Forum Urban Acupuncture 18–20 April 2013 Ljubljana

BRATISLAVA BUDAPEST LJUBLJANA PRAHA VIENNA WARSZAWA

FORUM URBAN ACUPUNCTURE 18–20 APRIL 2013 LJUBLJANA

Organizer Concept Centre for Central European Architecture (CCEA) Project CULBURB activates the public realm in the suburbs of central European capital cities through Co-organizers acupuncture interventions. By using minimal means these actions set up interaction between inhabitants Centrum komunitného rozvoja, Fundacja Bęc Zmiana, and have an impact on the community life. www.culburb.eu Kortárs Építészeti Központ (KÉK), KUD C3, SOHO in Ottakring, Municipalities Verejný podstavec Wien j Sandleiten, Praha j Psáry, Budapest j Délegyháza, Ljubljana j Zalog, Bratislava j Rusovce j Rajka, Warszawa j Ursus Support of the project

This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. thebestsellercreativeplatform.org 1

I. culburb project 2 II. forum urban acupuncture 3 III. programme 5 IV. participants 7 V. roundtables 17 VI. experts 19 VII. acupunctures 21 VIII. map 35 IX. people 36 X. organizer 37 XI. co-organizers 38 XII. support 38 2

I.CULBURB PROJECT

Project Culburb activates the public realm start the cityfication of suburbia. A first in the suburbs of Central European capital step in such a process is the improvement cities through acupuncture interventions. of public spaces in the suburbs. We start Using minimal means, these actions set up this process through acupuncture inter- interaction between inhabitants and have ventions in six localities around Central an impact on community life. European capitals. Today Central European cities are again becoming a political arena of citizens, initiatives, NGOs, and other forms of activism, but we are witnessing a lack of such activities in suburbia. At the same time we can see the extreme growth of suburbs around all cities, meaning a huge number of European inhabitants are placed out of the dense city but still have access to all its advantages. The pressure made by suburbia and sprawl to the core of a city is not just an infrastructural issue connected with financial investment, but it brings a paradox to the contemporary city because it is increas- ingly loosing one of its primary functions – housing. The majority of city users no longer live in the city; home is beyond the city borders. This fact causes a new political map where city users, the ones living in suburbia, have almost a stronger voting potential than the actual city residents. This distribution of political power is deadly for the future of the European city. It is necessary to either change the structure of political systems, or to extend city functions to suburbia and decrease daily migration. Project Culburb aims to activate a public realm in the suburbs of central European capital cities, by minimal means, and to 3

II. FORUM URBAN ACUPUNCTURE

FORUM URBAN ACUPUNCTURE is the have developed their own urban identity, result of a research project CULBURB. resulting in their own urban (non) perspec- Project itself activates public spaceof six- tive. On the first day of the event there will centralEuropean capitals: Ljubljana, Vienna, be presentations of different spatial issues, Prague, Budapest, Bratislava and Warsaw case studies and theoretical models, which with different acupuncture interventions. can be directly related to the area of the Acupuncture methodology establishes co- Ljubljana Zalog. The second part will pres- operation between the residents in sub- ent various issues applied to locations in urbs of the cityand increases the quality the suburbs. Authors/artists will be show- of life of the community.Urban acupunc- casing all thirty acupunctures in all involved ture is the response to the current spatial cities. disparitiesin the suburbs and acts as tool forthe creation of social innovations in the community. They are formedon the initiative of non-governmental organizations and other forms of urban activism and in this way seek the creation of quality public spaces in the suburbs.Ljubljana represents the story of Zalog, located in the eastern part of the city. This part of town has seen a lot of immigration from areas of the former Yugoslavia, especially after the Sec- ond World War. Closure of industries has increased the lack of employment oppor- tunities. Availability economy stagnated for so long that it lost the inspiration to dream of a better future. This is especially true for the younger generation, who are facing in their daily lives with a sense of isolation and exclusion from the social and cultural life of the city. Zalog is facing with the generations that have roots in very mixed cultural backgrounds. Youths are excluded from the public sphere and decision-making, therefore, indicates a high degree of vandalism, crime and spatial disparities. Young people 4

KUD C3

KUD C3 is a platform for spatial research conferences and lectures by speakers with and studies of contemporary urban trends various fields of expertise associated with in public space. Founded in 2000, the work communities, space and various forms of of KUD C3 is concerned with experiential Public Art. The site-specific urban installa- implementation of different socio-spatial tions constructed by KUD C3 provide an- concepts situated in the site-specificity of swers to various questions concerning the the new urbanity of the city. Projects are development of certain communities in- focused on the research of social transfor- habiting and using certain spaces. An im- mations of public spaces, the influence of portant element of KUD C3 activity is the migration processes on substantive design formation of a link between various types of towns and cities, strategies of re-urban- of public and their inclusion into projects, ization of cities, and the integration of cul- which helps to improve urban dwellers’ un- tural studies into architecture and urban derstanding of their rights and urban re- design. Through KUD C3 projects selected lationships. In this manner, possibilities of urban sites are rediscovered, their contents communication emerge in presentation are constructed upon the reinterpretation spaces, which represent the fundamental and discovery of invisible tracks left behind step in the construction of any community, by social changes. The group is searching neighbourhood and the city. for spaces that pose questions, they represent the basis for imagining the reorgani- zation of their contents in terms of values. May the space itself be neglected, centrally located or peripheral, it always represents the foundation upon which an integrated story is conceived. Since its establishment KUD C3 has focused on various spatial and social changes in Slovenia and abroad and presented them to the public through various media (performing arts, actions in public space, spatial installations, visual arts…). The activities of the group focus on visual artistic presentations: models, theoretical basis of recording and understanding architecture and urban planning, documenting social change, photograph- ic presentations, multimedia exhibitions, 5

III.PROGRAMME

THU, APRIL 18 15:15 – 15:45 Coffe break

FORUM DAY 1 15:45 – 17:30 MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SOCIAL INNOVATIONS METELKOVA Pannel coordinator Sonja Leboš (UIII) HR MAISTROVA 3, LJUBLJANA Giulia Carabelli, ABART, BiH Marta Gregorčič, Matej Zonta, (URBANE 10:00 Meeting BRAZDE) SLO 10:10 Introduction by Boštjan Bugarič, Ana Novak (SKICA) AT (KUD C3) SI and Igor Kovačević (CCEA) CZ 17:30 – 17:50 DISCUSSION 10:15 – 12:00 ERASED SPACE 18:00 – 20:00 Dinner Pannel coordinator Boštjan Bugarič (KUD C3) SLO CULBURB ACUPUNCTURES Mateja Demšič, City of Ljubljana SLO PRESENTATIONS Velimir Žernovski, F.R.I.K, Skopje FYRM KIBERPIPA Armina Pilav, UniversityIUAV Venice I, BiH KERSNIKOVA ULICA 6, LJUBLJANA

