possibilities of activites and the recent case of Skateistan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPlnGa5ubVg

within the above youtube link, you will get introduced to Skateistan. this is the issue of changing the urban environment and the daily traumas with the help of a neutral activity. this issue is an issue of humanity definitely. This is design/game/architecture/social behavior/ culture and networking.

We as a team tried to develop a triathlon project in the city of Mostar 2 years before. the recent realisation was a tryout triathlon via artists from a local center. Some of you may remember my beginning links and texts about the Mostar Triathlon. Unfortunately sponsorship did not work out so effectively until today and still political unstability as well as hard to solve details about implementation kept this project as a conceptual work and a tryout via art.

thus I congratulate Skateistan and all the people for this initiative who took responsibility and courage. they are having an ongoing costruction currently and aim to finish up the park in the end of this year. great!

All the neutral activities within post crisis locations and minds...
sante!

for more information about SKATEISTAN and their recent supporters Architecture for Humanity here are the links:
http://skateistan.org/
http://www.architectureforhumanity.org/
http://gamechangers.architectureforhumanity.org/proposals

SummerSchool "Mapping Urban Space - Alternative Strategies for Emergent Urban Forms"

Finland: August 10th - 22nd, 2009

The Centre for Urban and Regional Studies (YTK) at the Helsinki University of Technology (TKK) is hosting the fifteenth YTK/IFHP Urban Planning and Design Summer School in Finland in August 2009.

The Summer School will be organised in close cooperation with the cities of Turku and Jyväskylä, where the active field work of the course will take place.

The first days of the course will be spent in
the Helsinki region. This part of the course consists of lectures and excursions.

The core of the Summer School is the following ten days of workshops taking place in the partner cities.

The field work is based on actual town planning tasks. Participants will be assigned to analyse
the existing conditions of planning areas and to suggest innovative and realistic improvements to the environments.

This year's theme will be "Mapping Urban Space - Alternative Strategies for Emergent Urban Forms". The course will concentrate on one hand on alternative mapping of urban resources and on the other hand on alternative planning instruments. The lectures as well as the given projects will reflect the theme. Summer School also provides the participants with an opportunity to publish their writings in an official publication. The annual publication includes articles and essays written by the participants as well as summaries of the projects produced in the workshops.

The YTK/IFHP Summer School entitles participants five ECTS study credits.

This announcement is an invitation for applying to the YTK/IFHP Urban Planning and Design Summer School 2009 in Finland. It is addressed to students at all levels of studies, and young professionals, from all disciplines related to physical planning. We look forward to receiving applications, among others, from urban planners, architects, sociologists and geographers!

The course will be held 10-22 August 2009 and the application period will end at the end of March 2009. An electronic application form and further information on the course can be found on our website: http://ytksummerschool.tkk.fi