ABOUT
INVESTIGATING RURAL LANDSCAPES /
TOWARDS THE GENESIS OF A EUTOPIAN POCKET
During the past ten years there have been thirteen regional, multinational and international documentation and design workshops employing empirical research and experimental design approaches concerning the urban and the rural landscape. The workshops are always triggered by an invitation held to the directors by an institution or a community organization. This year we are running within the direction/orientation of a solo performance sustained by the University of Thessaly (Research Committee and the faculty of Architecture) aiming to comprehend, to revise and re-phrase, if necessary all valuable aspects of this mountainous area (The Pilion mountain).
The students and professors participating in the PAW2015 workshop are coming from distinct universities of the East Mediterranean region and the Balkan Peninsula. During the 7 day workshop a condition of multinational commonality will be challenged. Educational activities, lectures, fieldwork, design development and presentations are combined with collective dinners, mountain walks and discussions.
Thus, every participant is becoming the vital unit of a collective process aiming to reach a joyful result, combining the personal ability with the communal or general meditative need, interpreting and correlating with locus, landscape, cultural syntax and stereotypes as an attempt to gain any and all empirical data of a temporary eutopia. (...a term been given by Lewis Mumford in his epic book: The history of Utopias)
TEAM
The workshop is open to unter-graduate students in the final years of their studies, post graduate students and young architects (who have graduated in the last five years). Participants, 25 in total, will be selected on the basis of CV and portfolio.
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ACCOMODATION
The team will be host at the Monastery of PAW/Argalasti village or a near by hotel situated into the Argalasti village. The workshop is directed by the professor Iordanis Stylidis, member of the faculty of the Department of Architecture of the Thessaly University. Full accommodations will be provided during the seven days workshop (double or triple rooms, meals, design materials and digital maps).
WORKSHOP FEE
The participation fee for the workshop and full board accomodation is 280 euros.
LOCATION / TIME
Monday 29 June 2015 – Sunday 5 July 2015.
The PAW Monastery / Argalasti village / The University of Thessaly
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