12th INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
ADVENTURES OF ARCHITECTURE IN OSTRAVA
Topic for 2025: EMPTY SPACES & VIVID CITY
Strategies of transformations across post-industrial region
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school Summer School of Architecture, VSB - Technical University of Ostrava
institution VSB – Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
when 07 July - 11 July 2025
language English
credits 3.0 ECTS
fee EUR 40
registration deadline 15 June 2025
About
Transformation of post-industrial region of Ostrava has developed into various forms, strategies and approaches. An academic programme offers an interdisciplinary knowledge in the fields of contemporary and historical architecture, urban planning, history of architecture and urban geography.
A significant part of the program focuses on experimental procedures in the mediation of knowledge and the creation of architectural solutions. Through lectures, presentations, symposia and walking tours we discover the past, present and future development of architecture in Ostrava and nearby regions. The program provides exploring its nature, wilderness, urban life and its future development. To get a vivid sense of the architecture and the city itself, the summer school takes field trips to view interesting places and buildings, we work on selected topics of in situ research and design workshops.
Course leader
Associate Professor Eva Špačková, Ph.D.
VSB – Technical University of Ostrava
Faculty of Civil Engineering, Department of Architecture
Ludvíka Podéště 1875/17, 708 00 Ostrava-Poruba, Czech Republic
Target group
The summer school programme complements the university education. Particularly recommended for students in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture and urban planning, history of architecture and urban history, municipal development and geography. Another target group is professionals who want to go beyond the limits of their narrow specialization and people interested in architecture in their programme of life-long education. The program is also open to high school students.
Maximum capacity of the course is 20 participants.
Course aim
Ostrava and its neighbourhood offer a wide range of examples of how to deal with many post-industrial areas and buildings (some of them in the position of an industrial heritage) and how to transform them into a vivid future. You can meet also empty spaces and urban wilderness in the city structure. A week program will provide workshop tasks, field trips and adventure experiences to introduce the post-industrial region and show how cities or private investors transform the post-industrial region towards its new future.
We provide an all-day programme for your five days in Ostrava, it will be mostly outdoor. You do not pay any costs for the university programme. You will pay only 40 EU administration fees. We do not organize your travels to Ostrava and back and do not provide accommodation and food in Ostrava and other travel costs.
All students who successfully finish the course programme receive a certificate evaluated by 3 ECTS credits.
Fee info
Fee 40 EUR, University teaching programme is free for participants. 40 EU fee is paid to cover the administration costs and is not refundable. Travel costs, food and accommodation during the course are not included.
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