Last night the male Easian population retreated into the shadows feeling small as two easian legends had the females of Easa on the edges of their increasingly damp seats. Even as a red blooded het- rosexual male i cannot profess to being impervious to the charms and linguistic dexterity of these two substantial chap- ters in Easa‘s history. >All aboard the love train I will begin this column with the pre- sentation of Morten (the magnificent) Gehl and EASA ‚97 also known as the train EASA. This phenomenal architec- tural journey was a demonstration in just how boundless and without limits EASA really can be. The room sat, slack jawed as we were smoothly led through a slick presentation that clearly (apart from a bizarre metaphor about an eggy moon) explained how a fantastically ambitious idea became a fantastically ambitious reality. After the indepen- dently formidable feat of raising a bud- get $1,000,000, we learnt how during from across europe. Local help, the wonderful RIBA, favours and Geoff‘s dad‘s tools all lead us to where we are now. Equipped with a shock of curly hair these architectural visionaries cre- ated an anarchaic architectural model that answered to no-one. Morten and Geoff both descibed how they overcame problems to create something marvelous. Easa is a organic living thing and no measure of discuss- ing can dictate or control it‘s future. Geoff-founder said „if EASA dies, it dies.“ but it ain‘t on it‘s last legs yet. EASA LIVES ON! the train ride to paradise the ‚97 team managed to fix two locomotive engines and a brake system. Intimidated? fear not! This moving as- sembly is inspiration for the future EA- SAs if we IMPROVISE and ADAPT. >Anarchy in the UK Geoff Haslam is where it all began. Almost 30 years ago the first ever Ea- sians met up in Liverpool to discuss and change the social, educational and political problems they saw in the architecture of the time. Without any precedent and none of the modern technologies we now take for granted G-Dawg Haslam and Ragin‘ Richard Murphy managed to contact and round up a collection of architecture students Day Two of this years INCM will definitly be a night to remember. After discussing the role of the NC within the Network and all its elements, the EASA History Night was a wonderfull moment, but as usual, we cannot describe it with words. We were just sitting there, thinking, wow-and we are part of this wonderfull idea of a Network for european architecture students, that has been living on since almost 30 Years? COOL! One of the Founders of the Liverpool Workshops, Geoff Haslam was visiting us in Liechtenstein. He has been texting Richard Murphy and told us, that Richard is a bid jealous for not being here with us. Next time we want both! RÄGASCHIARM ISSUE SEVEN 18.10.2009 INCM009.li “EASA lives on” Geoff Haslam “Improve and adapt” Morten Gehl
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Last night the male Easian population retreated into the shadows feeling small as two easian legends had the females of Easa on the edges of their increasingly damp seats. Even as a red blooded het-rosexual male i cannot profess to being impervious to the charms and linguistic dexterity of these two substantial chap-ters in Easa‘s history.
>All aboard the love train
I will begin this column with the pre-sentation of Morten (the magnificent) Gehl and EASA ‚97 also known as the train EASA. This phenomenal architec-tural journey was a demonstration in just how boundless and without limits EASA really can be. The room sat, slack jawed as we were smoothly led through a slick presentation that clearly (apart from a bizarre metaphor about an eggy moon) explained how a fantastically ambitious idea became a fantastically ambitious reality. After the indepen-dently formidable feat of raising a bud-get $1,000,000, we learnt how during
from across europe. Local help, the wonderful RIBA, favours and Geoff‘s dad‘s tools all lead us to where we are now. Equipped with a shock of curly hair these architectural visionaries cre-ated an anarchaic architectural model that answered to no-one.
Morten and Geoff both descibed how they overcame problems to create something marvelous. Easa is a organic living thing and no measure of discuss-ing can dictate or control it‘s future.
Geoff-founder said „if EASA dies, it dies.“ but it ain‘t on it‘s last legs yet.
