i just thought about drinking a cool beer at the 24h-info-point in easa-town and about how i'd pay it. as most of the people do have euros i would appreceate the euro as official currency at easa. of course also the danish currency, but it would be much easier to accept both...

just a thought - what do you (and the organizers) think?

as i dont speak spanish til now and am going to a spanish speaking university in the end of august, i'd appreciate a spanish-for-arch.students-workshop

anybody willing to give this workshop?

Everyone is welcome to join on this OXFORD SOCIAL WANDER, meet menzil gardens @ 4.00 next Saturday.

We might stop in the half moon for a quick pint to quench the thirst, after the first little leg of the wander, and im sure we will have a few more later

Hopefully the sun will be as plentiful as it was a few weeks ago Tell everyone, get your friends and your grannies to come, get them to announce it in the bingo hall

Lets socialize more

dunk

1- Menzil gardens, graffiti wall, play area, benches 2- cowley road, diversity “you can walk the whole road and not hear English being spoken” the "welcome wall" c/o the rap yard 3- the peace plain,(roundabout) vigil was held here for peace, during recent war on Iraq, site of old graveyard 4- the half moon, a Clare pub, great ceoil (music) in here 5- the river cherwell, punting on the river, may day stuff, 6- angel meadows, a public park entrances from saint Clements road 7- the private grounds along the river, cant get to where the rivers meet, the public should be able to get here 8- botanic gardens, lovely but an entry fee, heard rumour that oxford residents can get in free? 9- Public walking area of the university, nice spot, so to is university parks, up the cherwell, not everyone knows of the parks 10- River themes, or Isis river as the call it in oxford, why? 11- River walk alongside nice old housing 12- The canal, pleasant public walkway there to be followed 13- public Park @ ice rink 14- Old boat works, canal locks, interesting area 15- Allotments, many people grow their own vegetables in oxford 16- People live on the boats 17- Port meadow, occasional parties happen here, finish up in the old circle

so come along, meet and socialize with some more oxford people, learn things about the place you never knew before, be amazed

www.indymedia.org.uk

is where you can find this

www.indymedia.org.uk is where you can follow the "how SOCIAL is oxford?" discussion

these are examples of playing with real and virtual space together, developing community, this is basically an eco wander, and will lead to a eco/ permaculture/ art party event of sorts

i post here to try to show an example of developing a process, havign a rough program, its open so who knows what will come from it

european students of architecture, your views would be appreciated-

maybe it would be a good idea to post a list of the workshops also here, coz many people are not able to browse the official easa003 site. thx to the organizes

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ECOTOPIA 2005 could and i feel should happen in bosnia. the country mostly affected by the worst war in europe since WW2. ECOTOPIA 2005 is exactly the type of project that could unite people, rebuild communities and promote more sustainable living

ECOTOPIA Held normally over the first three weeks of August for the past 14 years, Ecotopia is an attempt at building a self-reliant community, putting into practice the governing principles of an environmentally friendly life-style: waste recycling, vegetarian kitchen, consensus decision-making process, the use of alternative energy (hot water for dish-washing through solar panels, etc.). Furthermore, Ecotopia is a place to exchange experiences, spread information and enrich one's knowledge through workshops and discussions. Day-to-day policy is made through direct democracy (concensus decision making) at the daily circle. Where possible Ecotopians participate in regional actions and clean ups, working with local organisations.

www.geocities.com gives more info on ECOTOPIA, past and present

www.eyfa.org is this years ecotopia in The Carpathian mountains in Ukraine this summer, theme- YOUNG PEOPLE AND CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON HUMAN RIGHTS

www.ecotopia2002.org is last years in ireland, 1000+ people participated, lived, worked together from all over the world , theme- conflict resolution

these are one of the best networks to talk to and listen to in terms of "sustainability" today; they are living it and trying to spread it, i lived with them last summer for about a week and i learned a lot, i think many "architects" have a lot to learn

one problem with a system like ECOTOPIA, is that, for the most part, it only deals with the rural, and i feel we have to deal also and more so with the urban

there are serious challenges, the most important being that of making urban systems more "sustainable", as so much of the worlds population is moving into the urban. that is what ECO CITY BANJA LUKA has started to explore with its initial workshop last april 2003 www.indymedia.org.uk

the initial networks and processes have been put into place so it would be great if ecotopia addressed this, and tried to have an "ecotopia" in banja luka in 2 years. either in the amazing forest at zelenkovac www.mrkonjic-grad.com or in tackling the urban problem- by occupying the presently unused industrial area of banja luka??

