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EASA009 ITALIA . DARFO BOARIO TERME . TUTTE LE NOTIZIE . SEMPRE! 26JULY . ISSUE 1

„BIENVENUTO A BELLA ITALIA!“ Italian prime minister, media tycoon and lover of beautiful young women Silvio Berlusconi welcomes everybody to this years EASA! Unfortunately, he

couldn‘t attend the opening himself, but he sends his congratulations to the organizers: „I‘m glad that, with the help of EASA, Italian architecture will once

again be famous. And, if you like, I have a party at my Sardinian villa next weekend. You can all come, but only if your a chzech politician or under 18 years of age. Ciao, i ti amo ti amo, mi belle ragazze!!

FROM THE EDITORS

around you, keep track of your beer units, use sun cream if you go swimming and sun-bathing. We would like to stress that everyone at EASA shares responsibilities and people should not just haunt the organizers (Giulia has gone missing) but try to solve possible problems on their own. If you have any questions, go to your NC first, and they will tell the organizers. If there is no toilet paper, use this l’OMBRELLO or your neighbours underwear.

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Welcome to a yet another fabulous EASA. We hope everybody has recovered from the opening party last night and the crazy workshop fair today. The lake would have been a great refuge this afternoon so lucky are those who got to go. Lago Moro is only a small part of the gorgeous landscape surrounding Darfo, rumor has it that there is a huge lake monster called Eros in our own Lago Moro - some participants claim they already got a glimpse. Regardless of lake monsters, the other monster we have seen here already comes from the UK and speaks only one word…. “UK”. He wears red and loves the wine. Watch out…

A lot of people have been to an EASA before, but we are also very glad to welcome a lot of new people from all over Europe! For them, and the people that forgot due to too much alcohol consumption or architecture, we have a number of tips on how to survive EASA, only to come back again next year:

The cherry of our introduction would be a huge, massive thanx to the organizers for making this happen, for being ready and on time (for now), for having beautiful smiles on- all the time and for just being.

PHRASE OF THE DAY

- Do you have a real toilet here, not a hole in the ground?

- Avete un wc vero qua, non un buco in terra?

Tips: Take care of yourselves and of the people

- UK passport of Bhavika Mistry - Black Marinekko bag with passport, of Eero Alho (Finland) - Black ipod shuffle, hugo from france - Giulia. But if you find her, don‘t bring her back...

...AND FOUND - black rayban case - cigarette filters - one rupurut table (?)

all lost and found can be brought to the Info Point, and tell umbrella as well.

WEATHER

fucking hot. take off your clothes, put on your sun block and go baking out there. And it will be this way the rest of the week, but beware: it does cool down quite a lot in the evenings here...

U M B R E L L A N e w s p a p e r @ g m a i l . c o m

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1: SUPER ARCHITECTURAL DEFILE Tutors: Marian Ayvazyan, Loosineh Davoodian (AM) What do the tutors say - You will do sketches of the most famous buildings from 5-6 well known architects and then think about transforming these shapes in to a form of clothing, a purse and even jewellery. Tiny Neon lights will later on be fixed to the models so these colourful “buildings” can create a super environment. Of course you can make it more splendid by adding theatric performance and music during the show.

What does UMBRELLA say - This is a constructive Workshop (like a conctructive Fashion Design) out of Waste materials, empty bottles, newspapers, and plastic bags. The List is endless! So build up the house for your body and the architecture, inspired by architecture for your soul to fit in or just accessoires for special occasions. This sounds like architectural Catwalk-coming soon!

Who should join? PPL interested in fashion Who should stay away? PPL not interested in fashion Is there an atomic bomb in it? Yes, in the tiny Neon lights!

2: Small Interventions Tutor: Arvid Wölfel (DE) What does the tutor say - Design an one-to-one realisation of small but useful interventions (small objects), based on the group members’ vision of places inside the communal area. The Goal is the transformation of public space into personalised space, which allows the inhabitants to adapt a place to their own story. The objects shall be created out of the story inside a spatial condition - the specific imprint a space has – and will refer to the easa theme. The objects shall be useful, in a smooth, elaborated design.

