This workshop will center around a 2-week
on-site residency in the war-torn Prijedor region of Bosnia &
Herzegovina between July 18th and July 29th. The workshop will
build on the form from previous workshops within the framework of
the Global Free Unit (GFU) in Russia, Greece and Turkey.
Participants will work with the charity organization Most Mira and
their Peace Centre project, planned for construction in 2022. The
centre was co-designed with architecture students from Bosnia &
Herzegovina, EU, the UK, and actors from the local community
through a participatory workshop programme. The project
demonstrates how sustainable architecture can provide a framework
for reconciliation.
Participating in this workshop, you will work
alongside students from Bosnia & Herzegovina and learn how to
work resourcefully and collaboratively to design and prototype
innovative building components, materials and furniture for the
Centre. You will also work on a wider reconciliation strategy of
small-scale architectural interventions throughout the disjointed
rural landscape.
Participants will be hosted by Most Mira and the local community
and will need to cover their own travel and accommodation costs in
affordable accommodation.
The projects/outcomes will be presented to Most Mira and
neighboring communities as "reconciliation gifts".
Covid-19 note: This workshop
can be adapted to an online or blended learning course, should this
be necessary due to travel restrictions brought about by the
covid-19 pandemic. International students will work closely with
local students, which also gives some flexibility for an online
course to be supported with on-site activities by locally based
teachers and students in the case of covid travel
restrictions.
Responsible teacher:
Robert Mull,
Visiting professor at Umeå School of Architecture
Additional
teachers:
Sangram Shirke,
lecturer at Umeå School of Architecture
Amalia Katopodis, lecturer at Umeå School of Architecture
Vernes Causevic, Project V Architecture, University of Sheffield
School of Architecture
Lucy Dinnen, Project V Architecture, University of Sheffield
School of Architecture
Caption and credits for Image
above: Architecture students
from BiH, EU and the UK building rammed earth prototypes on the
Most Mira Peace Centre site in Prijedor at a summer residency led
by Project V Architecture and international rammed earth experts
Lehm Ton Erde from Austria. Photo credit: Adriana Keast / Most
Mira.
