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WHAT IS EASA? ..................................................................................................................................................[07] identity history EASA theme place the EASA networkother activities legal framework EASA and its assemblies

WHERE WILL IT BE HELD? .................................................................................................................................[11] easa011 in Spain Cadiz

THEME .................................................................................................................................................................[13]

HOW TO PARTICIPATE ........................................................................................................................................[14]

FAQ ......................................................................................................................................................................[16]

PARTICIPANTS FEE..............................................................................................................................................[17] DECOASTRUCTION VIDEO ..................................................................................................................................[18]

NATIONAL CONTACTS....... ..................................................................................................................................[19]

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what is EASA?

EASA stands for the European Architecture Students Assembly, however the EASA concept represents more than that. It represents an ambitious initiative at an international level, absolutely unique in the European university field, developed by and for architecture students. Since1981, over 400 students traveling from more than forty European countries, are meticulously selected by an open competition, to participate in the annual summer assembly which manifests as a two week workshop which is held in a different European city each year,. This is a non-profit event where participants and organizers take part in workshops, lectures and debates, with the common goal of enriching the city in which it is held, and therefore, enriching themselves.


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IDENTITY

EASA [European Architecture Students Assembly], is an international network of architecture students that, in collaboration with graduated architects and artists research the architecture and urban challenges of today. EASA is a platform for the exchange of ideas, experiences and thoughts, a starting point for interactions in the field of the city.

HISTORY

EASA was founded in 1981 when students of architecture from Liverpool invited fellow students from all over Europe to come together to discuss and work on proposals addressing the problem of the city.The meeting comprised of 300 delegates, architecture students, and this constituted the first EASA. This inau-gural assembly developed into an an annual international event where European architecture students gather in a different place every year with the purpose of exchanging ideas and points of view over architecture and working on proposals related to this context of our education and ambitions.

THE ASSEMBLY

Every Assembly involves the participation of 400-450 architecture students who come together for an event composed of workshops, lectures, debates and exhibitions related to the proposed theme for the city in which the event takes place. The theme is always linked with reflections derived from the place and the interventions and consequently the actions and developments that occur are both practical and theoretical, with an intrinsic link to context.

THEME

The aim of easa011 is to promote a recognition and devise proposals on the complexity of the place through ac-tions, linked with the main theme of the Assembly. The XXXIth edition of EASA will be organized for two weeks during the summer of 2011 under the theme ‘deCOASTruction’, making reference to the de-configuration that the Spanish coast has suffered over the last years due to the housing boom.


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PLACE

The places selected for hosting the event are Madrid and Cadiz. Thanks to this duality, we intend that participants of the Assembly obtain a complete vision of the architectonic and urban reality in Spain, from the inland cities, as well as from the coastal areas.Madrid, our capital city, will constitute the starting point for the meeting because of its interesting and active architectonic panorama, and because of its accessibility from all around Europe.However the majority of the Assembly will be spent in Cadiz, where the participants will stay in contact with a second urban reality constituting the basis for the workshops that will take place there.

THE EASA NETWORK

In addition to the summer meetings, EASA actively supports international communication and exchange through its National Contacts. These representatives [2 per country] are in regular contact throughout the year and meet every autumn for a week at the nominal INCM [Intermediate National Contacts Meeting] which is again held in a different country each year. During these meetings past events reviews are performed and decisions for the future events are discussed and confirmed amongst the representatives from each participating country.

OTHER ACTIVITIES

EASA is an active network that also organises several SESAMs [Small European Students of Architecture Meet-ings]. These meetings can take place throughout the year in different countries with around 100 international students taking part in them. They serve as a networking event prior to the main summer assembly and consist of workshops, lectures, appropriate to the chosen theme and context.In addition to the various meetings and assemblies, EASA also organizes many other events as exhibitions, competitions, design charettes, exchanges throughout the year.

LEGAR FRAMEWORK

EASA, from the outset, has always acted as an organization that takes on a new legal form every year, in the country in which the Assembly is held. For this reason, it is the responsibility of the host country to organise the Assembly, co-ordinate the EASA activities and perform the selection of the Assembly’s participants for that year...The National Contacts meetings act as an important decision instrument for the organization. These meetings take place at least twice a year: during the summer Assemblies and during the autumn INCMs.The ‘ASAM-BLEA EUROPEA DE ESTUDIANTES DE ARQUITECTURA - EASA ESPAÑA 2011’ is the legal body for organizing easa011, it is legally constituted in Spain as a non-profit youth association.


