WORKSHOPS
LAND-REVERT
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ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE
Land-Revert Workshop’s main theme is the preservation of forests and promoting “nature source design”. The workshop prepares the students of Art & Design to provide a new source of income for the forests by creating a draft proposal for a low-tech system, where branches of trees are traded as high-end components for building construction and furniture craft. The aim of this workshop is to introduce to the students with the approach of design and construction by showing them how a material can be an instrument for creating design and architecture. An artist, engineer or architect, is an entrepreneur, is someone who has a comprehensive approach to his time and context, someone who aims at society, the environment, and the common good.
The concept of the workshop is double: the first is to present effective answers to contemporary territorial, and environmental questions by reshaping the way buildings and products come into being. The second goal is to prove students that synergies among disciplines such as applied arts, applied engineering and architecture are highly symbiotic, thus having the potential to play an important role when working locally side-by-side. METHODOLOGY The students will work as a system, divided into working groups with specific tasks: The Field Group is responsible for finding the raw material in the forests of Tirana. Branches disconnected from trees will be collected and scanned for creating a botanical survey of the material. The Design Group with the task of
Francisco Fonseca [SKREI] Portugal Assistance by: Keti Hoxha [Universiteti POLIS] Tirana / Albania Participants: Art & Design Students 2nd Year Academic Year 2018- 2019
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