What does UMBRELLA say - Of course it is Constructive Workshop: Timber, Various Materiels and whatever sounds fine for Small Interventions: A returning Workshop for the past 4 EASAs-Arvid is back in Italy! Adding things to the right place, where they have been missing so far. Remember the beer-holder in the telephone box in Letterfrack? That was SI! Who should join? Timber-Freaks Who should stay away? Big interventions Is there an atomic bomb in it? As we know, we survived the past years...

3: Festitrash Tutors: Filip Stekovic (HR), Francisco J.Rodriguez Perez (ES) What do the tutors say - You will study those phenomena inherent in the massive production of real and virtual trash in the consumer society, providing points of view on the subject that might generate new thoughts and attitudes and you can rediscover and rethink the basic everyday actions through trash. You will reuse products/trash, you will find in a Supermarket and make new products out of it for the locals in Darfo.

What does UMBRELLA say - This Workshop is theoretical as well as constructive and is basicly providing discussions and reflections around and about trash, waste and reuse in all its formats and possible meanings.

Who should join? Trashy PPL, so basically everyone Who should stay away? PPL allergic to Trash Is there an atomic bomb in it? Definitely in some of it!

4: SupermarchNET Tutors: Yelta Kom; Erdem Tuzun; Baris Gumustas (TR) What do the Tutors say - Since Internet is the most collective network in the world: We can read the relations of things through various web services and social Networks. It is possible to follow and collect information about PPL anytime and anywhere. How do we realize the Bilbao Effect on web, though? You will collect data about archetypes, super architects and buildings through the web and will analyze them, to create visualizations and physicals installation.

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What does UMBRELLA say - This is gonna be a Media- and Internet Workshop, that works with Facebook, last.fm, google, flickr, twitter ect., so get use to Internet now, before its to late!

Who should join? Archi-Nerds and Computerfreaks!

Who should stay away? PPL hating Internet and Architecture Is there an atomic bomb in it? Maybe online?

5: Popup Tutors: Guillame Bonoure; Hugo Pontillard; Ruppert Maleczek; Chloè Genevaux (FR) What do the Tutors say - You will investigate the site and the EASA Campus and give a new place to the participants with functions, that would be adapted to needs or desire for all of us during the Summer Assembly in Italy.

What does UMBRELLA say - Popup is a Compound Workshop that works with the Situation of EASA Campus in Darfo and will then act on it. Sounds like places to hang out, but not just for the builders-for everyone, but first the must analyze our desires.

Who should join? PPL who care about others!

Who should stay away? Egoistic PPL Is there an atomic bomb in it? Yes, in our desires!

6: LOGGIA Tutors: Paul O’Brien; Kevin Kelly; Sean Attley; Kieran Donnellan (IE) What do the Tutors say - This constructive project is interested in the cultural continuity of the Darfo town and seeks to conform to a local and national Italian context-a timber Loggia. The Loggia is a familiar component to an Italian city and town. It is a place for trade, communication and culture. The timber Loggia will engage a space within the EASA campus or the town of Darfo.

What does UMBRELLA say - LOGGIA is a Constructive Workshop working with Timber, combined with tasty Irish Detailing! The Tutors, some as participants of sesam2009.it, have already done a “La U” in rome and even stayed 3 days longer for finishing it.

Who should join? PPL who need to work out more!

Who should stay away? Lazy PPL Is there an atomic bomb in it? Yes, in the two GG`s!

7: Photoshopping Tutors: Frederick Bekett; Christine Boss Mortensen (DK) What do the tutors say - You will discuss and investigate how alternative photography can catch and reestablish this nearness (“Loss of nearness”, Heidegger) and communicate the senses and the spatial conditions experienced from a given site or context.You will learn the procedures of photography containing Light Exposure, ISO, Developing, Enlarging, capturing the cultural surroundings of Darfo with cameras and self made camera obscurers-Using the vast world of photography: this is what we call “Photoshopping”. The camera is the shopping cart - Darfo is the mall- go photoShop!

