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Intro The plan was that the issuing of bulletins follows the phases of the international competition. The project’s phase 4 is slowly nearing completion and going into its second-last phase, namely the bureaucratic part, within which the winning solution has to be adjusted to the point where it follows the standards and laws. There is still hope that the pavilion, if successful, will remain at the site until a new need for changes in the environment arises. The committee did have its first session. The proposals were discussed and a shortlist was drawn. We are positive that the winning proposal will be known the beginning of April, meaning there will be still four entire months to finalize the solution and prepare the terrain for construction. Stay tuned. The competition is happening!
Bureaucracy time While National Contacts are actively preparing for the selection of the best participants in the history of EASA, the organizers are mostly dealing with bureaucracy. This might be the only way or simply our curse, but the fact remains that paperwork
has been accompanying us since the beginning of the project - from presenting its content and the draft budget to fund providers to various interim reports, applications, letters of support, contract documents, press articles, correspondence, etc. and, ultimately, what you are reading right now. We have spent a lot of time writing, many would say too much as print media are losing to visual media in contemporary society and their target group is smaller. This consideration should also be taken into account by future organizers when thinking about their mode of external communication. While video content is much more appropriate for promotion, a text is definitely a more professional approach, something that is unfortunately losing its value nowadays. The organizers have tried to rely mostly on the latter, which is (hopefully) apparent from the workshop proposals call and the pavilion competition. Someone from the team once said: “We have to write the tutor pack and it has to be a comprehensive publication, at least for those who like to read it.” In this we may have forgotten about those a bit more creative and a little less technical. Please don’t blame us. Regardless of whether architecture is a more technical or more creative profession or a sensible mixture of both, it seems that it will always have to deal with bureaucracy. We are already experiencing this first hand during the course of our studies and for that we are thankful. Thank you EASA!
Slovenia hosts the fourth SESAM After SESAM 1995 Ptuj (Connecting old and new), SESAM 1997 Sinji vrh (Upper World) and SESAM 1998 Škofja Loka (The Other Site) we proudly present SESAM 2013 Ljubljana (Dragon’s Salad Lab). SESAM 2013 is part of the Eastern Lab. It is a concept created by EASA Romania team for
INCM 2013 Bucharest. For more details check out the SESAM Pack here.
only take half an hour. The tickets can usually be bought directly on the buses.
SESAM 2013 Ljubljana is an international multidisciplinary workshop, happening from April 18th until April 23rd. The goal is to develop a plan for revitalizing the historical garden neighbourhood Krakovo in the centre of Ljubljana. Krakovo is one of the oldest parts of Ljubljana and famous for its salad gardens, which produced salad for the entire city until the end of the 20th century.
For traveling through Slovenia we suggest visiting the carpooling web page prevoz.org, similar to the well known www.mitfahrgelegenheit.de in Germany. People, mostly students, upload information of their departure time and location so others can join them and this way help each other financially.
The fee for participants is 80 eur (16 eur per day), which covers the cost for accommodation in a nearby hostel, costs of daily meals in the nearby restaurant and other expenses concerning the workshop. Evening booze is not included. Please register until March 18th to dragonssalad.lab@ gmail.com with a motivation letter attached. The team will be collecting the fees until March 18th.
Airport transfers This is an extended version of the already published article in the participant pack last month. As we feel the issue of traveling to Slovenia is becoming bigger and bigger, some options for it are presented below.
Content and programme
In collaboration with the company TM Vista and their brand GoOpti we have arranged the cheapest and most affordable airport transfers in Slovenia. The company already provides transfers for 7.000 travelers per month or 300 per day, which is a lot for Slovenia and more than enough for an EASA. We as organizers are using this option whenever traveling abroad.
The workshop is an experiment in gaining new approaches for revitalizing prospective city-spaces, in this case Krakovo, Ljubljana. This part is strongly connected to traditional vegetable growing and medieval structures, but losing its primer force and role. It needs some inputs and impulse.
Compared to traveling by bus or train from nearby airports, they offer the best solution in terms of comfort and travel costs. These are some examples if you are traveling to an airport in Italy and want to reach the capital, Ljubljana. Please bear in mind that prices are lower for early birds.
