2024

Invisible City
Only for Infants

Professors: 
Takaharu + Yui Tezuka 

Symposium:
SCAPELAB
Svet Vmes
Institute for Transmedia Design
Argu
NEKOLIKO
ONDA 
 
Time: 
July 29th — August 6th 2024

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Workshop

In childhood, you used to live in a different world. It does not mean only the scale of the surrounding environments.

You used to hear the world differently. Children are capable of recognizing hypersonic sound exceeding 20 kHz. Their ears are much more like wild animals' than the grownup's. Beyond 20 KHz, the body transmits vibration through bones to the central spine, and the deepest part of the brain sends chemical signal to the upper dermal surface of the brain. The process is similar to the one for primitive life forms before we humans evolve consciousness. They smell spring wind differently and touch the surface of stones differently. 

This year we want you to find an invisible city that can be seen or experienced only by children. Please do not consider this an easy assignment. Adults are experienced in finding anything hidden by children. This is not about hiding a space nor making a smaller threshold. The assignment is about exploring parallel universe where you used to live in, yet not anymore. 


Exhibition

Takaharu and Yui Tezuka first joined the workshop in Grožnjan in 2013. In the meantime, they became regular visitors to Grožnjan and professors of the workshop. This summer they came for the tenth time, and on the occasion of the anniversary, an exhibition about their work was organized.

The exhibition is concieved in three parts: a selection of projects, an overview of the workshops they mentored, and the experience of Grožnjan through their watercolor exhibition. Although their catalog of works includes hundreds of projects and realizations, a selection of works related to the workshop and Tezuka’s visits to Grožnjan and Istria is presented. Fuji Kindergarten and the Matsunoyama Natural Science Museum were extensively and frequently featured during the workshops. Fushi resort was probably presented here for the first time in a less formal atmosphere after the lecture. Some of their projects were created under the influence of Grožnjan, such as the Bancho church, which was inspired by the church of St. Vincent.

The famous Nijima Junior College Chapel, which was chosen as the best church in 2022, drew inspiration from the pergola in the nearby Taverna, and the handdrawn facades with a total length of over fifty meters were largely created in Grožnjan.


Symposium

The workshop and the exhibition were accompanied by a series of evening lectures that were open and often attracted local audiences from Istria. Famous architects from Slovenia and Croatia presented their works. Boris Matić from the SCAPELAB presented Cukrarna project in Ljubljana. Ana Kreč and Jure Hrovat from Svet Vmes collective showed their approach to designing architecture intended for education. Sara Božanić, founder of the Institute for Transmedia Design, presented a participatory project in which children participated in planning the future of the city. The current state of architecture in Croatia and the region was presented through a series of lectures and discussions with young architectural practitioners who are just beginning to realize some of the most important projects in Croatia. Dora Lončarić (Nekoliko), Marko Gusić (Argu), Erik Jurišević and Silvija Shaleva (Konntra), and Krešimir Renić (ONDA) presented their practices and approaches.

Grožnjan Summer School of Architecture

JMI CENTRE GROŽNJAN 
Umberta Gorjana 2, 52429 Grožnjan, Croatia
groznjanschoolofarchitecture@gmail.com

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