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easa013 reaction - uemberk04/08 - 18/08/13
XXXIII European Architecture Students Assembly
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CONTENT
05 THE NETWORK07 THE THEME08 WORKSHOPS
19 SITES REVEALED23 CONTACT
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It is very hard to define what EASA is.
Technically it is a Network, the big-
gest architecture students network
in Europe. The European Architec-
ture Students Assembly has more
than a three-decade-long tradition.It was established in 1981 in Liver-
pool with the purpose of connecting
with students from other European
countries. Attendees exchange experi-
ences and cultural knowledge, ideas
and thoughts. The main activities
are various practical and theoreti-cal workshops held by skilled tutors,
accompanied by lectures by local and
international architects.The Network
moves to a new venue every year,
providing fresh views and challenges
in practical spatial design and theory.
For two weeks the EASA commu-
nity becomes self-sufficient. It brings
a unique creative spirit among the
participants, also known as the EASA
< Cloud workshop at EASA011 Cadiz
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THE ASSEMBLY
Spirit which is difficult to describe but
easy to feel.
Working and living together for two
weeks
During the two-week-long workshopsstudents will use their academic
knowledge in practice, make analyses
and concepts, develop their ideas,
debate, socialize, solve issues within
work groups, exchange ideas and
experience etc. They will interact with
the surroundings, learn how to usetools for material treatment, work with
the locals and be introduced to local
crafts. Within two weeks the work-
shops, which might be only at the
stage of an idea or conceptual design,
will be brought to a realization. They
will be concluded with an evaluationand presented at an exhibition.
The EASA network stimulates in-
tercultural dialogue. It encourages
the collaboration among students
of different schools of architecture,
nationalities, backgrounds, opinions,which benefits the development of an
individuals thinking process. There is
no hierarchy in workshops and activi-
ties so everyone can contribute to the
projects evolution.
There are different attendees at
EASA. Organizers provide accom-
modation and food, coordinate
workshops and sponsors, organize
lectures and different collateral events
and activities during the assembly.
Helpers are usually old easians, help-
ing at the infodesk, lending tools and
working in the bar. The backbone of
the assembly are the tutors, who runvarious workshops selected among all
the received proposals. They coor-
dinate and lead participants in their
work and oversee the results.
Last but not least are the participants,
the biggest group of people at EASA,which represent almost 50 countries
around Europe and abroad. They
live, work and have fun together for
two weeks. Their day starts at about
9am with breakfast and is followed
by workshops through the day. After
dinner lectures and parties fill up thenight activities. Excursions, sports
activities and pop-up workshops are
arranged in between to keep the spirit
of interaction alive.
Along with the obvious - vigorously at-
tending workshops - participants mustoccasionally help with some easy
tasks. Being an almost self-sufficient
community, for example participants
of each country take the role of cooks
for one day. Also for the purposes of
meeting new people, each country
serves dinner and/or breakfast once
per assembly. These tasks have to
be taken seriously and carried out me-
ticulously.
THE NETWORK
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THE THEME< use the frame! react!
Reaction
The EASA theme works as a frame;
on its basis students think, research
and create. It can be oriented very
architecturally or simply socially. Re-action as such refers to the people, to
villagers, to the response to the state
of society. Nowadays active involve-
ment into processes that change our
environment is very important. The
theme Reaction explores the possibil-
ity and the importance of the publicsparticipation in shaping the space
through researching the past, the
cultural and social background.
On the one hand Reaction is very lo-
cally oriented, on the other it explores
similar issues in other parts of the
world. How to properly react to the
current situation with the world crisis
and consumer society? What is actu-
ally the architects primary job and the
job of architecture? How can we help
the community when designing public
space, even when the architects
direct influence is not present? How
to preserve the knowledge, skills andqualities of construction and design
from the past? The theme Reaction
is a very wide notion, one that can be
interpreted differently by each partici-
pant. It is only important that everyone
asks themselves how an individual
can contribute to a higher quality ofcoexistence.
The theme Reaction is divided into
three practical sub-themes, linked
to location, tradition and craftsman-
ship. The three subthemes were not
chosen randomly, but follow the clas-sical division of EASA workshops into
theoretical, practical and workshops
which combine the two.
Below are presented the selected
workshops through the workshop
proposals call. The organizing teamreceived 61 applications, from which
27 workshops were selected and will
be carried out during the XXXIII. Euro-
pean Architecture Students Assembly
in uemberk.
Note: Due to the coordination process
with the tutors the final selection of
proposals may change by the start of
the event.
