The 10th winter school organized by CRESSON is welcoming (again) this year the « B-AIR Art Infinity Radio » project supported by the Creative Europe Culture Program (EACEA).
As since 2013, the CRESSON winter schooltakes the form of a week of research and practices in order to discuss and explore the laboratory’s methods and concepts in their capacities to give some answers to a specific topic in link with the sound environment, its study and its transformations.
This year the theme is “Sound spaces in waiting”.The 2022 edition proposes to the participants to think more precisely about the cultural and spatial dimensions of the perception of ambiences by working on « sound spaces in waiting »: architects, urban planners, artists, designers, but also inhabitants, we conceive and occupy the public spaces of our cities and the landscaped space is often the place of various sound practices: words, musical listening, sports practices, walking, stay, meetings, etc. How can we design public space and its furniture to be less vulnerable? How can a public bench become a waiting sound space, ready to be activated by an individual (a hearing impaired person, a group, a child, etc.)? How can these urban objects be designed and constructed to provide multiple, sensitive and multicultural listening experiences? What kind of « sound spaces in waiting » can be designed and built to give or bring attention to the vulnerabilities and pluralities of uses and spaces?
The CRESSON WinterSchool will take place in parallel at the Ecole Nationale d’Architecture de Grenoble, and and at the Department of Architecture of the Polytechnic school of the University of Thessaly in Volos (Greece).
It will take place from Monday 17 January 2022 to 21 January 2021. The mornings will be dedicated to theoretical presentations (in English) and the afternoons (in French and Greek depending on the site) will be dedicated to the design and construction of a series of body-scale prototypes to think and experiment with these sound spaces in waiting.
Working languages: English / French / Greek
Registration form hereMore info: https://ehas.hypotheses.org/4921
17/12/21 18:00 Teams
15/12/2021 11:00-13:30
14/12/2021 12:00-13:00
Wednesday, 8th December 2021, 20:30.
EDIT is a group of women working collectively to challenge the enduring biases and hierarchies embedded in the built environment. EDIT’s research looks at architecture and its power to influence and maintain established gender and family roles. In 2019, EDIT was invited by the Oslo Architecture Triennale to present «Gross Domestic Product» —a prototype of a hoover that must be operated by three people simultaneously. Most recently, EDIT designed the exhibition on the work of Matrix Design Cooperative titled «How We Live Now» for the Barbican Centre in London. http://www.editcollective.uk
See the poster.
Coordinated by
Katerina Chatzikonstantinou, University of Thessaly
Alexandra Vougia, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Responses by
Sasa Lada, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Elpida Karaba, Ioanna Zouli, Valia Papastamou, Marianna Stefanitsi,members of the Centre of New Media and Feminist Public Practices
The Online Discussion is under the auspices of the Center for New Media and Feminist Practices in Public Space of the Department of Architecture, University of Thessaly and the Gender Equality Committee of the University of Thessaly.
On Tuesday 7-12-2021 at 18:00, there will be a lecture by Antonis Moras, founder of the aether:arch office entitled "Almost Objects. In/Exteriorities", as part of the course Architectural Composition III-V: G: Biomimetic Architecture (Instructor: Ioanna Symeonidou)
The lecture will take place live at the exhibition space of the Department of Architecture
On Monday 22/11/2021 11:00 in the context of the course Architectural Composition I, a lecture by Giannis Giannoutsos, architect Phd, will be given on the topic "Memory fragments".
15/11/2021 14.00
Eleni Sikelianos was born and grew up in California, and has lived in New York, Paris, Colorado, and Providence. She is the author of nine books of poetry and two hybrid memoir-verse-image-novels (The Book of Jon and You Animal Machine). Five of these have appeared in French and one in Greek, and her work has been translated into many other languages. She herself translates from the French. Her writings, deeply influenced by ecopoetics and family as well as animal lineages, have been widely anthologized, and she has been the recipient of numerous awards, including from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fulbright Foundation, The National Poetry Series, the New York Foundation for the Arts, Princeton University’s Seeger Fellowship, and the Gertrude Stein Awards for Innovative American Writing. Dedicated to the many ways poetry manifests in communities, she has taught workshops in public schools, homeless shelters, and prisons, and collaborated with musicians, filmmakers, and visual artists. She currently teaches at Brown University.
Photo: Penelope Massouri