Workshop: Domestic Assemblage ΙΙ
03/04/2022
Following the actions of Open Up Uth, the workshop "Domestic Assemblage II" will be held 6-15/4/2022 at the Department of Architectural Engineering. "Domestic Assemblage II" is a workshop for the design and manufacture of everyday objects and furniture, organized by the European cultural program Open Up and the University of Thessaly. The aim is to create low-cost home forms and constructions by restructuring different elements. Following a methodology of collecting and assembling fragments from the material world around them, participants are invited to transform them and reuse them for new daily life performances.
Participation is FREE. For registrations download the form you will find here, fill in your details and send it to us at openup.uth@gmail.com.
Participation limit: 20 people Submission of applications until 3/4/2022 See the press release.
Open Up Uth is a team consisting of architects, artists, creative professionals, academics, researchers, who represent the University of Thessaly in the European project Open Up. Open Up is a four-year cultural program (2020-2023), co-funded by the Creative Europe program that aims to highlight and promote artists, designers, craftsmen and creative people located in the seven cities of the partner organizations. In addition, it aims to establish sustainable art practices among themselves, providing participants with education and knowledge through the various activities of the project, which include workshops, festivals and exhibitions. Open Up aims to enable creative people to develop their skills, present and develop their work through workshops and create a new business model, which will allow them to maintain their work even after the end of the program. Open Up consists of a strong team of complementary and interdisciplinary partners, who through this joint project will create new experiences, offer new opportunities and improve the networking of creative people across Europe. The consortium consists of the following cultural organizations and academic institutions:
- Pieridis Foundation (Nicosia, Cyprus)
- Publics (Helsinki, Finland)
- Ivers Université de Picardie Jules Verne (Amiens, France)
- University of Thessaly (Volos, Greece)
- New Hand Lab (Covilhã, Portugal)
- Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain)
- Valand Academy of the University of Gothenburg (Sweden)
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