IRELAND EASA Ireland_Ltd 2 Terminus Mills, Clonkseagh Road, Dublin 6 www.easa008.ie team@easa008.ie EASA (EUROPEAN ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS ASSEMBLY) 10-24 August 2008 EASA (European Architecture Students Assembly) is an annual assembly of 400 architecture students and young professionals which takes place over a two week period every August. The aim of the organisation is to encourage cooperation between students and young professionals from over forty European countries through the media of architectural workshops, lectures, conferences, debates and exhibitions. EASA is a practical network for communication, meeting and exchange; architecture students can discuss their ideas, work together and exchange their experiences concerning architecture, education or life in general. The official language of the assembly is English, and members live and work on-site for two weeks. Each year the assembly moves to a new location and is organised by members from the host country around a specific theme, around which the workshops are based. The method of establishing where the assembly is to be held is by proposal, presentation, debate and consensus at an annual meeting of experienced EASA members, the INCM (Intermediate National Contacts Meeting). Essentially the INCM is comprised of core, long term members of EASA from each participating country - known as National Contacts, or NCs - who undertake to organise their country’s members, publicise the organisation within their country and contribute meaningfully to the growth, intellectually and physically, of EASA. The organisation is entering into its 27th consecutive year, the original assembly having taken place in 1981 in Liverpool, UK. In November 2006, delegates from EASA Ireland travelled to the EASA INCM in Moscow to present a bid to host EASA in Ireland for the first time in its history. With delegates from over thirty European countries attending, the Irish bid 'Adaptation' was chosen to host the 2008 EASA Summer Assembly. Each Assembly concerns a singular theme, around which the lectures, workshops and activities are focused. The location of the Assembly plays a major part in how successfully the theme can be implemented. EASA_Ireland will be bi-locational, with participants arriving in Dublin and travelling across the country to Letterfrack, where the majority of the workshops will take place. This solution is intended to provoke a degree of synthesis between the locations and the theme of {Adaptation}.