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1-5 July 2019
Prishtina offers a wide range of public space: The pedestrian friendly area in the city center bordered with shops and cafés; the neighborhoods of the Yugoslavian era with their landscaped surrounding including sport facilities and playgrounds. However, the newer settlements at the edge of town offer a different image. The open spaces of this “Parallel City” are often subordinated to motorized traffic, oblivious to site specificities or inhabitants needs and relying on mono-functionality.
The build environment defines who we are and we, as architects, carry a responsibility in promoting social equity. We will investigate through an intersectional lens how to create public space where people of different socio-cultural, ethnic, or cultural background feel equal and respected. Intersectionality acknowledges the fact that every individual is made of a set of physical and social stratifications: gender, age, abilities, nationality, religion, class, education, … This framework is especially helpful to recognize the needs of non-compliant bodies, minorities, and marginalized groups in the creation of the inclusive city.
We will first analyze the condition of the public spaces within Prishtina’s urban sprawl by using the method of the Nolli map, a detailed plan of Roma dating from the 18thcentury where the urban areas are represented as a network of spatial relations. We will yet invert the map in order to look at the city in negative. This methodology will help us to analyze the cityscape, address its shortcomings and identify its potentials. We will then create proposals for improved public space, inquiring how intersectionality can be applied to fulfill various goals: Accessibility for all, diversification of mobilities, enhancement of communities, improvement of ecological conditions and local climate amongst others.
Requirements for participation are enthusiasm about the city and the built environment. Students and fresh graduated from the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, as well as sociology, philosophy, or art are strongly encouraged to apply. Participants are expected to actively contribute to the workshop for its whole duration.
Although workshop material will be provided by KAF, it is require that you bring your laptop & feel free to bring any other tool you feel comfortable to work with.
All interested must send a resume of themself (max 2 pages in pdf preferred) to workshops.kaf@gmail.com or workshops@kosovoarchitecture.com by the 25th of June 2019. The workshop will be led by Celine Baumann.
After her extensive contribution to the Architecture Foundation in the last 3 years, today, on the 25th of January 2019, Rudina is appointed as the new Deputy Director of the Kosovo Architecture Foundation.
Rudina will be taking on new roles in the Foundation as well as continue with the co-management of the Foundation and its projects, more notable the Architecture Festival and the Future Architecture Platform in Kosovo.
Rudina is a BA in Art History and joined the Foundation in late 2016. She played an important role in organizing previous Architecture Festivals as well as in the “Conservation and Management Plan for the Kosovo National Library” project, funded by the prestigious Keeping it Modern Grant of the Getty Foundation.
Apart from her role at the Architecture Foundation Rudina also serves as the Secretary to the DoCoMoMo_International Chapter in Kosovo.
The 2019 Kosovo Architecture Festival theme will be “The Parallel City”. This year KAF intends to document urban phenomenons in Prishtina and its surroundings.
As in previous edition, KAF invited internationally renowned scholars, architects, planners, filmmakers and theoreticians to lead workshops and hold public lectures.
During the second week of June KAF will announce the program for the July cycle of events. The festival will be held from the 1st of July till the 1st of October.
Our partners from Forecast are looking for talented fellows to join their exciting 2019 mentoring program.
Forecast encourages interdisciplinary exchange and public discussion on the ideas of the future. Until March 1, 2019, creative minds from anywhere in the world working in various disciplines can submit their proposals. Eighteen applicants will then be invited to Berlin to discuss their ideas and present them at the Radialsystem during the Forecast Forum, July 1–7, 2019. At the end of the Forecast Forum, each of the six mentors then selects one concept to accompany to its realization. The outcomes of these collaborations would then be presented at the Forecast Festival, taking place at the Radialsystem March 30–April 5, 2020.
