Queer Public Prishtina publication is the result of the workshop conducted during Kosovo Architecture Festival 2021 led by two Future Architecture Platform selected creatives Alexander Auris and Carlos Lanuza.
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Fondacioni Kosovar i Arkitekturës fton studentët dhe gjithë ata të interesuar në arkitekturës nga Kosova dhe jashtë saj për të kontribuar në organizimin e Festivalit të Arkitekturës në Kosovë që këtë vit do mbahet nga 13 Shtatori deri me 03 Tetor 2021.
Gjithë të interesuarit duhet dërguar një email të shkurtër me kontaktet e tyre në events.kaf@gmail.com deri me daten 3 Shtator.
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Kosovo Architecture Foundation calls all students and interested in architecture
from Kosovo and beyond to contribute in organizing the Kosovo Architecture Festival, which will be held from the 13th of September till the 3rd of October 2021.
All interested should send a short email with their contact details by the 3rd of September on events.kaf@gmail.com.
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Under the theme of “Alter-Nation” the 9th edition of the Kosovo Architecture Festival will start on September the 13th. As in the past editions the biggest event of its kind in the region will present before the local and international audience visionary professionals, up and coming architects, planners, designers, as well as Future Architecture creatives. The list of keynotes and the full program will be announced end of August.
Due to Covid-19 restrictions the event will be partially held online and all on site events will require for the audience members to be vaccinated or offer proof of compliance according to the Kosovo Ministry of Healthcare Covid-19 guidelines in effect from the 20th of August 2021.
The Kosovo Architecture Festival is jointly organized by the Kosovo Architecture Foundation and the biggest pan-European design platform the Future Architecture Platform.
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Nen temen e “Alter-Nation” edicioni i 9-te i Festivalit te Arkitektures ne Kosove do filloj me 13 Shtator. Sikurse ne edicionet e kaluara ngjarja me e madhe e llojit te vet ne regjion do prezentoj para audiences lokale dhe asaj globale profesionist vizionar, arkitekt te te ri dhe ne ngritje, planifikues urban, dizajner, si dhe aplikues te perzgjedhur nga platforma Future Architecture. List a ligjeruesve kryesor si dhe programi i plot do behet publik ne fund te muajit Gusht.
Pershkak te restriksioneve per parandalimin e Covid-19 nje pjese e eventit do mbahet ‘online’ kurse te gjitha ngjarjet tjera qe do organizohen me prezencen e publikut do ju kerkohet deshmia e vaksinimit apo deshmi tjera ne pajtueshmeri me udhezimet per Covid-19 te Ministrise se Shendetesise me efekt nga 20 Gusht 2021.
Festivali Kosovar i Arkitektures eshte organizim i perbashket i Fondacionit Kosovar te Arkitektures dhe platformes me te madhe Evropjane te dizajnit Future Architecture Platform.
2021 Call for Ideas: Landscapes of CarePresent your newest work and ideas at the events that form the core of the 2021 European Architecture Program.
Future Architecture Call for Ideas is more than a competition; it’s a platform, providing practitioners and conceptual thinkers with the opportunity to express their ideas and to be both seen and heard. A successful application would mean the opportunity to begin exchanging your projects and proposals with peers from all over the world, as well as with high-profile institutions including museums, galleries, publishing houses, biennials and festivals, all to assist you with finding avenues toward international recognition. Apply, and let the Future Architecture platform support you in elevating and sharpening your practice.
This year, we are inviting multi-disciplinary emerging professionals from all over the globe to apply with transformative projects related to our built environments. Send us your completed projects, your theoretical or conceptual propositions for spatial, social or cultural innovation, and join our discussion about the Landscapes of Care.
We welcome projects that address systemic change (prototypes and systems), site-specific cases (projects customized and adapted for certain contexts and tasks) and new alliances (cross-, trans- and multi-disciplinary projects exploring new design processes and methodologies).
