Everything goes well, but (I hope, you have an eye on the european politics) we'll have a president election in Belarus on the 19 of March. It'll cause some delay, as that one whith the competition. Please, be patient!

I've some problems with the SESAM Makedonia site, but, as far as I'm somewhat interested to be a tutor...

1)Can't load an application page. What's up? 2)Tuition fee: 50 euros. Does it exactly mean fee for tutors? Sounds not very good, especially for those tutors from Eastern Europe (me too). Also, there is no Belarus in the list... 3)Tutorpack is very poor. No city map, no recources, no lection themes... are you fucused on a theory or 1:1 scale building? 4)How many participants do you have? From which countries?

If you want, you can answer by e-mail: gzaborski@yahoo.com

A bit late, but anyway. I've been busy organizing a conference (Architectural theory) in Delft which will take place on the 16th and 17th of March (yes, next week).

It promises to be an impressive event, and even if you can't come we've set up a live video stream so all you guys can follow all the lectures and discussion if you'd like.

please check www.projectivelandscape.nl

our speakers are: an Allen (special apperance) Robert Somol Sarah Whiting Michael Speaks Roemer van Toorn Kamiel Klaasse Reinhold Martin Peter Trummer Nikolaus Kuhnert Diane Ghirardo Hans van Dijk Ole W. Fischer Wouter Vanstiphout Willem-Jan Neutelings Naomi Stead Lara Schrijver M. Christine Boyer Arie Graafland K. Michael Hays

in short the conference is about this: The Projective Landscape Stylos Conference wants to research and explore the similarities between a few -at first sight- seemingly diverse developments within the architecture debate taking place in Europe and the United States. These developments appear to offer a fruitful strategy for architecture in the 21st century. Because this specific debate is very scattered, the conference aims to map and clarify these different developments and hopes to come to a clearer formulation of what now is being referred to as projective practice. By which we mean an architecture that is engaged with the reality of the society in which it is embedded, but focuses on its own discipline instead of looking for legitimatization of its practice in just societal criticism or in disciplines outside itself like sociology and philosophy.

cyaround,

best edwin

Ive been browing the web and came across the EAAE(European Association for Architectural Education), an international non-profit association committed to the exchange of ideas and people within the field of architectural education and research. As far as I cold gather the heads of schools of architecture from all over europe meet on a similar basis to EASA. www.eaae.be Has anyone from past EASAs tried to contact this association? They might prove to be benificial as regards how to receive grants, etc.

Another one I came across is the Architects Council of Europe, and The Architects' Council of Central and Eastern Europe under the UIA. www.uia-architectes.org The ACE was founded in 1990 and its principal function is to monitor and influence developments at EU level highlighting those areas of EU Policy that have a direct impact on architectural practice, policy and the built environment.

As part of the greening the city eco initiave to set up more community gardens along a possible greenway (the botanic spine) and CPUL (continuous productive urban landscape) for Dublin city a community garden was set up some months back on unused land in Phibsborogh between the Royal Canal and the Arrow train line. On Saturday an open public gardening day happened during which many baby Larch and Beech trees were planted. The garden was started on Sunday the 25th of September as part of a 4 day long series of events that were put on by Irish eco activists as examples of healthy free sustainable alternatives to current car culture which relies on unjust oil wars to keep things going. The previous Thursday was car free day, not that you would have known given how little the government did for the day. Work on the garden has been happening since then; clearing the weeds, opening the soil and clearing an old fence, making a herb garden, compost heap, planting flowers, starting a willow den, and dreaming of a future with play areas, fireplaces, lots of food, a super community enjoying each others meals and much much more.

A similar garden happened on the South side of the city in Dolphins Barn and it has become a hugely successful project with many people from the area participating in growing their own food, re-establishing community, enjoying the fruits of their labour. That garden will be a year old in April.

Things are in their early stages and having done the initial ground work the team are now engaging with the wider community of Phibsborogh, Glasnevin, Cabra and beyond. so if you are interested email us or pop down on the weekend. 4 minute audio interview with Seán about the history and dreams of the garden

related links:

more news and photos from Phibsboro garden

Bringing Nature to Man's Domain -previous imc-ie feature about dolphins barn community garden

ruth tells us the history of the dolphins barn garden 8mins

THE BOTANIC SPINE: an 18 km long orbital linear park that threads through a series of pocket parks; some existing, some proposed.

What are Greenways?

CPUL

eco stuff for car free day 2005

that eco city idea is starting to take off in china

Hello easeans. We've been making an inventory of our archive in copenhagen. And we also scanned the covers and a few pages of each final report from the archive + the full final report of the 1st easa in Liverpool and the firsteasa guide from the INCM '91 held in Berlin.

We'll send out a excel-file of the inventory, so that you can contact us if you have any reqeusts from the inventory, we'll scan themand send them. But as you know scanning is a terrible time-consuming job; hence the whole archive hasn't been scanned, but might over time.

So what we want to discuss now is how to collect and handle the archive in a digital format (as pdf's jpgs or other format / chronolical, matter of content etc.) we started some discussion in Brighton, and now we'd also like to hear from all the blog-users.

later dawgs kalle and pernille of Copenhagen

I am making project of a school, and if anybody knows some websites where i can find projects of schools please share.

thanks beforehand. miss u all love ana,Georgia

Good morning(day/night). We've got funny people in Latvia, they're all time moving to different places and writing their e-mails with mistakes, so somehow we haven't gotten any info about easa06. HUNGARIANS, you don't want to have another lost country? lol please, send everything to me (: asha_riga@inbox.lv

natasha -nc latvia