For each edition, Forecast selects six mentors of various disciplines who offer interested participants their expertise in specifying and realizing their pioneering project ideas. The following mentors are participating in the fourth edition of Forecast: visual artist Candice Breitz (ZA), artist and internet activist Paolo Cirio (IT), musician Okkyung Lee (KR), cartoonist Anders Nilsen (US), radio reporter Joe Richman (US), and conceptual designer Jerszy Seymour (UK/CA).
As an international platform for knowledge transfer, Forecast offers artists and creative thinkers from anywhere in the world the chance to work with accomplished mentors toward bringing their projects to fruition. Forecast transcends neatly defined disciplines and genres to provide insight into creative production processes, and carve out space for the questions on the minds of the next generation of trailblazers.
For more information about the call, mentors and how to apply please go to forecast-platform.com
The call is open till the 1st of March 2019.
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Bukuria e asaj që mbetet
Struktura urbane është akumulim i mbetjeve të kohës. Të gjitha qytetet kanë histori të shumta që i përkasin perandorive, republikave, gjuhëve, stileve dhe identiteteve. Ato që mbesin dhe përbëjnë një kontekst të vërtetë urban janë mbetjet – ajo që mbetet, nga jeta e kaluar dhe manifestimet e tyre fizike si ndërtesa, rrugë dhe sheshe. Mbetjet qëndrojnë pranë njëra – tjetrës – disa të theksuara, mbizotëruese, të ruajtura mirë dhe të qëndrueshme, ndërkohë që disa janë të prishura, braktisura dhe të shkatërruara, megjithatë ato përbëjnë së bashku atë që është qyteti. Në ligjeratën e saj, Aslıhan Demirtaş do të flasë për rishfrytëzimin adaptiv nga këndvështrimi i ‘mbetjeve të kohës’, të përqendruar, por jo të kufizuar në Kinemanë Lumbardhi në Prizren.
Aslıhan Demirtaş, LEED AP
Themeluese e KHORA Office & Aslıhan Demirtaş Architecture & Research Office.
Ligjëruese në Departamentin e Arkitekturës të Fakultetit të Arteve dhe Dizjanit në Universitetin Kadir Has në Stamboll.
Aslıhan Demirtaş është arkitekte dhe themeluese e studiove ndërdisiplinore Aslıhan Demirtaş Architecture & Research Office dhe KHORA Office me seli në Stamboll dhe Nju Jork. Puna e saj është ekspozuar në SALT Galata në Stamboll dhe SALT Ulus në Ankara; collectorspace, Stamboll; Bienalja e 13-të e Sharjah, Stamboll; Galeria Pratt në Manhattan dhe Galeria Aronson në Nju Jork.
Demirtaş mban titullin MS.ArchS nga Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) dhe BArch nga Middle East Technical University (METU) në Ankara. Ajo është anëtare aktive e Iniciativës për Mbrojtjen e Kopshtit Historik Urban të Yedikules. Zyra e saj së fundmi përfundoi edhe Kopshtin e Dimrit, një hapësirë tokësore në SALT Beyoglu në Stamboll dhe aktualisht po punon në projektin e rijetësimit të Kinemasë Lumbardhi në Prizren. Para themelimit të studiove të saj, Demirtaş punoi për Laureatin e çmimit Pritzker I.M. Pei si projektantja kryesore e Muzeut të Arteve Islame në Doha, Katar si dhe KishëzësMiho në Japoni.
Ky aktivitet organizohet me mbështetjen e U.S. Speakers Program për Kosovën, nga Fondacioni Lumbardhi në partneritet me Fondacionin Kosovar të Arkitekturës.
CALL FOR MEMBERS 2020
Deadline: 16 January 2019
With the Call for Members, the Future Architecture platform invites museums, galleries, festival organisers, academic institutions and other cultural operators with innovative approaches to architecture to participate in the 2020 European Architecture Programme.