Landscapes of Care
Contemporary societies face dynamically changing challenges. The extractive and consumptive logics of the system create globalised issues, impacting different regions in real time. Geopolitical boundaries protect economic returns above and beyond protecting social interests while the recent pandemic spreads, and new territories and ecologies are rearranged according to logics of migration which are inextricably connected to the flow of financial wealth. Confronting this scenario, new regional initiatives question political divisions and corporate interests. Fluid boundaries traced by local organisers and citizens emerge to fill the spaces as yet un-commodified by the free market; spaces of exception free from the control of policy. The flow of persons generates new modes of neighbourhood living and political commitments that demand care, empathy and awareness of the other. The recent health crisis has challenged entire societies, demonstrating how they can effectively, rapidly and mostly peacefully take action. Designers, architects and urbanists see themselves handling social and political issues, rather than simply the spatial and formal aspects of a project; facing up to the challenge of transforming decades of self-complacency into active practices dealing with the politics of relations, of local communities, of energy flows, and of ever-changing urban dynamics.
“Landscapes of Care”, the proposed theme for the 2021 edition of Future Architecture platform, will explore the dynamics of solidarity and collective self-organisation, the networks of trust working at the neighbourhood scale, and transitional common spaces and activities. The edition aims to trigger dialogues around the challenges of a society facing up to the myths of endless growth, the glorification of borders and national identity, and the hardships labelled as austerity by capitalism.
Future Architecture’s board will invite selected applicants to present their projects at the annual Creative Exchange event in February 2021. The CEx2021 will take place via the online format of the Future Architecture Rooms within the Common Room – an unconventional virtual environment for presentations, lectures and matchmaking. The platform will cover the cost of the preparation and delivery of video content for 25 selected applicants. Selected applicants will then be invited to participate in activities within the European Architecture Program, implemented by the institution members of the platform across Europe. The platform will cover the costs of travel (from within Europe) and accommodation needed for engagement in public events, or production costs for online events, and will provide an honorarium to the participants that they invite to contribute to their events.
All applications will be published on the website of the Future Architecture platform. The applications will be judged by the Future Architecture board of members, the Future Architecture alumni, and members of the public through online voting.
Timetable and Deadlines
Eligibility
The call is open to emerging architects, landscape architects, urban planners, designers, engineers, artists, curators, people involved in architectural communication and anyone whose professional work is focused on the future of architecture and living environments.
To be eligible as an emerging creative for the Future Architecture Platform, applicants must meet the following criteria:
The open call starts at 12.00 am CET on 17 November 2020, and all entries must be received by 6 January 2021. Multiple entries are permitted as an individual or as a collective.
Future Architecture 2021 Program >>
Call for Ideas general inquiries
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Maša Špiler, PR manager
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Fill the rooms, build cathedrals!
Narrative as a space of recognition.
“The room fills and fills with knowledge, anguish, many kinds of ambition, much indifference, some despair. Between us, you say, we could build cathedrals, dictate policies, condemn men to death, and administer the affairs of several public offices.” Virginia Woolf.
According to William Kentridge, the function of art is to create spaces of recognition, a common ground for all in which we can encounter and empathise with each other. This is what we should aim for when we talk and write about architecture, for it is important to acknowledge how we perceive reality and therefore how we act upon it.
How can we create these spaces of recognition? What tools are necessary to develop different ways to think and write about architecture? How can we make the architectural discourse more appealing to a wider audience? These are some of the questions that we will try to answer in this workshop.
Objective: Create a narrative based on speculation and other ways of thinking and writing about architecture.
Outcome: An exquisite corpse in the format of a booklet that will contain different stories, all created by the participants of the workshop.
Description: The workshop will take the Prishtina Public Archipelago buildings to learn and speculate about their history, their architecture, and the ways in which new narratives can emerge that reflect their meaning within the city, their legacy and their possible futures.