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EASA AND ITS ASSEMBLIES1981_ England LIVERPOOL / Starting up the EASA Experience 1982_ Netherlands DELFT / Architecture of an Uncertain Future 1983_ Portugal LISBOA / Social Spaces 1984_ Denmark AARHUS / Turning point in Architecture 1985_ Greece ATENAS / Interpretation and Action in the City 1986_ Italy TURÍN / Architecturi Latenti 1987_ Finland HELSINKI / Architecture and Nature 1988_ Germany BERLIN / The Dimension Between 1989_ France MARSEILLE / Heritage et Creativé 1990_ Sweden KARLSKRONA / Exploration 1991_ USSR KOLOMNA / Regeneration 1992_ Turkey ÜRGÜP / Vision 2000 Environment 1993_ Scotland SANDWICK / The Isle 1994_ Belgium LIEJA / Consommer l’Inconsumable 1995_ Poland ZAMOSC / Beyond the Borders 1996_ France CLERMONT L’HERAULT / Dream Builders! 1997_ Scandinavia THE TRAIN / Advancing Architecture 1998_ Malta VALETTA / Living on the Edge 1999_ Greece KAVALA / Osmosis 2000_ Belgium/Netherlands ANTWERP - ROTTERDAM / Dis-Similarities 2001_ Turkey GÖKEADA / No Theme 2002_ Croatia VIS / Senses 2003_ Denmark FRILAND / Sustainable Living 2004_ France ROUBAIX / Metropolitain- Micropolitain 2005_ Switzerland BERGUN / Tran, Trans, Transit 2006_ Hungary BUDAPEST / Common Place 2007_ Greece ELEFSINA / city_index 2008_ Ireland LETTERFRACK / Adaptation2009_ Italy DARFO / SpermARCHet2010_ United Kingdom MANCHESTER / ID2011_ Spain MADRID - CADIZ / deCOASTruction


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WHERE will it be held?

IN SPAIN FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HISTORY

The easa011 organization, that will take place during the summer of 2011, is being co-ordinated by a group of 15 people, students of architecture coming from different Spanish universities and young graduates in co-operation with interested tutors and professionals. Spain has been successfully elected as the organizing country in 2011, after bidding with an official proposal at the INCM [Intermediate National Contacts Meeting], the EASA international committee composed by members from more than 40 European countries, in October 2009 in Liechtenstein.EASA Spain has worked for many years with the support of the Polytechnic University of Valencia, where it headquarters are based.

EASA011 will be held in Cádiz, where the workshops, lectures, discussions and exhibitions will take place. The theme (deCOASTruction) deals with the process of de-configuration the Spanish coast has experienced over the last decades due to massive construction. We understand that the massive urbanization is phenomenon that has been produced at a national level so through lectures and activities we will help the participants to obtain a big picture of what urbanization has been in Spain over the last decades.


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CADIZ

Cadiz, the oldest western city, throughout the centuries has been one of the cities that has experienced more changes, a fact that is noticeable in its urban pattern.

The Andalusian coast, as with the rest of the Spanish coast, has experienced huge changes throughout the last decades due to the tourist boom in Spain. These changes are visible in all the regions with different intensity. However it is not the city of Cadiz itself where these occurrences have developed to the fullest, due to its stra-tegical location, but in the southern part of the area as well as in many coastal parts of Cadiz where the holiday neighbourhoods express a violent relation with the environment.

Inkeeping with the theme of urban character, easa011 proposes to participate and work inside the city through workshops developing alternatives to urban problems at a practical and theoretical level during the two weeks of the Assembly.

Regarding the venues for the Assembly, the team have already confirmed several places that could host the event. They are: ‘San Sebastian’ castle, two schools and sports halls. In addition to this, there is a number of spaces available in which to develop the different workshops: ‘Santa Catalina’ fortress, ‘La Candelaria’ fortress and a building that belongs to the University of Cadiz.


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Every year EASA is held in a different European city and the organizers choose a theme that constitutes the con-necting thread to guide the whole Assembly. This theme is the inspiration for the workshops and it is supported by lectures, excursions and events in order to provide a better understanding of the surrounding reality.

For easa011, the organizing team has developed the theme deCOASTruction. The coined term represents in a simple way the theoretical and geographic principles we want to transmit: deconstruction in the coast.

