everybody remember one of Duncan's proposals about keeping in touch which is to show films at our faculties at the same time and then lead our people into discussions in the platforms we formed in internet. We have a group in my faculty periodicly showing films on mondays and thursdays under the name of "design cinema days" in school. It is not an official group or any organization under the school but just a group of interested students who have access to a lot of films. If there is any intention to do this network I can easily contact and want them to do a little more work to lead their audience (which is a conciderable amount of architecture students becouse a lot of people know about their programs)into our discussion groups into the name of an organization done together with EASA.

anyway.. here is a list of their program for the rest of this semester: nov21st thursday "Hedwig&the angry inch" by John Cameron Mitchell

nov 25th monday "PI" by Darren Aronofsky

nov 28th thurs. "Requiem for a dream" by Darren Aronofsky

dec 2nd mon. "City of lost children" by Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro

dec 5th thurs. "Amelie" by Jean-Pierre Jeunet

dec 9th mon. "Nosferatu" by F.W. Murnau

dec 16th mon. "The Shining" by Stanley Kubrick

if there's interest here is a list of the films they've shown so far in this semester: "lumiere and company" by merzak Allouache "run lola run" by Tom Tykwer "playtime" by Jacques Tati "seven samurai" by akira kurosawa "dancer in the dark" by Lars von trier and for postmodern cinema "cazablanca" by michael curtiz and "moulin rouge!" by Baz luhrmann

I can also send any useful info for posters and stuff about the ethiquette and plot summaries of the films incase we can make this network. most of these films are probably films we already saw but I still think it would be interesting to watch them again and join platforms in which you can go into discussions with people of very different perspectives esp. becouse of geography and education and all. Duncan has already made a list in the incm of films to be shown relying on our very different tastes as people all around europe..

and..well I don't yet know what else to do, if you have any suggestion or idea to realize this project together (or enough knowledge in computers to form the platforms, something I'm incapable of at the moment:) ) tell so and let's get a move on

keep in touch

kisses bilge

just came back... what a trip! 1 hour in the queue for ckeck in, 1/2 hour delay for boarding, screaming babies in the row in front of me, no meal and last but not least no f&/%ing luggage due to the strike in copenhagen. i wonder if anybody leaving copenhagen today after 2pm got his luggage...

however, so i dont have to carry it up to my 3rd floor ;-)

miss you, mark0

FUSPEY comes to brookes. lots of fun for ark school

hello all duncan here from DS4, 5th year diploma. just letting you know about a few very exciting things you might want to get involved with both in and out of brookes

• student regeneration of heart of the architectural school; crit space, info and computer area, social space (and possibly the new cafe?) first meeting to discuss things thr @ 1pm - crit space

• the FUSPEY lecture, lloyd lecture theatre thr 6pm. given by myself and will include first presentation to brookes students of EASA, the european architectural student assembly. 1000 + of us will be going to a danish island for a 2 week long workshop this summer, theme; sustainability. lots of fun.

this event will be followed by the showing of 2 short films in the crit space @ 7pm. tea, coffee and biscuits will be served, and possibly some free wine, check website for updates on this

• there is an ongoing project; "experimental communication space" which happens in the crit space every thursday, 6pm onward. it is a social space for interaction between the whole school of architecture

see you thursday

dunk

for more info see easa.antville.org

global network community comes to the new digital studio at brookes.

window to the world.

can people please add interesting website links and why you think they are interesting. more sharing of ideas leads to healthier diverse systems

www.csl.sony.co.jp

shows some of the latest technological developments, nash showed us a 2 minute film about "datatiles" small handsized glass panels that work almost like complete hard drives. that film can be downloaded from the link

"Hyperdragging: A direct manipulation technique for moving information across the boundary of computers and surfaces. (a) A user can start moving an object on a computer in the normal manner by dragging it with the pointing device. (b) When the cursor reaches the edge of the screen, it ``jumps'' to the table surface. (c) The user can also drop an item on a physical object, such as a VCR tape, to make a link between real and virtual objects." inventor-rekimoto

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

Hows it going,

Duncan Crowley from Ireland here, Ive just arrived into the architecture diploma at brookes and a few of us are setting up an; “experimental communication space” in the crit space on Wednesday evenings @ 6-8pm – first one, 2 days time, wed 23rd of October 2002

it is free and open to everyone this wed we will communicate, make montages, show a music film, meet new people and what ever else happens it seems that there is a lot of very interesting people here and a lot of interesting ideas going around, but so far there does not seem to be much interaction outside the units, or even in the units in some cases. So we are trying to remedy that

so come along on Wednesday, meet some new people, share your opinions about what you think would improve things here

what would make life and college and architecture here at oxford the most exciting place to be in the world?

Who knows? But by communicating and experimenting we could do some great stuff and learn

The oxford modern art gallery is closed until some time in November, could we make a temporary one, what could we show? This summer a few thousand architecture students from all over Europe will go to Denmark for a 2 week summer school, hopefully some of you will come along. I participated in this event lat summer and it was amazing , we turned a derelict building into an art gallery. There are going to be online worldwide artistic events this year So get involved and have fun

Personally I am working toward the FUSPEY ideal – FUN - SUSTAINABLE- PEACEFUL – EXISTENCE

You might see me running around college on Wednesday with a tuxedo and an orange wig on

See some of you on Wednesday and do bring some old newspapers, magazines, colours, paints, glue, boards, cameras etc

Most importantly

Have fun This event is open to everyone, not just architects so invite your friends

slán libh

dunk

21/oct/2002

02092997@brookes.ac.uk