[PROBLEM DESCRIPTION]
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During the Ever After Workshop we propose to consider scenarios of adaptation, inventing new life style spaces for so-called habitable furniture that helps filter, or adjust, or permit different types of mobility. There are various "spaces" in our daily lives that need to be amended with flexible design interventions for socialization. From the scale of "territory", "distance", or "interval" between people and objects, a good design can guarantee calmness or comfort. The workshop asks us how to simplify life through outdoor furniture for public areas.
In this workshop will be an exploration of new needs for current health and ecological crisis. Students must identify a new need, and this will require documentation and imagination. You will design a prototype of what we call “habitable furniture” for outdoor public space.
The solutions should be low energy consumption and biodegradable. We propose using primarily wood for your designs.
We invite you to invent a program for an outdoor space and then fulfill it with a design for habitable furniture, ideally designing a component that can be multiplied.


[WORKSHOP OVERVIEW]
• Dates & Location: 1~8 August thru Online ZOOM
• Number of students: 14
• Organization and leading of the workshop:
Ilgin Ezgi Tunc, plug-in architects
Prof. Richard Ingersol, Syracuse University Florance

[MANIFESTO]
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Many fairytales end with the epigram: “and they lived happily ever after”. In this workshop we will be designing for situations provoked by the pandemic. Although the idea of “after” is probably the first thing on most people’s minds at this time, because they would like to return to some form of normalcy, and governments in particular can’t wait to declare the end of the pandemic in order to salvage their crippled economies, we think it is a bit of a fairytale. We believe that the planetary health crisis provoked by COVID-19, which has obliged more than 50% of earthlings to live in some form of quarantine, should be seen as a precursor to other, more dangerous environmental crises. We assume that vaccines and medical procedures will eventually resolve the spread of the virus, allowing us to speak of an “after Coronavirus”, but in regards to the Climate Crisis, which is mostly linked to anthropogenic causes, we cannot honestly speak of a post-crisis situation. The melting of the polar icecaps, and of Nordic permafrost, the increasing PH levels of acidity in the oceans, the continuing deforestations around the planet, and of course the reduced capacity to grow food due to hostile heat will greatly change human societies. The possibility of other pandemics is thus coupled with major weather threats for which we are not ready. We need adaptative strategies for survival, both for immediate and long-term situations. We should be aware that there will probably be a cure for COVID-19 but that this will not be the last crisis. Nothing will be the same as it was before the pandemic.

Although in recent times a “share” culture managed through online platforms has emerged, the pandemic has reduced many possibilities of physically being together. Instead virtual socialization has become viral, so to speak, and platforms such as Zoom, have overnight taken the place of public space or places of encounter. Cell phones will soon be geared to measure temperatures and infections, and travel, both local and international, has already been heavily monitored. Health passports in the form of chips will probably be issued to those who continue to operate in the working world.

Normal activities, such as going to restaurants and bars will be redesigned to keep people at social distance. Tourism, museum-going, education, shopping, playgrounds, public transportation, and public space must necessarily adapt to the post-Corona condition. There will be a great demand for small design interventions to help to both connect and protect.

The principal lesson of the pandemic has been that we were not prepared. The same must be said for the Climate Crisis, in that we continue to plan our lives as if there will not be any major changes, even though extreme weather, food shortages, and health disasters have already occurred and will continue to arrive on a larger scale.

[WORKSHOP GUIDANCE]
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This will necessarily be a remote architecture workshop. Duration is 9 days starting from 1st August 2020. During the workshop there will be a series of live lectures to offer guidance (JST). Instructor guidance will be offered through webinar.We will run the Ever After Workshop as a competition. The first phase will be for research and design, and offer critiques and tutoring by the workshop committee. At the end of first phase, students will make a final presentation of their design ideas in two vertical A1 panels. Design ideas will be in competition and 3 of them will be selected by the jury. The 3 winning design ideas will be constructed in Tokyo. The construction process will be published in online media.
Since it is an international remote workshop, we will organize remote introduction parties for international participants.

[PROBLEM DESCRIPTION]
​
During the Ever After Workshop we propose to consider scenarios of adaptation, inventing new life style spaces for so-called habitable furniture that helps filter, or adjust, or permit different types of mobility. There are various "spaces" in our daily lives that need to be amended with flexible design interventions for socialization. From the scale of "territory", "distance", or "interval" between people and objects, a good design can guarantee calmness or comfort. The workshop asks us how to simplify life through outdoor furniture for public areas.
In this workshop will be an exploration of new needs for current health and ecological crisis. Students must identify a new need, and this will require documentation and imagination. You will design a prototype of what we call “habitable furniture” for outdoor public space.
The solutions should be low energy consumption and biodegradable. We propose using primarily wood for your designs.
We invite you to invent a program for an outdoor space and then fulfill it with a design for habitable furniture, ideally designing a component that can be multiplied.

[WORKSHOP GUIDANCE]
​
This will necessarily be a remote architecture workshop. Duration is 9 days starting from 1st August 2020. During the workshop there will be a series of live lectures to offer guidance (JST). We ask you to work in teams of no more than 4 to 5 students— but you are also welcome to work alone or in pairs. It is recommended that student teams be created from different countries, but it is not mandatory. There will be at least 1 student from Japan allotted to each team. Instructor guidance will be offered through webinar.
We will run the Ever After Workshop as a competition. The first phase will be for research and design, and offer critiques and tutoring by the workshop committee. At the end of first phase, students will make a final presentation of their design ideas in two vertical A1 panels. Design ideas will be in competition and 5 of them will be selected by the jury. The second phase concerns the publication and construction of the selected designs and locating them in the project area. Each team will have one student in Japan, who will lead the construction. The project area is at a university campus in Tokyo, and will be presented to the students during the first phase. The 5 winning design ideas will be constructed with Ishinomaki Laboratory, who will share their immense knowledge of wood construction technics with us and supervise students during the workshop. The construction process will be published in online media.
Since it is an international remote workshop, we will organize remote introduction parties for international participants.

[SCIENTIFIC COORDINATION AND LECTURES]
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Prof. Richard Ingersoll Politecnico di Milano
Keiji Ashizawa Principal Keiji Ashizawa Design,Tokyo
Naoki Terada Principal Terada Design & Architects, Tokyo
Fumi Kashimura Tokyo University of Arts (GEIDAI), Terrain architects
Junpei Mori Tokyo University of Arts (GEIDAI), Paradise Air
Azzurra Muzzonigro Co-founder Waiting Posthuman Studio, Milan
Emanuele Braga Landscape Choreography; Ebony Carpentry
Ilgin Ezgi Tunc Plug-in Architects, Tokyo​

[WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF]
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Duncan Baker Brown The university of Brighton, UK
Prof. Fitnat Cimşit Koş Associate Professor, GTU Kocaeli, Turkey
Mehmet Ali Gasseloğlu Research Assistant, GTU Kocaeli, Turkey
Prof. Muhammed Amin Eslami University of Kashan, Iran
Prof. Ali Bahadori University of Kashan, University of Tehran, Iran
Narges Mofarahian Co-founder and CEO Agrishelter
Babis Makridis Greek Film Director & Actor
Anne Gross Studio Gross, Tokyo
Sebastian Gross Studio Gross, Tokyo