KAUNAS, MOSCOW, WARSAW acquiring and sharing knowledge through the experience of places, team work, design practice Program 3 parallel design joint workshops: each one made of two consecutive sessions of 5 days. The irst, from the 27th to the 31th of August, will be in the foreign hosting School (Kaunas, Moscow, Warsaw), the second The second session will be held at Polimi Leonardo Campus, in Milan, from the 3rd to the 8th of September. Costs and CFU Workshop is free of any fee, and students will have a low cost accomodation in the foreign venue. Flights and meals needs to be managed autonomously. For Polimi students enrolled in the Masters of Science in Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Urban Planning and Policy Design, AUIC School recognizes 4 cfu. For Polimi students enrolled in the Master of Interior and Spatial Design, the School of Design recognizes 4 extra curricular cfu. Partners and Venues Kaunas University of Technology _ prof. Ruta Valusyte / Polimi _ prof. Alessandro Biamonti, prof. Silvia Maria Gramegna Moscow Architectural Institute (Markhi) _ prof. Valery Bgashev, prof. Yuri Grigorian / Polimi _ prof. Camillo Magni, arch. Bogdan Peric, arch. Carolina Medici Warsaw University of Technology _ prof. Krzysztof Koszewski, Jan Mazur / Polimi _ prof. Guido Morpurgo, prof. Annalisa De Curtis How to apply For AUIC School Students Send a portfolio and a motivation letter, by the 31st of May 2018, to the following professors: Kaunas Workshop _ alessandro.biamonti@polimi.it, silviamaria.gramegna@polimi.it Moscow Workshop _ camillo.magni@polimi.it, bogdanperic@gmail.com, alessandro.rocca@polimi.it Warsaw Workshop _ guidomario.morpurgo@polimi.it, alessandro.rocca@polimi.it For School of Design Students participate at the Call published at http://www.design.polimi.it/en/ Organization Prof. Alessandro Rocca, Rector s Delegate for International Relationship East Europe Dr. Clara Galeazzi, Polimi Rectorate Scientiic Board Alessandro Biamonti, Massimo Bricocoli, Camillo Magni, Guido Morpurgo, Gennaro Postiglione, Alessandro Rocca
Kaunas University of Technology, Design centre / Polimi, School of Design KAUNAS URBAN RETEX How can we: collect / reuse / reimagine / integrate waste textile and clothing within Kaunas urban spaces? WHO? Kaunas is students city. It means that students comprise around 12% of Kaunas population (20 thousand of Lithuanian students are studying in Kaunas and 17 thousand are international students). According Donatas Vecerskis, a Kaunas city Council member, Being a student city, doesn t necessarily mean impressive student numbers, it is a label deining the liveliness of public spaces, the city s friendliness towards young people, diversity and possibilities. Therefore the target audience are the young people who have the potential contribute to extremely intelligent, openminded and creative community. WHAT? Textile and clothing recycling is a potentially beneicial activity from environmental, social and economic points of view. When a textile is unusable as a garment or sheet, its life span is extended by transforming it into a new product, recycling it mechanically or using it for energy production. Kaunas city haven t united system how to collect / reuse / reimagine / integrate textile and clothing within Kaunas urban spaces. Often citizens ask themselves WHAT do Kaunas city need and what environment problems are there? WHY? Why KAUNAS URBAN RETEX speciic topic is relevant and important to Kaunas city? First of all the textile industry is important from historical and cultural viewpoint. Before The Second World Lithuania produced more than 3.3 % of the total world production of lax ibers, which was higher than France (3.0 %), and very close to Germany (3.8 %) and Poland (5.0 %). Now day s textile constituted around 20 % of all production in Lithuania. Second, Lithuania society become more responsible. They react to the fact that fashion and textile industry is the second most polluting and damaging industry in the world after oil. Therefore RETEX THINKING is getting popular in Lithuania. Finally - Kaunas is full of block, grey buildings with Soviet feelings. For that reason Kaunas could be much more than just a second largest Lithuanian city. It could be socially responsible and the greenest city in Lithuania with Lush parks, lively squares and cosy urban spaces. Ruta Valusyte Alessandro Biamonti, Silvia Maria Gramegna
Markhi (Moscow architectural Institute) / Polimi, AUIC School DVOR IS MORE The workshop will investigate the potential of meaningful voids in Moscow territory between the buildings dvor. The word dvor is a Russian noun that determines a speciic typology of the courtyard evolved in the Russian culture. By its deinition this urban void has become the semi-private space bounded by the public street and private buildings. The work will be based on exploring the concept of the dvor and understanding the urban development of the city, analyzing the four characteristic typologies in strong relation to the context. 1- Dense urban fabric (Historic center), 2- Block typology (Stalin period buildings), 3- Linear typology (Khrushchev period buildings), 4- Hyper-block typology (New districts). The aim of the design will consist in developing the ground loor areas, providing the continuity to the urban fabric, analyzing the social and functional conditions of the selected sites. The idea is to improve the public environment of the existing vacant territories and provide the new architectural quality in order to emphasize the role of the dvor as the bufer area between the street and the housing. The Summer School s students and professors will work in a collaborative environment on the projects. The methods to investigate the projects will include the site visits, thematic lectures, case studies surveys, mapping and the analysis of the pre-existing urban context. Students will be asked to formulate the short research based on the analytical and critical thinking, focusing on a particular typology in order to collect the data and display the materials, concluding their work with the design proposal by means of the graphic representation and the physical models. Valery Bgashev, Yuri Grigorian Camillo Magni, Carolina Medici, Bogdan Peric
Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture / Polimi, AUIC School Dissecting Palac Kultury An Architectural Anatomy of post-apocalyctic Warsaw The workshop is focused on the re-design of the main central public space of the city, through the disclosure of the relationships between the traces and remains of the old Warsaw lying underneath the today urban soil and one of the most relevant landmarks, the out of scale and controversial Palac Kultury, realized immediately after the war by the Soviet Russia. Located on the south-eastern boundary of the former Jewish Ghetto established by german nazis in 1940, the aim of the project is to reveal the remains of the submerged city by examining the crossovers between present and Memory of the 1944 totally destroyed Warsaw, through a new concept of urban public space as a sort of Campo Marzio -open air archeological site- extended from Palac Kultury to Saski Garden. This new urban coniguration along Marszalkowska street - one of the main north-south urban axes - works on the diferent scales of the city structure like a sort of archeological excavation of our present, by revitalizating a speciic form of urban culture that Warsaw still represents for the european civilization. Krzysztof Koszewski, Jan Mazur Guido Morpurgo, Annalisa de Curtis