Weltstadt

Praça Moribunda

No consumer potential here. The old customers have either passed on, or go to Lidl next door, which is open from 9 AM until 9 PM.... more

Our Madrid!

How can different stakeholders, above all the younger generation, bring about changes that herald a comprehensive societal transformation in the Spanish capital? more

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...
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Nós, Brasil! We, Brazil! Case Study – Vila Planetário

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... more

Visiting the Urban Incubator

Weltstadt Correspondent Anna Hohler visits the Urban Incubator: Belgrade, a project that offers Western European visitors an amazing lesson in urban development even today... more

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"Informal Studio: Marlboro South" – the NGO's and City's Perspective

This video documents the NGO's and city's perspective and portrays the involved individuals of "Informal Studio: Marlboro South" more

Empty Spaces Workshop

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... more

"Informal Studio: Marlboro South" – The University's and Architects' Perspective

This video documents the University of Johannesburg's perspective and portrays the initiators from 26'10 South Architects. more

Empty Spaces – the Kanepes Cultural Centre

To take the future into one's own hands – that's the guiding principle for the Kanepes Cultural Centre (KKC) in a quiet side-street of Riga...
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"Informal Studio: Marlboro South" – The Students' Perspective

This video documents the University of Johannesburg students' perspective and portrays their engagement with the community planners of Marlboro South. more

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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Empty Spaces – RIXC Association for Media Art

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... more

Empty Spaces – kim? Art Association

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... more

"Informal Studio: Marlboro South" – the Community's Perspective

This video documents the community's perspective and portrays the involved individuals of "Informal Studio: Marlboro South" more

Empty Spaces – Total Dobźe

Next stop on the tour through Riga's Empty Spaces projects: Total Dobźe... more

Empty Spaces – Tabakas Fabrika

The Goethe Institute Riga invited to a tour through the projects of Empty Spaces. First stop: Tabakas Fabrika... more

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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Cultural Repurposing of Vacant Commercial Buildings – The Project “Empty Spaces”

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... more

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

So This is Savamala! Day Three..

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... 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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