All interested should send their short bio at workshops.kaf@gmail.com with the subject line “fill the room workshop” by the end of 11th of September 2021. Due of covid-19 measures the number of participants is limited and all applicants will be asked for vaccination proof and wear masks during the workshop meetings.
Venue: Innovation Center Kosovo / Dates 15-18 September 2021
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Puntoria
Fill the rooms, build cathedrals!
Rrëfimi si hapësirë njohjeje.
“Dhoma mbushet dhe mbushet me njohuri, ankth, shumë lloje ambiciesh, shumë indiferencë, pak dëshpërim. Mes nesh, ju thoni, ne mund të ndërtonim katedrale, të diktonim politika, të dënonim njerëzit me vdekje dhe të administronim punët e disa zyreve publike.” Virginia Woolf.
Sipas William Kentridge, funksioni i artit është të krijojë hapësira njohjeje, një bazë e përbashkët për të gjithë ne në të cilën mund të takohemi dhe të empatizojmë me njëri -tjetrin. Kjo është ajo për të cilën duhet të synojmë kur flasim dhe shkruajmë për arkitekturën, sepse është e rëndësishme të pranojmë se si e perceptojmë realitetin dhe si pasojë si veprojmë mbi të.
Si mund t’i krijojmë këto hapësira njohjeje? Cilat mjete janë të nevojshme për të zhvilluar mënyra të ndryshme për të menduar dhe shkruar për arkitekturën? Si mund ta bëjmë fjalimin mbi arkitekturën më tërheqës për një audiencë më të gjerë? Këto janë disa nga pyetjet që do të përpiqemi t’u përgjigjemi në këtë punëtori.
Objektivi: Krijimi i një tregimi të bazuar në spekulime dhe mënyra të tjera të të menduarit dhe të shkruarit mbi arkitekturën.
Rezultati: Një përbledhje në formatin e një broshure që do të përmbajë histori të ndryshme, të gjitha të krijuara nga pjesëmarrësit e punëtorisë.
Përshkrimi: Punëtoria do t’i analizojë ndërtesat e Arkipelagut Publik të Prishtinës për të mësuar dhe spekuluar për historinë e tyre, arkitekturën dhe mënyrat në të cilat mund të shfaqen rrëfime të reja që pasqyrojnë kuptimin e tyre brenda qytetit, trashëgiminë dhe të ardhmen e tyre të mundshme.
Gjithë të interesuarit për pjesëmarrje në puntori duhet dërguar një bio të shkurt të tyre në workshops.kaf@gmail.com me titull “fill the room workshop” deri me 11 Shtator 2021. Për shkak të masave anti covid-19 numri i pjesëmarrësve është i limituar dhe të gjithë aplikuesve do ju kërkohet dëshmia e vaksinimit dhe mbajtja e maskave gjatë takimeve të përbashkëta.
Vendi: Innovation Center Kosovo / Datat: 15-18 Shtator 2021
Which stories from Kosovo would you like to tell? What new, emerging forms could be used for storytelling, or could collectively imagine the future of Prishtina? Where can the citizens of Prishtina reclaim their public space, and more importantly, how could this change the experience of living in the city? Propose a project for Manifesta 14 Prishtina and join the conversation.
Manifesta 14 Prishtina is delighted to launch its Open Call for projects either based in Kosovo or proposed by people from Kosovo.
We invite projects from across culture and society: individual artists, collectives, cultural organisations and institutions, community groups and more. If you have a great idea for a project that you would like included in the Manifesta 14 Prishtina biennial programme – we encourage you to apply!
The projects will be exhibited or integrated into the main Manifesta 14 venues, for example, the Grand Hotel Prishtina, the Brick Factory or the Hivzi Sylejmani library. However, site-specific projects based in Prishtina will also be considered.
We invite you to create a project proposal based around either the Creative Mediator’s concept It matters what worlds world worlds: how to tell stories otherwise, or the urban vision of Prishtina created by CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati.
