Adapt-a-bale Dermot Ryan (IRL) Construction and research workshop exploring the use of straw-bale construction techniques. 15 participants

Designing the Inevitable Sasa Grujic (SLO) Jerica Živa Puterle (SLO) Exploration of weaving techiques and craft – a continuation of the Sophia Sturge’s basket-making tradition in Letterfrack. 10 participants

Lightscapes Steffen Impgaard Pedersen (DK) Rune Boserup Jacobsen (DK) An investigation of natural and artificial light through installations in the Connemara landscape. 15 participants

Light & Space Sándor Lilienberg (HU) Dániel Dömölky (HU) András Csiszér (HU) Exploration of light and space, with lectures, model-making, digital modeling and photography exercises. 10 participants

Small Interventions Arvid Wölfel (DE) Design and one-to-one realisation of small but useful interventions that will address the context and benefit the community. 15 participants

Make your adaptor Héloise Cousin (FR) Julie Bart (FR) Adaptors (XS structures) made during the workshop will reveal spatial potential, recreate and regenerate space, instigate events, fill voids, and help the large assembly of students adapt to their context. 15 participants

Nomadic Instamatic Paul Farrell (UK) Georg-Christoph Holz (DE) Exploring the nomad as an architectural methodology, participants will design and build a component system for flexible, interactive, fun and beautiful structures. 10 participants

REPP Jurriën van Duijkeren (NL) Inara Nevskaya (RU) The adaptation of local patterns into contemporary architectural solutions concluding in the construction of a 2.5d installation. 10 participants

Lunch Box Ronan Costello (IRL) Joe Mc Mahon (IRL) Dermot Reynolds (IRL) Design and construction of an outdoor pavilion for the students of Letterfrack Furniture College 20 participants

Green Room Competition Winners EASA Ireland Design and construction of a mobile pavilion to educate the young on matters of sustainable construction and design. 20 participants

Kraftka Gizem Candemir (TR) Christopher Maloney (UK) Dijana Omeragic (MK) Construction of a pavilion inspired by the writings of Franz Kafka. Spatial, acoustic, visual and tactile sensation will disorientate the user. 20 participants

Zauna Alper Derinbogaz (TR) Frederik De Smedt (BEL) Nil Aynali (TR) Design and construction of sauna and plunde pool with integrated environmental technologies. 20 participants

DAB Luka Kukric (BiH) Milan Blagojevic (BiH) Exploration of traditional construction techniques followed by design and construction of a herb-graden and drying hut for the Letterfrack community. 20 participants

Too Cool for Stool Mirjana Uzunovic (SER) Aleksandar Popovic (SER) Investigation of a traditional stool and it’s fabrication followed by design and realisation of a number of furniture pieces. 15 participants

Flux Culture EASA Ireland A seminar/thinktank/workshop addressing the effects of migration on the built environment of Europe. It is intended to develop new maps, uncover new layers of the city and investigate new architectural typologies. 26 participants

Adapt-a-lab Anna Sochocka (PL) Michał Golanski (PL) Justyna Juchimiuk (PL) Research workshop exploring festivals, temporary architecture and the methods by which it can transform a rural context. 10 participants

Adopting Green Iva Marcetic (HRV) Pavle Stramenovic (SER) Ivan Grcic (SER) Research workshop where participants will explore the effects of diverse scales and scenarios on a rural village such as Letterfrack. 10 participants

Architectural Answers to the Digital Revolution Luis Hilti (LI) Research workshop addressing the digitalisation of our world and in particular the architectural profession - exploring both the potential and the pitfalls. 10 participants

HUM:ARC Åshild Aagren (FI) Noora Aaltonen (FI) Inari Virkkala (FI) A workshop that seeks to address humanitarian issues through architecture, producing an exhibition, documentation or any plausible media that will raise awareness of critical issues. 10 participants

Material Adaptable Jouer Filippo Lodi (IT) Kyriakos Chatzyparaskevas (GR) Michele Albanelli (IT) Investigation of materials, geometry and forms through digital and physical experimentation. 6 participants

Exaptation Yelta Köm (TR) Zeynep Hazar Arasan (TR) Doruk Çiftçi (TR) An investigation of exaptation in design. (exaptation: ‘an unlooked for side effect of evolved behaviors.’) 6 participants

Extended me Emilie Bergrem (NO) Tine Bernstorff Aagaard (DK) An exploration the very basic relation between body and space, challenging conventional beliefs of how the surroundings adapt to the body and vice versa. 8 participants

Umbrella (Print/Radio/EASA TV) Kotryna Sokolovaite (LT) Alkistis Thomidou (GR) Marten Dashorst (NL) The publication and recording of the events of the easa assembly through print, video and audio. This year the three media will integrate allowing participants explore the different platforms and opportunities between. 12 participants

Teleology Gary Gallagher (IRL) John Murray (IRL) Workshop exploring digital film-making, including the input of professionals from the digital filmmaking industry. The workshop will produce extensive video documentation of the assembly. 10 participants

Hi everybody! With great sorrow I inform you that today, 3 days before the application's deadline, I have no applications or intentions of participation from any of the people I've been keeping contact with for that purpose. For those who are not familiar with the situation, Portugal doesn't have a strong participation in EASA since a couple of years, neither has a good NC organization/structure... I try my best to cover the spot, but considering that I live out of Portugal since 2 years ago (which means loosing personal contacts with new people) and that all I can do is write enthusiastic e-mails to those who contact me, to my friends whom can forward it through their networks, or to student associations who never reply, I can assume that my best will never be good enough for this cause. We need not only participants but a new NC.

