Workshops are at the heart of EASA. They are spaces for collective exploration, making, and learning, where participants and tutors work together over the course of the two-week assembly.

Each workshop is led by an invited tutor or group of tutors from diverse creative backgrounds, including architecture, art, design, research, and making. Rather than delivering fixed outcomes, tutors create frameworks that encourage curiosity, experimentation, and shared inquiry.

Workshops respond to the theme of Seanchaí and to the context of Waterford. Participants are invited to engage with the city as a place to explore ideas — through observation, conversation, material exploration, and hands-on work. Processes are open-ended, and outcomes may take many forms.

Learning at EASA is horizontal. Knowledge is shared rather than delivered, and participants are encouraged to contribute their own skills, experiences, and perspectives. Workshops value process as much as result, allowing space for trial, reflection, and change.

Alongside making, workshops are shaped by care and responsibility. Time, energy, and wellbeing are considered part of the learning process. Collaboration, consent, and respect are central to how workshops are formed and carried out.

Workshops are not isolated activities. They sit alongside talks, excursions, and shared daily life, creating a learning environment that extends beyond the workspace and into the rhythms of living together.