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Urban Data Kosovo

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Urban Data Kosovo project aims to build local capacity for planning agencies, municipal authorities, and planning and architecture schools in urban spatial analytics. The scarce availability of spatial data in Kosovo hinders the country’s ability to plan and prepare for major urban challenges that will affect its cities and the country at- large. This project aims to train the next generation of architects and urban planners in contemporary spatial analytical tools, methods, and visualization, while also working with local stakeholders to identify urgent data needs. In dialogue with MIT’s Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism, the Kosovo Architecture Foundation…

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Parallel Sprawl – Learning from Prishtina

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These are some of the images from a study conducted in 2018 by Ibay Rigby & Katarina Dacic with the participation of students and architects from Kosovo: Etleva Arifi, Iliriana Hoxha, Drilona Hyseni, Rina Kadolli, Vjosa Saracini, Qendrese Termkolli, Bijona Trakaniqi, Fjolla Voca and Diellza Zogaj. The workshop was also supported through public reviews and tutorship of: Valentin Kunik, Guillaume de Morsier, Augustin Casalia, Charlotte Maltherre-Barthes, Ethel Baraona Pohl, Ivan Blasi, Elisa Brusegan, Cesar Reyes, Massimo Triches, Bekim Ramku, Rudina Voca and Butrint Gercari. Below are some of the excerpts from Parallel Sprawl – Learning from Prishtina booklet produced during…

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Kosovo National Library CMP

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Kosovo Architecture Foundation was one of the recipients of the prestigious Getty Foundation “Keeping it Modern” 2016 grant for the development of the Conservation and Management Plan for the Kosovo National Library. In late 2015 KAF became concerned with the deteriorating condition of the Library and contacted the Kosovo Ministry of Culture, visited the site and initiated the search for funding. After the visit to the site with Martino Stierli, the Getty Foundation and their “Keeping it Modern” grant program seemed ideal.  Together with Architect Rand Eppich, a grant proposal was written and circulated. This was submitted to the Getty and…

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The right to Social Housing and Public Space

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“The right to social housing and public space” project was implemented by the Kosovo Architecture Foundation (KAF) with the support of the Democratic Society Promotion (DSP) project – financed by Swiss Cooperation Office Kosovo (SCO-K) and managed by Kosovar Civil Society Foundation (KCSF). Its main goal was to advocate for equal rights in social, affordable and decent housing for all the citizens, regardless of their cultural, social and economic differences. The project aim was to increase the level of citizen’s satisfaction with public services, to increase citizens and NGOs participation in local public discussions and to increase their influence in…

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The Office for Urban Regeneration

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The Office for Urban Regeneration was created from a collaboration between the Kosovo Architecture Foundation and Skye Duncan of the NYC Planning Department in 2014. OUR ran by KAF in the Prishtina Municipality premisses for 6 months and became part of the Prishtina City Urban Planning Department with a full time staff of 6 people. During the initial phase of the project more than 200 individuals, mainly recent graduates where part of accessibility mapping of 18 streets in central Prishtina. The first draft project to be presented to the Municipal authorities was the “Deshmoret e Kombit” street which foresaw the…

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