meds 2012 participation pack

PARTICIPATION PACK

sensABILITYLJUBLJANA 2012

INDEX

WHAT IS MEDS? 3MEDS WORKSHOP 3MEDS HISTORY 4MENC HISTORY 4

MEDS 2012 THEME 5

MEDS 2012 SLOVENIA 6LJUBLJANA 7HOW TO GET TO LJUBLJANA? 8ACCOMMODATION 9

PARTICIPATION 10MEDS 2012 POSTER COMPETITION 11HOW TO SEND YOUR FILES? 12NATIONAL CONTACTS 13, 14

WHO IS A TUTOR AND HOW TO BECOME ONE? 15DEADLINES 16

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WHAT IS MEDS?MEDS – Meeting of design students – is an international association developed by and for design students from different European countries.It was founded in 2010 with an aim to bring together European students of architecture, interior architecture, industrial design, graphic design, etc. to work on the same project on an international level and explorepractical world of designing.

MEDS WORKSHOPWith this idea MEDS organizes an annual event, usually lasting ten days, which takes place each summer in a different European city.The main goal of MEDS event is to share international experiences, knowledge, to provide new and fresh ideas, to enrich the city in which workshop takes place and as a participant to become a part of something bigger, exciting and dynamic.

Event is co-ordinated by architectural academics and students and is based on activities, more or less related to design.Event is non-profit and funded by a combination of attendance fees, grants and sponsorships, all arranged by the organizing committee.

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MEDS HISTORY2010 Alanya, Turkey_Alice in Designland2011 Istanbul, Turkey_Relationship Between Europe & Asia2012 Ljubljana, Slovenia_sensABILITY2013 Lisbon, Portugal_REaction

MENC HISTORYMENC is an annual meeting of MEDS team and all MEDS National Contacts. It is organized each year in a differ-ent country to discuss about progress, events, workshops, future work, etc.All NCs should attend this meeting to represent their country. If NC for some reason can’t participate, he should find his replacement to report about work and progress of his country. Aim of MENC is to improve MEDS as an organization and to share ideas for forthcoming events.

2010 Famagusta, Cyprus2011 Banska Stiavnica, Slovakia2012 Kortrijk, Belgium

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MEDS 2012 THEME Every year organizers choose a theme of workshop that is related to the hosting city. Event’s workshop, exhibi-tion, lectures and social events are based on the theme, so the participants can understand the environment of their projects better.

This year’s theme is called sensABILITY.The five senses are fundamental to our everyday perceptions of the world. Designers strive to stimulate feelings and emotions based on people’s reactions to their senses in a particular environment.Unfortunately, in contemporary culture, we are sensually biased. We are unfairly driven by visual qualities.

sensABILITY aims to free the participant from this visually driven world. Workshops will strive to liberate our sense of touch, sound, smell and potentially even taste, to give us a richer understanding and appreciation of the designed world around us.

There's a lot of accesories that help and guide us through the city without our awareness of the space around us. Because of traffic lights, zebra crossings, pavements, it has almost become unnecessary for traffic partici-pants to observe each other. Let's change this and regenerate our senses!

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MEDS 2012 SLOVENIAState Democratic parliamentary republic since 25 June 1991Capital Ljubljana, 280 140 inhabitants (1 January 2011)Official language Slovene, in some nationally mixed border areas also Italian and HungarianCurrency EUR 1 = 100 cents

Size 20 273 km2Inhabitants 2 050 189 (year 2011)Population density 101 inhabitants per square kilometre

Urbanization Approximately one third of the population live in towns with more than 10 000 inhabitants, the rest live in nearby six thousand smaller towns and villages.

Landscape Slovenia is the only country in Europe that combines the Alps, the Mediterranean, the Pannonian Plain and the Karst. Distances between places in Slovenia are short, which makes Ljubljana a perfect base for exploring the country's diverse beauty.

The next MEDS event will be held between 5th and 17th of August in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

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LJUBLJANAContrary to Istanbul, one of the largest and most incredible cities in the world, Ljubljana is classified as a mid-sized European city, but it has preserved its small-town friendliness and relaxed atmosphere whileproviding all the facilities of a modern capital. It is a very unique city dotted with pleasant picturesque places where you can expect all kinds of nice little surprises.

Ljubljana is characterised by a unique combination of two very different but complementary features: on the one hand the city is famed for its historical heritage and tradition, but on the other it is a relatively young city with a modern lifestyle whose residents' average age is only slightly above 30.

