28/04/2026
playland architecture summer school
28.06.-04.07.2026.
at Brūzis in Cēsis, Latvia
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APPLICATION DEADLINE: 04.05.2026.
Play with Material, as a Process, and an Outcome
Play is used as a tool for learning, engagement, and spatial transformation. It allows to experiment freely, question norms, and access knowledge through doing rather than explaining.
(Play as a tangible object) The outcome focuses on creating a fun, playable object. Something that actively invites play rather than only representing ideas. Be intuitive to use, without instructions. Attract curiosity from different age groups. Enable both individual and collective play. Be slightly ambiguous, allowing multiple interpretations.
IMAGE: Folding paper sculpture from the exhibition “Toys for Adults”, “Owls” by Māris Ārgailis, 1978
Argalis repeated his sensational and widely publicized exhibition “Models” at the Cēsis Museum. Among his graphic works stood out the spatially monumental object “Owl Cubes,” which consisted of 27 modular plywood cubes. They were printed by the screen-printing master Aldonis Klucis (1935–2003). Argalis’s exhibition “Owl Cubes” gave every visitor the opportunity to participate in the creative process by rearranging the cubes into different compositions, changing their colour combinations and narrative.
After Argalis’s exhibition at the Cēsis Museum, Jānis
Dronis shared his reflections:
“In Māris Argalis’s exhibition another aim implicitly emerges, to emotionally sharpen society’s attention to the short social life of an artwork. The artist has begun a new practice of bringing art closer to society.”