What does UMBRELLA say - Photoshopping is a Media-living Art Workshop, that is using Photography and Photoshop. The work of visualization in the architectural world today is mostly created on computer.

The process of these computerized working methods is separated from physical world. This workshop will investigate the process of photography to rediscover this lost nearness!

Who should join? PPL who like to go shopping Who should stay away? PPL who spend to much money on useless things!

Is there an atomic bomb in it? Shopping carts are dangerous!

8: SUPer ARCHITECTS MARKeT + environment video transformation video Tutors: Martinaityte Dovile; Saulius Paliukas; Audejaitis Augustas (LT) What do the tutors say - The main phrases of soci-

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ety are thesedays: “to buy”, “to use”, to throw away!In architecture it is essential to say: “let’s keep it”, “let’s use it in a new way”. The Workshop is organizing a Market, integrating the citizens into actions, asking them to bring old things they don’t need any more to a certain public space, creating new meanings with these Materials, which will no longer be useless!

What does UMBRELLA say - This Workshop is actually a Constructive Workshop out of ”Useless things” or things citizens in Darfo don`t need any more. Have Fun knocking on their doors, asking the locals for things they dont need anymore or asking them to give out their useless stuff! maybe it be good to know these questions in italian, otherwise they could get scared!

Who should join? PPL who like to rob banks Who should stay away? Shy PPL Is there an atomic bomb in it? Right before u ring the bell!

9: Vague Tutors: Tom Bennel; Matt Duggan (UK) What do the tutors say - You will consider the meaning, importance and loss of public space and public events and how these can be reinserted into modern architectural forms and typologies.The aim is to create a Vague building that is only understood by direct interaction and use-A reversal of the trend towards banality.

What does UMBRELLA say - This is a Compound Workshop, that works with Lights and Photography.

Vague’ seeks to explore the importance of the visual identity of architecture in modern society, and its meaning in relation to local traditions or global forces of consumption!

Who should join? PPL drawing trees with leaves...

Who should stay away? PPL drawing trees without leaves...

Is there an atomic bomb in it? Too vague to say!

10: operation ACE HIGH Tutor: Gabriele Falconi (IT) What does the Tutor say - With Operation Ace High you will develop a design project for the regeneration of the Dosso dei Galli site. This Workshop will work with the existing architecture and create a sculpture out of it-an intervention of architecture as image. The creation of a scenic piece will later attract people to the place Dosso as the final episode in the Valle Camonica path.

What does UMBRELLA say - ACE HIGH (NATO Troposcatter) is a Design Workshop and will work Project Proposals and Visions for the Future of IDGZ (NATO Code) Station in Dosso dei Galli, seems to be close to EASA Campus!

Who should join? PPL who like doing Design in their semester break Who should stay away? PPL who dont like doing Design during semester break Is there an atomic bomb in it? Troposcatter will know!

11: UMBRELLA Tutors: Yvonne Michel (CH), Dijana Omeragic (MKD), Marten Dashorst (NL) What do the tutors say - UMBRELLA is the longest existing Workshop in EASA. It has been there every summer producing publications with fresh news, experiences and insights every day with interviews, workshop reviews, daily routine examining and of course the fun part: party flashbacks, galleries and party reviews.

The print, video and online media, will allow participants to explore the different platforms and opportunities between each.

What do we say again - UMBRELLA is a Media Workshop, that works with Print, Video and Online Media with this motto: “Read the news or watch the news or write the news or be the news!”

Who should join? Everyone Who should stay away? Bad News Is there an atomic bomb in it? Depends on you!

