INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL PRIENE, ARCHITECTURE AND ARCHAEOLOGY 

International Summer school

PRIENE, ARCHITECTURE AND ARCHAEOLOGY 

Survey, Documentation and Design, 20-27 July 2022, Priene, Turkey

Organised by the Dynamic Research on Urban Morphology-DRUM laboratory and the Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design of Özyeğin University and GEKA: Güney Ege Kalkınma Ajansı / South Aegean Development Agency, in cooperation with Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi, LITECH Engineering, Dipartimento di Architettura, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Politecnico di Torino, Abdullah Gül Üniversitesi, University of Naples “Federico II”, University of Novi Sad and “Sapienza” University of Rome.

The international summer school “Architecture and Archaeology” aims at establishing a yearly interdisciplinary educational summer programme project based on architecture and archaeology in the Aydin region of Turkey. This region might be considered one of the richest regions in terms of Archaeological sites, yet the enhancement of these is in need of thorough development. On one hand we intend to continue the tradition of documentation and survey, which in Priene was initiated by the Dilettanti society and Theodor Wiegand, in order to deepen the knowledge of the past, on the other hand we intend to design green solutions for the turistic enhancement of the area, so to continue the past in the contemporary world. The summer school in this first edition, was organised with invitations, and will see academicians, young professionals and researchers, and a small number of students, coming from different universities, cooperating for an extensive digital survey of the premises, a research project on the formation process of the city, and a set of experimental design proposals, research based, ranging form architectural design, restoration, interior design to landscape design. Students will be divided in teams, each led by international tutors, and assigned specific topics to develop within the 7 days programme, and eventually to continue in the following weeks for research purposes. An international seminar “Priene; Architecture and Archaeology” will open the programme, and at the end the preliminary results will be presented to the scientific community and to the general public. The summer school intends to launch with this first initiative an educational research project, and will apply for funding within TUBITAK, ERASMUS PLUS, Horizon Europe and other national funding agencies.