• Chalmers University, Sweden
• Ecole Supérieure D´Art & Design De Saint-Étienne, France
• Konstfack University College of Art, Craft and Design, Sweden
• Karlstad University, Sweden Lunds University, Sweden
• Parsons New School of Design, USA KTH,
• Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Växjö University, Sweden

• ESADSE – Ecole Supérieure d’Art et Design de Saint-Etienne , Saint Etienne, France
• KTH – Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
• NABA Academy, Milan, Italy
• Växjö University, Växjö, Sweden
• Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden
• AtelierFORTE, Milano, Italy

One week in Hällefors community (www.hallefors.se) in Sweden in the middle of big forests and lakes. StugaProject is a unique occasion to learn the Swedish traditional way to build with wood. A 360 degree vision that begin in the old traditional sawmill to the modern House of Design. In the middle of more than 400 lakes and many wild animals like beavers and elks, the workshop creates a link between architecture and nature. The tradition of sauna called bastu (bad stuga: small house for bath) and the light of the Scandinavian night are the background. The total workshop cost is 300 euro including subsistance costs (lunch and dinner), accomodation, alll transportation costs for different guided tourd and the work material neded. For the preparation of the Swedish workshop two classes (or seminars) will be given at AtelierFORTE in Milano during the month of July.

Six ways to die is a an introductory workshop to the Emergency Housing Project and sustainable design in humanitarian relief operations. The workshop takes of with a 24 hour residency in a temporary camp set up in the forests outside Hällefors. On site participants will experience life in a temporary camp and get introduced to the standard equipment used in used in disaster relief operations.

This year, StugaProject will be done within the Emergency Housing Project, which will occur 21 to 25 September in cooperation with NABA and House of Design in Hällefors. Many years of experience (seventh edition) by StugaProject – AtelierFORTE, will make an innovative contribution to the theme of the Emergency Housing, with particular attention to those aspects that are usually considered secondary but in fact represent the very essence of community life and bringing people together. For this reason the project will result in the creation of a small wooden building as an expression of a human group that works together. The theme of church-temple-common area as the top representative form of a community and as a place of aggregation. Aggregation in its implementation phase, expression of the strength and value of collaboration, aggregation in the finished object: a place of spiritual and intellectual involvement. In this sense, the project aims to move beyond the emergency equipment, to focus more on the meaning to the cultural life emptied of their daily reference points, just as in an emergency situation. At the same time the spirit of the ArkiZoic project , with its practical approach, the heuristic method and the connection with nature and tradition, will fully contribute to give meaning to the typical form of the Scandinavian tradition. The workshop will provide practical experience and then approach to woodworking, as is traditional in Sweden. In StugaProject experience, as usual, will be used only hand tools and manual ability will be enhanced.

Dal 11 al 13 Settembre 2009 in occasione dei 90 anni della presa di Fiume da parte di 2500 Legionari guidati da Gabriele d’Annunzio AtelierFORTE si trasferisce al Vittoriale degli italiani, presso Gardone, sul Lago di Garda per l’installazione dell’opera Sleipnir Nvncivs, un omaggio a d’Annunzio e ai suoi cavalli.

From 11 to 13 September 2009 on the occasion of 90 years of taking FIUME by the 2500 Legionaries led by Gabriele d’Annunzio AtelierFORTE moves to Vittoriale degli italiani, at Gardone on Garda lake for the installation of work Sleipnir Nvncivs , a tribute to D’Annunzio and his horses.

Dotato di una testa enorme fornita di grandi denti aguzzi, il pliosauro era sicuramente uno dei massimi predatori marini della sua era. I denti sono particolarmente robusti, e nella parte anteriore della mascella sono simili a lunghi canini, che servivano a penetrare nella preda e a ucciderla. I denti posteriori assomigliano a uncini, e con tutta probabilità servivano a spingere la preda verso la gola dell’animale. Pliosaurus, con una lunghezza di circa diecimetri, potrebbe essere stato sufficientemente grande da inghiottire una preda senza il bisogno di farla a pezzi. La testa e il collo ampi potrebbero aver aiutato nell’operazione di inghiottimento. D’altronde, il termine del muso stretto e alcuni resti rinvenuti all’interno della cavità addominale fanno pensare che questo animale fosse un predatore specie opportunista che si nutriva di una vasta gamma di prede, che includevano cefalopodi, pesci e altri rettili. Le grandi orbite e le orecchie acusticamente isolate suggeriscono che il pliosauro si basasse principalmente sul senso della vista per cacciare. Le naricisembrerebbero essere state troppo piccole per essere utilizzate nella respirazione, e quindi potrebbero aver avuto una funzione olfattiva subacquea. da: Wikipedia Pliosaurus is a genus of extinct marine reptiles, from the Mesozoic era. It is included in the family Pliosauridae. It was a large predatory reptile and its diet would have included fishes, squids and other marine reptiles. This genus has contained several species in the past but it currently consists of the type species P. brachydeirus, P. macromerus and P. portentificus. from: Wikipedia

2009. Wood sculpture. “SleipnirSPIKEN 2009”, Grythyttan, Sweden. Dvilivs, Domenico Dell´Accio, Michele Nastasi, Pierluigi Anselmi, Margherita Mazza, Håkan Gilmark, Lilliann Gilmark, Elin Gilmark, Niklas Gilmark, Brita Sandewall.