EASA LIVES ON!
the train ride to paradise the ‚97 team managed to fix two locomotive engines and a brake system. Intimidated? fear not! This moving as-sembly is inspiration for the future EA-SAs if we IMPROVISE and ADAPT.
>Anarchy in the UK
Geoff Haslam is where it all began. Almost 30 years ago the first ever Ea-sians met up in Liverpool to discuss and change the social, educational and political problems they saw in the architecture of the time. Without any precedent and none of the modern technologies we now take for granted G-Dawg Haslam and Ragin‘ Richard Murphy managed to contact and round up a collection of architecture students
Day Two of this years INCM will definitly be a night to remember. After discussing the role of the NC within the Network and all its elements, the EASA History Night was a wonderfull moment, but as usual, we cannot describe it with words. We were just sitting there, thinking, wow-and we are part of this wonderfull idea of a Network for european architecture students, that has been living on since almost 30 Years? COOL! One of the Founders of the Liverpool Workshops, Geoff Haslam was visiting us in Liechtenstein. He has been texting Richard Murphy and told us, that Richard is a bid jealous for not being here with us. Next time we want both!
RÄGASCHIARM ISSUE SEVEN18.10.2009INCM009.li
“EASA lives on” Geoff Haslam
“Improve and adapt” Morten Gehl
minutes and meetingsConclusion of the meeting 17Oct
The conclusion of the first meeting on Saturday 17th October centred on the role of the NC, their responsibilities be-fore EASA and how they can help the organisers on site.NCs should take a more active role dur-ing EASA. They could arrive a day or two early to help set up and get famil-iar with the site. An introduction to the event should be given to them so they will have more information for their participants and can take more respon-sibility. This will flatten the hierarchy within the event and take pressure off the organisers. NCs should schedule a country meeting after the NC meetings to keep participants informed. NCs should promote the idea of being a tutor within their country as well. They should have enough information to in-form them for their proposal. If the pro-posal is accepted then the responsibility is transferred to the organisers. To help NCs a new improved NC guide is being written by the documentation group and will include their respon-sibilities and tips on how to promote EASA and get sponsorship.
SESAM009 Rome presentation:The organizing team presented SES-AM009 in Rome. They thanked their sponsors and the participants. They also presented their budget which had a minor profit thanks to a lot of help from sponsors.
EASA009, Italy presentationThe organizers of EASA009 explained that the most important things you need when organizing an EASA is:1. A good team2. Written contracts and signa-tures from sponsors and fundings3. A lot of time and energy to dedicate to the profit.
Problems:1. Italy had a lot of sponsors bail-ing on them in the last minute.2. The organising team was spread all over Italy which made it very
tutorpack is only the first edition and will change and improve over the next six months.The workshops will be divided into theoretical and practical workshops as seen at previous EASA‘s. Tutors will probably pay half of the participant‘s fee which created a debate but ended up with the agreement that it is up to the organizers.
Umbrella and Small interven-tions:EASA010 want to redefine and develop veteran workshops as Umbrella and small interventions. The goal is to allow these workshops to be represented ev-ery year but also allow them to change and grow. A way to do that could be to auction them away. Meaning that people can apply/win the job as tutors in these workshop by proposing inter-esting ideas and goals of how to run the workshop. This will allow the workshop not to die or be run by the same group of Easians year after year.
Lectures:Manchester would prefer if more par-ticipants participate in the debates and lectures and suggest to encourage par-ticipants to do small lectures about a topic of their choice that is relevant for the location, site, workshop or profes-sion.
Questions and comments from NC‘sSecurity:concerns about the security of EASA when the event is spread out over a large area and the students have to walk around the city at all times in the day.the organizers promise to protect the campsites and workshops from theft but want participants to be responsible for themselves when they move around in the city.
The theme:It was suggested that the organizers of EASA010 clarify the theme more to provide a greater understanding of the theme and better workshops. This will be done as the tutorpack evolves.
hard to work as a group.
