Changsu Maeul is nestled under the old city wall of Seoul. Rather than abandoning their small and basic houses, the inhabitants of Changsu Maeul decided to stay and upgrade their decaying buildings and to redevelop their neighborhood...
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As of today, the future of the city of Bangalore is unknown. The city’s challenges are enormous, as are the opportunities. NextBangalore thus brings the concept of crowd-sourcing urban future to Indian cities...
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The project Nós, Brasil! We, Brazil! is looking at ways in which the emerging new middle class is influencing city-making in contemporary Brazilian cities...
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CRIT* develops responses to the rapidly changing urban realm, which the group perceives as having no boundaries and requiring fundamentally different methods of interrogation.
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The first Bangalore Change Map is out! The map shows the results from the first phase of nextBangalore – a crowd-sourced city vision for future Bangalore!
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Everybody is talking about the crisis, but how is it actually manifested? Have cities changed? Where do We-Traders come from and what unites them? In October 2013, the We-Traders community worked on this at forums in Lisbon, Madrid, Turin and Toulouse. Here are a few pickings from our notes.
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Over the past decade, Turin has experienced profound changes to its urban structure. By transforming itself from an industrial city into a place of culture, it gained a significant position on the Italian and European scene and the result of this extensive transformation is a new urban model…
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The City of Madrid presently offers a highly stimulating challenge to its inhabitants. It is experiencing a time of deep economic and identity crisis, thus a unique opportunity in which to reflect on their future with community leaders …
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We-Traders Lisbon features several urban players who, in spite of unemployment and no public contract as urban protagonists, are looking for creative solutions, often arising from existential and social need...
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In Porto Alegre, Márcio Rosa D'Avila launched the Nós Brasil! We Brazil! workshop series with a debate on the history of orçamento participativo, which seems to be in conflict with current efforts towards economic growth...
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Bairro Farrapos represents one of the three case studies that were used to illustrate the conflict between orçamento participativo and current efforts towards economic growth in Porto Alegre...
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Goethe-Guerilla Anita talks about her encounter both with young people from the Goethe Guerilla and their activities in Savamala which changed her perspectives on life completely...
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This video documents the University of Johannesburg students' perspective and portrays their engagement with the community planners of Marlboro South.
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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....
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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.
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A new architectural magazine is being established in Savamala: Camenzind, a new Serbian journal covering architectural issues, simultaneously producing print and radio coverage and organizing public events in and about Savamala. The magazine will highlight Serbian authors and topics in national and international architectural debates....
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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...
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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.
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On Anna's third day in Savamala, she encounters the Bureau Savamala, the observation post for both the Urban Incubator projects as well as for other events occurring in Savamala...
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