ELASA 1998/99
Reps Meeting Report
Contents
- First part
- Welcome
- Introduction
- News from the reps
- Second part
- Introduction
- Third part
- Introduction
- Presentations of the working groups results
Syl Gootjes opens the meeting at 13:30. She welcomes everybody present, especially the representatives from the countries that haven't attended ELASA meetings before - Italy, Spain and Norway. Also special welcome to Mark Bazzel from USA, from LABASH.
A few sentences about the history of ELASA.
Syl presents the schedule for this reps meeting.
News from the reps
A rep from each country tells a few things about what's going on at their school, about LA study and ELASA work in their country.
Austria
Stephan: They are thinking of shortening the study from 8-year program. There are fewer people interested in studying L.A., because of the cutting system, bad possibilities for employment,...
Bulgaria
Assen: More subjects are computer based. After the mini meeting they had, there is more interest for ELASA.
Emilia: Study is now five years long.
Croatia
Luka: A lot of problems, because the study for L.A. is just two years old. Co-operation with Slovenian professors. Lack of space.
Czech Republic
Jana: They are moving the faculty from Lednice closer to the centre - more money.
Denmark
Eva: Problem with getting professors, because the law inquires them to have a master degree. All the work - projects are done on computer.
France
Anouk: Also students form other studies (economy, English..) can study L.A.
Germany
Axel: Had a mini meeting, but still a problem with getting new students to join ELASA, although they have 17 schools for L.A. They are preparing for another meeting - LASKO, for German speaking countries.
Hungary
Johanna: Because of money problems they are probably attach them to another faculty (architecture and agronomy). They want to stay independent. Mini-meeting in October'98.
Ireland
Gary: Problem with getting people to ELASA (money problems and too little people finishing the study)
Netherlands
Nathasha: Combining study with work.
Kris: Problem with connecting both schools.
Norway
Lars: Only one school, the number of students is getting bigger.
Kristin: They had a Nordic meeting. Getting new professors.
Poland
Karolina: Want to free themselves from the belonging to agriculture. Summer camps can be joined.
Alexandra: They are loosing the professors.
Slovakia
Pavol: Not enough qualified professors. Co-operation with Czech.
Slovenia
Tina: Lack of space. New homepage created for the purposes of the meeting in Slovenia.
Spain
Luis: Two schools - Madrid and Barcelona.
Sweden
Karin: They can choose the courses among two schools for L.A. (closing one of them). Double the number of students. Had a mini-meeting. IAIS are having the meeting next year.
Switzerland
Ingo: Summer faculty with famous professors. Organising a mini-meeting in august'99.
Franziska: New Farington school.
United Kingdom
Claire: Six schools for L.A., but no good connections among them.
Yugoslavia
Katarina: New law - professors as workers.
USA
Mark: There are 60 - 70 schools for L.A.
Minutes from last year meeting
No comments!
Contacts with other organisations
Nobody joined any meeting of IFLA, EFLA and ECLAS time and money problems.
After the discussion it was decided, that if somebody wants to join he/she of course can, but we will not appoint people to go there anymore. Everybody will be informed of where the meetings will be held at and when. Everybody agreed.
Netherlands info centre
Michel: It exists, but doesn't function well, because after having the conference, the organising team is exhausted and there is no motivation for working on.
New proposals for changing of ELASA structure
In spite of all the changes that were made last year, it did not work. So it was decided that the next organising country will take over the info centre, so you can get all the information there. Everybody agrees.
Representatives will be divided into 5 working groups. Each group will discuss a specific subject.
Working groups:
- Activities during the year
- ELASA on internet
- Promotion external/internal
- Contact Group
- Constitution
In the third reps meeting the conclusions and proposals will be presented and discussed to take the necessary decisions.
Syl welcomes the representatives and the delegates. The delegates were invited to this meeting as well because there were some important items to be discussed.
Presentations of the results working group
A. Activities during the year (Natascha)
Mini-meeting
- Every organising committee should decide for themselves on how long the mini-meeting is going to last.
