Hello Wood International Summer School and Festival

Since its foundation in 2010, Hello Wood has been concentrating on inspiring and teaching the new generation of architects to turn their attention to the topics that are disregarded by most of the architectural education today. Hello Wood is an independent, international educational platform in design and architecture. It teaches to think with our hands and learn through experience. Encouraging a more practical approach, we emphasise the importance of craft, thinking through making, and examine the act and experience of establishing a new community, to express their importance for architects. The international interest from both architectural students and highly acclaimed academics and professionals, such as Javier Villar from Kengo Kuma & Associates, Alfredo Brillembourg from Urban-Think Tank, Benedetta Tagliabue from EMBT and Robert Kronenburg from the University of Liverpool, clearly represents the high demand for filling up this gap in the “ordinary” education. This continuously expanding community of builders, assembled together through their attendance at the Hello Wood camps, embodies the movement towards activating this passionate urge to improve our environment through craft.

The themes of the summer schools since 2010 have aimed to kindle inspiration and excitement in architects by rejecting social and architectural norms and focusing on innovation and originality instead. Moving on from one-off installations and events, in 2016 we began to settle down, and in 2017 we moved the complete event and infrastructure to Csóromfölde, an area we intend to develop into a nomad campus for innovation and education for the international community of architects.

In 2018 we focused on taking a more ambitious and more practical step towards Csóromfölde becoming a global campus for architectural experimentation and innovation. We established a home, through building more permanent, inhabitable structures and through ensuring a closer collective collaboration, to achieve a stronger sense of community and belonging.