_(IR)RECOVERABLE RUIN_ – Catalina Dumitru, Stipendiatin 2020/2021

Every construction represents an important modification to the territory — a modification which affects how people relate to the environment.
I am fascinated by the life cycle of the built environment. No matter how durable it was intended to be, everything is degrading. Despite our historicist sensibility that will not allow us to erase the past without feeling a little barbaric, despite our bravest hopes to preserve everything, I find it unnatural not to accept destruction. Degradation, yielding to the natural law, becomes a source of mystery and beauty, exactly because we cannot know about what lies beyond death.

The Rose Frame – Lauritz Bohne, Stipendiat 2020/2021

The Rose Frame (Der Rosa Rote Rahmen) – ist ein Provokateur, der durch das Gegenüberstellen von objektiver Realität zu gefilterter Subjektivität den Betrachter provoziert, zum Akteur seiner Umgebung zu werden. Die Idee für diesen Entwurf findet seine Wurzeln in dem Gedanken einer selbstregulierenden Gesellschaft, die sich ganz nach Lefebvres Idealen ihr Recht auf Stadt behauptet und ihre Werte im Dialog, angenehmer und unangenehmer Art, verhandelt.

Homo sapiens are no longer proletarian but cognitarians – Eff Libilbéhéty, Interior Scholarship 2020/2021

To dive into the conscious and unconscious means to fit in society uncovers the fragile balance between the banal and the public. Social appendages, like phones or strategies, are here to lubricate the human’s collision with the external. This liminal space questions the authenticity of each individual and reveals a constraint belonging to the collective. Calling attention to cognitive bias here also relates to how ideology works on a mass of people – because of those human brain’s glitches.

Blog-Beitrag 2 von Marie Jõgi, Stipendiatin 2020/2021

In my second blog post I would like to introduce one smaller project of my autumn semester that took place for 3rd year students at Estonian Academy of Arts.

How do we sink? – Eff Libilbéhéty, Interior Scholarship 2020/2021

What is the place of humans in futures societies? How does the dynamics between individual and collective will balance? Western populations face difficulties to maintain current humans’ lifestyle. Let’s talk, or dream, about the decline of European capitalists societies. This sensible experience is irremediable: we are all going to face it, whether you like it or not.

Blog-Beitrag 1 von Marie Jõgi, Stipendiatin 2020/2021

In my first blog post I would like to describe a little bit my 3rd year students main project in autumn semester 2020 at Estonian Academy of arts. For me it stood out from all the previous school projects, due to its complexity and large area for designing.

_memory excercise_ – Catalina Dumitru, Stipendiatin 2020/2021

For this semester, we were assigned to turn a 1911 building in Bucharest into a hotel. The building is located in the heart of the city center, close to one of the oldest parks – Cismigiu Gardens. It used to be called the Palace Hotel, one of the most luxurious hotels in Bucharest of the early 20th century. It is an eclectic construction with neoclassical and art nouveau elements. During the communist regime it changed its name to Hotel Cismgiu, and in 1990 it became the dormitory for the University of Theatre and Film, already in a devastating state of degradation.

Interior Scholarship 2020 – Das AIT Stipendium der Sto-Stiftung

Mit dem AIT-Stipendium der Sto-Stiftung werden Studierende der Innenarchitektur für ihre Ideen und kreativen Denkweisen ausgezeichnet. Das mit insgesamt 24.000 Euro dotierte Interior Scholarship erhalten im Studienjahr 2020/2021 Catalina Dumitru (University of Architecture and Urbanism ION MINCU, RO-Bukarest), Marie Jõgi (Estonian Academy of Arts, EE-Tallinn), Eff Libilbéhéty (Gerrit Rietveld Academie, NL-Amsterdam)und Lauritz Bohne (TU Delft, NL-Delft).
Uwe Koos, Vorsitzender des Stiftungsvorstands der Sto-Stiftung, und Kristina Bacht, Verlagsleiterin AIT-Dialog, sprachen mit den Vieren bei einem – in diesem Jahr digitalen – Treffen am 23. Oktober 2020.

Pesamuna / Nest Egg – Karolin Kull, Stipendiatin 2019/2020

This semester I had a chance to work on a personal project. I have had this idea of a small lighting piece idling along in my head for quite some time. It has always been a topic of interest for me as lighting as such has an immense power over how one perceives space.
The idea started forming when I heard about a class that my acquaintance was having. They were working with prototyping and everyone had to use a metal flip switch for their object which then immediately caught my eye. Taking their brief as a starting point I developed my own challenge to work with comfort lighting.

Urban dovecote – Lara Grandchamp, Stipendiatin 2019/2020

This term, I had the opportunity to join a workshop led by a group of researchers who investigate new ways to produce wooden façade using advanced digital tools. I purposefully chose to work on the dovecote for two reasons:

The first one is that, originally, dovecotes had a strong historical statement of local craftsmanship. The second is that I wanted to tackle the problematic of the overpopulation of pigeons in cities and think of a concept that would provide them a safe and healthy place to stay as well as using it to control their population. In short, bringing the use of the dovecote (also called pigeon loft) back to a contemporary and this with the help of a new technology. A perfect fit to this workshop’s tasks.

Bachelorabschluss unter neuen Studienbedingungen – Alfiia Koneeva, Stipendiatin 2019/20

Noch kurz vor meinem Studienabschluss war es für mich möglich, die neuen Lehrformate, die aufgrund der Coronakrise entwickelt wurden, kennen zu lernen und auch zu testen. Wie fühlt es sich in Zeiten sozialer Distanzierung und Digitalisierung an zu studieren und was hat sich in meinem Leben in den letzten Monaten geändert?
Trotz der offensichtlichen Nachteile der neuen, digitalen Studienformate – unkommunikatives und teilweise auch unpersönliches Arbeiten, Beschränkungen in der Darstellung und Begrenzung in den Materialien sowie Mangel im Austausch zwischen den Studenten – konnte ich für mich selbst einiges Positives daraus ziehen.

#WirvsVirus – Janna Radlow, Stipendiatin 2019/2020

Gerade steht alles Kopf. Seit drei Wochen befindet sich unsere Gesellschaft nun schon in einem Ausnahmezustand. Wir sind dazu aufgerufen, zu Hause zu bleiben, den Kontakt zu Freunden und Arbeitskollegen zu vermeiden, einfach abzuwarten, um uns selbst und die Risikogruppe zu schützen.