- Focus on narrow theme or a special place, offer something different than annual meeting.
- Usage of the same percentages (paying system) as used for the annual meetings. If the fee is very low, than there is no need for the usage of the paying system - everyone can pay the same fee.
- It's best to announce the volunteering countries for the mini-meeting at the annual conference or inform the web editor, so it can be read on homepage at least three months in advance.
- Make a book (similar to yearbook) and put in a page of how they sponsored the meeting.
Other activities
- festivals, days of L.A. international conference, excursion organised by universities, work experience, visits and gatherings of ELASA friends,...
Aims of activities during the year
- to bring people together, solve problems, promotion of ELASA, encourage students of L.A. and architecture to work together...
B. ELASA on Internet (Assen - Bulgaria)
- Not all the participants have an e-mail address, but they are going to get it in a short period of time, so that at least one participant form every country would have an e-mail address.
- The ELASA homepage that is now ran by Mathias Voell. He is going to get some help from the first year student Michiel Mulderij (Netherlands), who can later take over, when Mathias wants to retire.
- There should exist a timetable of all the events on homepage.
- Encourage the students to get an e-mail access.
C. promotion external/internal (Lars - Norway)
External
- collecting addresses of students/universities of lost countries
Internal
- to keep the permanent ELASA board
- newsletter is going to be produced by Luka (Croatia)
- to send out formal personal invitation
- contact first year students
- brochure is going to be produced by Sebastian (France)
- to make new logo sign (competition)
D. contact group
- the old system is not working probably because it was too complicated
- new system: there should be one representative from every country that has an e-mail, and sends a message to ELASA-L mailing list every month just to let us know if there is anything going on in their country. If that one can't do his job anymore, he has to find a substitute
- next organising country has to be the one to find members from countries that haven't yet joined any ELASA meeting
E. constitution (Axel - Germany)
- at present we do not have sufficient information but it could be realised with some work
- a group of people will be formed to carry out this work
- one year is going to be the year of the search
- all of the participants are going to be asked about everything they know on possible supportship in schools and national bodies
- the legalisation of ELASA should be done by a professional
The presentation of mini-meetings:
Mini-meetings in the past year
Germany (Axel):
- 19. -24. October 1997 - Nurtingen
- 30 people from abroad, 8 countries, a lot of new students
- the title: Visions of landscape, 4 days of excursions for 4 different landscapes
- the guide book was produced
- it increased interest for ELASA among younger students in Germany
- workshop: models for tents
- accommodation and food: in flats of students, schoolrooms were used for lectures
- the fee: 50 DM, eastern countries did not have to pay the fee
Bulgaria (Assen):
- 22. April - 2.May 1998
- the fee: 50 DM for all countries, eastern countries got financial support from SORO? (open society fond)
- 55 students attended, 12 countries
- the theme: Conservation of territories and landscapes
- 4 different accommodations were provided
- workshop and excursions
Sweden (Nada - Yugoslavia):
- ?, Uppsalla
- it lasted for 3 days
- excursions to parks around Stockholm
- 20 foreign students
- accommodation: sports school
- the fee: ?
The following mini-meetings have been planed
- Hungary: 22. - 28. October 1998, 6 days, theme: Tourism - Landscape, program: workshop, 50 students can attend (contact - Johanna Muszbek, e-mail: elasahu@hoya.kee.hu)
- Switzerland: in 1999, theme: ?, the fee: ?, program: excursions, 40 participants can come (contact - Ingo Golz, e-mail: igolz@hotmail.com)
Other activities:
- Bulgaria: camps in August
- USA: LAbash, first week in September 1999, theme: ?
- ECLAS meeting in Vienna, Austria: theme: Urban Landscape, date: ?, contact Stefan for information
- LASKO in Germany for German speaking countries, theme: Grun den Zeit
It was decided that the next organising ELASA annual meeting country is FRANCE.
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