12:00 – 13:30 Lunch 20:30 – 23:00 Presentation of acupunctures realized 13:30 - 13:45 Database presentation during Culburb project uconnector.eu Ursula Achternkamp 13:45 – 15:15 Carla Della Beffa PUBLIC PRIVATENESS Yane Calovski Pannel coordinator Samu Szemery (KEK) Margot Deerenberg HU Petr Dub Alenka Pirman, Jani Pirnat, Damjan Stephan Koeperl Kracina (DRS) SLO Veronika Kovacsova Mateja Kurir Borovčič, SLO Walter Klasz Ana Vilenica, UZ)BU)NA))), SRB Beatrix Zobl Samu Szemery, (KEK) HU Sylvia Winkler and many others... 6

15:30 – 17:00 FRI, APRIL 19 ROLE OF ART IN DEMOCRATIC PUBLIC SPACE FORUM DAY 2 Moderated by Yvette Vašourkova MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART Keynote speaker: Tomáš Poszpyszyl , METELKOVA Debate panel: Petr Dub, Giulia Cara- MAISTROVA 3, LJUBLJANA belli, Walter Klasz, Ula Schneider, Jan Matoušek, Anna Stemergova 10:00 – 11:30 SHIFT OF POLITICAL POWER 17:00 – 17:30 Trip to Zalog FROM CITY TO SUBURBIA Moderated by Igor Kovačević ZALOG EVENT Keynote speaker: Vojko Vavpotič 17:30 – 17:50 performance Ljubljana Debate panel: Sylvia Winkler, Stephan main train station Koeperl, Margot Deerenberg, VeronikaKo- WOMENSPACE, BITNAMUUN, ZBOR vacsova, Walter Klasz, JolaStarzak, Armina PENTAKORD, AIO Pilav 18:00 - 18:20 train station Zalog 18:30 - 18:50 park at Hladilniška pot 11:30 – 11:45 Coffe break 18:50 - 19:20 playground between Nahtigalova, Agrokombinatska and 11:45 – 13:15 Športna street FROM PROJECT TO REALITY 19:20 - 19:45 playground PLATA FROM REALITY TO CRITIC Moderated by Samu Szemerey 20:00 - 22:00 Keynote speaker: Edit Andrasi, ZALOG PARTY Debate panel: Wolfgang Schneider, opening of the playground with DJ Beatrix Zobl, Carla Della Beffa, Ursula HARKY and special guest ZLATKO Achernkamp, NiklasNitzschke, Tanja In case of rain the event will be held at Maljevac, Nina Mršnik ZADRUŽNI DOM KUD SVOBODA ZALOG (AGROKOMBINATSKA ULICA 2) 18:30 - 13:15 – 15:00 Lunch 21:00

15:00 – 15:30 Database presentation SAT, APRIL 20 uconnector.eu KAVARNA SEM METELKOVA ULICA 2, LJUBLJANA 9:30 - 11:30 Final meeting of the organizers 7

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ERASED SPACE creative nest, it brought Zalog on the map for those that were not even aware of its REVITALIZING THE existance. And for youngsters there is a FORGOTTEN: HOW SMALL space of their creativity, solidarity, non- YOUTH CENTRE CHANGED A formal learning and civic education. REALITY OF DAILY LIFE IN SUBURBIA Mateja Demšič, MSc., is a historian, was MATEJA DEMŠIČ, City of Ljubljana Head of Youth Office until march 2013, (SLO) since then she works as a Head of Depart- ment of Culture. When back in 2006 in one of Ljubljana's most distant city districts, Zalog, several school windows were broken, trash ART IS POSSIBLE ONLY burned, things got rather worrying. Those WHEN IT SPEAKS (NOTIONS who caused were youngsters from the OF SHAME, EXCLUSION neighbourhood. In that very time, we have AND OTHER FORMS OF started to prepare a list (within Youth Office RESISTANCE of Municipality of Ljubljana) of empty, VELIMIR ŽERNOVSKI, F.R.I.K, available spaces that were in city property Skopje (FYRM) in order to equipt them enough to be given back to the community, to one of its To commence with the pain, the point that most vunarable groups – young people. questions our position and our existence in Fortunately enough, space in Zalog was general. To speak with pain and of pain is found rather soon, first action steps were always complex, exhausting, yet the impulse taken and in April 2007, first district youth necessary for survival cannot emanate from centre was opened in Ljubljana. Of course, elsewhere but the exhausted body. What youth centres existed before but this one sort of survival and within which frames was specific because it was neighbourhood are we speaking of and is existence within oriented and very much focused on determining and normalizing frames really community in Zalog. The main idea was possible? What kind of post-traumatic life to equip empty, many times abandoned are we speaking of, should we succumb space for the benefit of the community to living in a body sentenced to perpetual (»recycled spaces«) and to make it a safe suffering? What kind of New World can we and creative space for youngsters. Today, speak of, should we exclude ourselves from it much more then that: it became almost the discourse, in which we must act at any a centre of the district, reference point, cost? 8

* Velimir Zernovski, from the paper Art = beyond prejudices and stereotypes. Also Voice, Queer Activism, the Holocaust and from 2011 he is working as a researcher at the AIDS crisis, Skopje, May 2012 Euro-Balkan University, Skopje. Through the media of drawings, videos, installations, Velimir Žernovski (b.1981, Skopje, object installations in public space, writing Macedonia) graduated at the Faculty of and publishing artist books he is exploring Fine Arts, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University notions of identity, urbanity and popular - Skopje. Currently, he is postgraduate culture as well as sexuality and gender student at the Department of Cultural identity. Studies at “Euro-Balkan” Institute for Social Sciences and Humanities Research in Skopje. He realized several solo exhibitions IMAGING SARAJEVO in Macedonia and abroad: New York ARMINA PILAV, School of (2010), Paris (2011), Vienna (2009, 2011), Doctorate Studies, Department of Design, Freiburg (2009), Skopje (2006, 2007, UniversityIUAV Venice (I, BiH) 2010); he took part in group exhibitions in Slovenia, Kosovo, Austria, Turkey, The aim of this lecture/paper is to discuss Germany, Netherlands, Macedonia and creative reapropriation of the public space USA. He participated in many international in the city of Sarajevo. Due to the last war projects and collaborations (Deschooling in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992- Classroom, organized by TkH Belgrade 1995, the city became an arena of spatial and Kontrapunkt; workshop “Urban space and social reproduction. These processes and memory”, Cultural center “Tocka”, were and are still guided by international Skopje; Remapping Skopje, Cultural center community, local and foreign NGOs, art- “Tocka”; Curatorial translation, project cultural organisations and independent by D-r Suzana Milevska and Visual and citizens initiatives. Sarajevo is very complex research center Euro-Balkan, Skopje; The urban context where is still visible spatial Lost Highway Expedition. He was working as relation between built-destroyed-rebuilt a curatorial assistant at press to exit project city. There are many areas in the city and space-special project of the Swiss Cultural its close territory partially used or almost Program in Macedonia (2006-2008) and abandoned by the city administration, from 2008 he is co-founder and president but considered, used and changed of FRIK Cultural Initiatives development by the citizens. Imaging Sarajevo is a Formation, organization which is working concept for a process through which I will on motivation of socially engaged art explore two cases with above-mentioned production and society democratization, characteristics. I will take Olympic Mountain 9