As a MEDS participant you will have the opportunity to become acquainted with the city characterized by its unique historical heritage, cultural creativity, friendliness and relaxed atmosphere.

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HOW TO GET TO LJUBLJANA?Nearest airports with the distances from Ljubljana city center:

Airport Jože Pučnik Ljubljana (former airport Brnik) = 25 kmAirport Klagenfurt (A) = 82 kmAirport Friuli-Venezia-Giulia (I) = 121 kmAirport Marco Polo Venezia (I) = 245 kmAirport Zagreb (CRO) = 137 km

Travelling by train

Ljubljana is the hub of Slovenia's rail system. Local trains run throughout the country - no place in Slovenia is more than 3 hours away.Direct international connections include Zagreb (2 hours), Rijeka (3 hours), Graz (3 hours), Salzburg (4 hours), Pula (4 hours), Venice (5 hours), Vienna (6 hours), Munich (6 hours), Budapest (9 hours), Belgrade (9 hours), Frankfurt (10 hours), Zürich (11 hours).

The Ljubljana bus and train stations are located just north of the city center and a short walk from mostattractions.

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Trieste

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airport Jože Pučnik Ljubljana

airport Zagreb

airport Klagenfurt

airport Friuli-Venezia-Giulia

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ACCOMMODATION IN LJUBLJANADIC Hostel is located 10 minutes of walking from the old city center and has a potential to host up to 600 people in two buildings just a few meters apart.Our rooms will be for three persons; communal shower and toilet facilities are separate from the rooms.

DIC hostel has classrooms with chalkboards and TVs, other bigger conference halls are in the neighbourhood. We will be able to use the DIC hostel club Kreatorij with all necessary equipment, loudspeakers, videoprojectors and lightshows.

They also provide breakfasts and dinners.

Ljubljana - DIC HostelPoljanska cesta 261001 LjubljanaSlovenia Tel. +386 147 48 600 Fax. +386 143 20 369 www.dic.sihostel@dic.si

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PARTICIPATIONMEDS workshop is available for all students of design across Europe and beyond. MEDS 2012 in Ljubljana is limited to 7 students per country; they will be chosen based on a poster competition before the workshop.

The capacity of MEDS 2012 workshop will be increased to 250 students from 30 European countries. Students will be accommodated in the center of Ljubljana, where workshop will be held.

The cost of the workshop is €200 and it includes:

- accommodation- breakfast and dinner- construction materials- lectures- trips, entrance fees...

Participants will need to pay the registration fee of €50 by June 15th 2012. The rest of the fee has to be paid before the beginning of the workshop.If for some reason the participant decides not to collaborate on a workshop, registration fee will not be returned!

All information about the process of payment will be announced after the results of poster competition, that is after May 21st 2012.

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MEDS 2012 POSTER COMPETITION

If you would like to participate in MEDS 2012 in Ljubljana as a participant representing your country, or as a tutor, we ask you to submit an image reflecting upon the theme of sensABILITY.Through the making of this image you will grasp the essence of MEDS 2012 and become even more excited and impatient about the moment when you will find yourself in Ljubljana, surrounded by hundreds of students of a similar thinking, all itching to begin their workshops and explore new ideas and concepts with you, a fellow participant.

Now, to cover the details. We ask you to create an A3 PDF image, no larger than 5MB.To accompany the submission you have to include your name and faculty (if any).MEDS will collate a small publication of the best competition entries which will be revealed as part of the event, in August.

MEDS operates in countries all over Europe with a help of National Contacts. They are the ones, who are respon-sible for every year’s selection of participants. You will send all required files to the National Contact of the country where you study.National Contacts will also help you with all the information about MEDS workshop that could be useful to you.

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HOW TO SEND YOUR FILES?

For participating in competition you have to send to your NC a poster, an application form and your photo.Application form is accessible on our page www.meds-workshop.com and our blogwww.meds-workshop.blogspot.com.If you don’t have NC for your country (check the list of National Contacts on the following pages), send it to slovenia@meds-workshop.com.

Please name your files as follows:

application form: country_name-surname_meds2012applicationformphoto: country_name-surname_meds2012photoposter: country_name-surname_meds2012poster

The deadline for your competition entry is May 14th 2012. You will be informed of your status in the following week after the deadline.

