the ones from the guest lecturers will add further perspectives. The performative laboratory conducted in the second week is a mix of experiencing, learning and exchanging with others. The basic steps are as follows: create understanding; self-experience to consciously perceive; connect and implement the new findings to navigate through diverse interests.
Neptune
Type: Design & Construction, Community
Tutors: Tobias Hrabec, Brett Mahon, Jonny Stitt
Participants: Theresa Begon, Ignaz Ceponis, Andrea Aleksic, Sara Garcia, Jeremy Prong, Frida Andersen Lodrup, Lilli Wickstrom, Ivan Zaninovic, Dora Ferris, Joe Ridealgh, Aliaksandra Karatkevich, Sophie Burgess, Benjamin Varghese, Karolina Tatar Fabian Martinsson
It began by an interaction between two fishermen. […] Both men had been fishing all morning and had caught many fish, but being so far from the possibly of cooking, they couldn’t indulge in even just one of their catches. From this observation and a few interactions with local fishermen the concept grew into an outdoor kitchen, to facilitate the preparation and cooking of fish, caught in the harbour, which during the summer months attracts over 40 fishermen.
The overall aim of the workshop was to create a functional space in the environment that would encourage social interaction with us and the local people. The inclusion of a seated grilling area in the harbour created a focal point for people to cook together and share there catch. During the two weeks of the workshop it allowed for the structure to become an integral part of the community and eventually the locals took ownership of the structure when completed.
Pictures by Jonny Stitt
People's collection
Type: Design & Construction
Tutors: Lizzie Daly, David Pepper
Participants: Asia Zwierzchowsk, Büşra Balaban, Ella Walklate, Kamran K-zade, Konstantinos Katsampas, Maria João Gordalina, Monica Zumbado, Rick Blankestijn, Roman Hartmann, Rory McDonald, Sofia Eftermiddag, Stivan Cholakov, Svenja Nomkea Lindner
A bench, a stool or legs crossed on the floor,
Our street plays host to these things and more,
But a landscape awaits which bulges and twists,
This workshop sure is not to be missed.
Fredericia’s streets play host to our creatures,
Folding and turning with elegant features,
Our long bench and others will take up a square,
See you in Fredericia? - yes see you there!
Penelope
Type: Design & Construction
Tutors: Mark Cauchi, Mara Usai, Carlotta Franco
Participants: Olga Berning, Mukesh Byarareddy, Martina Callus, Nuria Cánovas Bernabeu, Julia Eliassonn, Lucile Gaborit, Gaia Garofali, Dovilė Gudavičiūtė, Alicja Jakóbek, Ksenia Kazbekova, Venla Miila Kaarina Keskinen, Clara Pardo Gromaches, Zofia Kurczych, Kristina Kryuchkova, Alice Miller, Michela Pegurri, Sylwia Pilacik, Sera Remes, Nihitha Sreenath, Jan Szeliga, Nick Tonna.
Based on a conceptual play between hesitance and acceptance when arriving at a new place, the aim was to create a garden space contained by a rigid structure that could be accessed from any direction. It was intended that over time the garden could eventually envelop the structure and continue to change its physical appearance. [...]
Penelope is expectant, sitting at the corner of the harbour, looking around her with many eyes. Between the water and the city she waits, as a beacon to those departing and those arriving, as a wife expecting the return of her loved ones.
Penelope waits, yet still. Always there, unfaltering and with an open heart ready to receive love in a moment of need.
The Sleeping Concert
Type: Design & Construction
Tutors: Eske Bruun, Kateryna Romanova, Anna Opitz
The idea of House becomes more tightly linked to an abstract time-space definition than to a strict geographical space. The dialogue will examine the concept of contemporary nomadism. During the workshop they tested the possibility of temporariness by creating a series of Object-tents which were exhibited and tested at the Sleeping Concert event in Aarhus warehouse during the EASA event. The idea of Sleeping Concert resonates with ambitious of domesticity. Tutors guided design processes and helped creating a series of pop-up one-day Houses. All structures were tested to cover the basic needs of sleeping conditions during the temporary events.
Superdraft
Type: Analysis & Design
Tutors: Marta Malinverni, Alessandro Carrea
SUPERDRAFT encourages the integration of theory, research and practice, while imaging that is possible to develop a new critical “frame” in refugees’ architectural typologies and their integration, using collage as a design tool. SUPERDRAFT propose itself as the link between the idea and the visions in the physical reality: the catalyst in the creation of new and alternative possibility of spaces.
The workshop uses collage as critical-visual device to obtain a type of non-standard proposal. The methodology of work will start from the concept: the collage itself, as a form of representation is made up of unexpected solutions.
