@AA nanotourism; Werft Laubegast, Dresden, Germany

LOCATION

Dresden, Sachsen
Germany

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Tourism faced radical challenges through the last global pandemic. Tourism, pre-pandemic, was one of the fastest growing global industries despite its many questionable impacts. The new realities give us an opportunity to rethink how we visit places and experience our home environments in meaningful and profound ways.

For its 9th edition, the AA nanotourism Visiting School will take place in Dresden, Germany, focusing on specificities of Dresden's old village centres that have been overgrown by the city over the past century and have thus lost their own identities and past recreational value to their new suburban role.

By critically investigating their current potential we will aim to develop 1:1 scale conceptual, locally-specific interventions in the form of events, built installations or strategies. Through a collaboration with key local stakeholders, the regional tourism agency and Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden we will imagine and implement future collaborative prototypes of responsible tourism for the region. The program will run in parallel to the Design Campus Lab at Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden - an innovation laboratory and incubator promoting research, multidisciplinary studies, knowledge exchange and the advancement of complex ideas and networks.

AA nanotourism Visiting School is an architectural educational programme focusing on nanotourism - a creative critique of the current environmental, social and economic downsides of conventional tourism. Through critical thinking and close collaboration with local stakeholders, we focus on developing nanotourism case studies to reveal hidden aspects of the particular context addressing the place, its users, and locally available materials.

nanotourism is a creative critique to the current environmental, social and economic downsides of conventional tourism, defined as a site-specific, participatory, locally oriented, bottom-up alternative. It operates as a social tool to stimulate mutual interaction between provider and user by co-creation or exchange of knowledge.

www.nanotourism.org

MENTORS

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Programme Head / Mentor

Aljosa Dekleva (b. 1972) graduated at Faculty of Architecture in Ljubljana and received Master degree in Architecture with Distinction from Architectural Association in London in 2002. He co-directs the architectural practice Dekleva Gregoric Architects pursuing the concept of research by design and design by research with the aim to challenge the obvious by building architectures of various scales and programmes worldwide. Since 2014 He runs an experimental teaching and research programme AA Nanotourism Visiting School at the AA. With Tina Gregorič he curated the Slovenian national pavilion Home at Arsenale at Venice Biennale 2016. He was teaching architecture as a guest professor at Université de Montréal in Canada, ENSA Paris Val de Seine in France, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany and as a Gehry Chair 2019 at Daniels in Toronto, Canada.

www.dekleva-gregoric.com

Invited Mentors

mischer‘traxler studio – Katharina Mischer and Thomas Traxler and Team are a Viennese design studio with a focus on experiments, context and conceptual thinking they develop and design products, furniture, installations and more. Balancing between handcraft and technology, the studio envisions whole systems, new production methods and kinetic or interactive installations that question topics, tell stories or open up new ways of doing things. By using their outcomes as means of communication, the studio tries to show that Design can be functional, good and beautiful not just in objects but as well in the ideas they represent. Projects by mischer’traxler are regularly displayed in exhibitions on contemporary Design and Art worldwide and were already on show in Museums such as the Cooper Hewitt in New York, Design Museum Holon, Boijmans van Boiningen, Design Museum London, Triennale Milano, Mudac Lausanne and more or to be found in permanent collections of MAK Vienna, Art institute Chicago, Vitra Design Museum and British Design Council, among others.

www.mischertraxler.com

Programme Assistant / Mentor

Amanda Sperger (b. 1994) is a researcher and educator based in Vienna, Austria. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from TU Vienna and a Master’s degree in Social Design from the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Formerly she has worked as a Student Assistant at the Research Unit for Architectural Typology and Design at TU Vienna. In 2019 she was Course Tutor and since 2020 she is Programme Assistant at AA nanotourism Visiting School, London, UK as well as being an active part of the nanotourism platform. She is co-initiator of several urban initiatives in Vienna including Schwimmverein Donaukanal and horsing : vienna. Currently she collaborates with the Austrian architecture platform architektur in progress.

Programme Assistant / Mentor

Jakob Travnik (b. 1991) is an architect, researcher, and educator based in Vienna, Austria. He holds a Magister degree in Architecture from the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Currently he works as a University Assistant at the Research Unit for Architectural Typology and Design at TU Vienna with a specific focus on research, theory and design within the framework of nanotourism. Since 2014, he is Programme Assistant at AA nanotourism Visiting School, London, UK and an active part of the nanotourism platform. Previously he was a participant at BIO 25 Ljubljana, Slovenia under the mentorship of mischer’traxler studio and a Designer in Residence at Atelier Luma, Luma Arles, France.

VISITING EXPERTS

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Thomas A. Geisler

Austrian design curator and cultural producer Thomas Geisler curated international exhibitions for the Vienna Biennale (2015 and 2017), London Design Biennale (2016 and 2018), Vitra Design Museum, and many others. He is the director of the Museum of Decorative Arts – Dresden State Art Collections (SKD). Before that he was the director of the Werkraum Bregenzerwald – the crafts and trade initiative of the Bregenzerwald region – where he was leading exhibitions and other initiatives, overlapping innovative craftsmanship, design and architecture. He was also the curator and head of the Design Collection at the MAK Vienna. He played a pivotal role in establishing the Victor J. Papanek Foundation at the University for Applied Arts Vienna and is a co-founder of Vienna Design Week. Recently he curated the 26th Biennial of Design in Ljubjlana , Slovenia: BIO 26 ‘Common Knowledge’ together with Aline Lara Rezende.

www.kunstgewerbemuseum.skd.museum
www.designcampusdresden.com
www.viennadesignweek.at

Jesko Fezer

works as a designer. In various collaborations, he engages practically and theoretically with the social relevance of design. In cooperation with ifau (Institute for Applied Urban Studies) he realizes architecture projects, he is co-founder of the bookstore Pro qm in Berlin and part of the exhibition design studio Kooperative für Darstellungspolitik. He is co-editor of the Bauwelt Fundamente series and Studienhefte für problemorientiertes Design. He is professor for experimental design at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts and has been running the student-led Public Design Support programme since 2011.

www.jeskofezer.de

The Green Eyl

Studio TheGreenEyl is a design and research practice based in Berlin and New York. They create exhibitions, installations, objects, images, interactions and algorithms.

Always driven by a profound engagement with content, context and format, they explore such topics as language, technology, vision or the city. Within each project they seek to employ the most suitable means, which sometimes requires creating new techniques and tools. They enjoy collaborating with writers, sound artists, philosophers, textile designers, software and electrical engineers, illustrators and various other disciplines.

Studio TheGreenEyl was founded in 2009 by Richard The, Gunnar Green, Frédéric Eyl, Willy Sengewald and Dominik Schumacher and has since worked internationally with partners from culture, industry and research.Their work has been exhibited at the MoMA New York, Ars Electronica, NewInc New Museum, Design Museum London, 21_21 Design Sight Tokyo.

www.thegreeneyl.com

Simone Trommer-Tiedemann

is project manager of destination development and tourism marketing at the Dresden Marketing Board. Aiming to strategically advance a sustainable development of the Dresden Elbland 2030 she focuses on interdisciplinary networking in the fields of tourism and culture with partners from industry, science and other local stakeholders. Before that she was procurator, with focus on press and public relations, information transmission andconsulting, for Dresden Marketing. In 2011, Simone was event manager of the Zwingerfestspiele in Dresden. She graduated from the Dresden University of Technology with majors in marketing management and communication, entrepreneurship, economics, and psychology.

www.dmg.dresden.de

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