Friday 26 April 2013– Thursday2 May 2013, 27/4-1/5 2013.
Institute for Environmental Education,E.N.A.O.L.I., GROSSETO, Tuscany, Italy.
Organization for the Environment LEGAMBIENTE.
TASK: some SPATIAL QUESTIONS, TANGLE POCKETS.
The last seven years there have been 9 regional, international and multinational documentation and design workshops. These workshops, as the one scheduled to be active in Tuscany-Italy, were based on the experimental verification by empirical means, of the validity of sympiosis in eutopia’s constitutional space and time terms (living and acting together into a communal pocket). The workshops are always triggered by an invitation held to the director and the team by a community or an organization (in this case the Italian Environmental Organization LEGAMBIENTE). The group, already into a new un-explored place and a unique landscape, will dedicate each and every activity (lectures, field reconnaissance, designs, texts, common long discussions) or means to effectively deal with a given spatial question. Thus, every member is becoming the vital unit of a team working process aiming to reach a result, combining the personal ability with the communal or general meditative need, interpreting and correlating with locus, landscape, cultural syntax and stereotypes ...an attempt to gain any and all empirical data of eutopia (...a term been given by Lewis Mamford in his epic book : The history of Utopias).
See the poster.
TEAM
The workshop is open to unter-graduate students in the final years of their studies, to post graduate students and young architects (who have graduated in the last five years). Participants, 20 in total, will be selected on their CV/portfolio presentation (two (2) A4 pages in PDF format).
Send material and questions to stilidis1@otenet.gr.
ACCOMODATION
The team will be host at the Institution’s facilities some 7 kilometres off the Grossetto city.
Spacious rooms for three(3) or four(4) students with common WC and Showers.
Restaurand is situated in the same complex of buildings.
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Lecture by Vassilis Papavassiliou (Director-Actor), 13/12/12, 21:00, Department of Architecture.
The presentation examines the development of the urban space in the Soviet Union at the beginning of the 20th century via its cinematic reconstructions. The various integral elements of the city are studied closely with reference to examples from literature, photography, painture and cinema in particular. These examples illustrate how the city transforms over time, with a special focus on the interwar period. The presentation focuses on Dziga Vertov's "Man with the Movie Camera" (USSR, 1929) and presents in detail the results of the shot-by-shot formalist and statistical analysis.
The presentation examines the development of the urban space in the Soviet Union at the beginning of the 20th century via its cinematic reconstructions. The various integral elements of the city are studied closely with reference to examples from literature, photography, painture and cinema in particular. These examples illustrate how the city transforms over time, with a special focus on the interwar period. The presentation focuses on Dziga Vertov's "Man with the Movie Camera" (USSR, 1929) and presents in detail the results of the shot-by-shot formalist and statistical analysis.
This presentation seeks to familiarise architects with cinema theories and practices and foreground the creative use of the filmic language as a potent tool for examining cinematic representations of the urban landscape. The presentation focuses on the interwar period in the United States, Europe and the Soviet Union and examines closely the filmic genre of "city symphonies". The various reconstructions of the image of the city in literature, photography and painture will complement our investigation.
Panayotis Pangalos
The Time of the City
7/11/2012 21/11/2012, 21:00, Volos, Department of Architecture
Panayotis Pangalos (Athens, 1972), Architect, Architectural Historian, Ph.D., Adjunct Lecturer of the Department of Architecture University of Patras (2008-2012). Assistant Professor (on contract) to the Department of Building Restoration and Renovation of the Technical Institution of Patras (2009- ). Cooperative Educational Professor in History of Arts of the European Culture Studies unit at the Hellenic Open University (2009- ). Member of the International Laboratory of Urban Design Villard tutorial group. Member of the Hellenic Institute of Architecture. Member of the Hellenic Society of Aesthetics. Member of the Higher Institutes Graduate Architects Association (SADAS-PEA). Founding Member (1992) of the cultural Cooperative Society of Western Crete “Notos”. Member of the European Architectural History Network (EAHN). He has won awards in international architectural competitions. He has participated as a keynote speaker in international conferences and as an invited keynote speaker in international meetings and post-graduate programs, he has published chapters in books, researches and articles on the contemporary history of architecture in Greek and international journals with scientific committees, in proceedings of international conferences and collective volumes. RECENT BOOKS: The significance of time in contemporary architecture, Gutenberg editions, Athens, 2011 The significance of time in architecture of Aldo Rossi, Gutenberg editions, Athens, 2012.
MUSIBET, ADHOCRACY, SALT/Becoming Istanbul/ Urban Hot Points, Crossings, Sailings.
The educational voyage to the city of Istanbul/Turkey was accomplished between the 15th and the 18th of November, 2012. The aim of the voyage was the visit to, the comprehension and the on-sight exploration of some specific and general properties of the city. Additionally, the visit to the Exhibitions of Design, Art, and History MUSIBET/ADHOCRACY and BECOMING ISTANBUL (SALT). The experience of crossing the landscapes while exploring visually and verbally (through constand long discussions) their identities. Additionally, to witness the function of the territories where the western civilization model of life is flourishing in constand debate with the traditional Oriental typologies of behaviour. The cities, the habitats, the fine details of setllements. There were 45 participant students, coming from the VISUAL ARTS and DESIGN of SMALL SCALE STRUCTURES and OBJECTS Cources, in the voyage that lasted 3 days.
Two crucial visits were included in the program, τhe visit to the area of the major historical monuments of Agia Sophia, Sultan Ahmet Camil and the Binbirdirek Cistern and the sailing to theAdalar islands : Kinali Ada, Burgaz Ada, Heybeli Ada, και Bujuk Ada.
See a part of the digital diary.
GIORGOS MITROULIAS, "Tactics from Athens",
14/11/12, 20.30,Department of Architecture, Volos.
The lecture presents the current urban condition of Athens and explores the possibility of reinventing the tools for designing the city.