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Each summer since 1981, around 400 of the brightest students from every part of Europe have come together for 2 weeks of intense workshops, lectures, exhibitions and events, in the name of exchange of ideas, culture and experience. In the summer of 2010 the 30th European Architecture Students Assembly will be held in city centre Manchester.
april010 issue x The workshop seeks to reveal Friday, 15th February was quite a the deception of contemporary momentous day in the history of architecture. Artificial “covereasa010. Not only did it see the ups” have become real identities culmination of a very successful with the skin of a building hiding SESAM010 | Mcr, it was also its true, gritty endoskeleton. the opening night of EASA:An european architecture student’s assembly 2010 presents This theory will be embraced Exhibition. During the evening, in ,combining a simple, ‘real’ front of the gathered crowds, the structure with projections to 20 workshops that will be tutored create this ‘fake’ facade. It is by members of the network were intended that the cubic pavilion unveiled. itself, will be perceived as boring and uninteresting, rendering it as a Selecting the workshops was blank canvas for the next phase. an no easy task for the organisers, aesthetic skin for the pavilion will with nearly 50 applications there be projected on all 4 facades. was much deliberation and conversation. Aural Mapping Manchester The Tin Can Experiment The organisation selected what they felt was a varied and exciting Sound recordings will be range of workshops for the assembly, and we preview them in researched from diverse locations around the city and recorded. They this extra edition.
Aural Mapping Manchester
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Artifical Identity Workshop
location: european architecture student’s assembly (easa) 2010, manchester, uk // when: 31 july - 15 august 2010 // who: students of architecture from all over the world that takes part of easa2010 // tutors: rune madsen, architect (mass studies), inger marit skorstad, architect (studio chiasmus) // realisation: 2.5 x 2.5 x 2.5 m wooden pavilion withartificial, projected facades // requirements: pc skills, experience with flash and adobe premiere pro // www: youtube “runebadone break the box”
will be brought together with the fashioning of a pavilion to house the sounds of the city. Outside of their original context, the sounds will have a ‘dislocating’ effect on the participant. Participants can then, in return, donate their own sounds to the pavillion, culminating sounds from different locations and time, to explore the nature of the aural Manchester. Canalizing The river Irwell will be central to the exploration of this workshop, stretches between bridges will be broken down and analysed in physical, architectural, social, topographical, morphological and natural terms. Areas of weakness and areas of potential will be pin-pointed to propose eventual solutions. Models will be produced to show proposals for the
Environmental Response The workshop explores responsive strategies and systems, which is in constant interaction with its physical environment. By considering the design process as continually cycling between the analogue and the digital, we imagine a construct that continually redefines itself in relation to its perpetually changing context.
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The aim is not only to investigate and create environmental responsive models, but equally to discuss and challenge our understanding of architectural changeability, dynamic behaviour, materiality and expression. How do we understand continuity and alterations in relation environment? How do we understand information and its transformation? Is architecture persistent or in persistent change?
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different stretches of the river. The methodology aims to reveal flaws in large urban projects where a single approach is taken to resolve the whole design of a master plan where complexity and vitality of our urban projects are lost.
knowledge of reality. In the heart of Manchester, a 30m2 light construction will be erected for the experience of the Mancunians.
Communicating Cities
Gender is a major characteristic of identity. This workshop will bring the feminine touch to architectural practice rather than following familiar male approach to design. Feminists view ‘traditional’ crafts as knitting, embroidery, sewing as typically feminine and thus inappropriate for emancipated women. This is a humorous take on such a hot topic. Turning the theory on its head, installations of small architectural or design objects are to be made through traditional craft.
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The exploration of place will be undertaken through examining the social, historical and urban layers of the City of Manchester. A dialogue of emerging themes will be represented in different mediums to record the strata of the city. With a citizen centred process, a multilayered understanding of the character and possibility of a place will evolve. it is an exploration of hidden character and themes of Manchester’s identity through installation.
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Environmental Response Structures will be made within existing buildings to test the capacities of wood. Deferent methods of lamenting or steaming will be experimented with to produce architectural installations. New connections to different parts of the building will transform spaces or hide and restrict the current flow of space.
This high-tech proposal explores responsive strategies and systems. A construction of continual adaptation to its environment will be programmed. Here architecture is seen as a circular iterative process in which ‘the construct’ can feed local environmental and send data back to the digital representation, the representation can then be modified, and the construct ‘remade’.
The House of Everyone
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T.E.S.I is a continuous laboratory of experimentation. Both a theoretical and practical workshop, through projection, audio, smells, texture and taste installations this will be an experiment with perception. T.E.S.I, by distorting senses, will give way to new neural connections that will enrich our
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The Exploding Synesthesic Inevitable
The goal of showing the people that they can enjoy the city as they do in their own places. Finding discarded personal objects and furniture from the Mancunian community, EASA will repair and restore. Building a place for everyone, made out of their reactivated belongings, The House of Everyone will be donated to a space of Manchester and give it a common identity.