wherever though, ECOTOPIA is a great event. the balkans and bosnia in particular need something like this.

so please think about and make real

ECOTOPIA 2005 @ BALKANS

a simple vision of urban permaculture

where all gardens are managed for wildlife and foodproduction, where property is seem as gaurdienship and access is related to landuse to optimise the land use of the cities. after all most cities are built upon ecologically unique sites, with waterc courese ect. getting children and teenagers involved with a continuity for all age groups to regreen the cities. It may involve smashing a few things up occasionally, like roads and big walls and structures which are out of scale with the community. open up the water courses, have them exposed to the light, create combustion free zones, electric and cycle acces only, so the air and water quality improves to allow fish back into the smaller water courses. encourage a new peasentry, with people who work the land, working hand in hand, working for food, for nature conservancy, for community. have street fairs and local markets. exchange of seed and advice on vegy growing. just more of the good stuff and less of the bad.

robin hood and dick turpin may need to come back. the foxes should be esteemed as should all wildlife. build habitat into the architecture of tommorow. eat meat, but let it live a life first. legalise all drugs and then educate the youth to reduce consumption. encourage dance that makes you sweat, organise community work days where you get a work out, build local financial trusts, celabrate the seasons, get people singing together, holding hands, sharing problems ans solutions. create safe places to sleep out, give the smoothest roads to the skate boarders, deface colonial memorials, put up police free zone signs and create safe communities with restorative justice systems. deal with madness in a creative and exploratory way, with art and music therapy. shut down the zoos, and hunt down the perpetrators of bush-meat trade and bring them to justice. step up the counciling process for victims of sexual abuse, and look into the causes of this again. invade th countryside with ecofarmers, and restore the peasentry to the land, get ride of broadscale agriculture, get rid of GM, tell the texans to fuck of in no uncertain terms. make friends with europe and north africa, and start rebuilding the international rail system by nationalising it then giving it over to brussles to run. shut down the nuclear power stations, and give all households the means to have local power production {solar, wind, biogas], stop pooing into water, everyone gets compost tiolets and local procees ing of poo. loby the un for the gloabl passport and a travellers dole, where folk can travel on the cheep to where ever they might want to go, or be needed. scrap uni fees, in fact delete all debt personal and national and international. invade norway and japan and destroy all their whaling vessels and deport all the whalers to Milton Keens. Invade switzerland and release all that money held in secret bank accounts to pay for all the outrageous ideas i have listed. apologies as a nation to the aborigionies of the world, do a total geneological analysis of the wealthy to trace any ill gotten gains and redistribute the dosh. organise a mass debate between all religions to be screened every friday night until its sorted out. move the british monachy to New Zealand where they are better loved, so that they can marry into some top Maori tribe and let the U.K disband into 4 countries, then i can get a scottish passport at last, unless i get a U.N one first. map out the laylines and remove energy blocks from them, reenergies the earths energy grid, and have it resonating on the highest of vibrations. Make Jerusalem the capital of Semetia, and engeneer a few significant marriages between Jewish Princesess and Arab princes. Clean up the meditaranean, make the best saling fleet to carry freight and passengers, again outlaw combustion engins, make the oil companies pay for the transition then arrest all the heads of companies and put them on trial for thoughtlessness. reforest the med coastline, built a cycle rout all the way round with a big cycle tournament in Tripoli every janauary. Give everyone a ticket on the transiberian for their birthday and increase capacity. Trick all the generals and compulsive soldiers to enter cyber space and t=have thier battles there, bigger brighter better bullshit!!! Then turn of the machines and carry thier limp bodies out of the life support rooms down the the african plains so they can get eaten by Lions and come back as lions, which would appease theri spirits. make the Whales and Dolphis the recognised authorities in the ocean, and then try to find out what they would like us to do. reintroduce all the medieveal fauna to Britain, so we can hunt boar like Asterix did.

ok ive got an exam tommoro, better go