DVARP continues with APSS platform – architectural summer school we organize every year. This year a week long workshop and APSS Finale has been placed in Porto Montenegro in Tivat for the first time.
Last year inside the city walls of UNESCO site and within the vicinity of Old Austrian Prison - the mothership of APSS, we broke up with the permanence and talked about its significance in architecture. The results of the workshop were brilliant installations done by students mentored by Numen/For Use. This year we move to an amazing Porto Montenegro with an expanded topic.
Temporary structures might be designed to disappear shortly, might have to be set-up quickly and just host an event but they do become part of the public space, part of community. They should challenge new ideas, test new scenarios and new approach to public space use, embrace the environment and adapt to the surrounding. In APSS 2018 we add the issue of Sustainable Mobility and explore our topic CROSSING TEMPORARY. Boka Bay is the perfect spot for discussing problems and testing possible solutions concerning sustainable mobility. Students have been given tasks that start with mobility issues but continue to evolve and will eventually be presented in what we believe would be a unique APSS experience.
Sustainable Mobility is one of the greatest challenges and not only in Montenegro. Boka Bay is the perfect spot for discussing these problems and testing some of the solutions. Through our workshop, lectures and panel we want to experiment and test new scenarios in our cities. We want to challenge interaction and see the position of the city within a different mobility network engaging water transport, sustainable solutions and scenarios that benefit visitors and tourist as much as locals. CO2 emission is also a problem especially in this site that is UNESCO protected both for it’s history and nature. This is a perfect occasion to mark the European Mobility Week and bring attention of general public as much as architects and planners to this pressing issues.
APSS has been established as a program that would deal with real on-site problems in order to produce scenarios on possible solutions while at the same time building a platform for discussion and exchange. This platform is mainly educational and our goal has always been to focus on education in architecture in order to help emerging architects in Montenegro and the region. We believe education is a strong anchor point of development and must be a driving force for disciplines we deal with. Learning from some very known examples such as Berlage institute or Ravnikar’s Course B in design we talk with their main actors and other participants about how to broaden the dialog.
We have seen so many changes this year and said some tough goodbyes – to Hotel Fjord, to Dom Revolucije and the toughest one to Prison and an amazing city of Kotor. But we do stay in Boka Bay and we welcome an amazing and exciting NEW APSS! See you at Synchro Porto Montenegro!