W#1
Thomas Kauertz & Anja Markwart, HAWK Hildesheim, Germany
Magdalena Malska, Cracow, Poland
The workshop will focus on small architectural and design objects make of used paper. The students will design and build playground equipment and/or street furniture in the public urban space. Workshop leader architect Thomas Kauertz says:
‘I know rain could be a problem, but we have already completed two similar projects - paper bridges and paper boat competition - that I am sure from our experience that it works!’
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W#2
Chris Doray, Vancouver, Canada & Ewelina Woźniak-Szpakiewicz, Cracow, Poland
Xinyu Xie, London, UK
Terrorism is a tangible reality in the everyday lives of Londoners. The stage is set on a Catastrophic Theme which calls for counter-terrorists measures in the realm of sustainable and ecological remedies to an environmental fallout in the year 2020. This workshop will tackle issues of risk assessment and management and direct its exploratory efforts towards attaining design solutions that would have otherwise crippled this world capital city to the mercy of its political and economic predators! The tutors are looking for a diverse range of participants bridging from architecture, urbanism, environmental science, sociology to film
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W#3
W#5
Natalia Pantelidou, Copenhagen, Denmark
This workshop will focus on addressing urban design and landscape design interventions in the city of London.
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Raffaella Colombo, Milan, Italy
This workshop will focus on addressing the public space in London, aiming to design micro-spaces or a small public square in the city of London.
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Braha Kunda, Tel Aviv, Israel & M. Leyla Turanalp, Boston, USA
This workshop will focus on developing a community-based and a contextual human-centered design approach with an emphasis on sustainability.
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W#7
W#8
Oliver Schneider & Maria Tsemani & Olga Koumaditou, London, UK
This workshop will be led by The Facility Architects + Consultants. The Mayor's Climate Change Strategy in London calls for retrofitting 1.2 million homes by 2015. Within this context, the workshop will focus on retreofit solutions for existing homes in the city of London.
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W#9
W#10
Martijn Schildkamp, Netherlands
Social design has become very popular among students and young professionals these days. This workshop is highly recommended to anyone with a desire to do social projects or reconstruction work in a developing country, or who has an interest in learning more about the aid industries in general. In this week we develop a design brief with initial sketches for a typical building in a developing country. The assignments include a single-family house, a school or community building, a rural hospital or an orphanage. In small groups the students make an assessment of the particular area and define all the different design parameters, such as topographic, climatic, political and socio-cultural influences. We look at areas such as Haiti, Pakistan, Kashmir, Nepal, The Philippines, and Indonesia. The participants can make suggestions as well. This is a design workshop, with focus on the complexity of the context and the importance of identifying the actual needs of the recipient. Weather permitting, we include a solar cooking experiment.
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Martijn Schildkamp, Netherlands
This hands-on workshop is all about awareness and highlights the many possibilities of using discarded and recycled materials. The assignments challenge you to think in different ways. During the week the participants will experiment with waste materials in four different disciplines. These are Art, Product Design, Construction and Architecture. In groups they will create several objects with one typeof waste material that they need to find nearby. The first is an art installation and the second is a usable product. We finish with the Height Challenge; construct a freestanding tower with your waste material.
This week is about fun, creativity, and practical thinking, and above all, working with your hands. When subscribing to this course, we encourage you to immediately start looking around for possible discarded materials and make sure to collect them.
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Trailer of Ecoweek London 2014