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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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
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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Weltstadt Correspondent Anna Hohler visits the Urban Incubator: Belgrade, a project that offers Western European visitors an amazing lesson in urban development even today...
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Following the invitation of the Goethe-Institut Riga to this tour through the projects, all of the participants gathered on 11 June 2013 for a workshop...
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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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In the warehouse next door to kim?, yet another cultural initiative has settled in. RIXC is the name of the association for media art and also part of the project Empty Spaces...
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Improvization and do-it-yourself are out of question for Zane Onckule and Linda Pavluta. Their art association kim? is another project that takes part in the project Empty Spaces...
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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 current development in Riga is much affected by its history that has left the city with a plethora of abandoned commercial spaces. Today, it's artists who are pioneering in this – largely informal – process of urban appropriation...
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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...
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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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