the final version of the tutorpack is online. we intend to increase the content, concerning theme, location info and especially essays, as a collaboration with the future umbrella people. the additions should be the bulletins mentioned in the easa-guide.

so this is a call for essays! read alex' essay in the tutorpack and get excited to write your own. it doesn't need to follow the narrative style, just give it your own shape for us to get the biggest possible diversity! a swiss essay is coming up for sure, some more would be great! treat the topic "trans - transit - transition" from your point of view: give us your personal look at the development of the cities in your country, at the flows and traffics of goods, knowledge and ideas in europe, at the change of settlement structures due to infrastructural interventions, at your very personal urban sprawl, traffic system evolutions in your country!!!

concerning umbrella-paraply-parapluie: to continue the tradition concerning the name, we thought of calling it officially in raeto-romanian, the official 4th language of switzerland spoken in the area around bergün by 1% of the swiss population (70'000 people) and nowhere else in the world. so the name is gonna be para-plöfscha. if there are any heavy protests concerning unpronounceability, let us know!!!

best wishes and greetings

flo_ch

dear nc’s!

as announced last week, we have to indicate a couple of deadlines. these are the following ones (you can find them on the website too):

application for participants according to the quota list: 01.05.2005 application for workshop proposals: 15.05.2005 publication of the winning projects of the competition: 15.05.2005 application for extra places: 01.06.2005

we hope you do your best to fulfil the deadlines. especially for workshops, we’d be rather grateful if you’d be in time as we have to organise all the materials (we still count on your help in finding sponsorships for workshops you bring along). as usual, one tutor per country is not included in the quota, so countries who organise a workshop have one place more. for the applications, this means the following: you apply ALL of your participants and NONE of your tutors. application forms for tutors are going to be filled in AFTER the decision whether their workshop is accepted or not.

tutors first fill in the application for a workshop (workshop requirements > download the word file and fill it in directly, afterwards send it to workshops [at] easa005.ch). in a discussion with the tutor, we will find out whether the workshop is going to take place or not. after that, the tutors will get one place per workshop. workshops with two or more tutors require enough places within the quota of their country!!!

there is an updated version of the tutorpack available. it contains more information concerning the workshop locations. the definite version will be uploaded within two weeks at the max. after that, you will get further information concerning the location, switzerland in general and further details concerning the theoretical background in bulletins (produced in collaboration with the umbrella people).

so, thanks in advance for being in time. i don’t need to remind you of swiss watches, do i?

:-) flo

example: swasiland has 10 places according to the quota list and brings one workshop with 3 tutors. this means the following: swasiland can bring 8 participants and 2 tutors included in the quota. for one tutor, swasiland gets an extra place. so in total, swasiland can bring 11 people.

the new and hopefully definite quota list is in your mailbox and on the website.

for further info check your mail, too, and for corrections write to organiser (at) easa005.ch.

flo_ch

hi i put you the link of a list with all the swiss representatifs in europe. it's only in german but it should be ok... there you find all adresses of ambassies and consulats (inclusif opening time... :-)

so, for those who want to start with it now.

www.eda.admin.ch

and for those who want more information

www.bfm.admin.ch

there you also find an applicationform for the visa, which you can download, fill in and send to the adress that is given in the other link.

I hope i can help you so far...need a bit of time to get through all of that (and i have to do some exams now...)...but maybe if you click around on those pages you will have enough information.

bye bye everyone

hi everybody.

you find the quota list on the website as well as the technical workshop requirements. all deadlines will be announced soon.

please pass on the workshop requirements file to your possible tutors. we would like them to apply by sending their proposal as a mail to workshops (at) easa005.ch, including a very short introduction of the person/the workshop idea in the mail, the filled in word file with the technical requirements and any other documents as pdf or word files.

looking forward to many workshops and even more participants

flo_ch

hi everybody for those who need visa: because i get a lot of mails from unknown people to the visa(at)easa005.ch account, it would be very helpfull for me if you could put your name and country in the subject....or try to suggest any connection with easa in it....

example: eliza, nc, switzerland

i will start doing the whole visa stuff after the 11th of march. Please let me know if it's too late for some of you.

see you soon

ciao

07.02.2005 _on the "competition > information & downloads" site, you find a link to faq. there we answer all the asked questions. nobody gets a personal answer to a question only!

