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Ceramic Futures: From Poetry to Science Fiction is a project organized by Cersaie. For its 2nd edition, the project is held in collaboration with Accademia delle Belle Arti di Bologna, École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs (EnsAD), ELISAVA and Politecnico di Milano.

Deadline for application is 25th april 2014.

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[pic by Jorge Lascar]

IP-programme workshop
Creating Context #3
will be held in Krakow
13 – 27  > now 6th to 20th July  2014

POLIMI will take part with 6 MA students & 2 staff members: call for students is now open!

Sixty students working in nine cross-disciplinary (Art and Architecture) and transnational (5 Nationality) groups will develop proposals for public artworks in Kracow. Two academics, again, cross-disciplinary and transnational, are appointed to each student group to support them in the organisation and execution of their project.

Have a look at the WS programme and if interested send, using we-transfer or similar, your Portfolio in PDF format [max A3 size and 50MB].

Submission deadline Sunday 16 FEB 2014

WS Conditions:
– Accommodation supplied by organisers free of charge
– Travelling reimboursed at 90%
– Food on your own budget
– 4 ECTS for Polimi students

For programme details just browse the previous editions: the agenda for Krakow is not yet fixed.

Here is the link to the workshop home page

Mirjam Ohringer – Widerstand gegen die Nationalsozialisten in NL

Per la Giornata della Memoria (27 Gennaio 2014), lablog, all’interno del progetto di ricerca REcall, è andato ad ascoltare i racconti di Mirjam Ohringer, una sopravvissuta alla deportazione di Ebrei ad Amsterdam e membro attivo della Resistenza Ebrea in città. Tra le tante cose dette nelle due ore di conversazione, Mirjam ha ricordato di aver rifiutato la possibilità che le si era creata di emigrare in Svizzera per non abbandonare la sua posizione di giovane della resistenza cittadina.

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Dal 18 al 28 settembre presso il Politecnico di Milano, campus Leonardo si terrà un workshop didattico di progettazione (4CFU)  aperto agli studenti di architettura e urbanistica (triennio e biennio) dedicato alla riprogettazione di Piazza Leonardo da Vinci attraverso l’integrazione di tecniche di lettura e disegno dello spazio urbano e di allestimento e movimento nello spazio scenico. Il workshop si colloca nell’ambito della sperimentazione Piazza Leonardo un insieme di iniziative di collaborazione tra Amministrazione comunale/zona 3 di Milano finalizzato alla riqualificazione della Piazza, punta a risultati concreti e fattibili che verranno discussi pubblicamente, avrà come esito parziale l’allestimento di una performance pubblica.

Per partecipare è necessario inviare entro e non oltre il 10 settembre 2013 domanda di partecipazione, curriculum di studio in PDF e portfolio sintetico dei propri lavori in PDF al seguente indirizzo: antonio.longo@polimi.it.

Responsabili del workshop | Antonio Longo, Pierluigi Salvadeo con Maria Carpaneto (coreografa e danzatrice)

Download the flyer

Per informazioni | web smartplanpolimi

MINES LANDSCAPE DESIGN is a workshop organized by DASTU / Politecnico di Milano that will take place in September between Iglesias (Sardinia) and Milan.

The deadline to apply is the 20th of July

Info HERE

REcall project workshop in Falstad, 24th-30th June 2013

Research by design activity aimed at envisioning projects in consistency with the issues pointed out in the REcall-project Call. Two-days visits to the case-study sites will provide direct knowledge of the project areas and identification of specific requirements suggested by the hosting institutions. The workshop activities will comprise teamwork, conferences, seminars, lectures and communications from local administration.

Browse the programme

Il concorso è stato aperto anche agli studenti della magistrale, oltre che ai laureati dopo il 2007/The competition is now open also to MA students besides the Graduated after 2007

speriamo di vedervi partecipare numerosi/we look forward to see many of you partecipating!

http://www.recall-project.polimi.it/call-description/

This call for tenders is part of the REcall project and aims at receiving enthusiastic and thorough proposal for Difficult Heritage – such as the ones coming from XX Century conflicts and wars – re-appropriation interventions. Selected entries will be granted access to one of the two design workshops which will take place in Norway and Italy in 2013. Proposals will be guided towards a successful end, in which those selected entries will compete for a final prize involving an economic contribution.

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IP Creating&Context #2
Emscher Kunst Triennale 2013
Duisburg 14 – 28 July 

Call for Application

Sixty students working in nine cross-disciplinary and transnational groups will develop proposals for a permanently sited public artwork as part of the Emscher Kunst Triennale 2013. Working collaboratively in your cross-disciplinary groups you are asked to respond creatively to the designated site.  You are asked to reflect upon this unique context and to design a place for human interaction/contemplation. This should be a specially designed site-specific structure that is situated somewhere along the green belt area that incorporates steel as the main material.

The assessment will be done via an exhibition and a formal presentation to a selection committee: at the end of the assessment, at least one proposal will be selected to be fully realized.