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Trebević, often called Mountain in the city, is Imaging Sarajevo- Recomposing the City and the example of the creative reuse of and the Territory. My research is focused on the remained Olympic infrastructure of the characteristics of the contemporary city the bobsled into open-air graffiti gallery that recently experienced the war or other and for utopian public walks. The other urban conflict. It includes the territory as a example is the public workshop “Remaking concept that contains rural and urban, social our city”, in the ex military complex “Maršal and cultural, physical and symbolic spaces Tito”. The aim of the workshop was not and people’s imageries about it. As citizen, only to experiment with different building architect and artist I was always interested materials or to remake an urban site, but in the processes of interactions among the also to produce a common space for the citizens and the city. I developed and I’m still imagination and creation of new urban working in post-war contexts on different scenarios as well as a metaphor of a new city architectural/artistic projects related to the of Sarajevo. I assume that these activities symbolic urban transformations where the are necessary in order to reintroduce citizens from the beginning are involved. I’m the post-war territory to the citizens and an active member of Crvena – Association to try to understand and discuss about for Culture and Art from Sarajevo the actual city image through citizens activities. These activities were done by two different art-cultural organizations with participation of the citizens, but in the case of Trebević beside organized activities, there are examples of independent citizens interventions as well. My examination of this specific examples contributes to the discussion on how people imagine and act on the space that contains good and bad memories, and if their activities can contribute to the future use and image of these spaces.

Born in Doboj in 1981, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Live and work between Sarajevo (B&H) and Venice (IT). Now I’m Ph.D. student in Urbanism in Doctorate school of IUAV in Venice. My research topic 10

PUBLIC PRIVATENESS and civilisations down to more vulnerable, less permanent chunks of history doesn't HARD FACTS IN THE POST- necessarily make us end up in relativism? TRUTH AGE DRUŠTVO ZA DOMAČE Domestic Research Society (DRS) was RAZISKAVE, ALENKA PIRMAN, established by Damijan Kracina, Alenka JANI PIRNAT, DAMJAN Pirman and Jani Pirnat in 2004 to re- KRACINA (SLO) cord, collect, research and present domestic phenomena. The members have The post-truth tag brutally acknowledges been active in the field of contemporary our collective experience - the binary per- art since 1991. They strive to conduct col- ception of the world. Ours or theirs? The laborative and interdisciplinary research, facts don't matter, the rhetoric allows lies. which enables the development of in- What we are fed with is definitely no truth, novative approaches in contemporary art, it's the food to remain biased. What seems actually addressing a broader audience. to be a fiercely dynamic process of dem- http://www.ddr.si/ ocratic argumentation is, in fact, a static yet expensive theatre of preaching to the converted. This is the context of the Hard THE UNCANNY CUT OF Facts, a modest artistic research on DIY MODERN ARCHITECTURE history-making that led us to Vienna, Lju- MATEJA KURIR BOROVČIČ, bljana, Madrid and Rijeka. We were look- (SLO) ing for people that keep a memento object in their private possession although Architecture is regarded to occupy space they may not be collectors. The authorised as a fixation, as condensation, as an excla- experts and institutions (e.g. museums) mation mark. In each individual realisation, more or less obviously mirror the post- architecture presents a certain coalescing truth reality. Therefore we tried to make point of its time and space, art and tech- visible the process of self-authorisation nique, social and economic system. Until and public expression of private narratives the beginning of the 20th century, column through the memento objects. Such mar- orders presented the elementary grammar ginal narratives generate others and, as of architecture, the key elements of its lan- the artist Pedro Barateiro remarked, »one guage. This grammar is, at a first glance, can more easily remember them but also wholly erased or forgotten with the onset one can more easily forget.« We find this of architectural modernism. However, a element crucial. Maybe splitting our lives more careful examination of architectural 11

IV.PARTICIPANTS modernism reveals that this language is non-governmental organizations, including preserved and continued, but is carefully Amnesty International Slovenia, DivjaMisel sewn underneath the visible surface. Our (for the project Library Under The Tree- interest lies in the identification or in the tops) and others. cutting lines of this new architectural language. The presentation discusses one URBAN POLITICS AND of the possible viewpoint on architectural FORCED EVICTIONS IN modernism through the thinking of Martin BELGRADE Heidegger and Sigumund Freud, the work ANA VILENICA, UZ)BU)NA))) of which joints in the concept of the un- PANČEVO (SRB) canny, das Unheimliche. The barer of the homely and the unhomely, the private and Optimism of neoliberalurban utopiathat the public, is thus one of the possible lines is reflectedin big infrastructure projects, for a fresh interpretation of this new era of creation ofgated communitiesfor theup- architecture, which consititueted among per class and pretense publicspacesin whi- many thing also the present way of dwell- chonly thewell-offconsumers are welcome, ing. producespatialrevanchistpolitics thatsys- tematicallyexcludesallclassand culturalpo- MatejaKurirBorovčić(1978) is a an author, sitions thatdo notcorrespond tothe inter- critic and project manager. Currently she is ests of thosewho have thepower tobuild the a PhD student at the Department of Philos- city. ThisbrutalsocialDarwinismin Belgra- ophy of the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. Her deis most evidentin theprocesses of forced main concern is the theoretical grounding evictions and cleaning of theinformal set- of Architectural Modernism as it could be tlementsinhabitedmostly by Romawhich thought through the work of Martin Hei- took placein the past fewyears. The ques- degger and Sigmund Freud, which unex- tions leading me trough this talk are: How pectedly joints in the thinking of the un- and why this processes are run? Who are canny, das Unheimliche. She works at the the main actors? What are the outcomes Editorial for Culture and Humanities Stud- of this processes? What is the role of Uni- ies of Radio Student (Ljubljana) since 2010 versiade 2009? What kind of city identity and is also the co-author of the broadcast production is at work and why? What is the “Architecture Speaks”. She published sev- role of art and culture in this processes? eral articles concerning architecture in one and What is to be done? of the main Slovenian Philosophic maga- Ana Vilenica (b. 1978 in Pančevo, Yugosla- zine Phainomena. MatejaKurir works as a via) is writer, reasercher and cultural worker. freelance project manager with different The focus of her work is on relations be- 12

