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.