news BOOK about hello wood our story team design studio about PROJECT VILLAGE PROJECT VILLAGE workshops 2015 application hello wood balaton projects wood junior hw factory press partners contact NEWS_ 2015 SEPTEMBER HELLO WOOD AT BUDAPEST DESIGN WEEK #1 THE VILLAGE MEETING // FALUGYŰLÉS LOCATION: Technika #1 / 1095 Budapest, Vendel str. 3. (courtyard, on the right) DATE: 9/26/2015 ENTRY: free FACEBOOK EVENT: here During the Budapest Design Week we invite you all for a huge Village Meeting, to celebrate together the soon opening of hello wood's first city workshop, Technika #1, an open wood workshop in Budapest, that welcome you all from the beginning of October if you have any woodwork you need to do! This will be a pre-party! And an after party for the summer workshops! We hope to see everyone who we had the possibilty to work with at Csopak or Csórompuszta and also EVERYONE who's ever been curious about the hw feeling! :) We welcome you with screenings, dj, great drinks and some summer camp vibes! We will also talk about our plans for Project Village II. in 2016... // a Design Hét Budapest keretében egy hatalmas össznépi falugyűlésre invitálunk benneteket, hogy együtt ünnepeljünk és hogy közösen nyithassuk meg a hello wood első városi műhelyét a Technikát, mely október elejétől mindannyiótok számára elérhető! Itt a helyed akár Csopakon, akár Csórompusztán alkottunk közösen és akkor is, ha még nem ismered a hw életérzést, viszont kiváncsi vagy rá! Vetítéssel, dj-vel és finom nyári italokkal és tábori hangulattal várunk Benneteket! A műhely hivatalos nyitása előtti bemutatása mellett a 2016-os HW tábor program tervét is bemutatjuk! #2 COOKING AND DRILLING // FŐZÜNK FARAGUNK Kitchen workshop for wood and food lovers LOCATION: Technika #1 / 1096 Budapest, Vendel str. 3. (courtyard, on the right) DATE: 10/03/2015 WORKSHOPS: 10:00-18:00 OPENING: 19:00 REGISTRATION: workshop@hellowood.eu max. 45 guests at workshop - already fully booked 100 guests at the opening FACEBOOK EVENT: here Hello Wood invites you to join us on a special workshop where you can try what it's like to build something with your hands out of wood with different tools and the help of professionals. Inspired by the theme of Home Sweet Home participants can design and build special objects for a dinner party with the help of talented designers, objects that reinterpret social dining rituals. Tired of being polite? Wish you could travel back to a time when you could play with food? Are you curious what all this is connected to architecture? Register to join one of the workshops by ARCHITECTURE UNCOMFORTABLE WORKSHOP, BLOKK ARCHITECT STUDIO or HELLO WOOD and argue with conventions, create something unique out of ordinary, transform the usual to sexy! And if you're more into the world of new and unusual culinary experiences, come and discover the boundaries of gastronomy with the creators of successful food blogs VEGASTROMANIA and FERI, A FŐZELÉKES. But if you'd rather just see the results, come and join us at the opening party where you can try out the objects and food created during the day. Important info: If you wish participate in one of the workshops, you can contribute to the program with 2000 Ft which helps us provide the best materials, tools and professional help. Please register at workshop@hellowood.eu if you wish to participate and also if you plan on visiting the opening dinner show. // A Design Hét Budapest idei témájához, a Home Sweet Home tematikához kapcsolódva egy egész napos workshop keretében készülünk Nektek egy rendkívüli esti lakomával, ahol neves designerek segítségével olyan eszközöket és bútorokat készíthettek, melyek újraértelmezik a közösségi étkezés szokásait. Elég az udvariaskodásból? Visszarepülnél a múltba, mikor még játszhattál az étellel? Kíváncsi vagy, hogyan lehet köze az építészetnek mindehhez? Jelentkezz az ARCHITECTURE UNCOMFORTABLE WORKSHOP, a BLOKK ÉPÍTÉSZ MŰHELY, vagy a HELLO WOOD csapatába, cáfoljátok meg a konvenciókat, és fogalmazzátok át a hétköznapit szokatlanná, a megszokottat szexivé! De ha jobban érdekelnek az új és nem mindennapi ízek, gyere el és fedezzétek fel együtt a gasztronómia határait VEGASZTROMÁNIA és FŐZELÉKES FERI vezetésével! Ha pedig csak a végeredményre vagy kíváncsi, és szeretnéd kipróbálni az elkészült tárgyakat és ízeket, várunk szeretettel az esti megnyitó bulinkra! Ha részt veszel valamelyik workshopon, 2000 Ft hozzájárulással sokat segítesz nekünk, hogy a legjobbat nyújthassuk, mi