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.

The brief for the competition is now online! go to the new easa | ireland website & check it out!

General Participant Dates....

Application Deadline - Friday 4th April 2008

Re-distribution of places - Friday 18th April 2008

Deadline for Second Round - Friday 25th April 2008

Payment Deadline - Friday 2nd May 2008

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Lads I just wanted to say I havent been on the letterfrack site for while. It is beautiful, its so clear and great. Yeah ok I stop licking your arses now, but I just wanted to say it. Well done!

www.kunsthaus-bregenz.at

On friday 18 th of jan at 19:00 it will be a lecture from zumthor in the kunsthaus in Bregenz, austria..i couldnt find out, what language, probably german not english...but still the exhibition is also very good to see and this one will end on 20 th. who s coming?

ill be there anyway and if you need a place to stay, its no problem.

love, peace and see you. yvonne michel

Lads, what's the story with Iceland? Does anyone have any Icelandic contacts, especially with the architecture schools? It'd be great if we could have an Icelandic link reopened and a couple of Icelanders strolling around Letterfrack this summer.

Cheers,

Emmet Spiceland

Fellow EASAns wish u all the best in the NY... My one is starting pretty grim since we were warned at uni that these few weeks might be the worse we've had in our lives...:)niceeee so desperate times call for desperate measures... besides the milion handins portfolio and stuff we have a module called Participation+realisation,which if u ask me is shit but anyway and a waste of time, so has anyone else been 'fortunate' to have it as a module, does anyone have a clue or has written done something(that maybe i can pretty please use)?!or any useful place web where i can find something about it... xxx Vera hellllp

We will be in Milano on the 22nd of february on the way to Vals Anyone around?

cheers

Hey! happy new year! Hope your all well!

I'm moving to Amsterdam at the end of this month till June so I'm looking for a place to live, an appartment or room or something...

I've been checking some websites and it looks like a nightmare! So I figured I should give it a shot in here, maybe some of ya'll happen to know something...

Rune