tween art and activism, the role of art and behind this history provide elements for culture in proceses of urban regenerations, constructing a new map of the territory and feminism and art, developing platforms for the actions to shape its form. exchange and communication and collective self-education. Holds PhD in Theory Samu Szemerey is an architect interested of Art and Media, Interdisciplinary Post- in design as inquiry. His works investigate graduate Studies, University of Art in Bel- the relationship of contemporary culture, grade. Editor in cheaf of online journal uz) accessible technology and the human en- bu))na))). Key publications: On the Ruins vironment. He is a founding member and of Creative City (ed., kuda.org-Novi Sad, curator of KÉK Hungarian Contemporary 2012)and Becoming a Mother in Neolib- Architecture Center. He has taught and eral Capialism (ed., uz)bu))na)))-Beograd, published internationally and is regularly 2013). invited as lecturer and consultant. He has directed workshops, research projects and LOOKING FOR THE CRACKS curated exhibitions and public programs. SAMU SZEMERY, KEK (HU) He was coordinator of the Hungarian pavil- ion for the 10th Venice Architecture Bien- Evil territories, sure,but beyond that, suburbs nale in 2006. His ongoing PhD research have also been presented as seamless, focuses on the confluence of technological topologically abstract landscapes that evade narratives, infrastructure and public space. and blur the scrutinizing eye of analysis. Yet no matter how banal, the incompleteness of the suburban program is one of its key qualities. Always conceived as absolute, thus always unfinished, it will keep spinning off in unexpected directions. Where are the cracks in the landscape that keep suburbia open? What is their agency? Can they be used to develop an operational knowledge, a software of the performative landscape? A case study from the agglomeration zone of Budapest will present three phases of suburbanization: planned socialist development, the subsequent informal growth and recent contradictory processes of expansion and crisis. The threads 13

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SOCIAL INNOVATIONS 2010-2011, this paper will reflect upon the significance of grassroots initiatives, de- RUBBERS, PENS AND veloped within the cultural sector, and to CRAYONS. REBUILDING draw out their political potential.The paper MOSTAR THOUGH ART will be divided into 3 inter-related sections; INTERVENTIONS 1:Rubbers will explore Mostar’s destruction, ABART, GIULIA CARABELLI, taking in consideration the notion of ‘urbi- MOSTAR (BIH) cide’. In particular, I will expand on the significance of erasing public spaces vis-à-vis This paper aims to reflect upon the con- the erasing of public memories.2:Pens will tested process of rebuilding Mostar, a topic engage with the process of physical recon- that has been widely discussed within the struction and the re-writing of antagonistic growing scholarship on divided cities and and conflicting urban histories. The goal contested states. The ferocity of the war’s of this section is to reflect upon how the destruction has elicited much internation- re-creation of public spaces is limited by al attention and attracted large doses of the absence of a single, legitimised history funding, which have been mainly deployed of the city. 3:Crayons will reflect upon the for the reconstruction of the built environ- possibility for art interventions to rebuild ment and political infrastructures. Underly- public spaces, where the re-writing of his- ing this internationally led project was the tories, and the negotiation of memories, idea that rebuilding a city in its materiality could be made public. I will draw on the ex- could support the recreation of an urban ample of (Re)collecting Mostar to critically environment freed from the antagonisms engage with its main goals, the problems brought about by the war. Thus, the fact encountered during its development, and that Mostar is – on many different levels – to discuss its potential impact. still divided and contested has been taken as evidence of the failure of such ideas. Giulia Carabelli holds a Masters in History of This paper will offer a different perspective Islamic Architecture at Università Ca' Fos- on the process of reconstruction by look- cari di Venezia (Italy) (2006) and a masters ing at initiatives geared towards rebuild- in Research Architecture at Goldsmiths ing the ‘everyday’ of the city. In particular, College, University of London (2007). She this paper critically engages with the idea recently completed her PhD in Sociology at of art as a tool of reconstruction (and rec- Queen’s University Belfast (2012) as part onciliation). By expanding on the design, of the Conflict in Cities and the Contested development, and results of (Re)Collecting State research project (www.conflictincities. Mostar, a project implemented by Abart in org). Her doctoral thesis critically examined 14

the ongoing process of reconstruction of Mostar via a Lefebvrian analysis of space ARCHITECTURE OF production. In particular, her project ar- THE EMPTY SPACE gued for the importance of engaging with UNDERSTANDING THE grassroots movements seeking to enact DWELLERS social change in order to imagine how the SONJA LEBOŠ, UIII, ZAGREB future of Mostar could be imagined as oth- (HR) er than divided along ethno-national lines. Her long-term engagement with the city of Starting from the taxonomy of spaces Mostar started in 2005 as part of the UN- as it was elaborated by George Perec, urbanism team at the Bauhaus Foundation, whereby the bed is marked as a spatial Dessau (Germany). Overall, this project monad, or the basic constituent element aimed to investigate the ways in which the of our physical reality.In this lecture I am UN family operates in post-war areas with trying to make human strategies and particular focus on urban planning issues. tactics of domesticating diverse (empty Within this framework, Carabelli explored / filled) spaces more discernible. While the ways in which transnational religious doing this, I am also trying to penetrate organisations were active in the process of through the layers of the recent tendencies rebuilding the city of Mostar in the after- of re-qualifying modernist spaces for math of the war. The results of her enquiry contemporary living, by analyzing it on the were partially published in Bittner, R, Hack- two exemplary film representations of the enbroich, W. and Vockler, K. (eds.), UN Ur- modernist living in the city of Zagreb. banism/UN-Urbanismus, Berlin: Jovis and Bauhaus Dessau, 2010, pp. 178-187. Since SONJA LEBOŠ, PhD candidate at the Uni- 2010, Carabelli has worked closely with versity of Zadar (tentative title of the the- Abart, as research consultant (www.abart. sis: City on Film, Film in the city), cultural ba). She is currently working on a series anthropologist (MA, University of Zagreb), of articles based on her PhD thesis titled educationist in art (BA, Freie Hochschule Readressing Mostar. Architecture of the Stuttgart) and cultural practitioner, estab- Everyday life and an edited book based on lished the Association for Interdisciplinary the results of (Re)collecting Mostar; a pro- and Intercultural Research in Zagreb in ject designed and developed by Abart in 2002. Since then she has been working 2010-2011. Her work has been presented in intermediative fields, connecting cultural at several international conferences and theory and practice on different projects. workshops. Her interests are positioned in the field of body-space relations, urban and visual 15