Selection criteria
POLIMI will select the 6 participants according the evaluation of the following delivered documents (collected together into one single PDF file of max 20MB):

–       a Portfolio (on pag 1 – cover – place name surname and ph&email contacts)
–       a Letter of Motivation
–       a Presentation concerning the last point highlighted in the program description: the request to research aspects of the brief prior to the start of the project (download and read the full program).

Deadline for submission: 15 March 2013 > NEW DATE: 08MARCH2013!

Mail the document to gennaro.postiglione(at)polimi.it
Use a jumbomail delivery service (libero, wetransfer, dropbox sharing option, etc.): do not attach the PDF at the email.

At the workshop it will be recognized 4 ECTS.

Download Creating&Context Duisburg 2013 program and/or visit Creating&Context Bologna 2012 website

REcall – European Conflict Archaeological Landscape Re-appropriation

Concorso per laureandi e giovani laureati.

1. Tre membri, per ognuno dei dieci gruppi che verranno selezionati, parteciperanno (avendo tutto spesato) ad uno dei due workshop previsti (uno in Norvegia e uno in Italia).
2. Inoltre ogni gruppo ha un rimborso di 1000 euro come contribuito per le spese di elaborazione dei materiali da consegnare nella seconda fase.
3. I vincitori, riceveranno un premio di 3000 euro se primi e 2000 se secondi.
4. Infine, tre membri del gruppo di progettazione parteciperanno, avendo tutto spesato, al seminario finale con mostra e convegno.
5. I gruppi dovranno essere composti almeno da 1 architetto, 1 archeologo, 1 artista.

Cerca un team partner su REcall-project FB group

Download the call

Deadline for registration: 30 JAN 2013 > new dead line 15 MAR 2013
Deadline for delivering the proposal: 15 FEB 2013 > new deadline 28 FEB 2013

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Interior design Workshop

‘400 years of Canal houses in Amsterdam’

8-14 April 2012

download the Call

For POLIMI students deadline is Monday 26 November (h. 24:00).

Send a 400 words motivation (with contacts detail) + an illustrated portfolio all together in A3 PDF format of max 10MB [larger files will be not taken in consideration] to: gennaro.postiglione(at)polimi.it

Required experience in video/editing with Final Cut Pro (compulsory).

Max 2 POLIMI students will be selected and 2 ECTS: all other details of the WS are in the Call poster.

Visualizza REcall_Venice WWII ‘Places&Stories’ in una mappa di dimensioni maggiori

The Venice workshop has for REcall a double challenge: is the occasion for launching officially (and in public) the project and also to test the quality and the quantity of its research queries. But the choice of Venice is not by chance, but a carefully elaborated decision connected to the specific concept behind the fore coming 13th Architecture Biennale titled ‘Common Ground’.

Download flyer &  map

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http://www.icsplat.org

In recent decades the dissemination and accentuationof the perception of disaster have fueled insecurity and collective fear by encouraging the development of technicist rhetoric, that uses engineering as linear solution to the issues.

Above a certain line of speed and employment of information, a disaster takes such a social and cultural significance that technical knowledge and economies are forced to reorganize themselves exclusively within its logic. The promise of a total security guaranteed by Rhetoric is the answer to the collective fear unleashed by the media. Read the rest of this entry »

Dear Students,
This is the last call for participation to the next Intensive Erasmus Workshop on “Structural Architectures: Geometry Code and Design”

The deadline is July the 15th

You will find in attachment the poster concerning the call for the next Intensive Erasmus Workshop on “structural Architectures: Geometry Code and Design”, containing all the useful information you need at the moment for the selection. Interested students have to send via e-mail the following materials, by July 15th 2012, to: luigi.cocchiarella@polimi.it:

1_letter of motivation (in English, maximum 2.000 typefaces long)
2_transcript of forme courses

After July 11th a date for short inerviews will be fixed, in order to select the 8 students who will participate in the workshop.

The project developed the past year are published on-line and available at: summerschool-milano2011 (see there “erasmus intensive program milano 2011”).

Best regards,
Prof. Luigi Cocchiarella

Cari tutti,
il Laboratorio di Cooperazione Internazionale del DiAP del Politecnico di Milano organizza un Workshop Internazionale RECIFE CALLS MILANO sul tema della pianificazione degli spazi verdi periurbani a Recife, che si terrà a Milano nella settimana tra il 19 al 24 novembre 2012.
Questo workshop è il primo di una serie che vedrà coinvolte altre realtà (per ora Cairo e Salvador de Bahia).

In allegato trovate il manifesto e il bando del Workshop.
Ci farete cosa gradita pubblicizzando questa iniziativa presso laureandi magistrali, laureati e dottorandi potenzialmente interessati a questi temi.

Scarica il bando

Saluti,
Marcello Magoni e Rachele Radaelli
Laboratorio di Cooperazione Internazionale (DiAP)

PS. Sul manifesto viene indicato l’indirizzo del sito web del workshop che sarà attivo da metà luglio.