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Make me think Ludwig Wittgenstein
In this workshop ideas of modern phi-
losophy are taken for granted and are
developed to their very limits, structur-
ing an entire designing system around
them, in the form of a powerful logical
argument. On the basis of an unhin-
dered transition between the level of
concepts and that of experiences, an
experiment is set, hypothesizing on
whether or not functional space, that
can cause the physical and psycho-
logical tension of an art installation, is
possible. Theory shall fuel design and
construction. Can you actually handle
that, Easian?
Tutors:
Manos Chatzinikolaou,, Greece
Myrsini Alexandridi, Greece
...city is my playground!
The idea of City is my playground
workshop is to introduce different
types of street art interventions to the
participants and share the know how
with them. In the first phase, trough
the series of short lectures, sketch-
ing sessions, drawing exercises etc.
participants will learn how to make 5
different types of interventions sten-
cils, paste-ups, stickers, graffiti and
murals. Second phase is reserved for
the reaction - participants will try to
find a surface or a place where they
can make a site specific intervention!
There will also be some sketching bat-
tles, movie projections, and few more
interesting things
Tutors:Andrej iki, Serbia
Chrisa Gkolemi, Greece
Etienne Godfrin, France
Towards a Topology of Black Fire
There will be smaller scale technical
and learning exercises followed by the
construction of a small pavilion build-
ing by using deconstructive processes
as a method of physical and psycho-
logical construction. The outcomes
will be a repository/archive of the
psychological ideas that the partici-
pants go through over the course of
the two weeks. This will support the
construction of a small pavilion, using
in-situ cast concrete. At the end of the
workshop the formwork will be burnt,
leaving an area where one can take
refuge from thoughts, excesses, work
etc. amongst the embers. It will be
a nexus for the four elements of the
world (earth, water, air, fire).
Tutor:
Alex Maxwell, UK
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U UP
U UP workshop is a combina-
tion of theoretical and practical
types. Theory observes the basics
of animation, various examples and
the analysis of Slovenian tales. The
second part is the interpretation of the
stories and through documentation in-
teracting with the local landscape and
creating a movie for the interpreted
Slovenian tales. U UP workshop
is strongly connected with Slovenian
written background as the analysis
of local tales will we included. Myths
and legends will be interpreted today
with its unique surroundings and local
spirit. Reaction of the past and its
interaction with the present is brought
to life when these stories are revealed
in very well-known surroundings.
Tutors:Milda Kulviit, Lithuania
Evelina Vasiliauskait, Lithuania
Joris ykovas, Lithuania
EASA TV
EASA TV is about EASA partici-
pants, tutors, helpers, organizers,
friends, family and guests. EASA TV
is about the context, the theme and
the country. EASA TV is about EASA.
EASA TV tries to cover as much of the
assembly as possible and the material
is then edited, screened on site at the
assembly and uploaded to YouTube.
About 3 groups of 3 participants work
in teams and create movies about
EASA. Tutors are to give information
and help participants to create their
own movies.
Tutors:Alexandra Kononchenko, Belarus
Olga Dolinina, Belarus
Arian Lehner, Austria
What makes this city yours?
The workshop will have both a practi-
cal and a theoretical output. The
theoretical part of mapping the village
uemberk and its surrounding area
in various ways is combined with a
direct exploration on site. The analy-
sis and information collected is then
put onto diverse maps, which will be
the base to create interactive games
used as a communication tool with the
locals and inhabitants.
Tutors:
Julia Hutzler, Germany
Thurid Andressen, Germany
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Light parasite
The workshop Light paraSITE is
about enlightening different zones
of uemberk which are now aban-
doned, but have a great potential.
With our workshop we would like to
highlight these sites and the nature
of uemberk, to become more
exposed and activated. The most
noticeable symbol of the city is its
castle, because of which other areas
have become overlooked. With that
in mind we would first like to deal with
the river, old tannery, mill and the
round path. These four light installa-tions would serve as the first part of
the workshop, where we would get
to know the new environment and
people.
Tutors:
Brina Vizjak, Slovenia
Sara Badovinac, Slovenia
://Diffr_action
://Diffr_action is the exploration of
light through different mediums. The
workshop shall begin with theoretical
discussions and an investigation, the
result will be multiple small installa-
tions including lasers, mirrors and
string art, leading to one large interac-
tive space. The constructive side of
://Diffr_Action will in no means be a
build, however a formal location for
the final output would eventually be
required. This can be a reaction to on
site spaces formed within the EASA
camp.
Tutors:
Bhavika Mistry, UK
Tess Moroney, UK
Floatptures
Floatptures is a constructive workshop
about designing floating sculptures
from polystyrene which are laminated
into a solid shape. Every participant
will have the option to make his own
individual floating device and after
completion enjoy drifting down the
river Krka.
