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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We-Traders will connect initiatives from distinct urban contexts across five European countries. In Lisbon, Madrid, Turin, Toulouse and Berlin the crisis manifests different facets from empty coffers and social polarization to a lack of civic sense as a result of excessive growth. The project will focus on...
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The NOMAD CITY Summer School 2014 was organized through a cooperation of the Mongolian University of Science and Technology and the Technische Universität Berlin.
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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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How can different stakeholders, above all the younger generation, bring about changes that herald a comprehensive societal transformation in the Spanish capital?
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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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The NextBangalore Space is both: a method and a meeting room. For nearly all visitors it’s the first time to experience an urban studio that provides the possibility to share their ideas and visions for a future Bangalore...
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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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Architect and urbanist Ícaro Vilaça is the local curator of Nós Brasil! We Brazil! in Salvador. Taking an activist approach towards tackling the issue of the ‘right to the city’ he invited neighborhood associations and local planners to the workshop series examining the neighborhoods of Dois de Julho and Alagados.
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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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Condomínio dos Anjos 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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Keine Frage: Westeuropäern bietet Belgrad eine erstaunliche Lektion in Sachen Stadtentwicklung, auch heute noch, mehr als zehn Jahre nach Erscheinen eines Artikels, der schon 2002 – kurze drei Jahre nach den NATO-Luftangriffen – auf die erstaunliche informelle Bautätigkeit in der serbischen Hauptstadt aufmerksam machte...
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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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Nachdem das Rigaer Goethe-Institut zu einer Rundfahrt durch die Projekte eingeladen hatte, versammelten sich alle Beteiligten am 11. Juni 2013 zu einem Workshop...
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Savamala is economically underdeveloped and socially disadvantaged, and has a reputation as a home to outcasts, prostitution, and criminality. However...
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Zukunft selbst in die Hand nehmen – so lautete auch das Grundmotiv für das Kanepes Kulturzentrum (KKC) in einer Seitenstraße des „Stillen Zentrums“ von Riga...
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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...
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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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How can artistic projects influence urban development? Art theoreticians and sociologists from Belgrade and Zurich will be carrying out research into the influence of the Urban Incubator: Belgrade project on Savamala...
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Im Speicher neben dem des Kunstvereins kim? hat sich noch eine Kulturinitiative niedergelassen. RIXC heißt der 1996 gegründete Verein für Medienkunst, der ebenfalls Teil des Projekts Empty Spaces ist...
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Improvisation oder Selberbauen kommen für Zane Onckule und Linda Pavluta nicht infrage. Ihr Kunstverein kim? ist ein weiteres Projekt das an Empty Spaces teilnimmt...
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When the Goethe-Guerilla first met with residents in Savamala, Miroslav Marinkovic very quickly became their “local hero” – born and raised in Savamala, he knew all the history and the stories of the place...
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The Director of the Goethe-Institut Belgrade, Dr. Matthias Mueller-Wieferig, explains the Goethe Institute's approach to the Urban Incubator:Belgrade... more
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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Die gegenwärtige Entwicklung in Riga ist stark von ihrer Geschichte beeinflusst, denn diese hat der Stadt eine Vielzahl an verlassenen Industriebrachen hinterlassen. Heute sind es Künstler und Kreative die sich als Pioniere in diesem – größtenteils informellen – Prozess der Stadtaneignung hervortun...
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The fourth generation of the Goethe-Guerillas have now taken up their position as artists and creators at the Goethe-Institut Belgrad; and just like previous Guerilla generations since 2010, they are extremely interested in Savamala and its residents...
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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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Micro-Factories will create new production facilities that transform the knowledge, capacities, and ideas of Savamala into innovative products in new, small production plants.
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Seit ihrer Ankunft ist kein Tag vergangen an dem Anna Hohler, Weltstadt Korrespondentin für Belgrad, das KC Grad nicht mindestens einmal besucht hat...
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An ihrem dritten Tag trifft Anna auf das Bureau Savamala, ein Projekt das genau beobachtet welche Auswirkungen ein Projekt wie Urban Incubator auf die Stadtentwicklung in Savamala hat...
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