gondoskodunk az alapanyagokról, eszközökről, gépekről és persze a hozzáértő szakértelemről is. :) A workshop és a megnyitó buli is regisztrációhoz kötött, ezért kérünk Titeket, jelentkezzetek minél előbb a fenti emailcímen, jelezve, hogy az építészeti, a gasztro workshopra, vagy az esti megnyitóra szeretnétek jönni! / In partnership with Budapest Design Week 2015/ ______________________________________________________________________________________________ 2015 AUGUST: PROJECT VILLAGE 2015 FINISHED Hello Wood invited 150 practicing architects, academics and students to take part in Project Village, an architectural experiment that redefines the concept of the village. Although the village is an outgrowth of its own socio-political, historical and environmental context over a long period of time, the experiment asked the question whether this process can be addressed differently. Can settlements generate their own context over a relatively short period of time? Participants were searching for new methods in real-time masterplanning, and by practicing the craft and the politics of actual building, constructed a community that established its own, and possibly a new form of village. Project Village became an instant settlement of 150 people during the one week in which it was built. Units of a traditional village where approached from a community perspective, in a contemporary form: among the 15 installations were a Migrant House, a Rolling Pub, a Village Cinema, and even a residential building depicting the cycle of birth and death. As a result, Project Village in its first year became a catalyst of events and social interaction. It is a manifold community space ready to be occupied by and engage various groups of public. In the past ten years numerous art projects have focused on the topic of community settlements: from the experimental settlement of AVL Ville built by Joep Van Lieshout in Rotterdam, through Yael Bartana’s propagandistic art work Wall and Tower, to Thomas Hirshhorn’s Gramsci Monument:. These works all raise questions on the role of community settlements, their reciprocal relation to their environment, and their urban, cultural, socio-political context. Starting in 2015, Project Village joined this debate. Continuing the tradition of the 6 years old Hello Wood, participants were invited to build a one–to-one model of their collective vision of a village: after designing the different components, they have built a settlement in one week, and set it on its way to occupy various environments and to be occupied by different communities and multiple activities. Team leaders of Hello Wood, arriving from various parts of the world from diverse academic and professional environments, came with entirely different references for what an ideal village should look like or should be. While the traditional village in Hungary is usually built along one street, in Mexico - for instance - it is based on a circular-structure. Since the creators of Project Village worked without the cultural and architectural heritage of real villages, this creative freedom resulted in a settlement based on the needs and desires of a team of multinational thinkers. The installations do not seek to provide a general solution to the problems of villages around the world. The creators did, however, search for new ways of addressing social architecture and the use of public space. The installations reflect certain problems of contemporary society such as immigration, multifaith communities and the issues of private properties The creators also reimagined institutions of a well-established village: the cinema, the pub and and the community places. Project Village 2015 is the first phase of a 3-year-long architectural endeavor. During the first phase the creators have established a Village that’s primarily focusing on engaging with communities, generating social interactions and testing it as a public space. In the next chapter in 2016, the Village will expand, evolve, find its borders, and defend itself if needed. In the final year of the Project Village cycle, parts of the settlement will be conserved, reused, revitalized, deconstructed. Rather than manipulating and scrutinizing the architectural construct of an existing village, Project Village establishes its own settlement and examines the relationship between communities and their built environment through partaking in the politics and process of building, while