With this new term, we want to express to all the European participants a reality that is particular to Spain and different from their countries of origin. We want to show from an urban, architectonic and objective perspective the development experienced in Spain from the 1960’s until today and the arrival of the welfare state, along with the consequences that these phenomena have had on the Spanish coast. We understand deconstruction in the coast as an urban concern, as a landscape concern that affects the land structures, as a disaster that produces bodies dependent on infrastructure, as a legal conflict, etc. Nevertheless we should not forget that there are also some poignant examples of good design in relation with the environment. For these these reasons, the work-shops will focus on this reality by producing theoretical and practical works developed by all the participants in the Assembly.

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1. National selection

The EASA network operates in more than 40 European countries with the support of the National Contact rep-resentatives. Every European country has two National Contacts and these individuals are responsible for the selection of participants for each Assembly. The selection procedure may vary from country to country depend-ing on the number allocation of candidates and other country-specific criteriaIf you would like to participate in easa011, please contact the National Contacts of the country where you study and ask for information regarding the selection procedure.

*You will find your country’s National Contacts in Appendix 1

2. easa011 requirements

After the selection process mentioned in the previous point, if you are selected to attend easa011, your National Contact will require from you the following information:

· Application form.· Participation fee (see Appendix 2).· 11’’ deCOASTruction video (see Appendix 3)

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HOW TO NAME YOUR FILES?

It is very simple. The application form and the 11’’ deCOASTruction video file names will contain certain informa-tion as follows:

country_surname-name_easa011 application form.pdf country_surname-name_easa011 decoastruction video (.avi or .mov)

Example:

Agnieszka Kowalska from Poland would write:

poland_kowalska-agnieszka_easa011 application form.pdf poland_kowalska-agnieszka_easa011 decoastruction video (.avi or .mov)

DATES

· Participantpack release: 7th February 2011· Call for participants: this date may vary depending on the country. Please contact your National Contact for more information. (See Appendix 1)


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I am a student coming from a Latin American university. Can I still participate in easa011?Yes, you can. EASA has a bilateral agreement with CLEA since 2003 for the exchange of participants from both organisations. Contact the CLEA National Contact for more information.

I am a student coming from outside Europe and outside Latin America. Can I still participate in easa011?Yes, you can. EASA stands for the European Architecture Students Assembly and therefore only European countries have a standing representationas part of this. However, students from other continents are welcome through our International Contacts. Please contact them to for further information.

Can I directly contact to the easa011 organisers to attend the event?No, you cannot. All the applications must be organized through your National Contact and no single application through any other means will be accepted.

I am a student from a European country that is not represented in EASA. Can I still participate?Sure! There are a few ‘lost countries’ with no representation in EASA at the moment. Contact us on [email protected] and tell us about your case.

My workshop was selected and therefore I will be a tutor in easa011. Should I still register as a participant?No, you should not.

My workshop was not selected during the workshop selection process. Can I still participate as a participant?Yes, you can.

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GROUP 1: 100% = 300 eurosAustria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Lichtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, The Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and non-European partici-pants. GROUP 2: 80% = 240 eurosPoland, Portugal. GROUP 3: 60% = 180 eurosCyprus, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Moscow(*), Slovenia, Slovakia.

GROUP 4: 40% = 120 eurosBulgaria, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Turkey, Armenia, GROUP 5: 20% = 60 eurosAlbania, Kosovo, Macedonia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Georgia, Moldova, Russia(**), Ukraine.

(*) (**) Due to economic differences, Moscow and the rest of Russia are separated in different payment groups.

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In this year’s EASA, all the participants and tutors will be required to make a video (eleven seconds) on the theme of the Assembly, deCOASTruction. The theme itself is broad in scope and therefore we invite entries relating to the coast, construction and deconstruction processes.

The video technique is free.

All the entries will be exhibited on promotional events around Spain leading up until and during easa011..

Video Presentation Requirements:

Length: 11 secondsFormat: .avi or .movMaximum size: 5MbQuality: 720x560

deCOASTruction VIDEO

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CREDITS:

Fotography: Sándor Lilienberg Bojana Boranieva Leyla Ibrahimova Piotr Maciaszek Roland Dániel Németh

Design: Javier Díaz Garrido

Text: Francisco J. Rodríguez Perez Jesús Díaz Osuna

Edition: Jesús Díaz Osuna


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EASA SpainETS de arquitectura de Valencia

UPV, Camino de la Vera s/n46022 Valencia

(España)

m:+34 620 304 618 (Francisco)m:+34 667 623 965 (Jesús)

e: [email protected]

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