Tutor Pack MEDS 2014

Tutor Pack August 10th August 24th Dublin Ireland

Global Green 2014

Welcome!

Contents Photography 41

What is a Tutor? 7 Making an Application

Screen Printing 43

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Submission 11

REC 45

Schedule of Events

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Open Call 47

Workshop Facilities

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Organisers

Competitions

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Calendar of Events

Requirements 19

Grangegorman Exhibition Pavilion

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Sheltered Seating Pavilion

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Furniture Design + Making (Wood)

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Furniture Design + Making (Concrete)33

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Concrete Cube 35 Universal Design 37 Fashion Design 39 5

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...is a tutor?

A Tutor is a person who is responsible for leading a workshop and is one of the most important parts of a student workshop assembly. You can become a Tutor by making a successful application for a workshop.

There are many benefits to being a Tutor:

Below is a list of a Tutor’s responsibilities before, during and after an event.

You will learn new skills and develop those that you may already have. These skills include communication, leadership, team-building, design, etc.

It is the opportunity to explore your ideas in a practical way that you may not get from your traditional studies.

Before

Your experience as a Tutor will be a great addition to your CV, just like the outcomes of your workshop will be great features in your portfolio.

Develop your workshop idea in the months leading up to the event period, through co-operation with the organisers.

During Choose Participants for your workshop.

Introduce your selected Participants to the concept of your project and work with them in the most effective way possible to achieve the workshop targets.

Teach Participants useful new skills.

Document the activities of the workshop.

Meet regularly with Organisers.

After Publicise the outcomes of the workshop.

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...can I apply?

Making an application is easy. Just follow these steps:

Fee

1 | Take a look in the competition pack for a workshop that interests you. You can apply for as many as you like but you are limited to one entry per competition.

But thanks to our amazing sponsors & contributors you will also get‌

â‚Ź300*

100% of the application fee goes towards accommodation and food for the duration of the workshop.

The opportunity to enhance your skillset and gain valuable hands on design & construction experience.

2 | Email globalgreen2014@gmail.com with the code of the competition that you want to enter and your name.

Access to exclusive venues of architectural and cultural importance.

3 | We will reply with your unique competitor number, which you must place on all the elements of your submission. If your selected competition is for any of the pavilions we will also send you a pack with the drawings and photos you need to create your design.

The use of workshop equipment & materials A lecture series with exciting Irish designers and architects.

Daily evening events, social activities and excursions

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4 | Design your project and make your submission based on the criteria of the particular brief before

The fee is subject to change. If an excess of sponsorship is attained, the fee will be proportionally reduced. The successful applicants will be notified of that by their National Contacts closer to the event!

the closing date, May 2nd.

5 | On May 14th you will be notified of the results of the competition.

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Submission Follow the particular requirements set in the brief for the competition that you want to enter.

All competition submissions must include an A4 document with the following information:

- An explanation of why you think you will be a competent Tutor.

- A list of any relevant experience that you have.

- An approximate plan of work for the assembly, showing what your team will do and when.

- An approximate estimation of the costs of your materials.You must provide an overall cost, as well as the cost of individual items.

- A list of any tools that you require for your workshop.

- A summary of the valuable lessons that your

Participants will learn by being a part of your workshop.

- A 2-page CV.

- Any plans that you may have to raise extra money for your workshop before the event.

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Schedule Here are the dates of key MEDS events.

March 2nd

The competitions open for entries

May 2nd The final submission date for

all competitions

May 4th Participants are selected by NC’s

June 30th

Tutors for some workshops

submit final material lists to organisers

August 10th

MEDS 2014

August 11th

Workshops begin

August 22nd

Workshops end

Global Green begins

August 24th MEDS 2014 Global Green ends

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Facilities Where will your workshops take place?

Each workshop will be housed in facilities that are appropriate for the activity of the workshop. Some workshops will be housed in the same space. All workshops will be housed in Dublin City Centre.

For example, the Pavilion-making workshops will be housed in specialised wood-working facilities with professional supervision.

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Competitions Grangegorman Exhibition Pavilion

GEP

Sheltered Seating Pavilion

SSP

Furniture Design & Making (Wood)

FDM_W

Furniture Design & Making (Concrete)

FDM_C

Concrete Cube

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Universal Design

UD

Fashion Design

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Photography

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Screen Printing

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REC

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Carte Blanche

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Audio Visual Workshop

AVW

Guerilla Graffiti

GG

Prima Facia

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Work It Out

WO

Upcycle

UP

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Requirements for All Briefs *for the best chance of success please address as much of the submission requirements as possible, as the more information we receive, the more favourably we shall look upon the application!

