EASA censored at irish website

i just posted a post at www.archeire.com ( the irish architectural website) announcing that EASA is looking for 2 irish architectural students to be this years national contacts. and the webmaster pulled it off his site. i used the name "easa". "duncan" is banned from this site. this action affects the EASA community. will you do something about it. i hope you will. i am specifically asking the danish EASA2003 organizers to adresss this problem by posting a similar post at archeire

i would ask everyone to challenge this ultra- censorship. by loggin onto www.archeire.com and raise this debate. again; its all about COMMUNICATION

below is what i posted

EASA- european architectural students assembly is looking for 2 irish architectural students to be national contacts

they are invited to;

to INCM (Intermediate National Contact Meeting) in Denmark from the 10th-17th of No-vember*.

The aim of the meeting is to discuss the future EASA events , especially the EASA2003, and evaluate this years summer meeting in Croatia.

The European Architecture Students Assembly EASA is a non-political non-profit organiza-tion that is made up of students of architecture and related disciplines from all European countries. EASA is a practical network for communication, meeting and exchange of ideas, arising from EASA-activities. Architecture students find a platform on which they can discuss their ideas, work together and exchange their experiences concerning architecture, education or life in general.

The INCM is of big importance for the EASA network – since this is the opportunity to bring the National Contacts together in order to exchange informations and keep the NC net-work alive. This years INCM is organized by architect students from Copenhagen and Aar-hus.

last years EASA2002 was in croatia; theme- senses this years EASA2003 is in denmark; theme- sustainability

britta_daugaard@hotmail.com Stud. Arch Britta Daugaard Jensen The Aarhus School of Architecture Noerreport 16 8000 Aarhus C Denmark

for more info also contact 02092997@brookes.ac.uk

*The meeting will be situated at: Møbelfabrikken, Gl. Rønnevej 17 , 3730 Nexø, Bornholm, Denmark

Hi Dunk (and all the others of course) alx here ... some thoughts about your pre-occupations you mentioned in my weblog.

easa I think that the weakness and at the same time the strength of easa might be it's impermanent aspect.

People meeting there are having their lives and most probably a lot to do else than trying to hold permanent contact. That might be considered being weakness.

On the other hand, just becos they are living their very different lives without being in touch all the time, it's all the more interesting to meet once or twice a year altogether (300-500 people - you should take care not to exagerate ;-) ). I think what matters is not the quantity of inforamtion we communicate but the quality and density.

Certain things are meant to emerge for a certain time and then disapear for another while to better re-appear later again (remember those kinda mushrooms in the woods which are constituted of a multitude of individual "units" that small that they cannot be seen and which are forming something strong when conditions are good? and then disappering later).

Most easa people are having some few contacts according to their affinities, but those contacts are not necessarily "big movements" and they don't have to to be efficient. It's in those little links that easa-spirit is kept alive.

If people do not communicate here, it might be because it's a public place. People behave differently when being in different groups and differently than they would when being alone. The whole is not just the sum of the parts - remember? So people being at home in their context and "social networks" do not behave as they did in the easa-network which emerges once a year. Sorry if I'm not very clear ... I hope most of you should be able to understand in between the written lines what I meant.

ark-schools There too I'd think about the scale of steps to take and to consider. As I said already somewhere else here: little steps on a way - quite unseen - are often more efficient than big once. If big once can be taken - all the better, but no one should be frustrated if that doesnt work when trying to make big steps. Most important is not the speed at which a way is gone but the fact that it is gone. And making little steps you often can be more careful about "details" you oversee when trying to take several stairs at once. (You remember the hypersensibility of any system to it's initial conditions? slight differences in "details" can make a big big difference. We should be careful about details).

In my school infrastructure is bad, very bad. But in some way, just because there's just nothing, we - or most of us - learned and are learning a lot. And some of us learned about the importance of communication (intuitively). We had a drawing room, where some years ago a class started just selling drinks (it's very hot there in summer), and little by little, that became a real little bar given over year by year from one class to another. After selling just drinks, some made it more comfortable bringing some seads along, another year we changed the whole configuration of the room - and every two years it seems that it's getting more and more an experimental field for little interventions on a space we - as a group - appropriate ourselves. There's work there, exchange, laughing, thinking together (all through the different years/classes), a year ago even the civil engineers discovered this room as being not that bad and they are spending their lunchtime with us sometimes and evenare working sometimes with us.

It's actually not a big deal, but if I tell you that, it's just to show you that little steps - just done because some small group of person thought them right to be taken - are moving things ahead. But one has to be patient to realize that they did.

Recently I wanted to try to get them to online com-spaces and made another weblog: macademia.antville.org It's not a big deal neither - just a little step in a direction I feel being right. I'm curious to see at what pace that way is gonna be taken - either way it's gonna be okay.

So, yes, I'm still networking ... alx