2024-11-21T12:18:04-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/6706028/call-for-applications-unknown-fields-design-workshop-in-chernobyl-and-baikonur-cosmodrome Paul Petrunia 2011-05-17T20:27:31-04:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/k9/k9xdwauf04h92u11.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p> <a href="http://www.tomorrowsthoughtstoday.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Liam Young</a> and <a href="http://www.liquidfactory.co.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kate Davies</a>, leaders of the <a href="http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/STUDY/UNDERGRADUATE/dip6.php" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Architectural Association&rsquo;s</a> award winning <a href="http://www.unknownfieldsdivision.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Unknown Fields Division,</a> have announced an international recruitment drive for their new <a href="http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/unknownfieldsdivision" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">annual nomadic studio</a> which will run from 11-22 July 2011. Applications are open to all and you can <a href="https://www.aaschool.ac.uk/STUDY/ONLINEAPPLICATION/visitingApplication.php?schoolID=27" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">sign up now</a> to join them on an extraordinary design research expedition through the unknown fields that lie between nature and technology. Participants will collaborate with a collection of international artists, photgraphers, filmmakers, writers and workshop partners Phillips Technologies Design Probes, Volume Magazine and Storefront for Art and Architecture to develop projects and produce an annual publication and touring exhibition. This year to coincide with the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster and the 50th anniversary of Gagarin&rsquo;s Baikonur space launch the workshop will travel on a cross section through landscapes of obsolete futures from the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, through the Ukraine and the C...</p>