Eligibility You must have good communication skills and a fair command of the English language or request the provision of a translator and be able to work efficiently in a team.

Demonstrate enthusiasm and an aptitude for teaching and learning and last but not least, be able to attend the MEDS_Global Green workshop in Dublin from the 10th – 24th August 2014.

Resource Estimate Labour

You are to demonstrate appropriate skills and attributes that will make you a competent tutor in each particular area. List prior design & build experiences as well as any public interventions you have previously participated in. Elaborate as to what capacity you were previously involved i.e. whether your involvement was as a participant, tutor, observer or guest. And finally, outline what the main benefits were from your participation in the previous event(s).

- Please specify the number of participants/ helpers you will require in relation to the timeframe you have (see calendar).

Materials - Please specify the type of materials, fixtures

& fittings, adhesives, paints etc required and provide a list and an estimate of quantity required.

Equipment - Please specify any technology requirements you may have, e.g. computer and drawing / presentation applications (Autocad, SketchUp, Rhino etc.), monitors /projectors, hand tools, power tools, ladders, benches etc.

Sponsors Each workshop is predominantly funded via sponsorship for your workshop’s benefits. Upon selection, each tutor will be expected to participate in promoting their workshop accordingly via crowd funding campaigns.

Budget You will need to give a breakdown and budget for your project from an optimum figure of €500 up to a maximum of €2000, unless otherwise stated in the brief. *

Jury

*Remember, the better the relationship between economy and quality of output, the more likely you are to be chosen as tutor!

Guest critics – professionals in the appropriate fields.

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Grangegorman Exhibition Pavilion Objective Design and build a Pavilion.

Brief

Provide a sheltered space for exhibitions related to the history of the Grangegorman site. The concept of the Pavilion should provide an appropriate conceptual narrative in which to display such exhibitions. Cater for mounting media on walls, work suspended from the roof and any alternatives suggested by you. See page 25 for an outline of the site history that you can use as inspiration.

The Pavilion must be designed so that large pieces of it can be pre-fabricated in a remote workshop facility and then transferred to the site for a 2-day assembly period.

Dismantling the Pavilion in the future should not cause destruction of materials because the Pavilion may need to be rebuilt somewhere else.

Permanent foundations are not allowed.

Electric lighting can be used for functional and aesthetic reasons.

Your Pavilion can be located anywhere in the courtyard spaces defined by the adjoining buildings.

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GEP Max. dimensions 30m2 footprint area; 4m in height

Materials budget â‚Ź8,000

Number of Tutors/Participants 2 / 12

Submission 2 x A1 pdfs with any information you deem necessary to explain your idea.

They must include:

- concept drawing / sketch / diagram

- site plan

- minimum of 1 3D image of Pavilion in context

- minimum of 1 3D image of Pavilion interior

- Pavilion plan, section + elevations

- axonometric showing how the structure works

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GEP Past

Mental Asylum

Present

The old buildings that occupy Grangegorman were originally built as the home of an Asylum. Opened in 1815, it was originally called the Richmond Lunatic Asylum and was created as an institution for the reception of ‘recoverable lunatics’. Patients came from the counties of Dublin, Louth, Meath and Wicklow.

Building site

As you can see in the photos, the site is currently being transformed. However, the site will

be covered by hard-landscaping by the time that your Pavilion will be built.

In 1958, its name was changed to St.Brendan’s Hospital.

By this time, it had 2,000 patients (only some of these were permanent residents).

Depending on the particular condition of the patient, the hospital could have been seen as a place to get some welcome respite from an illness for both the patient and their family, or as a form of imprisonment against the patient’s wishes.

The hospital was closed down in 2010 to make way for the new Grangegorman masterplan. Before it closed, it was the oldest public psychiatric hospital in Ireland.

An interesting point to note here is that an area which was formerly an inward looking place is becoming an open educational campus. This contrast also resonates with the nature of psychiatric institutes - patients which could be extremely bi-polar, often with violent consequences.

The image on page 26 of the unusual fork is a potent reminder. The fork had short teeth, so that a patient using it as a weapon could cause ‘minimal damage’.

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GEP Future: Grangegorman Urban Quarter Beginning in September 2014, with the opening of DIT facilities in Grangegorman, the site will begin its life as the Grangegorman Urban Quarter. This is a proposed education, health and community development masterplan that will see all departments of Dublin Institute of Technology combine to form one campus.

This development will take a decade.

Your Pavilion will sit in place for part of Phase 1 of the Masterplan. This phase will see the buildings around the site used as a library, canteen and main reception area for the School of Art, Design and Printing in DIT.

