Speakers
Dragana Kojičić
Serbia
Architect with specialization in earth architecture, she has been working on promoting earth architecture in the region for 10 years, through theory and practice. She is very interested in the role of women in construction. From 2018, she as a PhD student at the Department of Scene Design, wishing to return the earth to the “scene”. Author of zemljanarhitektura.com
She will present basics about earthen architecture.
Hanno Burtscher
Austria
Building with earth, and ultimately sharing with the future occupants of
earth structures, the experiences and innate benefits which earth brings,
drives all of Hanno’s work. He met Martin Rauch and the rammed earth construction
technique in 1998 for the first time. He’s been actively engaged in an art,
discipline, and profession of rammed earth ever since.
From 1998 to the present day, many of Hanno’ larger scale work experience and
global projects came working as a project leader for LehmTonErde, Martin Rauchs'
company. Additionally, for over eight years now, Hanno has also been working
as an entrepreneur, working independently on his own projects, spread around the world.
He will talk about traditional and modern rammed earth construction.
Léo Boulicot-Amàco
France
Léo Boulicot is a research and development engineer at Amaco Center.
He is tasked with setting up experiments for natural building materials for educational and interrogative purposes for high school students and professionals in the construction sector.
He will present major activities at Amaco and his work within it.
Zuzana Kierulfová
Slovakia
Architect and craftsman, specialized in the architecture of natural materials and low energy standards and passive construction standards.
She is the director of Createrra, as well as the founder of the iEPD. She participated in numerous foreign seminars and workshops for building with earth, straw and furnace production.
She will talk about ECVET building with earth.
Gernot Minke
Germany
Star of our conference, 81-year-old architect, professor, with 40 years of experience in experimental construction (earthquake resistant earthquakes, bamboo constructions, straw bales, green roofs, vertical gardens, self-supporting arches and bales of baled straw.)
He is the author of many books, publications, a participant in a number of conferences, an international expert.
He will present his work and research with earth, straw and earthquake resistant constructions.
Lydie Didier
Luxembourg
She graduated as doctor of ecology, specialized in earth construction, volunteers for AsTerre, currently works for Fédération Ecoconstruire. As a driving force in the European network, she leads EU funded projects developing training as well as ECVET based certification Learn Earth for building with earth that have been applied in more than 10 European countries since 2009. Her passion is people and cooperation, as much as clay and nature.
She will talk about her experience in many European projects she’s been involved in during past 15 years, with a focus on human aspects more than on technical.
Filipe Jorge
Portugal
Filipe Jorge, architect, photographer and publisher. He founded and manages ARGUMENTUM since 1993, a publisher house dedicated to themes of Traditional Architecture, Urbanism, Heritage and Aerial Photography, where he coordinated the production of more than 100 editions of books, guides and scripts.
He will talk about past 14 years, his dedication to editorial production, especially the implementation of thematic collections on Earth and international projects under development in Europe, Africa and Latin America.
Elena Palacios
Spain
Activist, architect and feminist, her professional career has always been oriented towards the most disadvantaged populations to promote a socially just architecture that allows the large number, and especially women, to participate actively in transformations of their habitat. Graduated from the University of Valencia (Spain) in 2012 and specializes in earth construction at CRAterre - ENSAG, with participatory action research "Contributions of women to earthen constructive cultures. Prospects for equal inclusion in the social production of housing. "
She will talk about role of the women in earth construction.
Daphna Yalon
Israel
Daphna Yalon, Earth-based Artist, adopted this name during her study and stay in Australia 2004-2007 when she researched the interconnected relationships between ‘House as Home’ and ‘Land as Home’. Since then she has been creating, researching and teaching Earth as matter and as the essence of life. Engaging community in processes is an integral part of her practice which focuses on action in the public sphere.
Founder and coordinator of “Adamahi” Center for earth building, sculpting and design ,established in Jerusalem 2016.
She will present her work.
Special Guest
Dr Ana Žikić
Serbia
As a doctor of Western medicine, got a scholarship from the Ministry of Education and Sport and spent 5 years (2006-2010) at the University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Beijing. -From September 2016 to May 2017 attended ˝The International Structural Acupuncture Course for Physicians˝ at the Harvard Medical School, Department of Continuing Medical Education in Boston, MA. Certified instructor of Qi Gong. Using medical Qi Gong as an integral part of treatment in her work to improve her patients’ health and people’s quality of life.
She believes that by knowing and following the laws of nature contained in the medicines of ancient civilizations we get to know ourselves better and to improve the quality of our lives.
She is going to talk about how we can have a positive impact on our health and our environment through conscious building and creating, using the power of the Earth element.