IV.PARTICIPANTS anthropology, memory and identity stud- establishing examples of good practice for ies, as well discourse analysis. Her projects the empowerment of communities. With include: Cybercinematography – locating the intense cooperation of seven research intrinsic links between production of cin- groups, the activities of the Urban Furrows ema and producing cities as well creating were expanded to include cooperation with mediascapes based on illuminating cit- over a thousand children, parents, vari- ies with archive moving images; Space of ous ethnic groups, experts, youth, farmers, Identity, Space of Interaction, Space of Al- workers, homeless people, Roma, handi- teration – a set of interdisciplinary studies capped people, and those who feel they of one city district in Zagreb; res urbanae have no future. New models of self-organi- – (re)searching for design in public space sation were developed with the aim of reaf- and collaborative methodologies to work firming and empowering communities. woth local city councils and local inhabitants; Mnemosyne. Theatre of Memories Assist. Prof. Marta Gregorčič, PhD (Head – investigation on cultures and politics of of the Urban Furrows programme) Marta memory, theatre installations, interventions Gregorčič is an assistant professor of cul- in public space and public debates. She is tural studies and has a PhD in sociology. one of the founders of aRs PUBLICae pro- After fifteen years of work on development ject, aiming at introducing policies for sup- programs, emancipation movements and port of art and design in public space in organisations involved in rebellion in pe- the SEE region. www.uiii.org; www.uiii.org/ ripheral capitalist countries, she received pipipp; www.cybercine.org; www.theatre- the opportunity to developed Urban Fur- ofmemories.org; http://1postozaumjetnost. rows programme in Maribor. She has pub- wordpress.com/ lished several books, academic and techni- cal papers, worked as an editor for dozens URBAN FURROWS - of publications and spoken at numerous RECUPERATION OF THE international conferences. Her new book, COMMUNITIES titled Potencia was published in the end of DR. MARTA GREGORČIČ, 2011. MATEJZONTA, URBANE MatejZonta(Coordinator of the Community BRAZDE, MARIBOR (SLO) eco urban garden project)MatejZonta is a university graduate in law. For a number In cooperation with local and district com- of years he worked with various grassroots munities, educational and social institu- and non-governmental organisations re- tions, and, most importantly, with dedi- searching different types of discrimination cated creators from Maribor, we began and forms of social exclusion. As a politi- 16

cal grassroots activist in the areas of self- modern IT technologies are enabling prac- organisation, ecology, anti-militarism, anti- tically limitless and simultaneous commu- discrimination ... he has constantly worked nication at any time, what is the actual role for the empowerment of individuals and of a cultural institute abroad? How to make various social groups. His passion for ac- a difference and be “real” as opposed to tivism and research has taken him several “virtual”? times to Latin America researching social Can a foreign cultural institute become an movements. essential, or even an indispensable piece of the vibrant puzzle called cultural land- PRACTICE OR INJUSTICE- scape? TELLTALE OF TWO CITIES If art is global and if it accelerates social ANA NOVAK, SKICA (AT) innovations, does this means that social innovation is global? How are the local In autumn 2011, Slovenia established Ski- specifics to be recognized and cultivated? ca, its first cultural institute abroad. It is op- How can promoting contemporary creative erating in Vienna, a reference city for many practices abroad accelerate social innova- Slovenian artists. In the first year of its ex- tion at home? istence, Skica struggled to survive in both How can a cultural institute contribute to cities: it strived to find its anchor in the Vi- innovating complex decision-making pro- ennese cultural landscape as well as gain cesses? recognition in the governing (and funding) structures in Ljubljana. The fact that Ana Novak, with background in ethnology/ Skica is an institution without its own event cultural anthropology and sociology of cul- space, is of advantage on at least two lev- ture, is a diplomat, currently heading SKI- els: it acts as a networking accelerator and, CA, Slovenia’s first cultural institute abroad, at the same time, stimulates permanent situated in Vienna, Austria. self-questioning. Besides “traditional” pro- motion of various art productions “made in Slovenia”, the conceptual focus is on networking i.e. on connecting people and ideas and setting foundations for a sustain- able cooperation. In the programming process, the following questions proved to be of crucial importance: Since the cold war is long over and the 17

V.ROUNDTABLES

SHIFT OF POLITICAL POWER suburbia and decrease daily migration. The FROM CITY TO SUBURBIA crucial question is, can interventions make any change to suburbia and help to the city Moderated by Igor Kovačević which is in permanent crisis since the start Keynote speaker: Vojko Vavpotič of modern time?

Debate panel: Sylvia Winkler, Stephan FROM PROJECT TO REALITY Koeperl, Margot Deerenberg, VeronikaKo- FROM REALITY TO CRITIC vacsova, Walter Klasz, JolaStarzak, Armina Pilav Moderated by Samu Szemerey Keynote speaker: Edit Andrasi Today Central European cities are again becoming a political arena of citizens, ini- Debate panel: Wolfgang Schneider, tiatives, NGOs, and other forms of activism, Beatrix Zobl, Carla Della Beffa, Ursula but we are witnessing a lack of such activi- Achernkamp, NiklasNitzschke, Tanja ties in suburbia. At the same time we can Maljevac, Nina Mršnik see the extreme growth of suburbs around all cities, meaning a huge number of Eu- “The Culburb project aims to activate the ropean inhabitants are placed out of the public realm in the suburbs of central dense city but still have access to all its ad- European capital cities, by minimal means, vantages. The pressure made by suburbia and wants to start the ’cityfication‘ of and sprawl to the core of a city is not just suburbia. A first step in such a process is an infrastructural issue connected with fi- the improvement of public spaces in the nancial investment, but it brings a paradox suburbs. We start this process through to the contemporary city because it is in- ‘acupuncture interventions‘ in six localities creasingly losing one of its primary func- around Central European capitals.” tions – housing. The majority of city users no longer live in the city; home is beyond „Cityfication“ is a non-existing term we the city borders. This fact causes a new implemented in our text at the beginning political map where city users, the ones of the project, which was drawn by the living in suburbia, almost have stronger believe of architects, who share the idea, voting potential than city residents. This that the future of suburbia is to transform distribution of political power is deadly for it into a part of the city. Since our first the future of the European city. Either it is contacts with inhabitants we find out that necessary to change the structure of politi- there is very low interest to transform their cal systems, or to extend city functions to suburban living status into an urban. How 18

the locals will accept our interventions was What seems to be an artistic intervention an important factor in many projects dur- accepted by public is very often political ing the realization. or economic marketing. We are witnessing biennale art all over the world which is occupying public spaces or old indus- ROLE OF ART IN trial units, but these are just temporary, an DEMOCRATIC PUBLIC episode in the gentrification of new terri- SPACE tories in new cities. This changing of cir- cumstances coinciding with the changing Moderated by Yvette Vašourkova attitudes of artists and architects, is a good Keynote speaker: Tomáš Poszpyszyl point to question again, the role of art in the public space. Debate panel: Petr Dub, Giulia Cara- belli, Walter Klasz, Ula Schneider, Jan Matoušek, Anna Stemergova

We have been acting in countries where post-communistic atmosphere is an important issue. If we speak about countries which experimented with communism, or those which have recently undergone a new freedom for all, it presents a difficult time for the art in the public space. Difficult in the sense, thatit hasbecome harder to define the border between these artistic interventions in the public space since the establishment of democracy.For example,during communism almost every individual or collective action thatwas not organized by the regime was either a political or artistic statement. Today it becomes hard to recognize art interventions in the public space created by the inhabitants. Artistic tools and methods are very often used and disused for marketing purposes. 19