12: LoveBox Tutors: Linas Lapinskas; Petras Isora; Inga Urbonait;

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Karolis Kyzikas (LT) What do the Tutors say - LoveBox is a specific EASA pavilion for exclusive events, combined with personal and public experiences in the same space, using Camera Obscurer as an optical devise in drawing and/or entertainment inside the Box. Whats does UMBRELLA say - Yeah Right! btw: The LoveBox is a Constructive Workshop and will be build out of Packing Boxes according to the Theme “SupermARCHet” of easa.it! The LoveBox has been built many times ( but every year in a different ways ) before for the Summer Assembly and will also appear in Italy!

Who should join? Lovers Who should stay away? Cheaters and frigid people Is there an atomic bomb in it? YEAH, WHEN ITS DONE!

13: Supercity Threesome Tutors: Leyla Ibrahimova (AZ); Marianna Karapetyan (AM); Darko Krstevski (MKD) What do the tutors say - You will choose an element – an urban block, where you place a known building or structure, or an open space related to the scale of public realm in the City. It will be an endless city with continuous ground which could be developed in any direction. It will not have centrality or such typologies, which in comparison to the rest presume dominance.

What does UMBRELLA say - This is a Constructive Workshop, based on Research and Yoga. Everyone can join the morning-Yoga for getting started into the day, so you can think about the following thoughts: Star architects of 21st century have established certain brands of their work, which is combining under the name of the architect the “products”, which they are delivering.

They are mainly asked to create a ‘product’, and sometimes one would think they could be shifted to other location or moved to another corner of the planet.

Who should join? Threesomes Who should stay away? Couples Is there an atomic bomb in it? Probably after the Yoga, if you will say it hard enough and long enough!

14: Mobile Stairs Tutors: Michal Golanski; Michal Kowalski; Justyna Juchimiuk (PL) What do the Tutors say - “The space lost – the space regained” is meant to deal with contemporary definition of public spaces and can be linked with Action in the city: reinterpreting the modified. The workshop will be observing the advancing degradation of city landscape due to commercialisation, as well as modern lifestyle, erosion and transition of ties within society. This can be delicate or powerful, but can also be erased by the mo-

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notony of everyday life. Touching a place through visual intervention, is refreshing that which affects the people interacting with part of the city!

What does UMBRELLA say - Mobile Stairs is a Constructive Workshop (Timber, Various Material) adopting the ideas of the “Reclaim the streets”- movement, constructing “Mobile Stairs” structures in order to test them as potential multi-functional installation, cause every place in our environment affects us, in a tangible way, so reclaim the Streets!

Who should join? PPL who like movements with stairs Who should stay away? PPL who prefer elevators Is there an atomic bomb in it? Somewhere behind the meaning.

15: Palletscape Tutors: Pavle Stamenovic; Ivan Grcic; Olga Lazarevic (SRB) What do the tutors say - On one hand there is consumer ideology which in architecture is represented mainly by starchitectural public building programs (Bilbao effect); and on the other, rising ecological awareness in architectural practice is present thru sustainable (recyclable) architectural structures and programs.

Basic element is an object that belongs to both: Pallets are both commercial in a sence that they represent a final product which is extremely valued on the market and ecological, since they are made of a natural material, and sustainable since they can be recycled to their original use, and sold!

What does UMBRELLA say - Wow, after we read this, Pallets are just a great material, Right? A Constructive Workshop done by Serbia, working with Pallet pinpointing two main streams of contemporary architectural discourse and putting them in forceful play, it is actually the thing that just has been missing so far!

Pallets: how original, right?

Who should join? PPL who like Bel-GREAT! Who should stay away? PPL who think pallets are stupid Is there an atomic bomb in it? Of course! but we dont know what exactly they are gonna build, though!

16: SUPERSPLASH Tutors: Paddy Roche (IE), Julian Grossman (DE), Thomas Cattrysse (BE) What do the tutors say - Making spaces to hang out and hide from the sun, inspired by Le Corbusier, asking questions like: “Was the first starchitect really worth all the hype?” The workshop will explore Le Corbusiers Modular man. We have all read about it but have many of us experienced it at a 1:1 scale? We will to find out!

