Aeolian Currents Summer School

SOUND TECTONICS WORKSHOP SERIES BY INDEPENDENT RESEARCH CENTRE SPACE UNDER Aeolian Currents Summer School | Cyclades | Greece | 10 – 24 July 2014 Aeolian Currents Summer School will be the second Sound Tectonics interdesciplinary workshop of a longer duration organised by the independent research centre Space Under. The research field of Sound Tectonics focuses on the realm of sound art and architecture. The workshop will take place in the Cycladic island of Paros, from 10 - 24 July 2014. The group of tutors and collaborators consists of internationally renowned architects, musicians and experts, such as British artist and composer Max Eastley and Spanish architect and academic Javier Pena Galiano. During the summer school, we will explore aeolian phenomena in order to design and construct apparatuses, which are based on sound, musicality and energy force. The research will be structured upon the extensions of sound art, whilst the result will be the construction of experimental devices and instruments together with energy production. As a team, we do aim to explore ways through which design possibilities and the production of prototypes can be incorporated within the architectural way of thinking and practice. The workshop will be based on both natural and mechanical waves as they appear in wind and sound. We will interpret our natural environment through motion, change, frequencies, materiality and resonance. During the workshop we will combine tutorials on energy and parametric software, interactive hardware and techniques that derive from physical in-situ experiments. The final stage of Aeolian Currents will regard the construction of mechanisms and apparatuses that combine architecture, sound art and energy design and thus the design of an autonomous system of spatial interaction. Sound Tectonics Workshop Series offer:

• Collaboration with a renowned group of artists, scientists and architects from around the world
• Opportunities to explore emerging practices, technologies and methodologies
• Hands-on activities and experimentation in both digital and physical forms
• Active learning environment, which enables one-to-one teaching, seminars and discussions
• Lectures and round tables with interdisciplinary approaches
• Design techniques and methodologies that promote critical thinking through lectures and studio workshops
• Working with emerging hardware and software
• Learning by doing though direct applications of such technologies in 1:1 scale projects

For more info please contact us: E: [email protected] T: +30 210 8819752 www.soundtectonics.com www.spaceunder.com