They also informed us that they had a budget of 103.000 euro, which is less than half of the previous budgets.
EASA010 Manchester presenta-tion Information: dates: 31th of july to 15th of august: www.easauk.net
Theme: „Identity“The chosen theme is identity because it is a broad term, but also a term that is hard to describe and define.Manchester wants to interact more with the surroundings of the EASA camp and has therefore chosen to place the EASA010 in a city and spread out the camp to different locations in the city. There will be one or two main centres as an infopoint and lounge and a main powertool and workshop space. The workshops will take place around the city and force it‘s participants to interact more with the city and move around in it.
Some of the ways the Manchester team will experiment with the theme „Iden-tity“ can for instance be experiments with the nationalities of the participat-ing countries. A suggestion could be, that the nationalities have to swap identities on national evening and in-vestigate and present a foreign country. This can be done in a number of ways, but the aim is to force the countries to interact and to learn more about each others cultures.
Excursion destination:It is also debated at the moment wheth-er or not the excursion of EASA010 should go all the way to Liverpool or to a mill at the countryside nearby.
Number of participants:EASA010 can host up to 500 partici-pants.
Workshops:The first tutorpack was presented. This
The Swedish magazine called „IDENTITY“Kajsa from Sweden made the NC‘s aware of a Swedish magazine called Identity that is being published this fall. She would really encourage people to write contributions to this magazine, especially the organizers of EASA010.
Suggested Improvements from the NC‘s:A library close to or in the lounge cre-ated by the participants. It could con-sist of magazines etc. brought from everyone‘s home country and field of architecture to EASA010.An improved information system to inform the participants about the ac-tivities of the workshops in the city. This could be a mobile phone chain or by filming the activities in the work-shops and project the film on screens in the lounge. This would allow the participants to know when ever some-thing interesting was going on in a workshop and encourage the partici-pants to move and attend the event.It is also very essential that the par-ticipants know where the workshops are located in the city for instance on a map and allowing accessible condi-tions between the main camps and the workshops so that the workshops will be places in a reasonable walking dis-tance from the main camps. Bustickets or similar is given to the participant in order to make the process of transpor-tation as smooth as possible between the activities.Participants should be involved in EASA earlier in the process. They could be given small tasks and infor-mation before attending EASA.
The workshop fair-systemThere was also a common interest in redefining and changing the structure of the workshops-introduction-fair to ensure that the participants get one of their workshop-top priorities. This should be done through a workshop-introduction-presentation as well as using priority notes that the partici-pants fill out and hands to the organ-isers. This should lower the stress and
confusion of the participants due to the present non-functional workshop-fair and sign-up sheets system..EASA007 in Greece was mentioned as a good example of a functional work-shop-fair system.Greece started the workshop fair by having all the workshop present their workshop in a small presentation. Thereafter the workshop answered questions at their workshop table. In the end the participants handed in a note with the workshop-priority of their choice to the organizers. By using this method everyone got a fair chance getting the workshop they wanted without fighting over the signup-sheet. If this system need further adjustment a note with several priorities will allow the participants to get one of their top priorities and avoid the situation where participants are forced into workshops where they find no interest and there-fore choose either to skip the workshop or show a low level of enthusiasm and participation.
Former organizers pointed out that it was of great importance that the par-ticipants committed to the workshops and stayed there for the whole time to create the best outcome, interaction and group work in the workshop.
