MONDAY MONDAY

EASAFLU PANIC

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While the main trip of the day was to take the ferry to Tallinn - over 100 people woke up at 8am to make a groggy sea voyage and didnt come back until today (trip report to follow) Most people stayed back in Helsinki to explore a the hosting city a little bit more. Especially to see this amazing church carved into the rock (go see it!). There was a guided tour of the Aalto University Buildings and another walk-ing tour around the city. Organizer Pekka had suggested taking your infl atable mattress to the forest and coming back to the city by river (take the left fork at the delta) but I think it might have been too adventurous for our fragile state of mind. Another organiser Lotte was kind enough to bring a small group of lucky easa-ians up to her summer cottage by minibus where they chilled out by a lake, took a fi nnish sauna, ate, went out on a boat trip, ate smoked fi sh, chatted with her dad about Nature, probably ate and drank some more and arrived back on site at 2am with the biggest smiles on their faces. The rest of us stared into space groggily un-til well after lunchtime and made our way to the fortress island Suomenalinna to chill out on the grass. Some crazy Irish and Scottish guys jumped into the freezing sea without fi rst warming up in the sauna. Otherwise we played with military guns and watched some people take bungee jumps across the bay before getting kicked off the island by a fi nnish navy offi cer. We got back in time for dinner and for the most part everyone took it easy and went to bed. Except for a few wild cards who held a speaker-party outside the tutors dorms. A nice relaxing day overall.

*Sniffl e* It happens every year around this time (even in Spain) We all get run-down from lack of sleep and excess of party. The key to recov-ery is to GO TO BED EARLY for once. Take some vitamins then lie down in your bed wrapped in warm clothes. Just be glad that it’s happening now and not at a more critical time in the week. Look after yourselves! The weather wont get much better until later in the week.

After an action packed weekend kick-ing off with the KONE party on friday, National Evening on Saturday and Excursions on Sunday, everybody is feeling somehow reborn for the busy week ahead. There is a sense of deja-vu about the weather - the rain has come down again making it diffi cult to work outside but makes being in-side is a little more guilt free. So, as you come back to your workshops having worked out all those design issues subconsciously over the last couple of days, take a moment to re-fl ect on what was an unforgettable weekend and get busy preparing for the EASA exhibition and workshop presentations next saturday.

EXCURSION DAY

Tonight: TUTOR MEETING ---> 8PM in the bar area

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• Best Architecture School• Question of the Day

Noora Laak (FI)Terry Pratchet “SNUFF”I chose the book because it’s enter-taining to read. I thought I shouldn’t take anything too serious to read with me to EASA as I’m kind of on a holiday.

Alexandr Tujicov (Moldova)George Sand “Con-suelo”My girlfriend gave it to me)Personally I prefer something scientifi c .

Nicholas Goward (Northern Ireland)O.F. Bollnow “Hu-man space”I’m going to write thesis this year about Psychology of space.

Nikolay Mitov (Bulgaria) Ivon Shuinar is own-er of one of the big-gest company “Pa-tagonia”. This book is autobiographical one. And it’s inter-esting to know how almost homeless mountaineer be-came millionaire.

Hanna Vararnets (Belarus)Matio Kaku “Physics of impossible”I’m a huge fan of Star wars and I’m sure that all this fantastic world is possible the question is how and when . and this book give me the answers to these questions!

Becca Thomas (UK)Erin Morgenstern “The night circus”Look at this cute cover! How could I pass it by))))

Mikal Skodjereite (Norway)George R.R “a Storm of Swords”I got impatient wait-ing till the sequel to come up so I bought the book to know the end of the story.

Inesa Kovalova (Ukraine) Umbrella “Sontikka”Well, because I’m EASAian!!! All the hot news is here! I’m looking forward to get a fresh issue!

QUESTION OF THE DAY

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What are you reading? Why?As all Easians well know, studying architecture takes a lot of time and willpower - the familiar blood, toil, tears and sweat. After completing the degree, we have most certainly a diploma to be proud of - but could the school offer us something more? What would the best school of archi-tecture be like?It is very common to choose teachers and professors on their architectural merits, (if a school has STARchitects as teachers, it’s probably a great school, right?) but should the teach-ing staff be rather chosen by their eagerness to teach and pedagogical background? Are architects them-selves always really the best teachers and tutors?It also seems that architecture schools think working within the frame of deadlines and tight sched-ules from day one is the best way to begin your path to be an architect. Surely you get right into the deep end of the pool, but shouldn’t school be the place where you fi nd your meth-od of dealing with a design process, rather than fi nding the loopholes and tricks to fi nish your design on time? Concentrating on the fi nished design rather than the process itself has proven to cause a lot of added stress and burnouts, not encouraging to fi nd students’ personal way of de-signing and project managing.The aim of the debate is to fi nd the tools to build the best possible ar-chitecture school. To seek new ques-tions and answers, maybe pathways into architecture no school has won-dered before.