Tutors:Anna Podroukov, Czech Republic
Libor Mldek, Czech Republic
Jan Vybral, Czech Republic10
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Illumidentity
Shaping new identity through light
projection / mapping - interweaving
and multilayering of traditional lo-
cal craftsmanship and new digital
media. The process will consist of
tracing the past, local identity, history
and tradition, mapping the present,
perception-shift & deconstruction of
reality, interconnection and response
and lastly facing future, dreams and
reaction. The workshop consists of
two main tasks performed by two
work-groups. The construction group
focuses on the building of the surfaceand/or structure on which it will be
projected. Meanwhile the mapping
group will focus on programming the
visuals and thus enhance the theme
with a theoretical background.
Tutor:
Christof Mathes, Austria
Trap for a monster
The exploration the concept of trap-
ping: good public space ensnares
citizens by providing an opportunity
by social interaction. Making trap
structures will be framed by discus-
sions about different types of trap-
ping: physical and social ones. Some
traps will be made to catch food and
one to catch local population and
share experiences through cooking
and dining. The market spot will be
upgraded as main attraction of locals.
Participants will design a market
pavilion/shelter, which framework willbe covered with feathers and squama.
Caught fish can be sold and eaten
inside.
Tutors:Inesa Kovalova, Ukraine
Kseniia Pundyk, Ukraine
Alan Thompson, UK
EASA FM
EASA_fm is a workshop combining
the technical with the creative. As we
want to react as well as interact, a
radio station offers us the best pos-
sibilities to do so. Learning how to
collect whats going on around us, and
cutting it in a way to be able to com-
municate it, we can work with the idea
of letting the global world get in touch
with the local one.
Tutors:
Cansu Pelin Isbilen, TurkeyMiles Reay-Palmer, UK
Agnesa Vavrinova, Slovakia
Thomas Klein, Austria
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Tapaland 2.0
The international quest for the most
delicious medieval snack. Each day
another European country is welcome
to cook with us their delicious native
deli! At the end of the day we can sell
the food to all the participant after all
the hours of hard work on all the work-
shops!
Tutors:Willem Barendregt, Netherlands
Sophie van Dorsten, Netherlands
Joost Harteveld, Netherlands
Soundscape
The sound as a semantic break
point and a parameter, creates a
new dimension of understanding the
surroundings. The free adaption of
sound in various environments, or
vice versa, enables the unexpected to
happen. The word experimental is the
best description for our workshop. Its
a workshop that involves an individual
and architectural space and poetical
relation in between them.
Tutors:Dominykas Daunys, Lithuanian
Andrius Laurinaitis, Lithuanian
Tomas Milkamanaviius, Lithuanian
Light me up
Experimenting with light, using optical
fibers, creating interactive installa-
tions, looking for new ways to be play-
ful and create a project that consists
of individual reactions to the theme,
set up and frame of mind of EASA
participants in Slovenia. Using exist-
ing, organic elements of nature and
converting them into light installations,
trying to accentuate the positive voids
and nooks, reactivating and activating
through simple injections of life/light.
We are expecting full interest from the
participants and freedom while creat-ing the whole project, with minimal
input and guidelines from the tutors
during the creation period.
Tutors:Lana Lonar, Serbia
Ljubica Arsi, Serbia
Aleksandra Stepanovi, Serbia
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Set theory workshop
As uemberks population is divided
into different groups and used to be
divided in its history (communists and
anticommunists, Catholics and Prot-
estants, city folk and farmers, liberals
and clericalists, etc.), we would like
to take these groups as mathemati-
cal sets and through the workshops
participatory nature find their intersec-
tions (a population which will be a
member of both sets). Hopefully the
intersection will grow in the future with
its ultimate point being the blending of
the two sets into one.
Tutor:
Tamara Rijavec, Slovenia
Natalija Zanoki, Slovenia
Tales of uemberk
Tales of uemberk is a workshop
about expressing oneself visually
and verbally in the format of a pic-
ture book. It is about experiencing
your surroundings and reflecting on
them through your own stories. In this
workshop we will get to know how to
deliver your architectural thoughts
through texts and illustrations. Every-
one can come up with their own story
and put their own book together. Most
of all, we want you to experience,
think, write, paint, sketch, draw, make
collages, be poetic and creative.
