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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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...
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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...
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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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The crowdsourcing platform Nextbangalore is host to a lot of discussions on urban development in one of the fastest growing cities in the world. The contradiction between modernity and acceptance, between people’s own culture and global urban planning, is motor to most inputs.
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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We spoke with Benjamin Seroussi, curator and cultural manager at Casa do Povo, about its position in the neighborhood of Bom Retiro in São Paulo and its role as a political and cultural institution in enforcing and channeling the power of the public.
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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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Casa do Povo will host Nós Brasil! We Brazil!, the German contribution to the X Bienal de Arquitetura de São Paulo. The research of Nós Brasil! We Brazil! deails with current practices of city-making in Brazil and links it to Casa do Povo's rich history as a forum for political participation... more
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...
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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...
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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?..
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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...
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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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Vila Planetário 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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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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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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Savamala is economically underdeveloped and socially disadvantaged, and has a reputation as a home to outcasts, prostitution, and criminality. However...
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During the interview with Weltstadt correspondent Dagmar Hoetzel, the project coordinators Anne Graupner (26’10 South Architects) and Alex Opper (University of Johannesburg) speak about their new project – a collaboration with students and young professionals from Berlin and Johannesburg....
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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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The need for suitably experienced professionals, community planners and officials who can engage in a process of participative planning is becoming increasingly urgent. As a response to therefrom-arising challenges, the informal studio: Marlboro South, a course on in-situ upgrading was developed...
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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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The informal settlement Marlboro South is located in northern Johannesburg, near Sandton, sub-Saharan Africa’s most powerful economic hub, and was a typical buffer zone in apartheid planning...
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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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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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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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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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