VI.EXPERTS

Three cultural experts were invited to join, sthalle Wien, Secession, Künstlerhaus Wien follow and comment the Culburb project. and the European Union-India Economic Cross Cultural Programme. In 2003 and EDIT ANDRÁS 2005, she curated the Austrian contribu- an art historian and art critic, holding a tions to the Architecture Biennale in Sao PhD from Eötvös Loránd University, Bu- Paulo; between 1998 and 2005, she con- dapest. She lives and works in Budapest ducted several projects in Southeast Asia. and in Long Island, USA.Since 1987 she Recent projects include the exhibition “RE- has been working at the Research Institute ALSTADT. Wishes Knocking at Reality’s for Art History of the Hungarian Academy Door” in Berlin and „Generationenstadt“ of Sciences, Budapest, recently as a sen- at the kunsthaus muerz. Selected publica- ior research fellow. Her main interest con- tions: “REALSTADT. Wishes Knocking at cerns modern and contemporary Russian, Reality’s Door”, “Wann begann temporär?“, Eastern and Central European art, gender “LINZ TEXAS. A City Relates”, “Import Ex- issues, public art, conceptual art and art port: Cultural Transfer Mumbai - Vienna - theory in the time of transition in the post- Berlin“, “Reserve der Form“, “Performative socialist countries. She has published nu- Materialism“, “Capital & Karma“, “Trespass- merous essays on these topics as well as ing - Shaping Spatial Practices“; author for she has participated in different interna- architecture periodicals like ARCH+, Bau- tional conferences. Her recent book enti- welt and books. International lecturer and tled Cultural Cross Dressing. Art in the Ru- teacher. ins of Socialism, Argumentum, Budapest, 2009 (in Hungarian). She is editor of the anthology Transitland. Video art from the Central and Eastern Europe 1989-2009, TOMÁŠ POSPISZYL Ludwig Museum, Budapest, 2009. a critic, curator and art historian. He is based in Prague. He worked as a curator in The National Gallery in Prague (1997- ANGELIKA FITZ 2002), and was a research fellow at The a cultural theorist, author and curator of Museum of Modern Art in New York (2000). exhibitions in the fields of architecture and Since 2003 he teaches at the Film and TV art. She has inter alia realised projects on School of the Academy of Performing Arts behalf of the German Federal Ministry of in Prague. He is a board member of tranzit. Transport, Building and Urban Develop- cz. His publications include anthology Pri- ment, for Linz - European Capital of Cul- mary Documents; A Sourcebook for East- ture 2009, Architekturzentrum Wien, Kun- ern and Central European Art since the 20

1950s., which he edited with Laura Hopt- man, (2002), and numerous catalogue essays and magazine articles. He is a re- viewer for Lidové noviny daily newspaper. 21

VII.ACUPUNCTURES

LOVE SONG EXCHANGE BACH IN THE CITY Carla Della Beffa (IT) Paul Woodruffe / Walter Klasz (NZ/AT)

Vienna-Sandleiten Vienna-Sandleiten June 20 September 24-30

This project was about connecting and In NZ there is a tradition of owner-built sharing: people, thoughts, emotions. houses that are made from found and or Sandleiten residents were invited to recycled materials. The word Bach has an exchange the love songs they love best, be it association to a place free from the pressures romantic tunes, rock or folk songs. All in all 18 of the domestic life. A Bach is defined by residents, young and old, sat in a circle, ready what it is not; it is not the everyday, but a to sing a cappella, without amplification, sanctuary from the everyday. Citizens of surrounded by other neighbors watching Sandleiten were invited to collect everyday and listening. Timid at first, everyone would material and to help realize a Viennese join in after a while, even as it became dark. Bach. The Bach became a place of cultural Singing is a powerful pleasure. Listening is exchange and since it’s construction, events intimate and joyful. The event was recorded have been organized regularly inside. and documented and its highlights are shared online. 22

. THE BENCHMARK OCCUPY SANDLEITEN Sylvia Winkler /Stephan Köperl (AT) (THROUGH MOVEMENT) Marcella Pascal / Alexander Felch (AT)

Vienna-Sandleiten Vienna-Sandletien May 19-25 May 1 and 24

By public announcement the inhabitants Based on the Occupy movement, this of Sandleiten were invited to share this project took that idea one step further: outstanding experience: To leave their that is occupying by literally moving one’s private living-space for spending one night body in space. The authors have invited the on a public bench. A security-guard was inhabitants of Sandleiten to get active and present nearby the bench throughout the acupuncture the space with movement whole night. His service did not only ensure themselves. In this project, inhabitants of the sleeper´s safety but also lowered Sandleiten and others, who are interested down the threshold for participation. This in dance and movement, were invited to intervention was scheduled for 5-7 days express themselves collectively in the public in a row with one „sleeper“ each night. realm of Sandleiten and thus discover it in Every evening the authors were present to a new setting. Parallelly, individual videos welcome the participant and to introduce on movement and dance in public space him or her to the guard. were being collected through facebook. 23

COMMUNITY IN ARBEIT BUDGET 50 000 Wolfgang Schneider / Beatrix Zobl (AT) Jan Matoušek / Václav Matoušek / Anna Štembergová / Jakub Havel (CZ)

Vienna-Sandleiten Prague-Psáry October May-November

Together with inhabitants we explored The authors of the project launched an the topic of „community work“, ranging open call for ideas asking the inhabitants from the janitor’s work to child care – no of Psáry about what would be the best way matter if it is done payed or unpayed, to spend 50 000 CZK. The inhabitants commissioned or voluntarily. The project had the opportunity to propose their own started with a presentation of the research ideas of enhacing the quality of life in their results at Nietzscheplatz. Within the course neighborhood. All ideas were collected and of four weeks a multi-layered picture they served as a base for public voting. arose, opening up a space for the nature People of Psáry decided that the thing and amount of community work daily they miss the most in the municipality is performed by and for the inhabitants in a place for older children who should get a Sandleiten. The project was accompanied new plaground. by a series of meetings and discussion s, events took place directly in the Bach , previously constructed by another team in September. 24

URBAN FARMING OBJECTS ADVENTURE (UFO) OF MEMORIES Ursula Achternkamp / Niklas Nitzschke (D) Martin Rusina / Anežka Tkáčiková (SK)

Prague-Psáry Prague-Psáry September 8-16 October 13

The initial project objective was to bring This project engaged residents of Psary in an object to the town of Psary and Dolni- a game where the mission was to discover Jircany that will enable children to get into hidden secrets about the locality. At first contact with animals, in this case with a set there was a research among adult native of chickens.. With the absence of public life residents concerning games or myths they in suburbia, the authors aimed to counteract developed in the area of Psary. Gathered this circumstance and generate activity by information was used to arrange a cross- implementing UFO. The UFO landed – with finding game for kids dwelling in Psary. The 4, blue egg laying chicken on board – in main idea was to transmit a very special Prague Psary. On-site, together with local knowledge of the Psary territory between partners, a chicken task force was launched generations and on axis with natives/ and a new chicken house was built. newcomers. 25

TRAIL OF COURAGE IDEAL SATELLITE Matěj Al-Ali / Petr Dub / Tomáš Moravec MOBA (CZ) (CZ)