Discussion about fees and pay-ment roups.The organizers of EASA010 in Man-chester suggested to minimize the number of payment groups from 5 to 3. This would be done by combining group 2 and 3 and group 4 and 5.This would mean that group 1: pay 100% of the feegroup (2-3): pays 60% of the feegroup (4-5) pays 30% of the fee.This suggestion caused a lot of debate and at the end it was decided that the organizers of Manchester EASA010 wont change the groups. The idea came up to get team UK to make a sugges-tion of the fees and the division of the countries in the five groups and pres-ent it to the NC‘s. Due to the amount of work and the doubt of being essential it was declined. The countries of group 5 made the NC‘s aware of the big prob-
lems associated with the VISA applica-tion process in their countries and they would really encourage the organizers to take this issue seriously and maybe provide some financial support as well as free VISA support.The travel issues such as costs and dis-tance should also be taken into consid-eration when the group-division is made by organizers of future EASA‘s. The current participant 270 euro fee was set in Ireland and kept since in Italy and now in Manchester. This price made a little debate because it was decided in Moscow that the price should be 240 euros and kept on that level for a couple of years. In the end it was decided that the price could stay on 270 euros due to the increase in food prices and inflation in Europe.Tutor fees. The tutor fee was up for de-bate. There was a lot of different opin-ions on whether or not the tutors should be paying full or half of their participant fee. In the end it was decided that it should be up to the organizers of EASA‘s to decide the prices for the tutors based on the organizers wishes and financial situation.
The relationship between the or-ganizers and NC‘s.It was decided that the NC‘s should help the organizers as much as possible with fundraising as well as the updating of the tutorpack. We were in the end all invited to a big brainstorm with the organizers of EASA010 after dinner so we could all contribute to the creation of a super cool EASA010. The meeting was held when these minutes went into the press.The topic of fundraising should be brought up again later that week paral-lel to the work that has been done in the document group concerning sponsor-ship-gaining from the NC‘s.
OtherElisa Maceratini from Italy asked for help at a project in Columbia in october 2010, where she would like to take10 Ea-sians. Interested people can write to her for further information:[email protected]
*After The lectures, the organiz-ers had prepared a surprise. Each country was lured into the dark sexy cloakroom. Anyone trying to sneak in was well and truly faced, ask Jean-nestoff. Once inside, confused people were force fed skank booze (unless your nation is after the letter U in the alphabet) and given an original INCM009 hoody (american appar-rell too! oh la la). Your letter on your hoody represents the size of your country, with Russia being the only XL going, the organizers obviously forgetting that the sun never sets on the British Empire. Upping the UK quota to include the overseas ter-ritories will be discussed at length soon. The night continued on with Betty Swollocks (Fr) making many appearences thanks to the newly aquired garments. The Rune (Dk) shaped hole on the dance floor was well and truly filled by a dark and mysterious creature of night.
Now with everyone in the hostel wearing the same hoody, we look like a bunch of mentalists in a cult. Theres is a mass suicide meeting at the info point at 02:00. Bring three empty beer bottles, two aspirins, and a bottle of rum , and expect to get wet in the crop fields.
*The 2nd Surprise was: The Presen-tation of the Final report and the ex-hibition of EASA007 in Greece! We celebrated this with all of them with a glas of Wine!
What was the surprise!?
Breakfast 7-9Meeting on 19OctWorkgroups 9-11EASA011 Biding Romania/Spain>Open End!>BBQ
XL Russia 17,000,000km2XL Turkey 783,000XL Ukraine 603,000
L France 543,000L Spain 505,000L Sweden 410,000L Norway 385,000L Germany 357,000L Poland 312,000L Finland 304,000L Italy 301,000L UK 240,000L Romania 238,000L Belarus 207,000
M Georgia 153,909M Greece 131,000M Bulgaria 111,000M Iceland 103,000M Hungary 93,000M Portugal 92,000M Azerbaijan 86,000M Austria 83,000M Czech 78,000M Serbia 77,000M Ireland 70,000M Lithuania 65,000M Latvia 64,000
S Bosnia 51,129S Slowakia 49,000S Denmark 43,000S Switzerland 41,000S Moldova 33,000S Netherlands 33,000S Belgium 30,000S Albania 28,748S Macedonia 25,000S Slowenija 20,000S Montenegro 13,000S Kosovo 10,000S Cyprus 9,000
