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IP Creating&Context #2
Emscher Kunst Triennale 2013
Duisburg 14 – 28 July 

Call for Application

Sixty students working in nine cross-disciplinary and transnational groups will develop proposals for a permanently sited public artwork as part of the Emscher Kunst Triennale 2013. Working collaboratively in your cross-disciplinary groups you are asked to respond creatively to the designated site.  You are asked to reflect upon this unique context and to design a place for human interaction/contemplation. This should be a specially designed site-specific structure that is situated somewhere along the green belt area that incorporates steel as the main material.

The assessment will be done via an exhibition and a formal presentation to a selection committee: at the end of the assessment, at least one proposal will be selected to be fully realized.

Selection criteria
POLIMI will select the 6 participants according the evaluation of the following delivered documents (collected together into one single PDF file of max 20MB):

–       a Portfolio (on pag 1 – cover – place name surname and ph&email contacts)
–       a Letter of Motivation
–       a Presentation concerning the last point highlighted in the program description: the request to research aspects of the brief prior to the start of the project (download and read the full program).

Deadline for submission: 15 March 2013 > NEW DATE: 08MARCH2013!

Mail the document to gennaro.postiglione(at)polimi.it
Use a jumbomail delivery service (libero, wetransfer, dropbox sharing option, etc.): do not attach the PDF at the email.

At the workshop it will be recognized 4 ECTS.

Download Creating&Context Duisburg 2013 program and/or visit Creating&Context Bologna 2012 website

Dear Students,
This is the last call for participation to the next Intensive Erasmus Workshop on “Structural Architectures: Geometry Code and Design”

The deadline is July the 15th

You will find in attachment the poster concerning the call for the next Intensive Erasmus Workshop on “structural Architectures: Geometry Code and Design”, containing all the useful information you need at the moment for the selection. Interested students have to send via e-mail the following materials, by July 15th 2012, to: luigi.cocchiarella@polimi.it:

1_letter of motivation (in English, maximum 2.000 typefaces long)
2_transcript of forme courses

After July 11th a date for short inerviews will be fixed, in order to select the 8 students who will participate in the workshop.

The project developed the past year are published on-line and available at: summerschool-milano2011 (see there “erasmus intensive program milano 2011”).

Best regards,
Prof. Luigi Cocchiarella