Prague-Psáry Prague-Psáry November 3 October-December

Trail of Courage is designed as an Throughout history, architects have been educational path compounded of twelve working on their visions of ideal cities. separate spots within the urban area of However, they rarely asked the inhabitants Psáry. Each freestanding information sign themselves how they imagine their citiy to presents a n important text of contemporary be. This time, MOBA asked the inhabitants or historical architects or architectural of Psáry and Dolní Jirčany how would their theorists who wrote about suburbia and its dream municipality look like. MOBA then development. The main goal of the project proposes an ideal vision of Psáry and Dolní is to reflect a significant urban development Jirčany according to the suggestions. of the post 1989 era in Central Europe. The ideas were developed in a series of As a support tool “a smart project leaflet- public events (discussions and workshop) map” is distributed among local households organized with the inhabitants of Psáry. and visitors to explain the main goals to the The discussions focused both on adults inhabitants and to open up the opportunity and children. of public discussion on selected topics. 26

NOSTALGIA SEARCH ONORTHODOX (AT/NL/SK) Darko Fritz (HR)

Bratislava-Rajka-Rusovce Bratislava-Rajka September 7 September 12

The life experiences gained by age and their Darko Fritz’s horticultural unit was stories stay alive as long as they are told presented near Budapest, at the triple and portrayed. The authors wondered how border of Slovakia, Austria and Hungary. the inhabitants, on such a geographically The installation was set-up at the very interesting place as a tripoint, live together border next to highway, between the official and how their relationship or connectedness sign “Slovensko” (Slovakia) and abounded to each other are. Therefore they contacted custom border office in Rajka. The the most experienced. By means of photos, project consisted of the making, planting, audios and videos the elderly inhabitants maintaing and using the horticlture unit / of the tripoint Deutsch Jahrndorf – Rajka – art installation “Search”. Installation was Rusovce have participated in the exhibition built in the shape of the typical searching ‘Nostalgia’ and showed a piece of their past. interface of internet browsers and other . interactive electronic media. It consisted of one ‘empty’ rectangular field, and another one, letter-designed button that reads “Search”. 27

RAJKA PARK I RAJKA PARK II Goran Vodicka (HR) Martin Záhorčák (SK)

Bratislava-Rajka Bratislava-Rajka July-August May-December

The main project objectives were to raise The project creates an idea of a Central awareness of a neglected green area Park Rajka on the green area in the centre of Rajka (and try to save it from further of Rajka village. Based on the personal privatisation and overdevelopment), to knowledge of the situation, it offers real promote the idea of the possible park to contribution for the small village ongoing local authorities and residents and to initiate serious transformation processes. Planting dialogue amongst the community which first rows of grown-up trees would fix the will use the park in order to ensure that their status of green area and initiate its common wishes and desires are expressed. The park development into the park with the massive project, including the rich and varied ideas social potential. Project Central Park Rajka that project had stimulated were presented represents an apolitical, possitive gift in a booklet (as printed and pdf document) anticipating various further activities. and used to further support the idea of the park. 28

GROUNDWORKS HORTIPUNCTURE Atelier Starzak Strebicki / Laura Adrián Despoisse / Sári Ember / Veronika Muyldermans (BE / PL) Holczer / Zsófia Kovács (HU)

Bratislava-Rusovce Budapest-Délégháza September March-November

A grass field, a collection of elements and In cooperation with local institutions, civil trees, near to a school and town hall. Small groups, primary and nursery schools, the strategic interventions should be enough to authors built a continuous program that provide places to stay and look upon. Using developed plant-related knowledge and the ground as clay, using the loosely stacked activity. During the whole gardening season bricks. Defining spots. Together. This could they organized regular interventions: a be the challenge, a project concentrated on session of simple horticultural actions, like the fact given; grass, ground and present seeding, canning or fruit tree planting, bricks as a material. Perceiving the situation celebrated with communal creation, with ‘as found’, providing a difference by re- the help of arts (music, theatre, land art structuring the available. installations). The whole municipality . including the local school got involved in the project which might be repeated in 2013 due to its success. 29

PUBLIC SAUNA ON THE SMALL INTERPRETATIONS LAKE Klikkstudio (HU) H3T architekti (CZ)

Budapest-Délégháza Budapest-Délégháza November 2-4 October-December

A mobile sauna in the middle of the Small InterPretations is a network of lake in Délégyháza was built. The authors benches and stories signifying and intended to create a place for psychological describing landmarks of local memory and physical rest; a place where local based on oral history research. The project residents and visitors can meet; a place intends to show intangible local treasures where in winter, when ice covers the lake, and link them to the places having strategic and in summer when muscles need to be importance in value based development. relaxed after sport, you can come to rest According to the inhabitant’s opinion we your body and mind. They used simple are compiling a village map of stories and materials, mainly wood while maintaining places that are presented on the facade all necessary comfort for users. Cooling of the railway station addressing residents down takes place in the lake, the resting and visitors. The points on the map are area is a part of the construction, and fuel assigned on site with small benches as is brought by guests. the symbols of storytelling. They are made from scrapwood boards collected in the region. 30

SUBURBIA FILM FESTIVAL DISTRICT GPS Kék (HU) INTERVENTION Jürgen Lehmeier (DE)

Budapest-Délégháza Warsaw-Ursus November-December September 11

Délégyháza, as a fast developing suburban GPS-interventions tells an alternate municipality in the proximity of Budapest, history, presenting memories, personal, is an optimal location for a festival of sometimes nostalgic stories of people, films dealing with the topic of suburbia. anecdotes and important spots in the A temporary construction is prepared form of a contemporary urban version of for a playground behind the village, it is hare and hounds game. With it’s supply the location not only for screenings, but Ursus may became an important point on also for debates, exhibitions and other the world Geocaching map. Geocaching accompanying events. is an online GIS-mapping platform that allows geolocalizaion of hidden caches and massages in the field, possible to find for other players by geographical coordinates, using mobile GPS devices. 31

PLATFORM: URSUS THE CLEANING Cooperativa Studio (PL) Maryna Tomaszewska (PL)

Warsaw-Ursus Warsaw-Ursus July-August September 8

The search for current identity of Ursus The project aimed to activate the public was a pretext to talk with the people of the realm by a simple action of cleaning the district. Where is the heart of Ursus? How building of railway station in Ursus. This they would like to see him and how people place, which is one of the most important present it to the outside? How does it feel and busiest public spots of the district does to live in Ursus? Do people feel connected not enjoy a good reputation through poor to this place? Illustrating photographs maintenance and long-running neglection. and chosen excerts from talks are shown On Saturday, the 8th of September, about on the district station –Ursus district 15 volunteers cleaned, painted and planted communications center, as a sequence of flowers on the local train station in Ursus. large panels. Platform:Ursus does not leave The volunteers were both men and women, any permanent traces in the city. It’s ment from diffrent age groups (even children). to last long in the as a message to peoples The result was a litter-free railway station – both locals and travelers which pass it with 9 freshly painted benches and plants. with train. Ursus has a voice! 32

BUILDING PUBLIC-NESS THE MEETING STRIPE KUD C3 (SI) G-R-U-P-A (SI)

