Join Xenia Adjoubei, @artaslabour , Niklas Fanelsa, Atelier Fanelsa, and Professor Andrew Clancy, Drawing Matter, architecture summer school, Somerset, for a conversation on three different international summer school models, looking at varying methods of practise, pitfalls, and pleasures.

Part of a series of conversations, hosted by Niall Maxwell from Rural Office for Architecture, where creative practitioners are invited to discuss their own practice and engagement strategies to inform how Galway may host its own summer school in 2021.

Link via https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87376224467?pwd=cmlLcHZHb3hOOG1GZHU1QnMrM090dz09

Xenia Adjoubei (MA Dip.Arch) is a researcher and architect, Director of AdjoubeiScottWhitby Studio and 2021 Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Pratt Institute, New York City, working on proposals for how rural technologies and collective craft practices can improve quality of life in cities. Xenia has run Design Studios in universities in Europe and Russia, is founder of the Nikola-Lenivets Classroom (Russia) a research and education centre based in the largest art park in Europe, which is part of the Global Free Unit decentralised network for education. Her research and design projects cover topics such as Degrowth, the New Rural: a village for the future; Art as Labour: how art creates and sustains communities; Virtual Museum in the Open Air: digital mapping of the natural environment. 

Recently Xenia led the Sol y Sombraproject, which proposes solutions to aid the South American migration crisis through creating digital shared spaces for support and improvement of migrant and host communities' physical environments. Xenia’s interest lies in how new technologies can complement ‘designing through making’ with the hand, which is the subject of the Tectonic Performance: the Science and Craft of Building MA studio she co-teaches with Alejandro Haiek and Carl-Johan Vesterlund in Umeå University, Sweden. @artaslabour

Atelier Fanelsa is an international team of architects based in Berlin and Gerswalde (Brandenburg). The studio investigates contemporary forms of working, living and commoning in the countryside, the periphery, and the city. We realize private projects, public buildings, exhibitions, and workshops. Within these formats we develop innovative and qualitative answers to questions regarding the conditions of today’s society.

Atelier Fanelsa was founded by Niklas Fanelsa (*1985) in 2016, having studied Architecture at RWTH Aachen University and the Tokyo Institute of Technology. After his studies Niklas Fanelsa worked for De Vylder Vinck Taillieu in Gent and Thomas Baecker Bettina Kraus Architekten in Berlin. He was also a Teaching and Research Associate at RWTH Aachen University, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, and the Chair for Design and Housing at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. In 2019/20, he is Emerging Curator at the Canadian Center for Architecture in Montreal.

Andrew Clancy is an architect with Clancy Moore in Dublin, and Professor of Architecture at the Kingston School of Art in London.