Atelier Oh

Summer school in Valmiera 2021

Temporary museum of incidental traces – Interior scenography.

“FestivaL’and 4.0” – Through the eyes of another.

Summer school in Valmiera, 28/07/21 to 06/08/21, organised as a cooperation between RISEBA Faculty of Architecture and Design and Valmiera Summer Theatre festival (VVTF). “FestivaL’and 4.0” was behind envisioning, designing, and building Valmieras summer theatre festival pop-up center as a “Temporary Museum of Incidental Traces” in the former boiler house.

Workshop tutors: York Bing Oh, Malgorzata Maria Olchowska and Dina Suhanova.

With guest lectures and crits by Rudolfs Dainis Smits, Laura Linsi and Roland Reemaa.

Curator and coordinator of workshop: Dina Suhanova

Designed and Built by: Workshop participants and tutors with help of local carpenter, Aivars Furmanis, Anna Saurova and Valmieras festival team and volunteers.

Workshop Participants: Lune Boret, Iolanda Croitor, Gianluca Baldelli, Ariana Cazac, Alessandro Azzolini, Emanuele De Angelis, Evita Furmane, Armands Pampe.

Photos: Atelier Oh

Festival'and 4.0

"THINK! DESIGN! BUILD! “FestivaL’and 4.0” will take place for the fourth time in Valmiera (Latvia). It is a DesignBuild summer course to go beyond the academic knowledge getting out of the classroom into the physical world of design and construction for city users of all generations – theatre festival guests and locals of Valmiera. This year, the summer school will continue to explore new preconditions for communication and distancing in the public space, looking for answers on how to create an urban environment for safe togetherness to hold an event in post-pandemic circumstances. The participants led by design professionals will generate ideas, design, and learn crafts of timber construction to create and build an instant spatial framework for audiovisual adventure at the theater festival centre.

We aim to encourage students to apply their theoretical knowledge, develop and train the skills in constructing amazing ideas in scale 1:1. The summer school is devoted to the idea of the contemporary ephemeral architecture and urban design elements as catalysts for important processes in the urban environments, perception, and usability of the city."

Introduction text from website: https://festivaland.org/