Useful links St. Brendan’s Hospital:

www.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Brendan’s_Hospital_ (Grangegorman)

Grangegorman Community Museum: www.grangegorman.ie/Photographs1.html www.grangegorman.ie/Photographs2.html

DIT Grangegorman Campus:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW_ThDM1eJE www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7tb7oTonYg www.dit.ie/about/grangegorman 27

This workshop is in progress - stay tuned to our Facebook page for it’s details!

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SSP

Sheltered Seating Pavilion

Objective

Design and build furniture.

Brief Design 3 exemplary pieces of wooden furniture, that workshop participants can build in order to learn valuable wood-working skills. The pieces will be sold at auction for charity at the end of the event.

Also create a schedule of lectures for furniture design for participants.

The successful tutor(s), will be joined by two furniture designers from DIT to develop their designs and deliver the workshop.

Materials budget â‚Ź2,500

Number of Tutors / Participants Max. 2 (+2) / 12

Submission 3 x A3 pdfs, each showing one piece of furniture.

These must include:

- concept drawing / sketch / diagram

- plan, section, elevation (if appropriate)

- minimum of 1 3D image of each piece

- axonometric (or similar) showing assembly of

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Furniture Design & Making (Wood)

Objective

Design and build furniture.

Brief Design 3 exemplary pieces of lightweight concrete furniture, that workshop participants can build while learning valuable casting skills. The pieces will be sold at auction for charity at the end of the event.

Also create a schedule of lectures for furniture design for participants.

The successful tutor(s), will be joined by two furniture designers from DIT to develop their designs and deliver the workshop.

Materials budget â‚Ź2,500

Number of Tutors / Participants Max. 2 (+2) / 12

Submission 3 x A3 pdfs, each showing one piece of furniture.

These must nclude:

- concept drawing / sketch / diagram

- plan, section, elevation (if appropriate)

- minimum of 1 3D image of each piece

- axonometric (or similar) showing assembly of

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Furniture Design & Making (Concrete)

Concrete Cube Objective

Budget

The primary objective of this workshop is to explore the process of concrete casting. Participants will develop an in-depth understanding of the structural & aesthetic characteristics of concrete. They will also prototype and test potential possibilities regarding casting, concrete mixtures and admixtures and concrete finishes. Tutors should be familiar with the physical properties of concrete, the creation of formwork, releasing agents, concrete additives, etc. Objects of use and beauty fit for exhibition and/or use are to be the output.

â‚Ź500 - â‚Ź2000

Brief

- short description

Part 1 - Theme and Structure of Proposed Workshop

- aggregates and formwork to be explored

- concept drawing/sketch/ diagram

- a 3D representation of objects to be cast for the exhibition/ auction and/or use

- a drawing to show the assembly of the form work

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Number of Tutors / Participants 1/6

Submission A series of A3 sheets in PDF format.

Devise a specific theme that you will explore during the workshop relative to the material and proposed output.

Where applicable submit a programme or structure to your workshop, i.e a plan or framework from which your workshop will be managed over the duration of the workshop.

Submit a timetable (Design + Build + Display) Part 2 - Teaching Methods Utilized Outline the methods you will use to teach your participants Outline the types of representation you will encourage for the end of workshop exhibition.

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Objective

Submission

Design innovative and useful objects that respond to the needs of Dublin’s current unsocial situation.

One A1 describing the concept behind the interventions/object in response to the theme of the un/social situation in Dublin.

- short description

- proposed materials

- concept drawing/sketch/diagram

- a 3D representation of each

proposed object

- axonometric showing assembly

of piece

Brief Not taking into account today’s leading technological advances, the design industry produces gadgets, furniture, clothes and accessories that are unintuitive, complicated and in the end unneeded. These things are produced using a cover up of innovation and an illusion of a “sensitive response” to the diverse range of peoples’ needs.

As designers, it is up to you to come up with ideas and to create something that works at a Universal Design standard, as a direct response to Dublin’s problems of rising homelessness and the increase of unsocial spaces.

The output will be exhibited and/or auctioned off in collaboration with the Simon Community.

Materials budget €500 - 2000

Number of Tutors / Participants 1/6

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UD

Universal Design

Fashion Design Objective

Submission

Design and make clothing.

An A3 pdf booklet featuring the following items, as well as any others you deem necessary to explain your idea:

- concept drawing / sketch /

diagram

- 3D representation of each piece

Brief Create a workshop programme for designing and making items of clothing that explores any theme that you wish.

Your programme must be supported by 3 sample designs.

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The outcome of your workshop should form the basis of a public exhibition and you must indicate why the general public will be interested in seeing the work of you and your participants.

You and your team must make at least 7 exemplary pieces during the workshop.