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Concentrating on former industrial parts of the city, participants explore the space, register their findings, map elements, landscapes, stories... on bicycles! They will be “hunting” the material for their final project, a chronicle, called a Hunter Diary. Riding a bicycle through a city is like cruising through collective psyche of compact group of it’s inhabitants, the information collected will be displayed through a hybrid medium of sketches, films and photos.
Syn-Tactics
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After analysing the elements that create the identity of Manchester, through graphic representation, Syn-Tactics will be painted in an enclosed isolated interior space. Studying the veins of a culture, ultimately uniting, in an abstract identifying graphic of Manchester this workshop will look at the emotion of colours attached to the city. Small Interventions This is one-to-one realisation of small but useful interventions. Transforming the public space to a personalised scale to leave a small remnant of EASA for Manchester.
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This is EASA’s longest running workshop. Producing a newspaper with fresh news, interviews, experiences and insights into the everyday, Umbrella will capture the EASA experience on site. This year, EASA TV will be Umbrella’s ‘little brother’.
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Identifying casual performance zones throughout Manchester and enhancing them through interventions. Encouraging performance media the workshop will investigate the improvement of the zones, enhancing, performing and documenting the process. How does one recognise a street performer and how do you engage with the act? do you notice the performance? do you walk by? This workshop will see 3 built interventions in Manchester, designed by the participants and paraded through the city.
Picture ID
This is photography. Returning to analog this will construct a new identity to a area of Manchester. Manipulating photos, combining artistic and thematic intention this workshop will follow the belief that you construct identity by the choice of what you see, how you photograph and how you edit.
Identityscapes This workshop looks at unveiling the patchwork of Manchester’s identity by look specifically at the people who inhabit it, since without the people a city would have no identity. In order to seek these identities in Manchester students will switch their roles and then become ‘identity hunters’.
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Walking Through Walls This will be an illusions of freedom; between public and private space, neglecting traditional sequences and
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maneuvering seamlessly across Manchester. Via an interactive multi media presentation, best described as some kind of a visual 3D route planner, the audience would be able to assemble an alternate route through the urban fabric. This is an urban googlemaps prototype.
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for the upcoming exhibition Unbuilt (7.5.10 - 15.5.10, part of Future Everything and MADF) organised by Blank Media Collective. This will give an outlet to the work of young architects prevented from practicing by the current unforgiving economic conditions.
Who is ‘Joe Bloggs’? Mirroring current affairs in the UK, following on from the CABE publications, this is a theoretical workshop that will provoke an international student discussion. ‘Joe Bloggs’ is a verbal tool used to generalise the identity of the public. This workshop will be a fresh look at the architectural design process that considers ‘Joe Bloggs’ as the end user? It will investigate ‘Joe Bloggs’ and speculate about an identity for the public. Wo!manchester Focusing on the impact of influential Manchester females this workshop will be the inspiration for an international discussions. Participants will put together a script of a play, “Wo!manchester”, that will allow them to slip into the role of the other gender. The play will come together at the end of EASA and become a public event.
Exhibitions since EASA: An Exhibition In the five weeks since our own EASA: An Exhibition the easaHQ gallery has maintained its usual variety and density of interest. We’ve hosted shows by groups, single artists, students and established artists, across all media from painting to performance. Joe Lindley’s Organic Logic, Opinions are Chaos & A to B (19.3.10 - 21.3.10) was fantastic fun, the most interactive of the exhibitions to date. Entirely sound based, Lindley built machines that took sounds from the gallery visitors and subjected them to sonic feedback and electronic imperfection. Test (26.3.10 – 29.3.10) was the second show at easaHQ by the students of MMU’s Interactive Arts course that created Interactive Invasion. There was a tremendous variety of work, often sensitive and witty, and it was satisfying to trace the development of themes from the work of the earlier exhibition. On its final day in the gallery, Test formed an appropriate field for an afternoon drop-in session
Most recently Control (8.4.10 - 11.4.10), curated by Kit Turner and Vik Kausal, brought together a collection of highly regarded artists to consider how power and control affect our lives as residents of the modern city. Responses varied from Michael BarnesWynters’ performance piece about attitudes to race, to Agata Alcaniz’ exploration of the environmental impact of waste and resources.
easaUK2010Ltd turns one! Just a few days ago, on the 8th April 2010, easaUK2010 Ltd, completed its first year trading as a registered company. Soon after winning the bid in Cyprus, the organisers realised that to arrange a successful assembly in the UK, incorporation would facilitate the organisation. Questions or news for future issues should be sent to info@easauk.net.
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