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NATIONAL CONTACTS

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COUNTRY NATIONAL CONTACT EMAIL

Albania slovenia@meds-workshop.com

Armenia Erebouni Khachik erebouni.khachik@gmail.com Jirayr Iskenian ijirayr@gmail.com

Austria slovenia@meds-workshop.com

Belgium Pieter Dauwe pieter.dauwe@live.be

Bosnia & Herzegovina Senad Alibegović meds.bosnia.herzegovina@gmail.com Irfan Hadžiomerović

Bulgaria Lora Nurkova lora_nurkova@abv.bg Iva Yaneva iva.yanev@gmail.com

Croatia Andrej Vuk andrej_vuk@yahoo.com Lana Petrak lana.petrak@gmail.com

Cyprus Mehmetcan Baysal cnbaysal@gmail.com

Czech Republic slovenia@meds-workshop.com

Denmark Camilla Siggaard Andersen meds.denmark@gmail.com

England Alex McClellan alex.nc.england@gmail.com

Estonia slovenia@meds-workshop.com

Finland slovenia@meds-workshop.com

France Galloy Blaise medsfrance@gmail.com Portha Marion

Germany Janine Tüchsen jtuechsen@gmail.com Joe Murphy murphy@hbk.bs.de

Greece Eva Magnisali eva_magn@hotmail.com

Hungary Fanny Csernatony funfair@gmx.com Ferth Timi

Ireland John Flynn flynners316@yahoo.com Paul O' Brien paulobrien.architect@gmail.com

Italy Francesco Piantoni fpiantoni1@gmail.com

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NATIONAL CONTACTS

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COUNTRY NATIONAL CONTACT EMAIL

Kosovo Teuta Kelmendi tkelmendi@gmail.com Erzë Dinarama erzadinarama@gmail.com

Liechtenstein slovenia@meds-workshop.com

Macedonia slovenia@meds-workshop.com

Malta slovenia@meds-workshop.com

Montenegro slovenia@meds-workshop.com

The Netherlands slovenia@meds-workshop.com

Norway slovenia@meds-workshop.com

Poland Romea Muryn romea.muryn@gmail.com Marcin Szczodry szczodry.marcin@gmail.com

Portugal Cláudio Gonçalves portugal.meds@gmail.com

Russia slovenia@meds-workshop.com

Romania Sandra Lup lup.sandra@gmail.com Diana Stoicescu diastoicescu11@yahoo.com

Scotland Sarah Beth Riley sb.riley@hotmail.com Esme Brooker esme@sbrooker.com

Serbia Marko Naumovic meds.srbija@gmail.com Olivera Lekic

Slovakia Beáta Kurajová bkurajova@gmail.com

Slovenia Jana Furman jana.furman@gmail.com Katarina Mravlja katarina.mravlja@gmail.com

Spain Daniel Guerra Gomez d.guerragomez@hotmail.com

Sweden slovenia@meds-workshop.com

Switzerland slovenia@meds-workshop.com

Turkey Orçun Mutlu orcun.mutlu@hotmail.com Ülker Aral ulkeraral@gmail.com

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WHO IS A TUTOR AND HOW TO BECOME ONE?A tutor is an author of one of the projects, that were selected for realization on MEDS workshop.

We have 2 types of tutors:- students of architecture and design- graduated architects or designers - normally they are invited to be the tutors by MEDS team

Each student or graduated architect/designer can apply as a tutor.Tutor has to make a project based on selected theme and send it to slovenia@meds-workshop.com by April 14th 2012.MEDS team will choose the best ideas and announce them as winning projects.Tutor’s obligation is to make a presentation of his project and represent it at the conference at the beginning of the workshop. After that other participants will split into groups, on the basis of the project they like the most. The tutor is the leader of the group, but he also has to be ready to accept other ideas and improvements offered by participants. Main aim of the workshop is team working, improving, redesigning and developing the project. At the end of the workshop each group has to make a short presentation about their project from a principal idea to final result. They will present it in public, with open debate after the presentation.

The main focus of the workshop is to get to know the materials and construction methods while working side by side with students of different skills, knowledge and experiences.

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MEDS 2012 DEADLINES14.4.2012deadline of project competition for becoming a tutor

30.4.2012announcement of the winning projects and their tutors

14.5.2012deadline of poster competition for becoming a participant

21.5.2012announcement of poster competition winners

15.6.2012participants have to pay registration fee, €50

5.8.2012the beginning of the workshop - the rest of the fee has to be paid

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CONTACTS

email: slovenia@meds-workshop.comwebsite: www.meds-workshop.com

blog: www.meds-workshop.blogspot.com

We look forward to seeing your submissions and meeting you at the MEDS 2012 event in Ljubljana, Slovenia!