challenging student-teacher-client-designer synergies at work, in search of innovative methods in participatory design processes. The Village made its debut as an event space in the Valley of Arts Festival, after which it became a travelling circus related to the theme and nuanced by the context of the Sziget Festival. PHOTOS: MOOD PHOTOS - LIFE AT HELLO WOOD 2015 - CLICK HERE PROJECT PHOTOS - 15 PROJECTS - CLICK HERE PROJECT VILLAGE @ VALLEY OF ARTS FESTIVAL - CLICK HERE PROJECT VILLAGE @ SZIGET FESTIVAL BUDAPEST - CLICK HERE The Community Work 'In Progress' project well used during the Valley of Arts Festival in Kapolcs (July 24- August 2) Project created by: Team Leaders: Ifigeneia Dilaveraki / Rikkert Paauw Team: Árpád Tóth, Ayelen Peressini, Bartosz Zabiega, Eva Liisa Kubinyi, Jyothi Pillay, Lena Margarete Antonie Breitenborn, Roman Ledesma, Thiago Flores photo by Gábor Somoskői photo by Tamás Bujnovszky VIDEOS Video taken during the workshop, capturing participants of Hello Wood 2015. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2015 MAY: PROJECT VILLAGE 2015 - WORKSHOPS WE ARE PROUD TO PRESENT THE FOLLOWING 15 TEAMS WHO ARE LEADING WORKSHOPS AT HELLO WOOD THIS YEAR: FOR MORE INFORMATION ON WORKSHOP LEADERS AND THE PROJECTS, PLEASE CLICK HERE. Katsuya Fukushima project: GHOST IN THE HOUSE type: dwelling: individual Ákos Juhász / Charley Brentnall / Piers Taylor project: BIG SHED NIGHT type: entertainment: theatre Rufus van den Ban / Suzana Milinović project: VILLAGE CINEMA type: entertainment: cinema Marcin Kurdziel / Danny Wills from URBAN THINK-TANK project: MIGRATION HOUSE type: Inn-Refugee Shelter-Pilgrim House Bart Jan Polman / Johanna Muszbek / Maurizio Bianchi Mattioli project: ROLLING PUB type: Pub Jan Vondrák / Jan Mach from MJÖLK ARCHITECTS project: ARCHITECTURE OF SMILE type: Infrastructure: icons, orientation Jennifer Argo / Lee Ivett project: A R G O type: Church Pablo Kobayashi / Yoshio Fukumori project: A COHESIVE FENCE type: Infrastructure: fence, seats Lux Nieve / Pep Tornabell project: PERFORMATIVE AGORA type: Main square / Infrastructure: public seating / agora Lukasz Pastuszka from MOOMOO Architects project: KUBIK RUBIK type: Market Márta Fischer / Oliver Sales project: TOWER GATE type: Infrastructure: gate, icon, tower Jocelyn Froimovich / Bence Komlósi project: SLEEPINGTORY type: Public dwelling Ifigeneia Dilaveraki / Rikkert Paauw project: COMMUNITY WORK 'IN PROGRESS' type: city hall: community center Martial Marquet / Nicolas Polaert project: MAZZOCCHIO type: Infrastructure/main square: public lighting/rotunda Eleőd Ákos / Kalászi Zoltán / Máté Tamás / Vass-­Eysen Áron project: BIWAK type: Dwelling: public, guest house _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2015 APRIL: OPEN CALL FOR STUDENTS IS OUT NOW, APPLY AND BE PART OF PROJECT VILLAGE 2015! application deadline: 16 May 2015 for details click on 'APPLICATION' ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2015 MARCH: HELLO WOOD OPEN CALL FOR WORKSHOP LEADERS: We are looking for team leaders in Project Village 2015, a workshop and symposium held 11-19 July. Applications are due before the 15th of April, submissions of the plans are due before the 3rd of May. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: EN / HU Feel free to provoke, raise eyebrows, fuel the discussion! PROJECT VILLAGE 2015 HELLO WOOD - international workshop & festival for art and architecture - July 11-19 2015 / Csórompuszta, Hungary Mahatma Ghandi once said: “the Future of India lies in its villages”. Yet contemporary architectural discourse has focused mostly on the role of the city within society. How many times have we heard that more than half of the world's population now lives in cities? What if, for a moment, we moved away from our obsession with the city, revisited Ghandi’s famous words and said: The future of the world lies in its villages! The traditional understanding of the village suggests the smallest urban formation, in which different community roles take an architectural form. The village is an outgrowth of its own socio-political, historical and environmental context over a long period of time. Can this process be addressed differently? Can settlements generate their own context? Can a week-long exercise in real-time masterplanning, practicing the craft and politics of building, partying and constructing our own community lead to a new form of village? PROJECT VILLAGE 2015 IS PROPAGANDA FOR REVERSED