In January 2022, an International Jury will select a maximum of 15 projects from the submitted proposals. The selected projects will be developed under the curatorial direction of the Creative Mediator, Catherine Nichols.
The fifteen selected projects will benefit from €5,000 of funding from Manifesta 14 Prishtina, as well as logistical, curatorial, communication and marketing support.
For more information on the concept, the selection criteria and how to apply, please follow this link!
The deadline for applications is the 19th of January 2022 – we look forward to reading your proposals.
The Prishtina Public Archipelago study and installation done by the Kosovo Architecture Foundation & OUD+Architecture was featured at the Biennale Sneak Peek. The short video explains more about the work that is being done for the biennale which this year will open its doors to the general public on the 22nd of May, with vernissage on the 20th & 21st of May 2021.
The Prishtina Public Archipelago will be located in Arsenale and is part of the “co-habitats” section of the main exhibition curated by Hashim Sarkis.
For more info go to the sneak peek page of the Biennale.
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Frani O’Toole (b. Chicago) works in communications for an architecture and urban planning firm building social infrastructure near the US-Mexico border. Frani studied Art History and English at Yale University before moving to Ireland on a Fulbright fellowship for her Master’s in Creative Writing. Her work has been published in The Guardian, Hyperallergic, and The Brooklyn Rail. Now in-between writing and architecture, she’s working to see the built environment be defined more by universal design.
About the lecture
“There is nothing wrong with making things people want. It’s just that too little attention is being paid to the things people need. … Support maintenance, not just ‘innovation’” – Sasha Costanza-Chock, Design Justice
This lecture will encourage attendees to imagine new end-users of architecture – situated relationally, and in this case, through daughterhood. In following the placemaking strategies of Frani’s mother, who became disabled shortly after giving birth, this lecture reframes occupancy through durational relationships of care. Accessibility isn’t more work, Dana McGarr says: it’s that the work was incomplete before. How does narrative contribute to completion, telling how a mother with disabilities avoids the many trip hazards that a child introduces into the home — and that being an integral part of the architecture? Avoidance: it structures futures. Architects avoid accidents, damages; acting decisively in response to climate change is to avoid its most disastrous and long-term effects. The lecture ends by returning to imagined end-users, this time focusing on how we center diverse needs, support, and maintenance as a condition of resilience.
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Frani O’Toole (lindur në Çikago) punon në komunikim për një firmë arkitekture dhe urbanistike që ndërton infrastrukturë sociale pranë kufirit SHBA-Meksikë. Frani studioi Histori Arti dhe Anglisht në Yale University para se të transferohej në Irlandë në një bursë Fulbright për masterin e saj në Shkrimin Krijues. Puna e saj është botuar në The Guardian, Hyperallergic dhe The Brooklyn Rail. Tani në mes të shkruarit dhe arkitekturës, ajo është duke punuar që mjedisi i ndërtuar të përcaktohet më shumë nga dizajni universal.
Përmbledhje e ligjëratës
“Nuk ka asgjë të keqe në bërjen e gjërave që njerëzit duan. Vetëm se shumë pak vëmendje po i kushtohet gjërave që njerëzit kanë nevojë.… Mbështetni mirëmbajtjen, jo vetëm ‘inovacionin’ ” – Sasha Costanza -Chock, Design Justice
Kjo ligjeratë do të inkurajojë pjesëmarrësit të imagjinojnë përdoruesit e rinj përfundimtarë të arkitekturës – të vendosur në marrëdhënie, dhe në këtë rast, përmes vajzërisë. Duke ndjekur strategjitë e krijimit të vendeve të nënës së Franit, e cila u bë me aftësi të kufizuara menjëherë pas lindjes, kjo ligjeratë paraqet qëndrimin përmes marrëdhënieve afatgjata të kujdesit. Qasja nuk është më punë, thotë Dana McGarr: është se puna ishte e paplotë më parë. Si kontribuon narracioni në përfundimin, duke treguar se si një nënë me aftësi të kufizuara shmang rreziqet e shumta të udhëtimit që një fëmijë fut në shtëpi – dhe që është pjesë përbërëse e arkitekturës? Shmangia: ajo strukturon të ardhmen. Arkitektët shmangin aksidentet, dëmtimet; duke vepruar me vendosmëri në përgjigje të ndryshimeve klimatike është shmangia e efekteve më katastrofike dhe afatgjata të tij. Ligjërata përfundon duke u kthyer tek përdoruesit përfundimtarë të imagjinuar, këtë herë duke u fokusuar në atë se si i përqendrojmë nevojat, mbështetjen dhe mirëmbajtjen e larmishme si kusht i resiliences.
