Following their National meet, the Student Architecture Network of New Zealand have published their lineup of events for 2011, including a return of the infamous mid-island intensive.

For those that don't know -both in practice and university, SANNZ is a fresh and incredibly active nationwide student representative body for architectural students in New Zealand's three schools of architecture.  They organise national events which are the best and only chance you have to make social and collegial relationships with others like you from around the country.   SANNZ have committed themselves to this goal of student community, and are also savvy enough to have close ties with the professional world, both institutionally, and socially.

Quite succinctly, SANNZ sumarised their approach in their most recent update:
"Lastly, but not leastly, we want to foster a collaborative and open community, which welcomes members and gets the stuff done which we said we would do." Sounds pretty good.

Here's the list of upcoming things that you'll see around your school, keep an eye out for your local rep, who will probably be sporting a logo like the one pictured above... take heed!

If there are one or two things you should save up for and MAKE time for, they are the Ohakune trip - an inter-school and practitioner-integrated intensive design charette in the snow, and of course FLUX, this years Australasian Student Congress hosted in Adelaide.  People always say it, and you never believe them, but Student Congress is the best thing that can happen to you, and then it keeps happening to you.

Keep an eye out for deals the SANNZ can help you out with too.

Here's the breakdown:

February
28th – 4th Membership drive + signups - UoA, VUW

March
1st – 4th - Membership drive + signups – UoA, VUW
7th – 11th – Membership drive +signups - Unitec
8th – Film screening - VUW, UoA
15th – Film screening - Unitec

April
2nd – sTute - VUW, UoA and Unitec
Graphisoft tutorial this month. Date to be confirmed.

May
Ohakune competition during a weekend this month. Date to be confirmed.

July
4th – 8th – FLUX – Adelaide

August
Superstudio this month, early August. Date to be confirmed.

September
24th – sTute – VUW, UoA, Unitec


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