Student workshop
Most of Plovdiv’s population lives in panelki neighbourhoods planned and built in the socialist period. Structured by the Modernist project that radically reorganized the collective living, articulated by the social engineering producing the new man and transformed by the individual actions of the transition to capitalism, these neighbourhoods inherited a low quality of their public spaces. Any reconstruction of the community in these areas should start also from the rehabilitation of the existing public infrastructure in between the blocks.
The Chitalishte are one of the few organizations and public spaces located in these neighbourhoods that have a potential to activate and coagulate the community. The workshop aims to look at the transformation potential of the Chitalishte, strengthened by its historical value, within a format of a live project for students of architecture, urbanism, landscape architecture, design, sociology and anthropology. The participants will actively engage the subject of the workshop by using a selected Chitalishte as a workplace, mapping its spatial and organizational infrastructure, followed by developing applied scenarios and testing different activation tools.
This workshop is led and organised by the festival curators (Alex Axinte and Cristi Borcan) and the research coordinator (Nina Toleva). Guest presenters include the head of the Mladost Chitalishte and members of the research team.
Working language: English
Entrance: free
Maximum number of participants: 10 students of architecture, urbanism, design, sociology and anthropology
Subscribe at: architecture@edno.bg before 28.09.2016 by sending a short text in English containing a bio together with a motivation paragraph describing the reasons of joining the workshop, as well as the expectancies of the participants towards the outcome.
Other: For the duration of the workshop you need to be equipped with a laptop, photo camera, enthusiasm and goodwill.
Presentation on 07.10 at 14:00 at the “Open class event”.