We are happy to announce that the PLEA 2024 conference is supplemented with a one-day Instant Climate Hub – on-site student design workshops. Running through the day of the 26th of June 2024, it takes place at the local Faculty of Architecture and aims at envisioning its sustainable future.
We cordially invite passionate students of design faculties to enroll and take part in this unique one-day think-tank.
The Instant Climate Hub is an improvised, temporary, international design think-tank made for one day within the PLEA 2024 conference framework. The Hub, fueled by students’ input with tutors’ support, is created to make the participants more aware of sustainable research and development and, consequently, of possibilities to solve climate issues through smart and resilient design.
The Instant Climate Hub initiative draws inspiration from both the PLEA 2024 conference’s resilience theme and the workshop site, which is the local architecture campus of the Wrocław University of Science and Technology.
The building of Wrocław University of Science and Technology was constructed in 1904 as the School of Construction Crafts and Mechanical Engineering. It serves as more than just a hosting structure for academia; it prioritizes not only the educational aspects of the academic apparatus but also emphasizes the significance of the spatial environment. For example, each staircase is constructed in different technology, each engages diverse formal solutions; every floor has a different ceiling section, so that the student can learn acoustics. Additionally, there even is a comfortable entrance to host a class about the roof truss. It is a truly educational facility to learn the craft of architecture and structural engineering.
Since the building was envisioned as a comprehensive showcase of building techniques, the PLEA workshop follows up on its historical function of a truly educational facility. Minding that, the workshop scope is to update, upgrade or retro-fit this site with model plug-ins, installations, services or politics of management that introduce sustainable solutions into the facility’s program and the technology and installation layout. Because it is necessary to consider biodiversity and landscape aspects in the upgrade strategy, it was decided to enlarge the design site. The workshop area widens the educational demonstrational layout into the surrounding buildings and public spaces of the whole Architecture Faculty campus.
The think-tank will be composed of 20 students supported by the tutors.
To apply the design students should send the message of interest to workshop@plea2024.pl, attaching one selected project from their portfolio that deals with the contemporary challenges or supports diversity and inclusivity.
The project should be sent as a one-page document in pdf or jpg format. Its size should not exceed 10 MB.
From all the sent applications, the PLEA 2024 committee will choose the workshop participants and notify them about the acceptance until the 22nd of May 2024.
The application deadline is the 19th of May 2024, 23:59 CEST. Applications sent after the deadline will not be accepted.
The workshop is free of charge and does not require registering to the PLEA 2024 conference.
All the selected participants would get a simple preliminary task to prepare for the workshop day.
All participants will receive a certificate of participation.
Tutors
Susel Biondi PhD
Areas of interest: sustainability through design; appraising local resources and knowledge, producing positive impacts.
Lea Kazanecka-Olejnik PhD
Research focus: spatial changes in the context of time and individual needs of users; changeability and individualization of space through initiatives addressed to architects, as well as local communities.
Agata Woźniczka
Research focus: contemporary public spaces and their defining and shaping factors; New European Bauhaus as a political initiative influencing spatial development.