The Unborn Monument(s)
Typle: Analysis & Construction
Tutors: Daria Kleymenicheva, Andreas Daniel, Alexey Snetkov
Participants: Andrea Kurko, Andrija Vujovic, Elena Sarukhanova, Ilgar Manafsoy, Kenneth Mason, Nils Frederik, Olga Konstantinovic, Oleguer Teixidor, Paul Texerau, Paulina Malag, Rafaella Papalla, Savka Marenic
Fredericia’s physical and historical context along with Easa’s theme triggered the idea for an experimental workshop which is a quintessence of architectural resolutions, geometrical purity and interpersonal possibility for manifestation.
The monument of 3x3m can be conceived as a micro city replica of Fredericia, shaped by 70 models developed in plots of 30x10cm. Each participant took responsibility for filling a specific number of the plots, and indirect influence the final result. This urban exhibition not only served as a Fredericia’s public event, but also a manifestation and proof that monumentality derives only through diversity, whether in a social context or a build environment.
Up-to-date
Type: Design & Contruction
Tutors: Elena Sofia Congiu, Denis Plancque
Participants: Marie (France), Elena (Russia), Marin (Bulgaria), Ionna (Bulgaria), Antoine ( France), Charlène (France), Paul (Ecuador), Anna (Czech Republic), Bastian (Switzerland), Pablo (Switzerland), Alessandro (Scotland), Selma (Montenegro), Ilia (Greece), Sofia (Costa Rica), Rita (Portugal), Léa (Switzerland/France)
The elements of our living environment - objects, walls, colors, and fragrances. Ultimately, their mental and symbolic references define the identity of space, making it recognizable.
Life becomes a succession of bed, table, chairs and wardrobe. Domestic furniture coincides with urban furniture. Architecture doesn’t represent society, but contains it, liberating it.
This is a long term UP_DATE of public spaces.
Unline
Type: Design & Construction
Tutors: Aleix Arcarons, Emma Meilán, Alba Alsina, Josep M. Sole Gras
Participants: Mariam Gvazava, Francesco Lorusso, Helene Esau, Svetlana Protsenko, Žaklina Nježić, Irem Korkmaz, Anna Potanina, Redi Mazelli, Christopher Patz, Alina Reuschling, Nikolina Rašovic, Edita Kirakosyan, Alise Silina, Husain Zaidi, Jan Matoušek, Iulia Bucsar, Sándor Novák, George Chirakadze
The project starts with the concept of joining two points. One, the current time and place, Fredericia. The other one, the place where the first known humans, Lucy, lived. This pretends to be materialised with a long textile line, profiling the coast of Fredericia and creating a corridor in which one can walk, making the physical border an actual space. This space is defined by the wind and the position of the curtains, which can host community activities with the final intention of dematerialising the borders.
EASA Archive
Type: Analysis
Tutors: Sorcha Maguire, Aleksandra Ognjanov, Marta Nikolić
EASA community was in need of archiving its work. A lot of attempts had been made to do so, but we were still lacking a comprehensive website where we can showcase our work, and a server where we can store our work. The aim of the workshop was to make an archive structure for EASA for its better promotion and self-reflection. The workshop was then continued in next EASA events.
Tapaland 4.0
Type: Food & Community
Tutors: Julia Rytkönen, Jenni Salomaa, Hilda Uusitalo
Tapaland 4.0 is a workshop to share culture via food. In the workshop we will prepare small portions of traditional food courses of the participating country during one day and then serve it to Easians. Tapaland’s goal in general is to spread joy to EASA days, introduce European food cultures and that way socialise people, maybe break preconceptions and work as a link between all the Easians and the workshops. Tapaland’s goal is to fulfil the real meaning of EASA: to connect people from different countries.
umbrella
Tutors: Leena Salo, Panu-Petteri Kujala
Participants: Laura Pint, Marin Berovic, Vili Rakita, Luca Majica, Sarunas Semulis
Continuing the amazing tradition that is Umbrella Newspaper. Publishing stories, news, information and a bit of gossip.
EASA FM
Tutors: Ewan Hooper, John Macken, Anni Saviaro
EASA FM has been running since helsinki. The objective became to keep everyone connected at EASA with good music, easa spirit, lunchtime talks, a clear and immediate communication channel across the event and general good vibes.
EASA TV
Tutors: Matej Antolković, Alma Antončić, Bardh Ademi, Nol Turjaka
Participants: Genc Kuci, Petronela Schredlova, Sotiris Frankos, Lynn Siripat Rojnirun, Aleksandra Stefanovska, Yatharth Gupta
EASA.TV is a standing video media workshop dedicated to document the everyday easa life. This workshop took the conceptual work of easa.tv to a next level this year, by not only documenting, but also scripting, filming and producing their own independent sketches and short videos. Aiming to teach and (through the experience) ourselves learn new creative methods, filming and editing techniques in collaboration with participants, the objectives were clear: through the process of creative work produced videos that not only document the EASA spirit, but that are also stand-alone works of cinematographic art.
Pictures by Alexandra Kononchenko