URBANISATION. By leaving the city and by occupying a piece of the countryside for a week- long workshop we will build a community-settlement. We ask professionals and students from around the world to bring their experience, their pre-conceived and revolutionary ideas of each part of the village and to negotiate these against time and material constraints, the neighbor’s lot, and –most importantly– the common purpose. We all have our culturally influenced idea of what a village is. By challenging the informal and rural fantasy of the village, Project Village will become an instant functional settlement. The major programmatic parts will include those of a traditional village: Community space, dwellings, market, school, barn and so on. All will be infused with the pleasure and fun of the temporary collective. What defines a cohesive community settlement? Will we find the wooden prototype for an ideal market stand? Will we establish our own economy that informs a new type for the place of trade? Let’s try to find out if tomorrow’s villages will be about sustainability, survival or pleasure. Join us in this debate and help us realize our collective fantasy of a village designed, built and inhabited by its architects. In 2015, once again, we have the opportunity to build 12 projects, on our site in Csorompuszta, Hungary. We are looking for team leaders: architects , designers and artists, either practicing professionals or academics who feel inspired by Project Village. After the Hello Wood workshop, the installations will be exhibited in the Valley of Arts Festival and then will be taken to one of Europe’s biggest music and cultural event, Sziget Festival and the Budapest Design Week. Hello Wood 2015’s co-curator is Johanna Muszbek, a practicing architect and landscape architect in New York City who graduated from the MSc. Advanced Architectural Design Program at Columbia University, currently working for Diller Scofidio + Renfro. PLEASE READ THE CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR DETAILS, YOU CAN DOWNLOAD IT HERE MAGYAR VERZIÓ ITT ____________________________________________________ 2015 MARCH: HELLO WOOD 2015 - PROJECT VILLAGE conference and workshop ______________________________________________ 2014/2015 WINTER: CHRISTMAS TREE WITHOUT THE GLITTER In 2014 we built a Christmas tree together with Design Terminal and the Hungarian Interchurch Aid in one of the most central squares of Budapest. The installation is 11 meters high, 4,5 meters wide and was made of 5000 pieces of firewood that weigh 150 quintals. After last year’s project, when we built a huge Christmas tree made of sledges, this year’s goal was to create a Christmas tree for the Budapest community, which symbolizes the importance of caring about each other. All the firewood used in the installation are given to families in need in January. WATCH OUR VIDEO: MORE PHOTOS HERE ! ______________________________________________ 2014 FALL: HELLO WOOD AT BUDAPEST DESIGN WEEK HELLO WOOD PRESENTS: BENEDETTA TAGLIABUE (MIRALLES – TAGLIABUE EMBT) ’BLENDING AND EXPERIMENTATION’ – LECTURE LOCATION: Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest 1121 Budapest, Zugligeti út 9-25. / Auditorium DATE: 8/10/2014 10:00 PARTNERS: Design Terminal, Embassy of Spain in Budapest, Doctoral School of Moholy-Nagy University ENTRY: free Benedetta Tagliabue is one of the best known contemporary architects. The buildings of her office, the Miralles-Tagliabue EMBT include the New Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh, the Diagonal Mar Park, the Santa Caterina market in Barcelona, and the Spanish Pavilion at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo which was awarded the prestigious RIBA International “Best International Building of 2011” award. This is the point where the office and Hello Wood are linked, as the designer of this pavilion, Salvador Gilabert Sanz represented the office in the Hello Wood camp this year. Benedetta talks about the relationship between theory and practice, the activities of the office and the closely related Miralles Foundation, the achievements and the challenges held by future, and about how a woman can succeed in the world of architecture. / In partnership with Budapest Design Week 2014/ ______________________________________________ THANK YOU FOR TAKING PART IN THIS YEAR'S HELLO WOOD It was a wonderful week and we hope everyone had a good time! For more pictures and videos check our flickr page