International Workshop: Clear City Ideas for Kyiv

Workshop
A workshop is the main educational event as part of CANactions, joint designing of Ukrainian and foreign architects within one week.

Subject
Clear city ideas for Kyiv

Problem
Our society is unsound:
Crucial human values were substituted with consumer instincts having their roots in fear.
Fear underlies cynicism which turned into a norm of social relations.
Under such conditions there is no demand for humane social concepts, including the city ones.
Documents regulating city development are originally lacking ideas. Their absence is concealed with pseudo-scientific highbrow texts, definitions and sophisticated diagrams declaring about enigmatic exclusivity of ‘professionals’, and many things have the status of being secret. Unlike a general plan of London which is accessible and understandable to any housewife.

Idea
For the last decades, density of the world population has grown considerably, thus making it more integrated. It is much easier now to borrow the best ideas and to develop at the same time our own decent and unique things.

Goals

• to generate simple ideas of the City
• to distribute such ideas
• to get a little closer to healthier society with such ideas

Format
12 ukrainian and 6 foreign architects will be working upon the project of Kiev consisting of three international teams led by tutors - well-known european architects.
General coordination of workshop activities is carried out by workshop curator – from Wonderland team, Austria.

Workshop will last for 5 days, working language is English.

Participation conditions:

1. Students and graduates of architecture or urban design departments.
2. Qualification level of workshop participants as of the day of application submission have to be not less than Bachelor’s degree in architecture or urban design.
3. Only persons under 35 years have the right to participate.
4. Required fluent English.
5. To participate in the workshop one have to provide application form for the contest, which consists of:
5.1. application form (according to the provided example in pdf format),
5.2. cover letter with the theme: Why do I want to participate in this workshop?
5.3. architectural project.*
6. Participation in the project is free of charge. Costs regarding accommodation and meal will be provided by organizers.
7. Travelling expenses have to be covered by participants.

Application forms submission deadline
10.03.2013 at 6:00 p.m. (by Kyiv time).

More information here:  www.canactions.com in page workshop

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