Tutors:
Roland Reemaa, Estonia
Laura Linsi, Estonia
Holy moley
As uzemberk and the river krka
have a big history with water mills, we
want to take this part of its history and
reinterpret the use of water mills. We
will build a typical water mill wheel out
of wood, connected to a well designed
balk to produce electricity that enables
the lighting of the balk with romantic
kitschy fairy lights. This way we show
how the moving water of the river can
be used in a historical and effective
way - but for a modern kind of absurd
easa-style use.
Tutors:Lena Kohlmayr, Austria
Kerstin Pluch, Austria
Jakob Braun, Germany
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Accordion
The aim of our workshop is to develop
one or two 1:1 installations. The struc-
tures will have a resolved component
system that explores the performance
of the thin wooden slates as well as a
joining system. The structures will be
developed from their sites, responding
to the location through questions of
light, wind, and behaviour. We expect
for the final exhibit to have one or two
different installations in different sites,
depending if we, together with the par-
ticipants, find it appropriate.
Still, we find it most important in ourworkshop to focus on the process, to
inspire the participants through practi-
cal experiments where they get the
chance to explore and experience the
materials possibilities and limitations
with their own hands.
Tutors:
Elias Lindhoff, Denmark
Sebastian Mardi, Denmark
Small Interventions
Small Interventions is one of the long-
est running workshops throughout
EASA history. The scale of the inter-
ventions often integrates more eas-
ily in its environment as it is always
intended to address directly tangible
issues within the assembly surround-
ings. First, participants will wander
around, searching for a site and/or
an issue they want to focus on. Then
they will design a small intervention
that will solve, improve or brighten
the particular site condition. Through
theoretical work, models and detailplans they will also define a generic
description and a construction manual
of their intervention.
Tutors:
Hugo Pointallart, FranceLucia Brandoli, Italy
Romea Muryn, Poland
Janine Tuechsen, Germany
Analogue Adventures
This CREATIVE FILM PHOTOGRA-
PHY workshop is about exploring,
documenting and revealing the rela-
tionship that exists between man and
architecture. Images isolate truth;
expose realities, influence, and bear
witness to time.
Participants will be encouraged to-
seek out and expose the hidden
architecture within familiar and every-
day situations, capturing moments in
a unique and fairly unpredictable way
and present images that are more an
interpretation of reality than a correctrepresentation of it.
The Analogue Adventures participants
should bring their own old-school
analog cameras and if your analog
camera happens to have a digital
friend then let it tag along too.
Tutors:
Helena Mouton, South Africa
Lisa Henderson, South Africa
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City BotWe think that the time of new cyber-
netic personalities is coming; it is
currently working on the internet as
different apps, gadgets and internet
bots. These new personalities are
playing the role of interdisciplinary and
intercultural translators. With the help
of them people more freely under-
stand each other. And architecture
should REACT to that challenge of
contemporaneity. The aim is to make
an experimental installation with an
object of a new type into the urban en-
vironment - City Bot. We will analyzethe information layer of local tradition-
al culture with the help of local crafts-
men. Then we will design and build
the interactive installation City Bot.
Tutors:Nataly Nemkova, Belarus
Alexander Hodyakov, Belarus
Artem Atrashevsky, Belarus
OursoftrefugeThe aim is to generate interactions
between the users and make social,
spatial experiences in that elastic
woven space. During the research
and construction part we would like
to work with locals and participants
as well. Our goal is for everybody to
learn some specific woven techniques
and construct a space where they
can float - meanwhile experiencing
another kind of architecture. The end
result will be an elastic woven space
and everybody will be invited to try the
floating experience using the struc-ture. We would like for the space to be
permanent so that locals may use it
after EASA has left the area.
Tutors:
Roland Nemeth, Hungary
Ildiko Valicsek, Hungary
Rekukivate!In aesthetical theory the body is used
to be seen as the instrument which
is used by the mind to perceive the
world and to get the sensual input to
be processed and reflected by our
mentality. According to the relatively
young aesthetical discipline Somaes-
thetics, the body with all its abilities is
way more important for experiencing
and reflecting the world - its not just a
machine but in fact cannot be sepa-
rated from the mind. The dualism of
body and mind is now being doubted.
Somaesthetics provides new methodsof generating awareness of physical
existence as well as interactions. With
these techniques we are able to listen
to the whispering of built objects.
Tutors:Patrick Jaritz, Austria
Zsofia Paczolay, Hungary
Zsofia Szoke, Hungary
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Onion
The ambition of our workshop is to
touch the very roots of it. Any form
of reaction / interaction or the sum
of those causing any kind of human
interrelation of various levels starts
from the simplest form of coexistence
sharing a mutual space. If we tried
to imagine the very primitive form of
coexistence of human beings, there
would be no cultural or historical back-
grounds, no language, no symbolic
values and no other means of com-
munication but the pure presence or
the sum of presences being droppedtogether. The workshop suggests
one to experience such kind of pure
relation, isolated from the rest of the
system, making the natural - human-
senses based - reaction so compli-
cated in the environment we outlive.
