2024 Programme, Learning, Workshop
The City Unknown: IAF Summer School 2024, with continentale
14.05.24
10.05.24-11.05.24
Event Information
Event Information
The City Unknown: IAF Summer School 2024, with METASITU
Irish Architecture Foundation, Bachelors Walk, North City, Dublin 1, Ireland
10.05.24-11.05.24
Friday 10 May 2024
18:30-20:00
Saturday 11 May 2024
10:00-17:00
Free, registration required.
The City Unknown: IAF Summer School 2024 opens with METASITU at IAF House, 10-11 May.
Conversation: On Friday evening, METASITU (Liva Dudareva and Eduardo Cassina) will introduce their practice, inviting participation and exchange.
Friday 10 May 2024
18:30-20:00
Workshop: In Saturday’s workshop, participants will create a collective zine about the city with METASITU (Liva Dudareva and Eduardo Cassina).
Saturday 11 May 2024
10:00-17:00
Register for The City Unknown with METASITU.
A call for participants for The City Unknown, the IAF Summer School 2024.
“Where The Soft Things Are” – METASITU’s contribution to The City Unknown – is an invitation to engage with the city’s architectural narrative beyond its physical structures, focusing on the intangible elements that contribute to the essence of urban life. Through the collaborative creation of a zine, we will document and reflect on these ephemeral but essential qualities. The workshop will also explore ways for creating inks from materials sourced from our immediate urban surroundings. Participants will get to keep a copy of their zines at the end of the session.
The IAF Summer School is open to all, including professionals, academics, graduates and students. It will be of particular relevance to architects, artists, activists, creatives, cultural practitioners, community workers, urbanists, geographers, film-makers and anyone with an interest in architecture, sustainability, design and the built environment. CPD points are available for participating architects.
The City Unknown is free to attend, but booking is essential as places are limited.
Please note that Friday’s Conversation and Saturday’s Workshop are interdependent, so we suggest that you register for both days and attend on both days.
The IAF Summer School is in three parts. It also runs on 14 May with continentale (online) and on 17-18 May with Spolka (in-person at IAF House, Dublin). It is possible to book for one, two, or all three parts of the Summer School. Please book for each event separately.
Read the full announcement for an overview of the Summer School programme.
All IAF Summer School events are presented as part of the LINA Programme.
Liva Dudareva and Eduardo Cassina (METASITU) are LINA Fellows 2024/25, with their project The Degrowth Institute.
The IAF Summer School forms part of IAF’s contribution to the LINA programme of architecture events all over Europe.
IAF is a member organisation of LINA, a European network of 34 institutions working at the intersection of architecture and other fields related to spatial culture. LINA’s goal is to help steer the architectural sector towards clean and circular practices through Learning, Interacting and Networking in Architecture and by supporting emerging professionals (competitively selected LINA Fellows) with innovative and forward-looking projects.
LINA is coordinated by the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia and co-funded by the Creative Europe initiative of the European Union.
Each year LINA has Open Calls for emerging professionals to join their programmes as LINA Fellows. Becoming a LINA fellow offers you opportunities to collaborate with LINA member organisations all over Europe. Please follow this link to learn more about responding to this year’s Open Call.
Photo: “we were building sandcastles, but the wind blew them away” (2019) by METASITU. Photo by METASITU.
Established in 2014 by Liva Dudareva and Eduardo Cassina, METASITU is a collective practice based in Kyiv/Athens, but operating globally. METASITU was conceived to explore the ways in which people relate to the built environment across times and disciplines, to usher in a queerer tomorrow. Through publications, gatherings, installation, and video, their practice is situated at the intersection of visual arts, urbanism, and knowledge-exchange formats. Centred around non-hierarchical symbiotic pedagogies, their work spans a wide range of territories and approaches, from Donetsk to Dubai, from organising encounters to building large-scale installations.
Since 2015, METASITU has been developing different facets of The Degrowth Institute, a long-term project exploring how to masterplan for degrowth in post-industrial cities with dwindling population demographics. Rather than fighting against demographic shrinkage, The Degrowth Institute seeks to build conversations around ebbing populations, ruinification, rewilding and preservation.
METASITU’s work has been commissioned and exhibited internationally at Alserkal Arts Foundation (Dubai), MANIFESTA (Prishtina), The Biennial for Architecture (Venice), Mala Galeriya Arsenal Mystetskyi (Kyiv), Kunsthalle Hamburger Platz (Berlin), ZK/U (Berlin), and Izolyatsia (Kyiv & Mariupol), among others. Liva and Eduardo have curated numerous urban events and programs, such as the City Scanning Sessions in Ivano Frankivsk and 86 Film and Urbanism festival in Slavutych, Ukraine. They have taught at Trojan Horse Summer School, INDA Chulalongkorn University, Innes Institute / TU Vienna, TUMO, CANactions, and the Strelka Institute.
Photo by Urban Cerjak
Liva Dudareva has a background in landscape architecture and urbanism. Her practice unearths the footprint of geopolitics on geological subjects, tracing the impacts of extractive processes on the material realities of human and nonhuman agents alike. Liva was trained in Edinburgh, lives in Athens and works in Kyiv.
Photo by Henry Ace Knight
Eduardo Cassina is an urban planner, artist residency organiser and gong player. Their research explores the development and co-creation of experimental new tools for participatory planning within the framework of an artist residency in Sápmi/Northern Norway. They are particularly interested in the integration of more-than-human voices in planning. Eduardo lives in Kristiansand and works in Giehtavuotna/Kvæfjord, Norway.
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