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What does UMBRELLA say - YEAH, RIGHT! Supersplash is a Compound Workshop with Various Materials, being critical about “Modulor”, checking out the Scale for a place to hang out for all of us! You will also fit in when you`re very tall, cause Mr. President from High Rise Fun Club will make sure, that you ll be comfi, too!

Who should join? PPL who like to hang out Who should stay away? Nervous PPL Is there an atomic bomb in it? It is more about hanging out, but that is super!

17: EXPLORING the RELATION BETWEEN TRADITIONAL AND MODERN, THROUGH MUSIC Tutors: Paul Farrell (UK), Christoph-Georg Holz (DE) What do the tutors say - The dominant role of the computer in modern life brought with it reinterpretation of cultural habits. It is difficult to yet fully understand the consequences ways the new media influence our design strategies. This poses the question: ‘Has the rise of new media given us design freedom or dominated and limited our creativity?’

What does UMBRELLA say - This is a Compound Workshop, working with Timber and New Media, although this workshop would easily win the gaylord focker-award for worst name ever, this does not necessarily mean it’s a bad workshop (after all, what was the full title of the borat film again? and we all loved that one….)

Who should join? deaf PPL Who should stay away? deaf PPL Is there an atomic bomb in it? Germany versus UK is always good for a party 18: Sticky Fingers Tutors: Nikola Grabacic; Tatjana Vracar; Balsa Bajagic (SRB) What do the tutors say - By exploring local categories and their cultural potential, this Workshop will provide an alternative to the omnipresent visual language of consumer culture. Working with the specific localities in mind (a shopping mall, town square, mercantile districts, other market spaces, shop windows, etc), where the results will be exhibited in a form of direct artistic guerrilla actions in the public spaces of Darfo Boario Terme.

What does UMBRELLA say - Sticky Fingers is a Compound Workshop, based on Guerrilla-Tactics! However, your work will not be exhibited as a monolithic and passive interventions in space but will be designed to invite the audience to interact and involve in their creation and modification. In Greece in EASA007, the ones who have been, remember the zebra crossing, we had to draw on ourself, so we would not of been killed on the way home to the speeping place!

Who should join? PPL with sticky fingers Who should stay away? PPL who wash their hands after toilet Is there an atomic bomb in it? Not if you wash hands after toilet.

19: How to evoke the spirit Tutors: Marcin Kolakowski; Alan Thompson (UK) What do the tutors say - U will try to understand why superstar architecture is so popular nowadays and the phenomenon of supermarket vs. street marketDescribing these phenomena in the broad context of ecology and to discover the spirit of the place and time.

To establish a spiritual bond with the place and evoke its spirit.

What does UMBRELLA say - How to evoke the spirit? Good question…We dont really know if you are gonna build something or not, but anyway…they ll take u into the account of political and cultural context of the phenomenon of superstar architecture, also talking about Ecology as a science about the relationship between an organism and its environment, and so between a human being and the society, culture, nature, the past and the future!

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Who should join? Harry Potter Fans Who should stay away? muggles.

Is there an atomic bomb in it? Spirit sounds always good to us! right?

20: Supermarket City Tutor: Flavio Gilberti (IT) What does the tutor say - The supermarket is a container. It contains different objects in spaces always equal, standardized, serial; in spaces that simulate always themselves. The supermarket in fact have to transmit its own recognizable image to the eyes of the consumer. Even inside the supermarket adopts the logic of recognition by the repetition of a model that repeats itself, the logic of standardization is represented by the supermarket shelves. In the supermarket there is a need to use the ICON, the TEXT to transmit the message to the consumer. The city is a container. It contains similar items- similar because formed by the same materials, those of the place, with the same constructive technology -that give rise to different spaces, bringing with them the values and the particularities of context. The proof of this is evident by observing the squares of Italian cities, each one different and each one with its own soul, and each carries its own identity.

