Event's IaaC - IAAC@Cyprus _Jury at International Parametric Urbanism Workshop Competition

IAAC Academic Coordinator Areti Markopoulou traveled to Nicosia to participate in the Rebuilding no Man´s land,Famagusta workshop as an invited critic.

The workshop (organised by Pavlos Ferreos,Alkis Dikaios and Kostas Grigoriadis)was based on the hypothetical event on the return of the abandonded and fenced for 35 years city of Famagusta to its former inhabitants.

Innovative ways of redesigning cities and rehabilitation planning based on parametric tools was presented by students from international schools including AA Design Research Lab with Theodore Spyropoulos,DIA/ Bauhaus with Christos Passas, NTUA with Dimitris Papalexopoulos and Why Factory/Delft with Tihamer Hazarja Salij.

Issues such as practice parametrics when no parameters are to be found, when no variables can be set, dealing with memories, absence and predict the upcoming presence was some of the issues the projects tried to respond to.

Invited jury panel also included  Winy Maas,Director MVRDV, Christos Passas,Associate Director Zaha Hadid Arch,Socratis Stratis,University of Cyprus and Lora Nicolaou,Head of Research,URI,Universityof Greenwich.

The workshop will be followed by an exhibition of the work at the Metropolitan Works Gallery in London that will be part of the London Festival of Architecture 2010.

http://www.nomanslandproject.com/