Join the DISCUSSION!

5pm at the bar everyday with The Three Little Pigs

Details on the next page

THE BEST ARCHI-TECTURE SCHOOL IN THE WORLD

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• Love Special• Discuss

EASALYMPICS

WORLDS BEST LOVERS

EASALYMPICSFootball game tonight @ 7pm on Wasteland

Basketball game on Wednesday @ 1pm behind the skatepark

DR. LOVEThe last days have proven the quality of my advice, everybody’s hooking up and love İs defi nitely in the air or on the roof as some of you might know…

For the people who haven’t done some serious kissing action on na-tional evening, here is a plan to help you get some sexy time. Learn it, work it, apply it and enjoy.

Which countrys guys are the best lovers??Hello ladies.......Before wasting your time trying out different EASA lovers from different courties check out this list that should help you to make the best deci-sion. A recent onepoll.com survey of 15000 “well travelled” women, revealed the following hillarious resultes.

WORLD'S WORST LOVERS1. Germany (too smelly)2. England (too lazy)3. Sweden (too quick)4. Holland (too dominating)5. America (too rough)6. Greece (too lovey-dovey)7. Wales (too selfi sh)8. Scotland (too loud)9. Turkey (too sweaty)10. Russia (too hairy)

WORLD'S BEST LOVERS1. Spain2. Brazil3. Italy4. France5. Ireland6. South Africa7. Australia8. New Zealand9. Denmark10. Canada

So there you have it Spain top the best list while the “smelly” Germans top the worst list. The Lazy English also faired quite poorly in the results coming sec-ond, when confronted with the results English man and Zero Base Tutor Chris Maloney was quoted as saying “It’s True”. Geman Tutor of Rational Irrational Christoff Holz also had this to say about the results “nothing better than a good smell”

As expected the lat in countries were at the top of list, but somehow Ireland manged to make it to number 5, we asked Irish man and Wasted Light tutor Darragh Breathnach what he thought about the results “We just love the craic”.Here at Umbrella though we are not satisfi ed with these results, so see-ing as National evening usually results in quite a few international “Lov-er Tests” we have decidecd to conduct our own EASA lovers survey.

This Tuesday at Dinner we will be setting up a Table next to the sinks where all EASA ladies will be able to vote for their favourite lovers. So guys you have one night left to convince the Girls to vote for you.So make sure to vote! As the results will be published in the next days Umbrella.

DISCUSS!The Three Little Pigs debate after-noons are back! Just like last year, each afternoon we have a different topic to discuss on. All of EASA is invited to share their thoughts and opinions. There will be FREE coffee also. In order to get things started, we offer a short introduction in Umbrel-la before each debate. Here we go!

Tuesday 24th July5.00pm at the BAR. Wednesday Wastelands Thursday Architect vs. non-architect Friday Open topic

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• NATIONAL EVENING

After an early dinner (it’s always good to get a meal into you before sampling drinks from every country in europe) people began to set up their stalls. The rain threatened to upset proceedings but the hardy easaians were not put off and came out dressed in outrageous costumes and face paintings. The Norwegians had made a cosy fi re to roast sausages and nearby Irish had prepared hot whiskeys to defeat the cold. The Scottish were bravely challenging the weather with bare chests and the Estonians, amongst others had construct-ed plastic shelters. After the initial weather tension, the inhibitions started to fade and a variety of national snacks were uncovered, from meats and cheeses to chocolates and jams accompanied by the local aperetif. Slovenia was well represented with a whole army of black-sacked warriors creating havoc around the makeshift ex-position and announcing their arrival as future EASA hosts. A small group of british punk vigilantes pelted the royalists with their own jam sandwiches as the portuguese arrived in a cardboard galleon to conquer the new world. In Liechtenstein, easaians were made pregnant with balloons and were rewarded with a cash bribe if they managed to keep the baby for long enough. In Denmark the laws no longer applied once you crossed the boundary of Christiania and easaians were encouraged to throw bricks at the police to win happy brownies. The Dutch christmas elves ran around with sooty faces and the Argentinians held a street party, Russian Ballerinas played roulette, Africans danced with Australians, Swedes ate her-ring, french carribean rum, swiss chocolate, romanian stray dogs, Greek tattoos, Polish Hooligans, half naked Maltese, Czech beer, German Sausage, Belgian brew, Bulgarian meats, Italian tomatoes, Spanish Sangria, Turkish spices, Bulgarians, Bosnians, Albanians, Hungarians, Ukrainians, Serbians, Slovakians, RAKIA! After this point, my capacity to report events was reduced, my apologies to the other countries involved. The structure of events broke down over time and the abundance of liquids consumed soon distorted the recollections of most particpants. National evening has become a kind of cathartic excersise where memories are wiped clean and people can start fresh the following week in the knowledge they have pushed themselves to the limit and ‘ill never drink again’.

