ADA Summer Schools

Dear teachers of Art and Design,

We are writing to let you know about our art, design and architecture summer schools which we think might be of interest to your students thinking about applying to arts-based higher education. 

The summer schools are taught by a diverse group of professional artists, architects, and designers who have been working with our organisation Ada projects for a number of years. These two-week intensive courses act as a springboard towards Foundation or BA level courses in art, design, and architecture.  This year we will be holding our practical, project-based summer schools in London, France, and Warsaw. These courses provide an intensive period for portfolio preparation and the opportunity for students to refine their visual ideas. 

Our approach to each student ‘s creative development is unique in that the students are engaged in active critical debate with professionals in their field, working alongside them to develop ideas for project briefs. The briefs range from real-world creative problem-solving to collaborative arts projects, all involving practical building-making, as well as critical thinking and the re-evaluation of ideas for best presentation.

We have structured the courses to enable all students to progress to BA degrees in Architecture, Fine Art, Graphic Design, Photography, Sculpture, Printmaking, Film, Product Design and Textiles. 

I hope that this might be of interest to your students considering a career in the creative industries. We have an upcoming exhibition in May, which we hope you can attend the opening of, or visit during its duration. Ada Projects holds regular events, talks and screenings, so we hope you can attend sometime in the future to see the range of activities we are engaged in. 

For the full course brochure, tutor info and more information please visit our website  HYPERLINK "adaprojects.co.uk" here or email us on info@adaprojects.co.uk. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions or would like further information about our courses.

With best wishes,

ADA Projects

Sketches for the animation for the Rainwater Harvesting Programme in the Greek Islands

RIBA President's Medal's - my shortlisted project

http://www.presidentsmedals.com/Entry-31781

This installation is Part of ADA Projects. Gabriel Warshafsky, Amelia Leeson and Ifi, in the Bloomsbury Festival, 22 October 2012

An installation which is part of a bigger project by a wonderful team of artists and architects.
Based on Ovid's poem "Daedalus and Icarus".
Our line: "And saw his feathers scattered on the main..."

A Primary school for a future nation, Athens 2013

http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/daily-news/exclusive-3dreid-student-prize-2012-shortlist-revealed/8632415.article?blocktitle=Daily-news&contentID=160

The Lover's Tree House _ a little bit of monument for poetry

Somewhere in a Film’s map, in the Future of 2013

It's six o'clock in the morning, or silence past six, I can't remember.

The drawing of the city has one line on it and is now left without any passengers whatsoever.

It seems that light forgot the time of day and shadows search for their identities.

Horizons are hiding themselves from the sky,

a beam of light leans on the wall of a Giant

and proposes to him a walk in the city.

In the middle of it all sits a future without an umbilical cord,

whose aim is to inhabit the shadows on 300mm ochre walls,

use the rain as a means of communication

and keep all the tables of the city out into the light.

The drawing of the city has one line and a staircase on it.

But I'll put a ramp.

The sun might be disabled tomorrow.

Athens 2013

https://vimeo.com/39081021

Please copy-paste the link to watch the animation on vimeo.

This is a short story about Athens in magic realism.
A film i made in the frame of my thesis in the diploma course at the Bartlett.

In Athens 2013, a primary school inhabited by 300 students
has formed its own ways of ruling one of the most devastated
neighbourhoods of the city, and is about to expand its boundaries
in the following years. The school’s architectural rules
demand obligatory cooperation between the neighbourhood’s
inhabitants for the production of a jam made from oranges found
on neratzies, trees that grow throughout the city and that can
withstand its pollution.

Obligatory cooperation is applied equally to each of the twelve
political teams formed within the school. Motivation for the
school’s rules to be obeyed comes from the potential unlocking
of closed playgrounds, guarded by the giant tree-man. These
playgrounds are supported by the columns of the National Bank of
Greece, which now make watermelon ice cream.

Allegory is researched as a tool for an anti-propagandistic
approach to socio-political criticism in uncertain times, and is
designed through a porous, ruinous and magic realist approach.

The notion of porosity is expressed in the unstructured boundaries
between the private and public realm, while the ruin is seen as an
essential fragment for the appropriation of the present. In order
to design for a city in crisis, I am using a magic realist narrative:
this is not a detailed projection of the future, but a socio-political
poetic critique of the present, forming potential ways of dealing

with it through possible but improbable realities.

The Giant, the Parliament and the Kitchen of Oranges.

An inhabitant of the project gleaning oranges and watermelons