Tutors:Justinas Jakstonis, Lithuania
Elbieta Bortkevi, Lithuania
Viktorija Rimkute, Lithuania
UmbrellaUmbrella is the longest existing
workshop at EASA, being there every
summer and producing newspapers
with fresh news, experiences, insights
every day. Umbrella is a specific
workshop where people learn how to
work together, to get to the point of
every workshop in a very short period
of time, how to interest and attract
people, how to speak without SAY-
ING a word and mainly how to make
and support the easa spirit. We write
about easians and watch their reac-
tion.
Tutors:
Hanna Varanets, BelarusLizzie Daly, UK
Maria Virshich, Belarus
Cheryl Ann Bonello, Malta
llustration/illuminationuemberk is a canvas, waiting to be
exhibited. The source of our mate-
rial will be the local folklore, history,
our personal reactions and we want
to illustrate this with projections,
colour, shade and reflections, which
will always be in confrontation with
their environment. We are inspired by
simple, site-specific interventions that
have a beauty in todays saturated
and generic surroundings and think
uemberk is the perfect place to
explore and display this approach.
Tutors:
Karolina Przybya, Poland
Michal Switalsk, Poland
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EndorTree houses and tree cities have been
a huge fantasy of our generation and
mayor dream scenarios or locations
both in movies and in most peoples
dreams. Endor is a workshop that
attempts to build one of those tree
cities in the woods of uemberk, butwith the aesthetics and techniques of
modern architecture rather than those
of fantasy or sci-fimovies. The project
consist of several 20m2 modules
supported by the trees at heights
that vary from 2 to 6 metres from the
ground interconnected by footbridgesand walkways. Built with wood and
steel we hope to leave behind a differ-
ent and structurally sound leisure area
for the people of uemberk to enjoy.
Tutors:Emilio Roldan, Spain
Javier Diaz Garrido, Spain
Alvaro Paya Piqueras, Spain
Competition: The pavilion on thesquare in uemberk
An international pavilion competi-
tion is a sort of catalyst of the EASA
event between the organizers, the
participants and the sponsors. It
starts already prior to the meeting,
connects the participants during the
meeting and remains at the location
after the meeting to commemorate
the event and in honour of the hosting
venue. Construction of a permanent
pavilion or installation is an idea that
has been implemented since 2003.
The workshop is linked to a specificsite for which students offer possible
solutions. The proposals are then
reviewed and evaluated by a compe-
tition committee, convened for that
purpose.
Tutors:
Jack Richards, Great Britain
Will Burgess, Great Britain
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accommodation site
IT lab
municipality
store competition site
eventscentralspace
old tannery ruins
loka
sports
sports
restaurant
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The idea of this years EASA is to
make uemberk and EASA one
thing; a community within a communi-
ty. Common life of the locals mixed up
with the craziness and positive energy
of EASA participants.
Accommodation si te
The level of comfort at EASA is usu-
ally at a minimum. Throughout the
years attendees have experienced
almost everything: campsites, old
buildings turned into living spaces,
schools, gyms, old factories, etc. Theidea of EASA is not an ideal holiday
in an all-inclusive hotel; it is a two-
week community bonding experi-
ence, where the main purpose of the
gathering is interaction, working and
living together, helping each other and
helping the community itself. In this
spirit the comfort at EASA is replacedby quality workshops and activities
that change your perspective of life.
Organizers of the easa013 event are
setting up the accommodation area
in the building of uemberks pri-
mary school and partly outside in theL-shaped school playground. Half of
the participants will be sleeping in the
gym and the other half in a tent-type
building standing on the paved foot-
ball pitch. Accommodation for tutors,
helpers and participants will be mixed
and/or visually divided. The level of in-
teraction will reach its peak :) The site
will be equipped with a 24h Info desk,
sanitation for 500 attendees, a serving
and eating area as well as other items
for obvious necessities.
Other sites for workshops and
activities
Certain other sites are planned for
purposes of some workshops and
sports activities. There will be a
multipurpose hall arranged espe-
cially for computer based workshops
and the camping site along the river
bank, called loka, will be available forswimming and sunbathing as well as
football and volleyball tournaments.
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SITES REVEALED< all the sites are within 5 minutes
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toilets
entrance
bararea
outer trench
workshopstower 1
workshopstower 2
tool box
projections
area
innertrench
lounge
office
ruins
inaccessible