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Suhair Khan
Head of Strategic Projects Google
Based in London, Suhair works on Strategy development at Google. She is also the founder of the Open/Ended Design platform.
Over the last decade at Google she has led innovative projects merging technology, culture and design. She has been involved in the development of Google’s self-driving car (now known as Waymo), a new sustainability platform for the global fashion industry, and launched numerous successful global projects with artists and cultural institutions at Google Arts & Culture.
Her work has spanned Asia, the U.S., Europe and Africa, and she has been based out of multiple international locations during her career.
Suhair is Chair of the Board of Trustees for Studio Wayne McGregor, on the external affairs committee for the Design Museum in London. Suhair also sits on the inaugural Art Program advisory board for SXSW, and is a regular member of juries in design, art, and technology, including the international jury for the 2021 London Design Biennale. She has given keynote talks at events internationally including SXSW, the Creative Industries Federation, and the Edinburgh Culture Summit. She has been a long-time columnist for Condé Nast Traveler, Architectural Digest and Vogue India.
Since graduating from Harvard and Cornell, Suhair has lectured at the Architectural Association and Central Saint Martins in London. Suhair’s teaching is situated at the intersection of design and technology, bringing a critical perspective to digital tools.
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Suhair Khan
Udhëheqëse e Projekteve Strategjike në Google
Me seli në Londër, Suhair punon në zhvillimin e Strategjive në Google. Ajo është gjithashtu themeluese e platformës Open/Ended Design.
Gjatë dekadës së fundit në Google ajo ka udhëhequr projekte novatore në teknologjinë, kulturë dhe dizajn. Ajo ishte pjesë e zhvillimit të makinës vetëngasëse të Google (tani e njohur si Waymo), një platformë e re e qëndrueshmërisë për industrinë globale të modës, dhe nisi projekte të shumta të suksesshme globale me artistë dhe institucione kulturore në Google Arts & Culture.
Puna e saj përfshinë projekte në Azi, SHBA, Evropë dhe Afrikë, dhe ka punuar në vende të shumta në mbarë botën gjatë karrierës së saj.
Suhair është Kryetare e bordit udhëheqës të Studio Wayne McGregor, në komitetin e punëve të jashtme për Muzeun e Dizajnit në Londër. Suhair është gjithashtu pjesë e bordit këshillues të Programit të Artit pran SXSW, dhe është anëtar i rregullt i jurive në dizajn, art dhe teknologji, përfshirë jurinë ndërkombëtare për Bienalen e Dizajnit në Londër 2021. Ajo ka mbajtur ligjerata në ngjarje ndërkombëtare, përfshirë SXSW, Creative Industries Federation dhe Edinburgh Culture Summit. Ajo gjithashtu ka qenë një kolumniste për një kohë të gjatë në Condé Nast Traveller, Architectural Digest dhe Vogue India.
Që kur u diplomua në Harvard dhe Cornell, Suhair ka ligjëruar në Architectural Association dhe Central Saint Martins në Londër. Mësimi i Suhair ndodhet në kryqëzimin e dizajnit dhe teknologjisë, duke sjellë një perspektivë kritike mbi mjetet dixhitale.