Hi everybody,

We are currently working with an Irish governmental agency to secure funding for EASA Ireland 2008, from the European Commission’s Youth in Action program. In order to apply for this grant we are organising an extraordinary workshop of max. 25 participants, the subject of which relates to the aims of the Youth in Action program. There are several regulations we have to abide by, and must have our application ready for the 31st of January.

We need people to apply for this workshop now, we require participants to commit to this and send us on their name, some details and a travel cost estimate.

Participants will be missing out on the opportunity to apply for the variety of workshops at the assembly. If the workshop is feasible and the grant is received, participants will be refunded up to 70% of their travel expenses – this is the incentive to forego the opportunity to apply to another workshop. As part of this experiment, there will be no established tutors for this workshop but there will be a brief.

The brief and a poster will be available as part of a participants pack on the EASA008 website within the next 24/48 hours. Applicants must declare their interest by the end of the 26th of January (next Saturday).

Theme:

There is a movement of people in Europe - individuals and families relocate from country to country, city to city, in pursuit of their version of happiness - be it climate, security, education, society or material wealth. There is a new culture of movement and migration made possible by open borders, market forces and advances in transportation. There is a population constantly in flux – there is a flux culture.

This seminar/thinktank/workshop aims to deal with an issue that effects people all over greater Europe. The effects of Immigration and Emigration on our nation states are well documented, our seminar aims to deal with the effects of this phenomenon on the built environment: our regions, cities, neighbourhoods and buildings, from the point of view of young academics in the fields of architecture and urbanism.