It is a hedonistic scene repeated in most cities around the conti-nent at the weekend and acts as a sort of social leveler where people let out pent-up tension and take comfort in the collective guilt the next day. There has never been much opposition to the idea and some see it as a cornerstone of the easa experience. The organisers of each event prepare for a ‘controlled explosion’ and try to limit the damage. This year, as a precaution, seven people were taken to hospital to be monitored as they passed through the night in a state of imebriation. It was more of a refl ection of the Finnish compas-sion than an indicator of a tragic night. Every year there are those who get caught up in the frenzy and live to regret it. But every year we go through the same process again. It is a unique experience to see so many nationalities engaging in a common act of goodwill where boundaries are dissolved, politics are lampooned and we can all engage in the act of being human - and drunk.

NATIONAL EVENING

GOSSIP COLUMNNational Evening offi cially ended at mid-night and the aftermath continued to the EASA bar and beyond. A lot of new inter-national relations were forged - we were all able to see what a hot cocktail Georgia can make with Russia! There were also some couples that skipped the fl irting and made out right on the fl oor - an Irish and Romanian connection? (naming no names to save face). Another Georgian guy was also seen with some beauty - Oooh those hot Georgians didn’t waste any time. A guy from Moldova fancied a girl who came with Scotland team but it’s not that simple with her - she speaks Rus-sian. Some other couple were rumoured to have gotten busy in a bathroom with a broken sink? And I was also asked by a girl with an easy name to say ‘Hi’ to Conor from Ireland? So as we see more couples, I would like to hurry up Swing land work-shop that promised to build a love box!

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• Postcards drom Estonia• Kone Party• Lost&Found

POSTCARDS FROM ESTONIA

KONE PARTY

LOST &FOUNDLOST- black sunglasses at the girls’ bath-room- red raincoat - spotty red drinking cup (J.P.) - nokia charger - white i-pod charger with a wheel.- Virginity at the roof topFOUND - teapot (transparent one); - LOTS of umbrellas; - pink tooth brush; - sunglasses

The Estonian team was delighted to receive 57 postcards with top-class poetry on them during the National Evening. And yes we are sending them as soon as we have put on the Estonian stamps. We cannot be re-sponsible for all the postcards be-cause the writing styles were some-times pretty clumsy, so it is up to the post offi ce then. It is a little doubtful that the receivers would believe that it was written in a sober condition. All in all hopefully the Tallinn trip was as beautifully composed as the postcards that people sent mostly to their parents. Thank you all for par-ticipating in all the attractions we of-fered and let us know about you trip to Tallinn! Here is a selection by the Estonian jury of some examples:

On Friday we were invited to the fi nal presentation of 1-day workshop ‘Uplifting Landings’ under the direction of Esa Larksonen. Just at the entrance we were met by installation made by Body Lab workshop which actually made my body feel like a piece of rubber. After this spiderweb installation we entered the main hall in the Cable factory – Cable Hall where the summer industrial design ex-hibition is taking place. According to Venue Manager of World Design Capital 2012 Helsinki Tuukka Pykäläinen design is mostly about function and this was very much evident in the exhibition.

KONE arranged a very impressive reception. We were entertained with deli-cious fi nnish canopés and good wine, making us feel like civilised architects again. We would like to thank Ritva Seppänen in particular for the support and for broadening the limits of design for Easaians.

Then we were shown the workshop presentation made by easa participants where we could see some of the installations made by Easaians there in Cable factory. You still can see one lift installation left there for some time. Esa Lark-sonen was pleased with the work that had been done also he made special men-tion of the result that was achieved by the group of easaians under the direction young and perspective Usability Specialist Otto Miettinen.

Easaians felt so comfortable there enjoying the exhibition and party that it took a bit of effort and time to leave. Thank you KONE for a lovely evening.

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