What does UMBRELLA say?Everything is a Container!

Who should join? Containing PPL Who should stay away? Non-Containers Is there an atomic bomb in it? In the Containers!

21: Commercial Tutors: Kata Fodor (HU), Luis Hilti (CH), Matilde Igual Capdevila (ES), Carla Smith (UK), Leonard Gurtner (CH) What do the tutors say - This is a Compund Workshops that worlks with Action and Interventions. Commercial will use various commercial methods in an ironic way to create smart and sophisticated spatial and graphic interventions. Though looking similar to what advertising industry produces, the necessary material motivation will be replaced by our critical insight, hereby opening the door to explore and investigate hidden potentials.

What does umbrella say - For one, definitely the

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best workshopposter in this years easa. it’s always tricky to use campbells without reminiscing about andy w. trotting around l.e.s. with no pants on, but praise where praise belongs: this poster is freaking awesome. good typography, good balance between white and body, good photoshop on the tin. The promotional texts breathes the spirit of situationism, so let’s hope there are enough free-wandering minds that can come together to give the over-impulsed world around us a good spin!

Who should join? PPL that go to Paris with a map of London.

Who should stay away? PPL without a sense of humour.

Is there an atomic bomb in it? Well, it is situationism….

22: BENCHMARCH Tutors: Billy Mooney; Brian Sheehy (IE) What do the tutors say - Establish an own Benchmark for specific needs in an adaptable environment relying on the modular approach to construct a bench(m) arch, working in various scales up to 1:1.

What does umbrella say - You will build a benchmark, which is traditionally a surveyors tool. For simplicity’s sake, let’s just say it is a given point of reference that is used to measure the quality of quantity of other things in relation to it. So, what does this mean for a workshop at easa? Good question, but if I see both the word specific and the word adaptable in one sentence, I tend to get a bit jiggy. Not that I don’t like apparent contradictions, but it’s sometimes don’t matter if you’re black or white.

Who should join? PPL with a taste for mystery.

Who should stay away? Michael Jackson Is there an atomic bomb in it? Cooooooould beeeeeee….

23: ARCHEXPERIENCE Tutor: Alexander Bittemann (IL) What does the Tutor say - The aim of this workshop is to try to uncover and trace the factors that influence and compose a person’s choice with regards to an architectural composition. In the architectural supermarket that surrounds us, what are the filters that one applies when he needs to choose a certain object from the va-

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What does UMBRELLA say - Welcome Israel in EASA everyone! This is obviously an experiment that will deconstruct the idea of a ‘building’ to its basic compounds, so you can actually , try to understand and uncover the building’s “spirit”; so what it is about a building that expresses its basic essence, emotion and appeal to a person or people? We might find out soon!

Who should join? If u want to find out Who should stay away? If you dont want to find out Is there anatomic bomb in it? In the ARCHexperience….of course!

24: RE:POSE Tutors: Frederik De Smedt (BE); Alper Derinbogaz (TR) What do the tutors say - The making of an interactive photo booth, a pavilion in which there are framed views (It is about the size of the Zauna in Ireland)! The Visitors can repose and pose with a representative panorama at their background. They become part of the setting for live postcards.

What does umbrella say - With frederik and alper you are in for a treat. These guys are pretty much the mythbusters of easa. But instead of busting myths, they’re busting balls. Your balls. Why? Because somehow they always come up with a crazy big structure, and they manage to finish it off in time as well. Their proposal for an interactive photobooth challenges the classical artsy dilemmas of subject vs object, and foreground vs background. Given the creative attitude of most easa participants, let’s hope they manage to create an installation that does not just function as a backdrop for your drunken shenanigans, but also as a machine for rethinking your position in your environments.

Who should join? PPL with a love for hard work and long nights Who should stay away? PPL with two left hands Is there an atomic bomb in it? No. just lots of power tools.

PPS: Just make sure you will build it outside, not like in Ireland, were they couldnt get the Zauna out of the place, it was built in….

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