intercity space for architecture at FA STU
announces launching of the
Visegrad Intercity Seminar in Architecture
under the Visegrad University Studies Grant
coordinator: Maria Topolčanská
call for students: 19.-23.9. 11
fall 2011 series of weekly evening lectures/seminars
Official launch of the Visegrad Intercity Seminar in Architecture:
11.10.11, 18.00
participation:
invited lecturers from CZ, PL, HU
representatives of the FA STU, STU and Visegrad Fund
program:
intercity project presentation
introduction of lecturers and curse programme
Open evening lectures:
preliminary programme
11.10.11, 19.00
OSAMU OKAMURA_CZ
architectura res publica
18.10.11, 19.00
BÁLINT KÁDÁR_HU
tourism in our cities: beautifully sterilized experiences
25.10.11, 19.00
ROMAN RUTKOWSKI_PL
(para) architectural spaces in the work of artists of 20th and 21st centuries
8.11.11, 19.00
SAMU SZEMEREY_HU
from broken pipes to data overflow - the architecture of urban systems
15.11.11
MARIA TOPOLČANSKÁ_SK
paperback theory of the second-hand city
22.11.11
special guest lecture
to be confirmed
28.11.11
special guest lecture
to be confirmed
3.- 6.6.12
final workshop with
lecturers and researchers invited for collaboration:
Laura Murgia (haz lighting, Presov), Lee Ariav (landscape architecture, Tel Aviv), Kimberly Zarecor (urban history/theory, Ostrava) and other SK, CZ architects/participants in final review,
6.12.11
EXHIBITION OPENNING
final reviews and exhibition:
Bratislava public/gallery spaces
(to be confirmed)
Seminar work:
5 encounters with urbanity
theoretical, critical, physical, experimental excercises defined and led by lecturers,
all students participate in all 5 encounters,
reserach field work in the city
four weekly updates of reserach work: short presentations, tutorials, e- sessions
final workshop and exhibitions set up
final lectures, student presentations, opening of expo
manual for participants
Participants in the seminar will be asked to respond to the theme Facing Urban Boredom. Students will work in groups to conceive and materialise their research and position on the theme of the course. They can produce spatial model, installation, video documentation, surveys and essays that engages with the city. The work will be presented to a panel of reviewers and the public at the end of the term and exhibited in the public gallery space
- observe and hunt for stereotypes, spaces , situations of urban boredom, make it an inventory, a deposit
- transform your observation into a an ´evidence´ of some process taking place behind urban stereotypes, think them, question them
- curatorial work - translate your encounter into physical form, a model, record the process and write or record a brief commentary to it.
Collaboration in the seminar, research and final expo: invited architecture groups facing urban boredom
place:
openning event - foyer/Nam. Slobody parking lot FA STU
lectures - Aula E.Bellus FA STU
seminar - 1st meeting: 27.9.11,18.00 intercity space N.439
Maria Topolčanská, 16.9.11
mariatopolcanska@hotmail.com