Demonstrate any ideas you may have about how your workshop can generate revenue that could be donated to charity.

Materials budget â‚Ź500 - 750

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Photography Objective

Number of Tutors / Participants

Photograph Dublin City: it’s Culture, it’s People, it’s Buildings.

Create a body of work for a charity auction.

Max. 2 / 6

Brief

Submission A3 pdf document, containing:

Part 1 - Demonstrate your skills as a photographer.

Submission

Part 2 - Devise a theme that you will explore during the workshop. This should give participants an idea through which to take their photographs.

- examples of your previous work - concept for workshop theme - methods of representation

Part 3 – Outline the methods you will use to teach your participants photography skills and the methods of representation you will encourage for the exhibition.

The work generated can contain both still and moving imagery. Using your photography skills and the greater skills of the group you should strive to use new and exciting exhibition techniques.

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Submit format ideas for printing your suggested works.

The body of printed work generated from your workshop will be auctioned for a charity at the end of the festival.

Materials budget €500

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Screen Printing Objective

Materials budget

Document Georgian Dublin through the medium of screen printing.

Create a body of work for a charity auction.

€500

Brief

Max. 2 / 6

Georgian Dublin is said to represent a historical bourgeoisie in Ireland’s past. Built in the 1760’s, the City Assembly House is believed to be the first purpose built exhibition room in Ireland, possibly Europe. Through the medium of screen printing it is your task to bring this part of the city’s history back to life.

Submission

Number of Tutors / Participants

Submission A3 pdf document, containing:

Part 1 - Demonstrate your skills as a screen printer. Outline how you intend to use this workshop as a platform to share your printing skills with others. Suggest ways that you could develop new printing techniques, e.g. day long experimental printing workshop.

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Part 2 Devise a theme through which you will explore Georgian Dublin. This should encourage participants to research the Georgian City, understand it’s inhabitants and how they used the city. The finished prints can form a historical documentary of the Georgian Heritage or a conceptual proposal for it’s future use.

- examples of your previous work - concept for workshop theme - methods of representation

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Objective

Submission

Collecting information for printed and online publishing throughout the event, as well as filmed documentation and screening.

A description of how the two weeks of work will be structured.

Types of content you would like to publish/ blog/ film.

Brief

An agenda of how information on MEDS could be brought to the public’s eye

Last year’s REC workshop was a huge success in gathering and spreading information through the regular release of printed publications that let everyone in MEDS know what each workshop is up to and other information about current areas of interest.

This year we strive to expand REC’s impact to news reports, video logs and creating an online hype in order to reach the public outside of the MEDS circle.

A graphic representation of how the newspaper is to be laid out.

This year’s REC group should set up a blog, which is updated daily. Monitor the existing Global Green Facebook page and produce a printed newspaper every two days. A short film at the end or regular ‘news updates’ available for screening should also be produced.

These are the basic requirements, but feel free to let your imagination run wild. You will be journalists, editors, film makers, photographers, writers and paparazzi – enough of a challenge?

Materials Budget €500 - €750

REC

Number of Tutors / Participants 1/6

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Carte Blanche Objective

Number of Tutors / Participants

‘Carte Blanche’, French for ‘Blank Card’, is an open call for any and all projects that could potentially be constructed, made or carried out at our summer workshop.

If you have recently or previously designed a college project and wished that you could physically realise it, this is your opportunity for that to happen.

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Submission A series of A3 pages and (optional) video

Brief Part 1 - Theme & Structure of Proposed Workshop Devise a specific theme that you will explore during the workshop.

Where applicable submit a programmeW or structure to your workshop, i.e a plan or framework from which your workshop will be managed over the duration of the workshop.

- short description

- proposed materials

- concept drawing/sketch/diagram

- a 3D representation of intervention/ objects

- axonometric showing assembly of intervention/ objects

Submit a timetable (Design + Build + Display) Part 2 - Teaching Methods Utilised Outline the methods you will use to teach your participants.

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Outline the types of representation you will encourage for the end of workshop exhibition.

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Audio Visual Workshop Objective

Number of Tutors / Participants

The primary objective of this workshop is to explore how our experience of a place or space can be affected and manipulated through the use of an audio or visual medium. Potential tutors can use the medium of natural or synthetic light or sound as the basis for their workshop.

The primary objective of this workshop is to activate or enhance a public space in Dublin City through a staged intervention(s).

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Brief Part 1 - Theme & Structure of Proposed Workshop Devise a specific theme that you will explore during the workshop relative to an audio visual medium.

Where applicable submit a program or structure to your workshop, i.e a plan or framework from which your workshop will be managed over the duration of the workshop.

