AATE Festival Film + Architecture Workshop

 Architecture at the Edge and Copenhagen Architecture Festival (CAFx) have partnered up to organize a film & architecture workshop in response to the AATE 2024 Festival thematic provocation of ‘Islands’, focusing on filmmaking and environmentally conscious, inclusive design, architecture and urban planning.

Led by Sabrina Morreale + Lorenzo Perri, (@Lemonot), with Sofie Stilling, assistant professor at Royal Danish Academy, Architecture, Design and Conservation we will explore Galway’s Public Archipelago.  

Guest lecturers Emmet Humphreys (Senior Architect, Galway City Council), Connie Farrell, Film Editor, and many more to be announced ...

Date/ Duration:
Saturday from 28 September – Saturday 05 October

Location:
Based at The Mick Lally Theatre, Druid lane, Galway.

FREE to attend but prebooking is essential as places are limited.

To Apply:
Forward your application consisting of a motivation letter / short biography (max 1 page) + CV / a brief portfolio no later than 26th of August 2024 to learning@architectureattheedge.com.

The course is open to anyone interested in the intersection of film and architecture - students and professionals alike, with a background in a relevant field of film, visual arts, photography, architecture, design, urban planning, anthropology, ethnology, social sciences and humanities. Participants are expected to have a basic knowledge of film production.

We will select participants and get back with a reply by 30th August.

We are looking forward to hearing from you!

Program

During the one-week program, through lectures, group exercises and guided explorations of Galway, we invite participants to response to the AATE24 thematic provocation of ‘islands’.

Participants are introduced to practices of investigative observation, research, and new ways of mapping the city - considering the human interactions, the convivial strategies of resistance created by citizens, and apply this knowledge to create your own short film documenting the special characteristics found in the built environment of Galway city.

After developing the concept for your film in the first sessions with the guidance of international guest lectures, you will explore the process of filmmaking, gaining concrete knowledge about organizing, filming and editing your work, as well as creating a relevant, dramaturgically well-functioning story. Professional filmmakers and editors, Sofie Stilling, Connie Farrell and others, will instruct you and assist you in the production of a maximum 3-minute-long film.

All the films produced during the workshop will be premiered at the PALAS cinema on Saturday 05th October at 16:30pm

Being With-In / In-Difference

AATE 2024 focuses on the relationships between forms of negotiation and conviviality, aiming to explore how being within particular sites can affect the occupant’s being as a person. We believe that belonging is not an abstract concept, but something to be cultivated through inhabiting and experiencing.

Conviviality has a long history, but until fairly recently its usage in English was quite restricted. Since the turn of the millennium, it started to transcend its common meaning of an atmosphere prompted by a festive, friendly joyful gathering - becoming, in certain contexts, a social construct to capture forms of gentle resistance and spatial activism. 

Indeed, we understand conviviality as the practice of “living together with and across difference” within the super-diverse settings and migration-driven processes of our contemporary world. Our cities are now defined by inhabitants of different origins, or faiths, with different economic, legal, or social status. Negotiating difference is therefore a natural part of meeting, communicating, interacting and living in public spaces. which often become spaces of “visibility and encounter between strangers”. Under what circumstances might these encounters be considered convivial? And what forms of design can originate from these encounters?

1 Gill Valentine, Living with difference: reflections on geographies of encounter (2008)

2 Ash Amin, Ethnicity and the Multicultural City: Living with Diversity (2002