Summer school for architects, designers and filmmakers

Deadline: June 14th 2019

The summer school "Hjemme i Skagen / At Home in Skagen" is a week's intensive workshop with a focus on the town's architecture and a special focus on spatial design within the homes of Skagen.

The home is orchestrated and spoken of as never before in the media. But what is a home in a small Danish town and what does it mean to be at home in Skagen? Together we will explore ten homes in Skagen and add our own spatial interventions to emphasize our findings of what exactly makes these buildings and rooms a home.


Participants will work individually or in groups to sketch, map, create installations, spatial interventions and short films.

WORKSHOP // To kick off the workshop week we will experience the architectural history of Skagen on bikes and briefly discuss conservation, tradition and renewal with local architects. Professor of anthropology Kirsten Marie Raahauge will introduce the participants to the cultural background of the “home”. What is a home and what does it mean to be a home in Skagen? Each participant will be invited inside a home. From an apartment in Mosegården to a villa on Østre Strandvej. A rowhouse on Hans Baghs vej to a detached house in the ’Bird neighborhood’. Ten examples of homes in Skagen created in the city's various architecture and filled with a personal interior by families with different backgrounds and everyday life. Small and large homes, new and old homes, home to the many, home to the few. Where are we at home and how do we create a home? Guided by designer Tine Kjølsen participants will investigate this and more in the specific homes through fieldwork, mapping exercises and conversations with the families.

Hereafter the participants will each build a design object that will focus on the homeliness of each home under the guidance of architect Isabel Ahm and cabinet maker Signe Lund. Everyone will have to understand the architecture of the building, the personal decor and the family's background and everyday life in order to produce a physical object that represents the essence of the home, it can be a piece of furniture, a small design object, a decorative item or something else that emphasizes what exactly makes this building or these rooms a home.

FILMS // The projects will be documented as short films, and the films will be shown in a combined program in the cinema at Kulturhuset in Skagen at a free premiere - open to all. Afterwards the films together with the design objects will be exhibited in the small building at Banegårdspladsen in Skagen for two months and will be published online at the association’s website and other relevant platforms such as Architecture Player.

Dates:
17 - 24 August 2019

The participation fee: 
470€

Includes:
Tuition fees, accommodation and full board included.

Details:
https://www.onsdagsskolen.dk/events