Multidisciplinary students will work on different methods; urban plan, new architectural inputs, movie clip about the meaning of Krakovo, propaganda posters, even preparing a book about vegetable growing. All this in collaboration with different actors in the area: municipality, inhabitants and associations.
From Venice or Treviso (250 km) you would pay 20-30 eur one way, from Trieste (150 km) 15-25 eur, from Milano (500 km) 40-50 eur, from Bologna or Munich (400 km) 30-40 eur and even from Genoa (600 km) starting from 60 eur one way. If you are willing to use this type of transport, please follow this link. They can also offer cheap transfers from Vienna, Graz, Budapest or Zagreb if there are enough people who need this kind of transport. Please address such inquiries directly to info@easa013.si with the number of travelers and the departure location. The company will let you know their offer.
There will be an opening ceremony, welcome drink with the inhabitants and enough time to explore the location. Lectures will be given by Jurij Sadar (Sadar Vuga architects), Matej Žonta (European cultural capital Maribor, project Urban Furrows) and Katja Vadnal (researcher of public-private relations). The programme will be enriched with picnics in Krakovo, sports in park Tivoli, Slovene evening etc. Presentation of the project is planned for the last day on Tuesday. Follow the event on Facebook.
Also note that there are four buses (at 7 am, 3 pm, 4 pm and 7 pm) going from Ljubljana to Žužemberk every day during the week but only one (at 8 am) during the weekend. As most of you will arrive right before the start of the event, meaning during the weekend, we’ll arrange a special transfer for EASA attendees. The bus ride takes about an hour, whereas a direct transfer would
Interesting facts about Slovenia > Slovenia is small. You can drive across the country in 3 hours. > Slovene is one of only 4 remaining languages that use dual (apart from singular and plural). > The bear population in Slovenia is so high that we need to export them. > The biggest cave in Slovenia (Postojna cave) is home to Proteus, otherwise known as the Human fish. > Slovenia has only 1 island. It’s on a lake. > Slovenia’s national anthem is written in the shape of a wine cup. > Maribor is home to the world’s oldest vine (440 years old). > Slovenia has only 2 million people but 48 dialects. > There are over 10.000 km of hiking trails in Slovenia.
Get to know the organizing team if you have not met us before. The organizing team has nine members for now, five students of Architecture from Ljubljana, two from Maribor, one from Graz and a student of Sociology. We are very pleased to introduce to you the third two: Meet the organizers
Workshop statistics Below are some statistics for this year’s tutor teams. At the top we would like to congratulate the Latvian team, crashing EASA with 9 tutors. Bravo!
Tadej Pavlič | 23
Matic Kašnik | 21
what is your role in the organizing team? > I’m responsible for sponsorships and some secrets.
what is your role in the organizing team? > I’m responsible for logistics.
how many EASAs? > Only one but two INCM. why organize an EASA? > Because I can. Where is your mind at the moment? > In Žužemberk. What creeps under your bed? > I do not have time to check it up. Last time my owl went there was nothing but spiders and dust Is the glass half full or half empty? > Should be always full. Should the carpet match the drapes? > It depends on the mood.
how many EASAs? > Hope that as many as possible. why organize an EASA? >To gain new experience and because of the friends I work with. Where is your mind at the moment? > More than a week I’m totally into a school project. What creeps under your bed? > Things from elementary school, which I don’t want to throw away. Is the glass half full or half empty? > Usually empty, that’s my tragedy Should the carpet match the drapes? > I prefer blond. :D Coincidentally, Tadej and Matic just became the new National Contacts for Slovenia. Congratulations to both!
They are quickly followed by the past INCM organizers with 8, UK with 6 and Spain with 5 tutors, four of which are part of the Endor team. Special attention goes also to the Serbian team, which proposed two workshops, but more importantly has been proposing great workshops for the last couple of years. NCs should look up to their methods of recruiting new participants and tutors. Serbia, along with Slovenia, Hungary, Germany, Belarus and the International team (SAR and USA) has 4 tutors, Czech Republic, Greece, The Netherlands and Poland 3, Ukraine, France, Estonia and Denmark 2 and Slovakia, Turkey and Italy one tutor each. Note that the competition results are not out yet, meaning there are still a few tutors to join the mix. Again, compliments to all. Let’s rock this year’s EASA!