and vimeo ______________________________________________ HELLO WOOD 2014 - ARCHITECTURAL EXPERIMENTS - INTERNATIONAL WOOD WORKSHOP & FESTIVAL THANK YOU FOR YOUR APPLICATIONS! “what is joy without sorrow? what is success without failure? what is a win without a loss? what is health without illness? you have to experience each if you are to appreciate the other. there is always going to be suffering. it’s how you look at your suffering, how you deal with it, that will define you.” - Mark Twain - Architecture of Balance: Hello Wood 2014 open call for admission APPLICATION DEADLINE FOR PARTICIPANTS: 16 MAY 2014 Hello Wood is one of the leading international architecture and design camps in Europe: last year more than 100 architects from 12 countries participated in the summer workshop. All work, produced in Hello Wood carries two attributes: it’s mostly of wood and it’s characterized by an interplay of art and social commitment. This year, for the fifth time Hello Wood has the opportunity to create 12 wood installations in its summer workshop in Csorompuszta, a charming village of Balaton uplands, Hungary. Hello Wood is looking for workshop leaders and student coming from the world of architecture, design or other art fields, who feel touched by its current topic: BALANCE. Our aim is to create pieces that can capture the delicate moment of equilibrium by reacting on uncertainty, skepticism or disproportion; notions that can easily be translated to the language of architecture. For all the details, please read the open calls! ______________________________________________ 2014 APRIL: HELLO WOOD AT BUDAPEST SPRING FESTIVAL 2014 Hello Wood collaborated with Budapest Spring Festival on three projects. We built a BUTTERFLY HOUSE installation on Erzsébet Square, a venue with concerts, fashion shows and performances. The huge B.U.D.A.P.E.S.T sign on Heroes Square and the smaller FESTIVAL CUBES were real tourist attractions during the Festival. _______________________________________________________________________ 2014 MARCH: HELLO WOOD FACTORY // INTERNSHIP PROGRAM The Hello Wood Factory’s creative program allows young architects and designers to work with acclaimed professionals in a 12 month period. Factory is a platform which gives a chance for the participants to find solutions to real problems, work on multidisciplinary projects and international competitions, last but not least to build a strong, diverse portfolio. This year's intership program will start in the middle of March. ______________________________________________ 2013 DECEMBER: HELLO WOOD'S CHRISTMAS TREE AT THE PALACE OF THE ARTS BUDAPEST This year the Palace of Arts (MÜPA) celebrates Christmas with a 11 meters high Christmas tree! Hello Wood built a special installation made out of 365 sleighs - it stood in front of the Palace of the Arts until the end of the Holidays. All sleighs were to the little inhabitants of the SOS Children’s Village by favour of Telekom. The setting of the Christmas tree took one week for the Hello Wood team and the amazing structure of the interior was open for visitors from the 5th of December till the 6th of January, 2014. HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYBODY! ______________________________________________ 2013 OCTOBER: DESIGN PICNIC BY HELLO WOOD - DESIGN WEEK BUDAPEST 2013 - A sunday picnic with great independent culinary groups at the Design Week Budapest on 29 September, 2013. ______________________________________________ 2013 SEPTEMBER: HELLO WOOD 2013 EXHIBITION // BUDAPEST DESIGN WEEK Hello Wood installations were exhibited at Müpa - Palace of Arts. Two installations placed in front of MÜPA and one inside the building from 3 October until 16 November, 2013. ______________________________________________ 2013 AUGUST: FESTIVAL INSTALLATIONS // SZIGET FESTIVAL 2013 Hello Wood team has been working with Sziget Festival since 2011, one of the biggest festival companies in Europe to create some extraordinary sights. We developed small decorational elements and huge party places also over the past few years that were loved by thousands of visitors each year. Our team can travel and build similar interactive and artistic creations anywhere in the world. CHECK OUT OUR VIDEO Hello Wood 2014 H-1088 Budapest, Lőrinc pap tér 3. II/6 hello@hellowood.eu www.hellowood.eu HelloWood is a registered trademark of Hello Wood Kft. Any use thereof is subject to the permission of the trademark owner. PROJECTS