PREPARATORY WORKSHOP IN L´AQUILA

From March 15th through 20th, a PAO group travelled to the city of l´Aquila, Italy for a preparatory workshop. L´Aquila will be the place for the next PAO summerschool (PAO.6). In order to check out the current situation on-site, a brief academic session was held at the university of l´Aquila. The session included two lecture presentations, a speed-design workshop with students, and various visits to potential sites for the upcoming summercamp. Also a poster exhibition of last year´s workshop in Potoc (Romania) was presented at the university.





Despite the Abruzzo Region, of which l´Aquila is the capital city, is of enormous beauty, the city itself and surrounding villages still suffer much from last years earthquake. Many facilities and infrastructures are still not working. The university itself has moved into a former CD-Factory.
Here, however, the students´ interest and feedback to PAO was very positive, many of them look forward to a fascinating "Design to build"-summerschool in August/September. The speed-design sessions resulted in beautiful yet simple and realistic ideas which appear possible to be constructed.




From now, exact time, location, and programm are to be decided and be informed via this blog. In any case: put a reminder to your schedule book - PAO l´Aquila is to come soon.