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Project Brief – Showing One's Colors

More and more people are "on the way“. They leave their homes, their villages and their cities, in search of a better future. These migration flows take place in Senegal too and raise many questions... more

Project Brief – Banlieue en Banlieues

Senegal's banlieues are sprawling. These suburbs, often forgotten by the outside world, are urban-worlds onto themselves, each with their own inherent logic, of which very little is known... more

Urban Developments in Dakar

The urbanism of French colonialism has left its mark on Dakar’s urban culture to this day. more

Nós, Brasil! We, Brazil! – The Making of the Salvador Y-Table

Invited artists/architect Luis Berríos-Negrón reports about the making of the Porto Alegre Y-Table, which will be used for the two-day workshop on the future of Alagados and Dois de Julho in Salvador... more

Nós, Brasil! We, Brazil! – The Making of the Porto Alegre Y-Table

Invited artists/architect Luis Berríos-Negrón reports about the making of the Porto Alegre Y-Table, which will be used for the two-day workshop on the future of the Bairro Farrapos, a vila in Porto Alegre... more

The Y-Table: a Semiotic Object for Local Action

During the Nós Brasil! We Brazil! project a series of Y-Tables will be collectively programmed and produced with local participants and materials in three different cities. But what is the idea behind these tables?.. more

The Making of the Curitiba Y-Table

Invited artists/architect Luis Berríos-Negrón reports about the making of the Curitiba Y-Table, which will be used for the two-day workshop on the future of Curitiba... more

Nextsavamala – Crowdsourcing a City Vision

How do the citizens of Belgrade envisage the future of Savamala? What are their ideas? And how can those ideas be realized? Nextsavamala supports the citizens of Belgrade to develop their own vision for Savamala through a web-based public forum and workshops... more

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Urban Incubator: The School of Urban Practices

How can the future of a city be designed when there are no financial means for investment, when legal issues remain unclarified, and when institutional procedures are slow? The project “School for Urban Practices” will research.... more

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Urban Incubator: Slušaj Savamala!

We usually perceive changes in urban spaces with visual means – through photographs, pictures or maps. But you can also hear the changing of a city. “Slušaj Savamala” is a sound-art project which collects old and new sounds and which will feed them back into the urban space in formats such as installations, concerts, or radio programmes. more

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Urban Incubator: Public Design Support

Designing our environment always involves a social dimension, as it creates new relationships between various actors: people that are responsible and people that are affected, experts and ordinary citizens, representatives of pro and contra... more

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Interview with Stanko Divjakinja – „Plans for the Spanish House?“

It was architect Stanko Divjakinja who dealt with plans for the reconstruction of the Spanish House – before the Goethe-Institut together with architect and curator of the Urban Incubator: Belgrade, Tim Rieniets, developed their plans to design a temporary pavilion for the building... more

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Urban Incubator: 'We also Love the Art of Others'

Savamala has, throughout its history, been a place for trade, international exchange and encounters. But today, Savamala is isolated – a remote and inaccessible space in the middle of the city. Using the title “We also Love the Art of Others”, we would like to re-vitalize the traditional role of Savamala, inviting artists of different origins and positions to again enter into dialogue in this city quarter. more

Urban Incubator: Micro Factories

Micro-Factories will create new production facilities that transform the knowledge, capacities, and ideas of Savamala into innovative products in new, small production plants. more

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So This is Savamala! Day Four...

Since her arrival, not a day has gone by without Anna Hohler, Weltstadt Correspondent for Belgrade, visiting KC Grad at least once... more

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So This is Savamala! Day Two...

Day two of Anna Hohler's visit in Savamala: she meets up with the initiators of the architecture magazine Camenzind... more

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