13.02.2005 _everybody who had difficulties with dwg and dxf: i changed the download location, and there is a new zip file too for downloading the whole package including EVERYTHING :-D

flo_ch

dear all

it’s quite some time ago that you got some general information from us by mail, so it’s gonna be very long. i usually put all the stuff on the website announcing it on the weblog. but today, it’s really necessary for everybody to get informed:

the competition is starting today! from now on, you can download the necessary material that enables you to design a new garden pavilion on top of the old foundation walls in front of the kurhaus bergün. besides the stuff you need to participate in the competition, there is also a poster. we would like you to print it out and spread it around at your school and if possible at other schools of your country too.

other facts are rather pleasing as well. on the list of lecturers, we could add another nice swiss architectural office, the former president of the city of zurich and – thanks to rune (dk) and johannes (de) – even winy maas (mvrdv) said he would be interested to have a talk-like appearance at easa005.ch. as we had in mind to organise discussion rounds with all the lecturers anyway, we might meet each other somewhere in the middle.

our team has right now 16 actively working members in different departments. you have for example already heard/read on the blog from simon and bettine taking care of the competition. saskia and marcella are busy with the location, steffi (our good old nc) is taking care of the kitchen. we still hope to get tillie again – cook of easa 2004 in lille, and there is a swiss guy (another tobi) who confirmed to get done the logistic stuff for the kitchen. eliza is going to take care of the visa (wadda rhyme!), sylvie and niklaus will organise the exhibiton business. silvia will organise the excursion as soon as she’s well again (…), johann the events, ben and cordula have already provided the tutorpack, and tobi and me wanna try our luck in getting sponsors and doing all the small shitty jobs :-). we still need a lot of money as you can imagine. but we’re even supported by some hardworking international conspirators, so it’s gonna work out anyway.

for after the event, we have in mind the following scenario: the results of the workshops will be exhibited from the end of easa on the 21st of august until the end of september. during that time, we will work out the material we got from the tutors to end up with a good exhibition that is going to travel through the arch-faculties of switzerland to the final station in zurich at the beginning of december. in december, the release of the new issue of the semiannual architectural magazine “trans” is going to happen during the opening of the exhibition. trans offered us around 50 pages under the topic “transit” (traffic in europe…) in their magazine. it will be our main publication for the results of the event, and you can order it during easa if you want to keep a souvenir. for the same day in december (or for a later period), we plan to provide a light-version of the exhibition (prints only) to send to you as pdf-format. in the best case we will be able to cover your printing costs, so we could have a general euopean opening of the easa-exhibition at the beginning of december!

next steps in the organisation will be to settle down guidelines for the workshops. probably until the end of this week, I can upload the “technical requirements”, and the tutorpack is being put through the hoops once more. we are aware that we also awe you a quota list. you will get it as soon as we have discussed the last fire issues and know how many people we can invite exactly. for the next few months, I’d like to inform you monthly with a bulletin that can be looked at as an umbrella-newspaper-daughter. that’s the way to set up a well working umbrella that is going to be the real communication tool during the assembly. if we finally manage to send you the bulletins, we’d like you to spread them out among participants, potential tutors, and possible sponsors for your workshops. I clearly want to state that we count on your and the tutors’ help concerning fundraising for the workshops as it is stated in the easa-guide!

I leave you in peace now, happily and unreasonably hardworking as I am… the last thing I’m going to ask you for is to send me some feedback. what are your thoughts if you read a) these news, b) the tutorpack, c) the competition stuff (I know that you might remember one or another passage of the competition brief from the danish one we had two years ago)??? what do you wish for, recommend, want, hate?

thank you very much anyway

flo