The project “Le Dernier Village” (The Last Village) of the Goethe-Institut Senegal examines the cultural consequences of the rural to urban migration process while combining artistic and scientific approaches...
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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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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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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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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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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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Savamala is economically underdeveloped and socially disadvantaged, and has a reputation as a home to outcasts, prostitution, and criminality. However...
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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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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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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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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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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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