Networks – Architecture and Architectural education – Information infrastructure
Talk about how easa communicates within itself and within Europe.
We as individuals.
The huge amount of information and how we deal with it?
The importance of the collective knowledge?
Weak spots of the EASA inner communication?
Are we closed?
Where is the interaction line between what we create and what we share?
What kinds of information do we share?
What separates easa from a holiday?
What is the role of the NC?
Transition of information?
Verbal, non-verbal, written communication?
EASA Guide?
EASA Archive?
EASA Magazine?
EASA local communities contribution?
#Appendix
A new written form, as an extension to the EASA guide.
The Appendix should work as a base for local EASA organizations aimed in bringing people together. Giving information and ideas how EASA could work as a catalyst of temporary everchanging societies. A dynamic core where to store and update a framework with the aim to dynamise the National Contacts work. An addition that allows finding and writing ideas that would be transferred with EASA guide. It could be recognized as direct tool for NCs. The appendix will make the communication easier mainly because it will give examples and illustrations.
It is also a continuity of the momentum energy will reflect on the next EASA events both local and international.
Do you see EASA as a mission, as a tool, as agenerator, as a catalyst, as a movement?
Networks – Architecture and Architectural education – Information infrastructure
The second EASA Forum session was more lively and because the introduction was already done in the first one it went straight to discussions. The theme Architecture and Architectural education aroused interesting discussion that the organizers of EASA Forum guided with specific questions. Experiences from schools and life in general in different parts of Europe was shared and through the dialogue questions aroused. What is the role of EASA in the framework of institutionalized teaching of architecture? How can we share the knowledge we gain in EASA to others? To whom the knowledge should be shared? What are the problems of existing educational model in Europe?
The discussion revealed many different positions and will be continued.
EASA Forum Session II 01.08 Networks – Architecture and Architectural education – Information infrastructure
Lack of information and awareness or lack of interest and motivation?
Does the “students for students” concept convert from ignorance to understanding / apathy to activism?
Do we see the themes of EASA as reflections of the architecture now?
What influences us to follow architecture?
Is our education different from the architectural reality?
Is EASA at the inbetween of architecture and education?
When is the time to meet the reality?
The role of the architecture student?
Does the structure of EASA communicate (workshops, lectures, themes) with the world of architecture?
Do those real situations help us understand more about ourselves (as architects as humans?
Does EASA work as a catalyst for better human understanding?
EASA as a reflection of the architecture students?
Is EASA a stage?
...and where is the individual in this complex system?
Is there a bubble that is preventing us from seeing our real position?
Is being active a vital part for generating more enthusiasm and interest towards the realness of architecture and the role of the students?
How could/should EASA work on the local level?
Is the assembly the main generator of topics and ideas for us?
Could we reflect on our local issues to interact more?
Is the assembly depressing (stopping/hindering) somehow the NCs activities?
Active EASA countries?
How the local activity could bring back the motivation? Do we see the potential?
Should we share more? More good practices?
NCs used to ask favourite professors to tutor at EASA. Would this help to activate the interest?
There is supporting material to read through and booklet to leave comments and questions in Export Drvo second floor next to Archives. You can also go and talk to the EASA Forum curators who are there during the daytime. Let´s keep the conversation going!
The theme of EASA Forum is generated from the relationship between three general discourse matters:
Networks
Architecture & architectural education
Information infrastructure
each of them comprising individual clusters of issues. Discussions are structured in three comprehensive sessions around these broad subjects. They serve as prisms for observation, analysis and conversation and as a curated leitmotiv of incrementally developing dialogue. Each session is preceded by an introduction to the matter and followed by a curated discussion. Debates and talks are complemented by other experimental events tinkering around connected topics.
EASA forum was an idea that came up in several minds at the same time. Firstly, it was conceived as a workshop proposal for EASA 2017 that did not succeed. The general idea was to bring people together in order to form open discussions about EASA. This turn of events came to be not bad after all, because the effort spent with the archive in the meantime was vital. Some records were found about the assembly structure that gave the idea for EASA forum’s additional value.
It’s interesting that back in the day, even when there were INCMs (early once around 1983-1986), everything was discussed at EASA. There used to be closed meetings only for old NCs and general ones where everybody had the chance to speak.
As a result of a gradual process, in 1991, when the Lichterfelder statement (EASA Guide) was created, INCM came to be important. Discussions of all kinds were transferred from the general event to the smaller one, where the atmosphere in terms of closeness is more accommodating. At first the intermediate meetings were between 2-5 days - a diapason that served the needs. Updating the guide, discussing future events, more talks about education, concepts and strategy how to share EASA were the focus. A slight change came around 1998-2000 when the length of the event came to be not enough.
Somehow INCM started to be a bidding-centric event. At the same time, EASA was already too intense for gatherings and talks. INCM was used as an excuse when it came to discourse. INCM was created for discussions and making decisions that should give focus for EASA. EASA needs that in order to create impact. EASA and INCM are becoming two separate things instead of being events that are supporting a network. Somehow they are working together on defocusing all of us from actual issues.
EASA Forum is an inner-assembly forum that works as a platform with the sole aim of generating as much input into the possibilities, hopes and expectations surrounding this network as possible. It is an experiment in tune with the philosophy of informal and in some cases intimate discussions during INCM, that propose the next step in the quest towards establishing a real network. Easians will be part of a forum which will work as a laboratory for finding a perfect formula for communication providing structures for discussion, interaction and socializing. Forum collects, filters and shares ideas, processes and proposals.
“To share ideas and theory between the European schools of architecture and design, furthering relationships between these academic institutions, whilst encouraging the students’ self-directed education.” (Final report, EASA 2005)
EASA Forum has grown out of the joint work of former, current and future organizers of EASA and INCM events with continuity and cohesion in mind. It will be curated by the organizers of INCM Vitosha (2018) and by representatives of RE: EASA (2018), EASA Tourist (2019), INCM Lapland (2017).