Submit a timetable (Design + Build + Display) Part 2 - Teaching Methods Utilised

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Outline the methods you will use to teach your participants.

Outline the types of representation you will encourage for the end of workshop exhibition.

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Submission PDF format (in the case of this workshop other mediums such as video are equally welcome)

- short description

- proposed material/equipment

- concept drawings, sketches, diagrams

Guerilla Graffiti Objective

Number of Tutors / Participants

The primary objective of this workshop is to examine how ornamentation or lack of can be expressed in a modern context and through the medium of graffiti.

Do not feel limited to the stereotypes of old school Graffiti – think outside the box. Can it have a positive effect on a place? Can it define a mood and or set a tone? Can this be quantified?

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Submission A format and medium of your choice

- short description

Brief

- proposed materials/equipment

Part 1 - Theme & Structure of Proposed Workshop

- concept drawing/sketch/diagram

Devise a specific theme relative to the medium of graffiti that you will explore and develop during the workshop. Where applicable submit a programme or structure to your workshop, i.e. a plan or framework from which your workshop will be managed over the duration of the workshop.

- images/video of your proposal

Submit a timetable (Design + Build + Display) Part 2 - Teaching Methods Utilised Outline the methods you will use to teach your participants.

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GG

Outline the types of representation you will encourage for the end of workshop exhibition (considering that you will be provided with a site)

Prima Facie Objective

Number of Tutors / Participants

‘Prima Facie’ is a Latin expression meaning on first encounter, first blush, or at first sight. The objective of this workshop is to explore our intuitive senses. You will be transported to an unknown site in Dublin city and based on first impressions will have to assess the public space and propose a public activation / intervention.

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Brief Part 1 - Theme & Structure of Proposed Workshop Devise a specific theme that you will explore during the workshop in relation to the objective and general location (Dublin) Submit a timetable (Design + Build + Display) Part 2 - Teaching Methods Utilised Due to the nature of this workshop, you will especially need great team managing skills and experience since you will have to both design and build in the timeframe of two weeks.

Outline the methods you will use to teach your participants.

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Outline the types of representation you will encourage for the end of workshop exhibition.

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Submission format and medium of your choice.

Work It Out Objective

Number of Tutors / Participants

Inspired by an open air fitness centre ‘Hidropark’ located in the Ukraine, potential tutors are asked to design and construct a piece of multifunctional gym equipment from scrap metal. The proposal should be structurally sound, mechanically efficient and of sound design and construction. During this workshop participants will be asked to work with scrap metal. Prior metalworking experience is essential.

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Submission PDF format, A3

Brief Part 1 - Theme & Structure of Proposed Workshop Devise a specific theme that you will explore during the workshop relative to the objective.

Where applicable submit a programme or structure to your workshop, i.e a plan or framework from which your workshop will be managed over the duration of the workshop.

- short description

- proposed materials

- concept drawing/sketch/diagram

- a 3D representation of each proposed object

- axonometric showing assembly of piece

Submit a timetable (Design + Build + Display) Part 2 - Teaching Methods Utilised

Outline the types of representation you will encourage for the end of workshop exhibition.

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Outline the methods you will use to teach your participants.

Upcycle Objective

Number of Tutors / Participants

Upcycling is the process of converting waste materials or useless products into new materials or products of better quality or for better environmental value. In the context of this workshop we are asking potential tutors to design and construct a (cycling) bike capable of being used as a projector station for our mobile cinema. Potential tutors should be familiar with the anatomy of a bike and have a general understanding of the mechanical principals upon which push bikes operate.

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Modification of an old bike or bikes is essential.

Brief Part 1 - Theme & Structure of Proposed Workshop Devise a specific theme that you will explore during the workshop relative to the said objective.

Where applicable submit a programme or structure to your workshop, i.e a plan or framework from which your workshop will be managed over the duration of the workshop.

Submit a timetable (Design + Build + Display) Part 2 - Teaching Methods Utilised

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Outline the methods you will use to teach your participants.

Outline the types of representation you will encourage for the end of workshop exhibition.

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Submission A series of A3 pages in a PDF format:

- short description of the idea

- concept drawing/sketch/diagram

- a 3D representation of the proposed object

- axonometric showing assembly of piece

The Centre for Excellence in Universal Design at the National Disability Authority www.universaldesign.ie

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Organisers John Flynn - Project Manager

Oksana Lastovetsky - Secretary/ Pro/ HR

Kieran Donnellan - Workshop Coordinator

Amandine Dicaccio - Online Marketing

John Geraghty - Accomodation/ Catering

Brendan Spierin - Graphic Designer

Ailbhe Cunningham - Treasurer

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