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Information document 021_01easa010MANCHESTER

IMAGEOn the 31st of July 2010 400 of Architecture from 40+ countries around Europe and beyond will converge on Manchester for the 30th Annual European Architecture Students Assembly.

easa010 will be the ! rst time since EASA’s creation in Liverpool, in 1981, that an Assembly will be held on these shores.

Following in the footsteps of previous Summer Assemblies easa010 will blend three decades of EASA tradition with innovations and surprises and the Mancunian spirit.

The Assembly, as ever, centres around workshops producing work as investigation of the Assembly’s theme - this year Identity.

There will be world class lectures by leading thinkers in ! elds related to Architecture, design, urbanism and more.

Working closely with civic authorities easa010 will be coming to the people. Throughout the assembly specially arranged events will allow public access and interaction with the most creative and exciting for-student-by-student event of its kind and scale in the world. The Assembly culminates in a city wide exhibition of workshop output and public engagement.

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EASA: European Architecture Students Assembly.

EASA was established by students and tutors of Liverpool University in 1981 as a way to bring talented students together to discuss the issues facing both the profession and urban environments.

Every summer since then around 400 of the brightest students from every part of Europe have come together for 2 intense weeks of; workshops, lectures, exhibitions and events, in the name of exchange of ideas, culture and experience.

In the years since EASA was ! rst conceived it has been held in such ambitious and inspirational situations as; a train travelling across Scandinavia, a renovated WWII destroyer moored to the banks of the Danube in the centre of Budapest and even, in 1988, behind the Berlin wall in East Berlin. At the 2008 meeting of representatives from each country the UK successfully bid to host the 2010 event.

EASA is a network of students. It is by students for students of students.

EASA has no standing a" liation with any organisation, be it academic or corporate.

EASA has no centrality; there is no board or chairman. In theory every student in Europe is connected via their NC (National Contact) to every other student.

EASA requires no annual fee and has no form of membership.

OVERVIEW

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Each easa summer assembly is unique with the organising team and location stamping their own personality on the event. This is clearly demonstrated by with the varied nature of the locations of the four most recent events.

Common features running though the years are the compact and no frills aspects of the accommodation and amenities for the participants in general. Participants are told to expect camping conditions, with large communal sleeping areas the norm. All participants share in a duty roster for cleaning all of which adds to the feeling of unity which is vital to the event and equally so unique for this type of event.

2005 Switzerland expose the participants to the spectacular mountainous landscape of the Alps.

2006 Hungary brought the event to the city, with the accommodation and facilities located on board a renovated WWII destroyer on the bank of the Danube.

2007 Greece move the event to the Athens industrial orbital town of Elefsina.

2008 Ireland ambitiously cut a section through the country moving from Dublin to the small town of Letterfrack on the west coast.

2009 Was held in Valcominica, to the North of Milan. A school complex will be the home for all the aspects of the assembly. Due to being the future organisers of easa, the UK team has a larger than usual quota of participants.

ASSEMBLY

1981 Liverpool England Starting up the EASA experience

1982 Delft Holland Uncertain future

1983 Lisboa Portugal social spaces

1984 Aarhus Denmark turning point

1985 Athens Greece Interpretation and action

1986 Torino Italy Architecturi Latenti

1987 Helsinki Finland Architecture and nature

1988 Berlin Germany Dimension between

1989 Marseille France Heritage et Creative

1990 Karlskrona Sweden Exploration

1991 Kolomna USSR Regeneration

1992 Urgup Turkey Vision 2000

1993 Sandwick Scotland The Isle

1994 Liege Belgium Consommer l’Incinsumable

1995 Zamosc Poland Beyond the borders

1996 Clermont l’Herault France Dream Builders!

1997 The Train Scandinavia Advancing Architecture

1998 Valetta Malta Living on the edge

1999 Kavala Greece Osmosis

2000 Antwerp/Rotterdam Belgium/Holland Dis-similarities

2001 Gokceada Turkey No theme

2002 Vis Croatia Senses

2003 Friland Denmark Sustainable Living

2004 Roubaix France Metropolitain-Micropolitain

2005 Berguen Switzerland Tran Trans Transit

2006 Budapest Hungary Common Places

2007 Elefsina Greece City Index

2008 Dublin - Letterfrack Ireland Adaptation

2009 Darfo Italy SupermARCHet

2010 Manchester UK Identity

RECENT MEETINGS

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easaUK2010 is looking for major collaboration for the assembly.EASA UK2010 o$ ers a unique opportunity for individuals, associations and companies to get involved with an event that will engage with the residents and building industry of the city of Manchester, the national press, and a generation of young architects from across the continent.

A major factor in the organisation of easa010 is the choice of site for the needs of the assembly.

The assembly requires provision of accommodation space for between 300 and 400 students, traditionally these spaces o$ er communal sleeping in a large single volume. The accommodation space requires ancillary dinning and sanitary facilities.

SPACES

easaUK2010 Ltd is a non-pro! t company set up to facilitate the organisation of easa010. To support the organisation Ask Developments have loaned the use of 43 Hulme Street, part of First Street to the team.

easaHQeasaUK2010 Ltd43 Hulme StreetManchesterM15 6AW

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