So now I found two options to deal with it for the next EASA 2008:

Nr.1: Glorious Option - I seriously need the help of everybody in this! I need all of you to get your Portuguese friends (there must be loads of Portuguese people doing the Erasmus program around the whole Europe) and convince them to take this brilliant opportunity for experiencing EASA... you have only 3 days left to do it, and those who can find me a Portuguese participant will have a surprise reward!!!! There are 4 places left to fill and complete our quota (we have 5 places in total). So 3 days for filling 4 places with 4 portuguese!!!!

Nr.2: Again Lost Country Option - I'll drop the NC duty even without any replacement and I'll ask permission to the Irish organizers to participate somehow, but not representing any country.

My e-mail address is in the NC's list, but just in case you don't want to bother, here it is again rit_mar@hotmail.com.

Let me hear from you. Really hope someone wins the quest!

Love to all, Rita

I have notified tutors of all accepted and declined workshops, if anyone has not received an email about their workshop proposal contact us asap for verification.

NOTE TO ALL NC'S Accepted tutors (51 in total) will send their application forms directly to EASA Ireland (quotas are for participants only) NC's should also be aware that tutors of declined workshops may want to attend as participants and should give them time to send their application forms.

I will confirm the successful workshops on the blog tomorrow afternoon, and there will be information posted on the website in due course.

Ronan

Hi Everybody

In Motovun, we agreed to significantly raise the overall participation fee with the understanding that the tutor fees would be halved.

The motivation for this was that there would be greater competition for tutor places and a higher standard of workshops. This seems to have worked quite well.

We have received more than 50 proposals, and will have to choose approximately 20 workshops.

We would like to thank everyone for their hard work - there are a lot of great ideas and great variety of approaches - we have a very difficult task choosing the best proposals. The majority of proposals are extremely well-developed with well-researched lists of tools, references, graphics, costs and timetables.

It must be said that some people will be disappointed, we promise that we will make sure each proposal will get a fair hearing.

An example of our difficult task is that there are several excellent and ambitious ideas that we unfortunately would not be able to develop - this is disappointing for us.

We had discussions yesterday evening for 4 hours and only got through 15 or so proposals! It will take us a lot of work to narrow our list down to a long-list and finally a short-list.

We will have some sort of decision made in 1 week and will inform potential tutors then. We most likely will have requests for further information for a number of workshops.

Once again, we would like to thank everybody for their fantastic work.

Ronan

Dear NC's,

Please send all participant application forms to participation(at)easa008.ie

Dear all,

We present you: prss release,

recently we (Edwin Gardner + Marten Dashorst) have launched this new type of 'medium' which distills the most interesting bits of information from the ocean of data which is the internet and publishes it to paper, ready to print. So you don't have plough through all the blogs every day, and don't have to hurt your eyes reading from your monitor. We are your digital-to-analog information converter!

On the website you will find both issue #1 as issue number #2, readily downloadable in pdf format.

here you will also find our editorial statement explaining more about what, how and why.

All the best,

Edwin Gardner + Marten Dashorst

"Imagine a building that makes oxygen, distills water, produces energy, changes with the seasons—and is beautiful. In effect, that building is like a tree, standing in a city that is like a forest."

The above design and the ideas behind it come from William McDonough, the green architect par excellence, who built the first solar-powered house in Ireland in 1977 and was entitled “Hero of the Planet” in 1999 by the Time magazine, this latest proposal for the Tower of tomorrow was commissioned by Fortune Magazine. Read more on INHABITAT

You can watch Bill outline his simple, revolutionary, eco ideas in his presentation: The wisdom of designing Cradle to Cradle. These bold dreams are catching on and being realised, from clean fully C2C recylable materials to eco cities in China.

(This talk in its original very inspiring website TED TALKS )

His question: "How do we love all of the children of all species for all time."

His goal: "A delightfullyt diverse, safe, healthy and just World, with clean air, water, soil and power – economically, equitably, economically and elegantly enjoyed."

Meanwhile in ireland...

After many many years of asking and hoping, EASA is finally coming to Ireland....a long journey since the early days, nearly 6 years ago now, when Ireland recovered from being a "Lost country" and a few Paddys wandered out to participate in EASA 02 @ Samogar, Vis, Croatia...

Other interesting eco things happening in Ireland: Convergence 13: Transition Strategies...Post Carbon Cities, Transition Towns and Eco-Villages

It seems that a lot of things have moved in the last 2 years since: that eco city idea is starting to take off in china, and even more since those special days in Banja Luka, Bosnia trying to make our first eco city.

So with all this talk and action, maybe some day Dublin city might actually get its Botanic Spine

and the aul town might become an eco city, as Torbjorn Lahti pointed out "changing the world is easy, we've done it"

Anyway, thats enough from EIG (eco intelligent growth) here in Barcelona

oiche mhaith a chairde

Dunk

PS

7 last things:

this picture:

and these questions: 1- What is an architect in today's society? 2- Define "innovative architect" 3- How should one practice architecture? 4- What are the architect's responsibilities? 5- What or where is architecture's laboratory? 6- How can architecture be taught today?

add your answers in: Six Simple and Hard Questions About What Architects Do Today and Where Their Profession Might Go Tomorrow: And Your View Is ....

...thanx to pure luck we are back in contact with Albania! We have a new NC (one, but a great start), his name is Klejdi Eski (we had a great chat online=) He is in 2nd year at the Faculty of Architecture in Tirana. So thats that for now! cheers to all!!