@Miran Kambic; Plecnik’s Architecture, Ljubljana, Slovenia
LOCATION
Ljubljana
Slovenia
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Tourism currently faces radical changes worldwide, having previously been one of the fastest-growing global industries. The new realities that have emerged in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic offer an opportunity to rethink how we visit places and experience our home environments in meaningful and profound ways.
This Visiting School is an architectural educational programme focusing on nanotourism as a means of articulating a creative critique of conventional tourism. Through critical thinking and close collaboration with local stakeholders, we will develop case studies of nanotourism to reveal hidden aspects of each context, addressing the place, its users and locally available materials. We will focus on creating strong concepts and prototypes in scale 1:1.
Over the past decade, the AA Nanotourism program has produced numerous student projects that have gained recognition and been exhibited by prestigious institutions worldwide. These include the London Design Festival in 2018, the Oslo Architecture Triennale in 2019, the Vienna Design Week in 2020, the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden in 2021, and the BIO27 Ljubljana in 2022.
APPLICATIONS
You can make an application by sending a CV (one page) and portfolio (max. 5MB) to nanotourism@aaschool.ac.uk
Subject of email: Application for AA nanotourism
Upon review, candidates will be contacted with further instructions. A limited amount of scholarships will be available.
FEES
The AA Visiting School requires a fee of £860 per participant, which includes a £60 Visiting Membership fee, payable by all participants.
Fees cover the entire programme and provision of basic building materials. Fees do not include flights or other modes of transportation to and from the workshop area.
20% bursaries available to current AA students, your fee will be altered upon AA log in during the registration. If you have any issues, please get in touch with the Visiting School office.
MENTORS
VISITING EXPERTS
PARTNERS
Invited Mentor
Amin Taha was born in Berlin and has been settled in the UK since 1974. After working in the offices of Zaha Hadid, Wilkinson Eyre and others he began an independent studio in 2005, later incorporating Groupwork as an Employee Ownership Trust. As well as running the design and detailing of projects Amin has taught, written and lectured on architecture, sat on the RIBA National and International Awards Jury and aids related research groups. His company GROUPWORK are an employee ownership trust studio in which all collaborators are equal partners with engineers, landscape architects and other designers joining on specific projects. These have varied from private houses, residential and office buildings, arts centres, infrastructure bridges and metro stations. The featured projects have been recognized by the RIBA Stirling and EU Mies van Der Rohe jury, and illustrate the practices core philosophy, Explore – Restore – Ignore, allowing a broader sense of context to drive material, structure and compositional narratives.
https://groupwork.uk.com/