\nThe workshops have been selected for their aims and items, and for a good balance between topics, places’ explorations and periods of work. Workshops are open for applications for students and PhD students, practitioners and scholars\u00a0<\/strong>(often for tutor positions) as well. Fell free to share\u00a0our newsletter to wh
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SUMMER SCHOOLS AND WORKSHOPS<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/a> UNPLUGGED | THE MATERIA OF ARCHITECTURE A project by Zeroundicipi\u00f9,\u00a0<\/em>Cultural Association for Contemporary Architecture<\/em><\/p>\n Turin, Italy I<\/span>n a historical phase in which research (scientific, architectonic etc.) is mainly directed to the exploration of the possibilities \u2013 and the tales \u2013 of new technologies, UNPLUGGED proposes to dive into the real, momentarily London School of Economics | Peking University SUMMER SCHOOL IN BEIJING LSE London School of Economics and Political Science Beijing, China The two-week English-language International Summer School offers university-level courses in subjects including economics, management, international relations, media and law, all with a focus on China and Asia. Participants take one intensive course for the duration of the Summer School, typically comprising 4 hours of lectures each morning and 2 hours of classes each afternoon \u2013 a total of 48 contact hours over 2 weeks. Each course is assessed through written essays and a final examination, enabling the award of a certificate and transcript to successful students. LSE – PKU Summer Sch URBAN GREEN STRUCTURE PLANNING AND DESIGN<\/strong> SGGW Warsaw University of Life Sciences Warsaw, Poland The workshop is focused on Warsaw\u2019s green and blue infrastructure planning with special regards to its recreational function. The students will be provided with data dealing with the project area, including information on environmental and ecological state, socio-economic condition and character of the landscape. Workshop will consist of planning studio, meetings with local authorities and urban planners and fi ONE LAB 2012: FUTURE CITIES TERREFORM 1. Ecological Design Group for Urban Infrastructure, Building, Planning, and Art New York, USA The ONE Lab Summer Session will address the emerging discipline of global urbaneering by assembling a wide range of innovators from fields as diverse as, architecture, material science, urban design, biology, civil engineering and media art.\u00a0Design Studio: 4\u00a0weeks and 100 hours of intense exploration <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n THE DESIGN OF OPEN SPACES BETWEEN PIACENZA AND THE TREBBIA VALLEY Politecnico di Milano, School of Architecture and Society Piacenza, Italy The aim of the Workshop is to propose a master plan for re-organizing the open spaces in the Trebbia Valley district, an historic corridor between Piacenza and the Liguria Region. Particular attention will be paid to environmental issues and open spaces, in order to reach high levels of livability and integration among the urban requirements and the distinctive traits of this valley.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n TIMES OF SCARCITY | RECLAIMING THE POSSIBILITY OF MAKING* A joint project of AESOP, ECTP-CEU, IFHP, ISOCARP and SCIBE London, United Kingdom Globalisation, climate change, resource depletion and financial crises are the prevailing \u2013 and often crippling \u2013 conditions, which shape our immediate professional and academic lives and longer-term futures.\u00a0The 3rd European Urban Summer School (EUSS), hosted by the University of Westminster, School of Architecture and the Built Environment in September 2012, DESIGNING THE SEMI-PUBLIC SPACE Izmo Association Turin, Italy The course is targeted to students, graduates, professionals, and, in general, anyone who is interested in the subject of semi-public space and its redevelopment. Students will have the opportunity to experience firsthand methods of participation and field research that will enable him or her to observe the sp SUMMERLAB 2012 SERIES DPU Development Planning Unit Bucharest, Zurich, Rome The UCL Development Planning Unit is proud to announce the launch of its SummerLab 2012 Series. Drawing on the extensive resources of the DPU in collaboration with local partners in various host cities, DPU SummerLab leverages the reality of the city as a laboratory for developing socially responsive design measures that provoke, stimulate, strategize, and reconsider the role of designers in promoting spatial justice.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n BRIDGING PRAGUE ARCHIP Architectural Institute in Prague Prague, Czech Republic Participants will propose architecture and planning urban interventions onto the iconic Vlatava Riverbank, one of the richest historic architectural environments in Central Europe. Through urban analysis of existing conditions and the context, students will propose an appropri
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<\/a><\/span><\/td>\nDEMOCHANGE CITIES |\u00a0DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE AND EUROPEAN CITIES
\nEU Intensive Program of Workshop
\nDeadline: 11.05.2012<\/strong>DiAP Department of Architecture and Planning, Politecnico di Milano
\nFunded by the EU Erasmus Initative<\/em>Cluj, Romania
\n<\/em>28 August\u00a0– 12 September 2012<\/em>The program consists in a full time 2 weeks multidisciplinary workshop on the issue of demographic change and its impact on urban change. After a first edition focusing on the impact of ageing on urban development (Trieste 2010) and a second dedicated to the effects of immigration (Vienna 2011), the third edition of the DEMOCHANGE Intensive Program will take
\nplace in Cluj, Romania which has been chosen as a national context which has been experiencing in the last years intensive flows of emigration.
