“RESILIENT SCHOOL IN DECLINING DEMOGRAPHIES“
Call for participants!
School of Architecture and Design, University American College Skopje
XII Architectural Summer School, Ohrid, North Macedonia
30 June – 7 July 2025
Leading tutors:
Ljubljana, Slovenia
In the face of demographic decline, environmental degradation, real estate speculation, and seasonal emptiness, Ohrid’s central school quarter—home to several modernist educational buildings and shared public spaces— risks becoming a relic—or worse, a profit zone under threat from speculative development. This summer school invites participants to engage critically with the contested site around St. Clement of Ohrid Gymnasium and to examine how educational infrastructure can be reimagined as a resilient civic framework for multigenerational life-long learning and urban continuity. Through fieldwork, analysis, and design, we will explore how architecture can sustain public space and adapt to long-term demographic and environmental transformation—not through new construction, but through reinvention and reuse of what already exists.
WHO CAN APPLY?
Students who’ve finished their fourth semester of architecture studies are welcome to apply. We also encourage motivated individuals from other disciplines, like designers, artists, urban ethnographers to join us.
APPLICATION PROCESS
To apply, please fill out the application form: https://forms.gle/3pVMSYT5gHrSTVRt7 and include a short essay of one paragraph (500 words) explaining why you want to participate in this summer school. Additionally, submit your CV and a specific selection of your portfolio (maximum 2 pages) in PDF format. The deadline for applications is June 02, 2025. Selected participants will be notified via email by June 5, 2025.
REGISTRATION FEE The participation fee for the Summer School is 280 euros per participant. This fee covers material equipment, accommodation, meals, and transportation from Skopje to Ohrid and back.
CONTACT
For further questions feel free to contact us at: ohridss@uacs.edu.mk
Охрид / Ohrid Summer school is organized by the School of Architecture and Design, UACS Skopje with support of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of North Macedonia and the Municipality of Ohrid, and in organizational partnership with Faculty of Architeture | University of Ljubljana, SVET VMES; NI Institute for protection of monuments of culture and Museum – Ohrid, and architectural collective Arhrid.
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