Future Architecture is a well-balanced ecosystem of European cultural players in architecture who perform specific roles within a complex European architecture program. It connects multi-disciplinary emerging talents to high profile institutions like museums, galleries, publishing houses, biennials, and festivals. It provides talented conceptual thinkers and practitioners in architecture with opportunities to speak up – and be seen and heard.
We expect proposals for exceptional architectural happenings and events that will help form the core of the European Architecture Program, and which will include emerging talents selected by the platform to promote them and help them develop their practices.
Becoming part of the platform offers the opportunity to connect with the most outstanding organisations and practitioners in Europe. The selected applicant will be invited to become a full member of the Future Architecture platform and will receive a grant of 16,000 EUR to support their activities.
This Call for Members is open to organisations having the status of legal person. It is intended for cultural organisations and institutions that operate in the area of architecture.
When submitting their application, applicants must be in a position to demonstrate their status as a legal person for at least 2 years from the date of deadline for submission.
To qualify as a Future Architecture member, applicants must meet the following criteria:
A grant will be awarded to proposals that follow the goals of the Future Architecture platform and will contribute to the overall outcomes of the platform.
The applicant should include a minimum of 5 emerging creatives from the Future Architecture Call for Ideas.
The applicant should guarantee a minimum of 20% of his own financial support in the overall budget of the activity.
The coordinating entity will assess the applications based on these evaluation criteria, specifically and in this order of importance:
Geographic dispersion is an important criterion for Future Architecture to achieve its desired goals. Applicants from countries not yet included in the platform will be given priority. Nevertheless, the quality of the proposed activities forms the key basis for selecting a new member.
16 January 2019
The coordinating entity will decide on the recipient of the grant by 16 January 2019. Applicants will be informed of the decision on 23 January 2019. All applicants are kindly invited to the Creative Exchange 2019 in February, where we will announce the results and present the new member.
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The Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2016 cycle exhibition opened on the 19th of October 2018 at the Kosovo Museum. The exhibition showcases the 2016 shortlisted projects, among which is a project from Kosovo as well as the 6 winning projects. The exhibition will be opened till the 28th of October and them travel to Albania and Macedonia. Please read below the preface on the 2016 cycle by the Director and Curator of the award Mr. Farrokh Derakhshani.
Preface
The Aga Khan Award for Architecture focuses on processes of change in parts of the world where the built environment is undergoing rapid transformation, at times with dire consequences. Over the last four decades the Award has sought to understand the nature of this change and to have an impact on design and building in the hope of creating a better quality of life for the people who inhabit these environments. The this end, it recognizes exemplary projects and shares the lessons they offer with all those who play a role in this endeavor – architects, planners, government agencies, clients and, above all, the final users of the buildings. Each three-year cycle of the Award involves an exhaustive search for innovative solutions and positive achievements which highlight the significant contribution that architecture can make towards shaping and improving our lives.
From the outset the award has made both the architectural profession and the wider public aware of a broad new approach to what constitutes architecture. The 15 projects selected in the very first 1977-80 cycle engaged with a wide range of issues, from conservation to slum upgrading, and embraced traditional as well as new designs. Works by both emerging architectural talents and established practices were celebrated alongside the efforts of clients and builders. Together, these projects spoke of the plurality of societies in countries where Muslims have a significant presence, from Indonesia to Morocco.
This pluralist approach has been pursued by successive independent Master Juries, responding to diverse concerns identified by a rotating Steering Committee for each triennal Award Cycle. The Chairman of the Steering Committee is His Highness the Aga Khan, who established the Award in 1977 to recognize architecture’s primary role in improving the quality of life in fast-changing Muslim society.
One of the most pressing aspects of such change is the movement of peoples far from their homelands. Sometimes forced, sometimes voluntary, this mass migration – from rural to urban areas, of from one country or continent to another – has given traditionally mono-cultural societies a new character shaped by multilayered identities. But it has also posed challenges. How do you create a sense of cohesion in a disparate population? How do you draw new communities into the public sphere, facilitate their engagement with civil society? The Aga Khan Award for Architecture confronts such issues head on, showcasing projects of excellence that address the aspirations of these communities.
