Final Presentation

Last day of the workshop presentations. It was a long but rewarding day. Analytical descriptions of the projects can be found at the blogs of each team. A link is available under each pic or on the list on the left side of the blog.

• Antoniadi C., Alafropati C., Kukov V., Steliou Sp., Tsiara C., Tsitsi D.   |    Douglas Leonard, Ferrer Felipe

• Aslanidou Julia, Boutou Anna, Papadimitriou Penelope   |    Rodriguez Gabriel

• Bonas Makis, Chopteridou Christine, Kontakis, Sofoklis, Papakostas Giannis   |   Feferman Carlos

• Chatzisotiriou Stelios, Iosif Andreas, Lantou Paraskevi   |   Sonia Fuentes

• Dimitriadou Christina, Georgiadou Kiriaki, Papoutsopoulou Anna Maria |

• Dimitropoulos T., Palaiologou M., Sidiropoulou N.   |   P.Guiraldes

• Gkavogianni Kiriaki, Hatzichristakis Fotis, Petsiou Christina   |   Juan Carlos Parilli

• Harpa Christina, Sergidou Aggeliki, Yiapa Malvina   |   Felix Chunga

• Tsogas Panagiotis, Adamakis Stefanos, Charisi Anastasia | Canedo/Velasco Claudia

HostingTheOther Final Presentation

HostingTheOther Final Presentation

The final presentation will take place on SUN 26.05 at 11.30 pm at the Museum of Photography Café (the same place where the other two presentations took place).

Each team will have 10 minutes to present their project followed by another 10-15 minutes of comments and critique. The presentation should consist of 2(minimum) to 4(maximum) digital images/slides: 1 slide should describe the main idea, 1 slide should show the actual proposal while the other 2 extra slides might be used to add detailing or focus on certain parts/aspects of the project.

HostingTheOther Day V, THU 23, presentations

Work with students.

Work with students.

Second presentation and discussion

Second presentation and discussion

Second presentation and discussion

Second presentation and discussion

HostingTheOther Day IV, WED 22

Groups working at the museum of modern art.

HostingTheOther Day III, TUE 21, phase I presentations

Day III, phase I presentations at the museum of photography

HostingTheOther Day II, MON 20

Groups working at the library of the museum of cinema.

Groups working at the cafe of the museum of photography

Stuff meeting I

Stuff meeting II

1st Presentation, TUE 21

First scheduled presentation is on Tuesday 21 at 14.00.
All teams/groups will present their projects via their blogs and their should make a reference to the following issues/points:
-a brief of the project
-idea/understanding of the concept of the workshop ("hosting the other")
-design process
-side issues encountered during the design process.

HostingTheOther DAY I, SUN 19

Meeting at the cafe of the museum of photography (warehouses at peer 1of the port of Thessaloniki)

-Introduction to the theme.
-Presentation of the site (port of Thessaloniki).
-Presentation of the significant historical role of the port of Thessaloniki.
-Students formed groups and they got to meet with the attendants.

Workshop brief

Traveling Cultures or hosting the ‘Other’

This workshop intends to enhance students’ creative and practical skills required to deal with the increasing complexity and multicultural nature of our contemporary society, and its public spaces through the design of a specific public building-space, the 'Traveling Cultures' program host point. The project draws upon its unrivalled setting in Thessaloniki, its old port, a place of dynamic urban changes, cultural diversity, award-winning regeneration schemes, and innovative approaches to the problems and opportunities produced in our fast changing world.

The project will adopt an education philosophy based on knowing-in-action, integrating theory in a workshop-based format. It will develop the creative and practical design skills between urban and architectural scale. The design studio will act as the very hub of the project and will provide a test bed for fresh approaches, ideas, theories and design interventions that deal with contemporary issues and the diverse activities of architectural-urban design in type and scale. The public place students are asked to design is concerned with the urban quality of specific public places that surround the site. We will specifically work on infilling a site on the Port with a bold proposal that will enhance the site and will accommodate and facilitate intercultural exchange.

The City

-Thessaloniki as a crossroad

-A multicultural city at least in the last three centuries

-Migration and immigration. A significant number of immigrants from Europe, Asia, Africa, China

-Contemporary Thessaloniki a multi-cultural, multinational, multi religion European environment

Aim of the Project

Under the strong internationalization tendencies, to re-think and to protect the different, the unfamiliar, the unknown, the strange, the varying, that is to say the OTHER could be an imperative priority. In a fast changing world, to rethink architecture as not necessarily stable and unchanged form and space but as adaptive, transformable, convertible, mutable, agile...

The content of the project. Proposed scenario

In order to enhance the links between the Mediterranean Counties, the European Union introduced a program called 'Traveling Cultures'. In this program each Mediterranean Country uses a properly equipped ship which will curry some of the most representative elements of its Culture (music, painting, food, cinema, dance, ...) and will visit different ports in order to present for a certain period of time its Cultural identity to the citizen of this city. For this purpose, Mediterranean cities organise in their ports a specific building infrastructure, which will host this visit and will facilitate the development of the cultural activities, which will take place during the visit of the ship. This way this particular location becomes a place for knowing other cultures and experiencing the habits and cultural products from other societies. This place changes its character very often and is permanently adapted to the particularities of the hosted cultures.

The City of Thessaloniki have decided to create this hosting place in order to enhance the integration of the Greek society with the other mediterranean cultures, the locals and the 'others'; to offer possibilities and opportunities to other cultures to be present and to be presented, re-presented, integrated, accepted, understood, amalgamated, promoted and advocated.

The Site

The site of the project is located on the old port of Thessaloniki. An area which is actually is more and more dedicated to cultural activities of the city. There are several possible locations for the 'Traveling Cultures' host point from which students will have the possibility to select one and to argue on their choice.

The Brief

The open-ended brief for the buildings expects from the students to accommodate a versatile space for exhibition and other events, a small auditorium (200 seats), two small office spaces, a meeting room, a cafe with facilities that can act as the infrastructure for food festivals outdoors. It would be interesting to anticipate that the threshold between outdoor and indoor space should b loose as the local weather allows for activities outdoor for more than 1/3 of the year. The language and materiality of the building could be investigated to address, reflect and express its multicultural physiognomy, always situated and part of its strong urban context of the city of Thessaloniki.

Considerations

The public building in a given context

The public building and the time. Adaptability, transformability, responsiveness.

The ‘life’ of the building and the ‘living’ in the city

The Process

Sunday 19 May 2013 Arrival of ADU Partners, introduction of the local teaching staff to the guests. Visit of the site, presentation of the proposed educational objectives. Debate, proposals, adaptations, organisation of the work, distribution of tasks and activities.

Monday 20 to Saturday 25 May 2013 work of students in the workshop.

Sunday 26 May 2013. Final presentation of the projects. Debates, comments, conclusions.