
In the previous three editions, we have spent many evenings together, sometimes looking for day-to-day stories, sometimes for deeper debates. The idea of the Săsăuș summer school came from our desire to hear our stories beyond the screens of our laptops.
„My Pandemic Chair” is the first component of the summer school, a workshop that gave us the opportunity to get to know each other as the previous year had not. The students received a handmade wooden chair, which would have been customized, thus creating a small-scale artistic object telling their story of the pandemic.
We saw the exhibition of chairs as a powerful communication tool at the end of a year full of anxieties. The chairs – a collective art work – were framed by our own creation of wood and strings, a pavilion designed and built by the students.
All three weeks of summer school were in fact a long process of brainstorming, in which we imagined together an ideal school of architecture. We thought about what we had learned, about the dynamics we managed to generate together, and at the end of those three weeks, it was clear that we learned a lot. Not only about what happened, but also where we want to go and how we align our visions.
In the previous three editions, we have spent many evenings together, sometimes looking for day-to-day stories, sometimes for deeper debates. The idea of the Săsăuș summer school came from our desire to hear our stories beyond the screens of our laptops.
„My Pandemic Chair” is the first component of the summer school, a workshop that gave us the opportunity to get to know each other as the previous year had not. The students received a handmade wooden chair, which would have been customized, thus creating a small-scale artistic object telling their story of the pandemic. We saw the exhibition of chairs as a powerful communication tool at the end of a year full of anxieties. The chairs – a collective art work – were framed by our own creation of wood and strings, a pavilion designed and built by the students.
All three weeks of summer school were in fact a long process of brainstorming, in which we imagined together an ideal school of architecture. We thought about what we had learned, about the dynamics we managed to generate together, and at the end of those three weeks, it was clear that we learned a lot. Not only about what happened, but also where we want to go and how we align our visions.
The Săsăuş household hosted several evenings of conferences and workshops, coordinated by our guests:
- Tamina Lolev, architect at Wolfhouse Production and manager at Nod Makerspace;
- Cristian Nistor, CEO of PAB Group, who helped us with the materials for the pavilion we built;
- Ciprian Furtună from Azero told us the basics about printing;
- Graţian Mihăilescu from Urbanize Hub hold the conference „Cities for people”.
Săsăuş has become a place of experiment and debate, not only through the conferences, but also through our own curated exhibition displaying our contest projects designed during the third edition.
The Săsăuş household hosted several evenings of conferences and workshops, coordinated by our guests:
- Tamina Lolev, architect at Wolfhouse Production and manager at Nod Makerspace;
- Cristian Nistor, CEO of PAB Group, who helped us with the materials for the pavilion we built;
- Ciprian Furtună from Azero told us the basics about printing;
- Graţian Mihăilescu from Urbanize Hub hold the conference „Cities for people”.
Săsăuş has become a place of experiment and debate, not only through the conferences, but also through our own curated exhibition displaying our contest projects designed during the third edition.