The aim of this exhibition is to share the findings of the 13th Award Cycle, spanning from 2014 to 2016. Among hundreds of nominations the Master July reviewed 348 projects from 69 countries and shortlisted 19 of these for in-depth inspection and expert review. From this shortlist six projects were then selected to share the prize money of 1,000,000 USD. Both the Award recipients and the shortlisted projects propose creative solutions to some of the most relevant issues facing architecture today. While different in scale and approach, all of the projects are part of their contexts and enhance the sense of belonging in their communities. What emerged from the many nominations received, and most notable from the 19 projects featured in this exhibition, is a sense of what can be achieved when architects and clients work collaboratively, combining their forces in a conscious effort to improve the built environment and the everyday lives of people.
For more information regarding the AKAA and the upcoming cycle visit www.akdn.org/architecture
Future Architecture platform, key exchange and networking platform for European Architecture announces the formation of the Future Architecture Advisory Board, a group of renowned leaders, researchers, curators and practitioners selected to advise the platform in ensuring quality performance, taking advantage of opportunities to achieve its overall goals and stronger international positioning.
Matevž Čelik, leader of the Future Architecture platform points out: “After two years of successful operation on the international architectural scene, the platform is developing towards closer integration of the programmes of renowned European cultural operators in the field of architecture, in order to further promote research based and exploratory creative practices and reach broad European audience.”
The new advisors include:
Bika Rebek is an architect aiming to make museum experiences more accessible. She is the founder of Bika Rebek Studio. Born in Ljubljana, she is currently based in Vienna and New York City, where she is a member at NEW INC, the first museum-led incubator. This community and co-working space has become a launching pad for Tools for Show, an initiative to support museum workflow processes. Bika serves as an Adjunct Professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, teaching seminars on representation and exhibition design.
Anastassia Smirnova is a writer and researcher. Anastassia worked as a playwright and journalist: her Afisha guidebook to Amsterdam has been multiply reprinted. Smirnova lives in the Netherlands where, together with Alexander Sverdlov, she founded SVESMI, the first Dutch-Russian office for architecture, urbanism, and multidisciplinary research.
James Taylor-Foster is a writer, editor, curator and designer working in and around the spheres of architecture, design and technology. He is the curator of contemporary architecture and design at ArkDes, Sweden’s national centre for architecture and design, in Stockholm. Formerly the European editor-at-large at ArchDaily, the world’s largest online platform for architecture and urbanism, he has practised architecture in the UK and The Netherlands. In 2016 he co-curated the Nordic Pavilion at the 15th Biennale Architettura di Venezia.
Stephan Trüby is professor of architecture and cultural theory at the Technical University of Munich. His academic career has involved stints as visiting professor of architecture at the Karlsruhe University of Art and Design (2007–2009), director of the postgraduate spatial design programme at the Zurich University of the Arts (2009–2014) and lecturer at the Graduate School of Design of Harvard University (2012–2014). He was research director of the Venice Architecture Biennale 2014 and is a regular contributor to the magazine ARCH+.
Boštjan Vuga is a Slovenian architect and educator. Together with Jurij Sadar, he founded SADAR+VUGA in Ljubljana in 1996. In two decades the office has become one of the leading European architectural practices based on an open, integral and innovative concept. The office has received many national and global architectural awards. Bostjan co-curated the Montenegro Pavilion at the 14th Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2014. He was a guest professor at several renowned European architectural schools. Since 2014 he has led the board of the Museum of Architecture and Design in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
The platform has just announced the admission of Oslo Architecture Triennale (OAT) as its 21st member in 2019 and plans a sustainable and streamlined expansion of the platform in future years with new interested cultural operators. Members of the Advisory Board will attend the Creative Exchange on 15 and 16 February 2018 in Ljubljana, where they will hold the first board meeting.
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