Ljubljana-Zalog Ljubljana-Zalog December 1-2 November-December

On 1 and 2 December 2011 a scientific The place of intervention is a patch of grass festival brought together architects, next to the football field in Zalog, where a artists, designers, sociologists, cultural meeting place for the local youngsters is anthropologists, practitioners, writers and needed. This is the area where they watch and curators. Through lectures, discussions, art cheer at the games as well. The youngsters interventions, exhibitions and workshops are our partners in the creation process, they tried to engage users of space to which leads to the situation in which they feel start actively participating in the shaping proud owners of the new area and take care of the environment they live in and define of it. The formal decisions are also taken by its contents.A new generation has been the kids during the workshops, where they growing up in Ljubljana’s suburbs over the are encouraged to talk about what is needed past years. Remote from other parts of the in the area, make models and take good city and inhabited by youngsters that have choices. We also search for collaborations their roots in a very diverse mix of cultural with the artisans and industries of the area, backgrounds from all around the former to source our materials and knowledge as Yugoslavia, this group has developed its locally as possible, so that the interested own urban identity, found its own urban hot- youngsters could see the making processes spots and its own urban (non-)perspective. and source the materials themselves. 33

DOWN BY THE WATER WOMENSPACE KUD C3 (SI) PAZ!PARK (Si)

Ljubljana-Zalog Ljubljana-Zalog January-December September-November

On-going Acupuncture is designed as “Womenspace” explores several questions cooperation between the young and the about the relation of women in Zalog to selected experts, who will help them in the open public space. Through a set of building and selecting materials. The workshops the project explored cultural, project is designed to use recycled waste ethical, gender and spatial isuess and material. The project, reusing materials, thus reflect the psyche of women living in Zalog stimulates a larger sense of responsibility in a form of acupuncture public space to the environment. It turns from a installation. The project aimed to activate consumer society to a society that has a and integrate women into neighbourhood higher awareness of the spatial, ethical and life through creative participation in public ecological aspects of our environment. The space. It opened a dialogue between experience and knowledge from the project different user groups, activated use of and the reflection on the city’s workings and public space, and consequently positively possibilities will be published in a textbook affected the quality of life. available to educational institutions and general public. 34

DESIGN YOUR CITY Daniel Díaz Vidaurri (MX)

Ljubljana-Zalog December 3-7

The workshop fostered the analysis of the students to “design” their ideal city, which responds to the way they perceive public space and the way they would like to break the social and physical barriers to link up with the areas in the city they do not usually use. 35

VIII.MAP

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01. Ljubljana main train station 05. Zalog train station

02. Museum of Contemporary Art 06. park at Hladilniška pot Metelkova Maistrova 3, Ljubljana 07. playground between Nahtigalova

03. Kiberpipa 08. Agrokombinatska and Športna street Kersnikova ulica 6, Ljubljana 09. playground PLATA 04. Kavarna SEM Metelkova ulica 2, Ljubljana 10. Zadružni dom KUD Svoboda Zalog

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IX.PEOPLE

Program Curators PRAGUE YVETTE VAŠOURKOVÁ, Centre for Central European Architecture IGOR KOVAČEVIĆ Curators YVETTE VAŠOURKOVÁ, [email protected] IGOR KOVAČEVIĆ [email protected] [email protected] VIENNA Program Coordinators SOHO in Ottakring KARIN GROHMANNOVA Curators BEATRIX ZOBL, [email protected] WOLFGANG SCHNEIDER KLÁRA MERGEROVÁ [email protected] [email protected] WARSAW Project Partners Fundacja Nowej Kultury Bęc Zmiana BRATISLAVA Curator PIOTR BUJAS Verejný podstavec [email protected] Curator MARTIN PIAČEK [email protected] Graphic Design Centrum komunitného rozvoje LINDA DOSTÁLKOVÁ Curator ZUZANA DUCHOVÁ studio@thebestsellercreative [email protected] platform.org

BUDAPEST Kortárs Építeszeti Központ Curator SAMU SZEMEREY [email protected]

LJUBLJANA KUD C3 Curator BOŠTJAN BUGARIĆ [email protected] 37

X.ORGANIZER XI.CO-ORGANIZERS

CENTRE FOR CENTRAL SOHO IN OTTAKRING EUROPEAN ARCHITECTURE Soho in Ottakring is an art and urban dis- CCEA is an alternative space for further trict project that was started in 1999 as part education and research in architecture. of an artist initiative. It extends across the Focuses on experts and professional ar- Brunnenviertel area of Ottakring, Vienna´s chitects, as well as wider public interested 16th district. in following current developments in ar- www.sohoinottakring.at chitecture and looking for possible ways of perceiving and understanding it. Research KORTÁRS ÉPÍTESZETI based both theoretically and practically KÖZPONT connects architecture with other humani- The KÉK – Hungarian Contemporary ties and arts. We do not perceive our own Architecture Centre is an independent ar- mission as mere popularization of archi- chitectural cultural institution founded and tecture but mainly as reading and redefin- operated by young architects, artists and ing the architecture identity of the space civil persons. Since its establishment in we live in. 2006, KÉK has been continuously proving www.ccea.cz that it can open new viewpoints in the architectural and urban public worlds with its fresh, problem-oriented and internationally relevant programs. The initiatives of KÉK include exhibitions, conferences, debates, workshops, architectural tours and festivals and initiatives focusing on the alternative use of urban space. www.kek.org.hu

KUD C3 Association of architects, designers, theo- reticians and artists (director, photogra- pher and composer) is primary working on the public space projects dealing with the themes of commercialisation and privatiza- tion and implementing the best solutions for including the public into the planning processes. www.kudc3.org 38

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VEREJNÝ PODSTAVEC Organizer Public pedestal is a non-commercial space Centre for Central European Architecture (CCEA) for presentation of artworks, which could Co-organizers address passers-by and thus fulfill edu- Centrum komunitného rozvoja, Fundacja Bęc Zmiana, Kortárs Építészeti Központ (KÉK), KUD C3, cational and aesthetic functions, too. The SOHO in Ottakring, Verejný podstavec idea is a longterm use of an empty ped- Support estal as a place for presenting contempo- This project has been funded rary Slovak, as well as foreign art. Thus it with support from the European Commission. is a space for temporary exhibitions with the possibility of reflection and research on the phenomena of memory and identity of a given place. www.verejnypodstavec.com

CENTRUM KOMUNITNÉHO Special thanks ROZVOJA Centre for Community Development (CCD)is a non-governmental organisation whose projects and activities create condi- tions for people in urban areas – especially those who live in large housing estates, and Roma communities or in disadvantaged locations – for their active participation in their social, economical, cultural, and envi- ronmental development. www.ckr.sk

FUNDACJA NOWEJ KULTURY BĘC ZMIANA Bęc Zmiana Foundation was established in 2002, as an non-profit organization sup- porting artistic and cultural activities. Bęc deals with the implementation of young artists projects, events involving broadsec- tions of the public. www.funbec.eu 39

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