\nThe workshop will involve 30 students and International Faculty staff from 6 different universities with various backgrounds in architecture, urban planning and sociology.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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\n<\/span>Summer Design\u00a0Workshop
\n<\/strong>Deadline: 13.05.2012<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n<\/em>17\u00a0– 23 June 2012<\/em><\/p>\n
\npulling the plug off digital instruments \u2013 every day more present, and influent, since the first steps of the design process \u2013 in order to dredge the poetical value that spins off the direct confrontation with reality and materials: elements that lie at the real essence \u2013 since always and despite everything \u2013 of architecture. Participants will be asked to face the \u201clittle urban shelter\u201d theme, starting from the analysis, and through the physical manipulation, of a set of construction materials at their disposal.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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\n<\/strong>Deadline: 14.05.2012<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nPKU Peking University<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/em>6 – 17 August 2012<\/em><\/p>\n
\nool participants are eligible to enrol in Chinese language courses at the prestigious Language School at Peking University.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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\nA course for Landscape Architecture and Landscape Planning<\/strong>
\nInternational Summer Workshop
\n<\/strong>Deadline: 15.05.2012<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nFaculty of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/em>23 –\u00a028 July 2012<\/em><\/p>\n
\neldtrip. Students organized in international teams are expected to find out ideas to improve Utrata River Valley in Pruszkow.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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\nSocio-Ecological Exploration of the Next Metropolis<\/strong>
\nSummer School 2012
\n<\/strong>Deadline: 15.05.2012<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n<\/em>New York School for Design + Science<\/em><\/p>\n
\n9 July –\u00a03 August 2012\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n
\nof the future of the city.
\nUsing New York as a laboratory, the studio will rethink what is salubrious about the city, in both its forms and its life.\u00a0Future Cities Seminar – 40 hours of TED style talks given by world renown architects, engineers, biologists, ecologists, industrial designers, physicists and artists offering radically new responses to the real needs and aspirations of future cities.
\nIn 4 workshops the participants will learn the processes of synthetic biology, smart materials and nanotechnology, growing materials, grafting trees and plants, scripting and computational modeling for controlled growth.<\/p>\n
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\nInternational Workshop
\n<\/strong>Deadline: 24.05.2012<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n<\/em>Territorial Campus of Piacenza<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/em>25 –\u00a030 June 2012<\/em><\/p>\n
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\nEUSS The 3rd European Urban Summer School
\n<\/strong>Deadline: 31.05.2012<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n<\/em>University of Westminster, London<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/em>21 – 30 September 2012<\/em><\/p>\n
\naims to bring together young and established planning and design professionals from all over Europe (and further away) and both emerging and experienced academics to develop a better understanding of some of the most pressing contemporary issues related to the built environment and to amplify and strengthen the links between planning- and design-relevant research and professional practice.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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\nIZMO Summer School 2012
\n<\/strong>1st<\/sup> Deadline: 18.06.2012 –\u00a0<\/strong>2nd\u00a0<\/sup>Deadline: 09.07.2012<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nIn partnership with Politecnico di Torino, Cecchi-Point, Circoscrizione 7 in the City of Turin<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/em>16 – 24 July 2012<\/em><\/p>\n
\nace and interact with citizens and stakeholders. The training offered will be further enhanced by a meeting with Esterni\u00a0(Italy) and Bureau Detours\u00a0(Denmark) that as special-guests will show their projects and approaches to the semi-public space.\u00a0At the end of their lessons, participants will intervene effectively on the semi-public space of Cecchi-Point: a multicultural hub of a neighborhood located in Turin, near Izmo\u2019s office. Students will design and realize a series of installations and furnishings to help redevelop the courtyard of Cecchi-Point that represents the heart of the aggregative neighborhood space.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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\nInternational Workshops
\n<\/strong><\/span>Deadline: 11.06.2012\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n<\/em>UCL University College of London\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/em>23 July – 15 September 2012<\/em><\/p>\n
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\nArchitecure Summer Workshop
\n<\/strong>Deadline: 15.06.2012<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n<\/em>In partnership with reSITE – International Planning Festival
\nIn cooperation with urbaACT – Inter-disciplinary Workshop<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/em>29 July – 17 August 2012<\/em><\/p>\n
\nate contemporary intervention(s), which could be architectural, site or landscape-based, responding to scale, massing, materials and the existing cultural context of Prague.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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