plovdiv love map fronte.pdf 1 09/05/2019 10:57:45 The project Mind The Kiss has been During the project field work, the Plovdiv Love Map aims to be Mind The Kiss a photographic and physical data collection activities were both an occasion for the Affective map of the city of Plovdiv journey through symbolic places of performed through anonymous Plovdivians to drift in a CESCOT love and affection in the city of interviews and a social media sentimental journey through their VENETO With Mind The Kiss, past, present and Plovdiv. Cartography has been the campaign on the project platform memories and an opportunity to future come together in an way to trace the transformation of on Facebook (Mind The Kiss provide tourists with a different emotional geography whose the city, to sensitise memory, history Plovdiv). Based on the collected interpretation of the city. It is an protagonists are citizens! and common values, using different stories, the photographer Sabrina alternative way to understand methods of reading, analysing and Bellenzier recorded her personal the city not only by its buildings building both contemporary reality interpretation of the locations and monuments but through its and the past. The Plovdivians have mentioned by the project subjective value, made of people, been involved in an exercise of participants. The results of these emotions and experiences. FILIPOVO recalling life memories connected to activities have been displayed in the most diverse places in the city, an exhibition at Community Centre 1 where they exchanged a significant (Chitalishte) "Aleko Konstantinov" kiss. from 6 April to 5 May, 2019. KARSHAKA GAGARIN PLOVDIV ZAHARNA FABRIKA 36 STOLIPINOVO 2 er Maritsa Riv 33 3 Nebet Tepe 4 IZGREV KAPANA 32 Plovdiv 10 Stadium 12 9 5 C 35 8 wing Channel M Ro THE OLD 34 TOWN Hadzhi Y Hasan 7 Mahala GLADNO POLE CM Ancient 6 11 Theatre 37 MY 24 Summer 23 CY Theatre Kino Botanic Orfej 13 Garden CMY Bunardzhika 14 K 15 Alyosha 22 KAMENITSA Soviet Army 17 31 Memorial 16 21 19 Tsar Simeon’s 18 Gardens 20 Singing Fountains Tobacco 38 MLADEZHKI HALM 25 city Park 29 Lauta Dzhendem Tepe 26 1. Ul. Dostoevski, 19 2. On the banks of the river Maritsa 3. Nebet Tepe 4. Restaurant "Rahat Tepe" 5. Hisar Kapia Central 27 6. Near Lamartine’s House Railway SADIYSKI 7. Ancient Theater HRISTO SMIRNENSKI Station TRAKIA 8. Ul. Zhelezarska 9. Ul. Altseko 10. Ul. Rayko Daskalov 30 12. Dondulkov Park 13. Otets Paisiy Aqueduct 14. Kopchetata in Sq. St. Stambolov of Ancient Philippopolis 15. Glavnata 16. Bench in Tsar Simeon’s Garden 28 HRISTO BOTEV-SEVER 18. Singing Fountains in Tsar Simeon’s Garden Kyuchuk 19. Hotel "Trimontium" Parish 20. U l. Dragan Tsankov 21. Commercial Gymnasium 23. Bunardzhika Hill and Park 24. Bunardzhika Summer Theater 25. Sklad 26. Roundabout in front of the Railway Station HRISTO BOTEV-YUG 27. Central Railway Station 28. Romantic street lamp in Kyuchuk Paris 29. Dzhendem Tepe 30. Aqueduct of Ancient Philippopolis 31. Pedestrian bridge on the Rowing Canal 32. Near the abandoned Plovdiv Stadium 33. On the banks of the river Maritsa 34. Ul. General Skobelev 35. Ul. Struma 36. On the banks of the river Maritsa 37. Botanical Garden 38. Park Lauta retro.pdf 1 19/04/2019 17:18:38 e M so as er w sion t kiss w as s Thank ir hich ything y husband w vdiv! , Our f er . v Plo e , e and it w e on an excur ou y ecame m moments as ther because I Thank . those imontium Hotel r I w e sitting ther . 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And just then – so very witty of him – with te this ps this gift he also gave me a kiss; I wasn’t ia expecting it but when I leaned and reached out my hand to take the lucky charm gift, he perha analogue – and people hang padloc took advantage of the moment, and that is I assoc how it happened, and this is a very romantic memory for me. So, now we have been together I for almost 22 years and we take care of our boy. We are still living in Plovdiv – it is a very romantic city – and here we were lucky to meet many pleasant and good people and they are all in love with the city of Plovdiv. S S.