The third year of the holiday of the Dílna workshop, this year with the subtitle A new life, focused on authorship design and architectural implementation by fifteen Brno students architecture, reflects years of social isolation and solitude. It connects like that the historical experience of the loss of basic and traditional social security ties with the current situation.

Within six days it must students of architecture from the Brno technical school not only deal with the remains of buildings that are more hinted at than obvious, but also with wild vegetation in the area of ??the defunct village of Pelhřimovy in Slezské Rudoltice. In the middle of these ruins, students, under the guidance of lecturers, will create installations that offer basic living space. Symbolically so they will meet a new life.

Last the year was marked by uncertainty and a reduction in social ties for society, which were limited to the family or small community level. Due questions arose regarding their own identity, many people looked for ways to psychological and physical bottom. This experience also influenced the assignment architectural workshop, as one of the lecturers Jan Mléčka adds: "V the current euphoria from the end of the measure and the possibility of free movement again now a number of open questions or unfinished reflections on the real disappear values ??of human life. We can match the current social mood to be found precisely in the defunct village of Pelhřimovy, when from the life of the original inhabitants the most basic certainties associated with place, own identity or home. Buildings, gardens and orchards were swallowed up by the forest. Only the basics remained social ties at the family level and minimal material security in the new place and new neighborly relations or friendships. Imaginary restart, which cut through everything."

Students they will literally be pulled out of the school environment into the reality of a defunct village without a signal, where even drinking water has to be imported. They exchange computers for paper and a pencil. They will learn to operate saws, drills and simple construction tools and woodworking procedures. They have three hundred available for their ideas wooden boards. They will thus be limited by the laws and possibilities of the given material that they encounter during their studies rather in the theoretical plane. "Every year, even we, the lecturers, learn something new, and that's it we are trying to capitalize on it in the following year and thus advance the quality of the workshop further. That brought to the students as much as possible so that the created objects were beneficial for place and interesting for visitors to the site. And to keep it fun for us too" adds lecturer Barbora Pospíšilová. It is then supplemented by another lecturer Tomáš Madro: "The ability to respond to the possibilities and potential of the place is a pro the basis of our profession and often argued in virtual projects only by computer visualizations. There is a lack of a critic who examines, and thus there is the place itself. Our effort is to enable students to express themselves not only on paper, but above all with your own hands."

Workshop 2021: Life again takes place from June 27 to July 2, 2021 in Pelhřimovy u Silesian Rudoltice. The workshop is organized by the Faculty of Architecture in cooperation with By the Duha Jeseníky movement and with the support of the municipality of Slezské Rudoltice.