Workshops

EN/ Workshop with MVRDV.Next  12th – 16th of September, Prishtina Instructors: Kristina Knauf, Leo Stuckardt The collection and interpretation of geospatial data impacts decision-making processes on all scales and across disciplines – from open, multimillion-user initiatives such as Open Street Maps to private, multimillion-dollar tech platforms.  For planners, urbanists, and architects in particular, these new forms of intelligence offer opportunities to understand the complexities of a site, to identify urgencies, and to prioritise design responses accordingly. However, localised data scarcities (the lack of information collected about certain places) and a lack of data literacy (the ability to interpret and manipulate information)…

Past unfortunate events have left Prishtina with an absence of critical urban data, which has hampered any attempts at urban analysis. This has left Kosovo with the challenge of making informed decisions around urban development. While the process of data collection has traditionally been the responsibility of central government authority, new technology and workflows have created the opportunity for architects, urbanists, and end-users to circumvent a central authority and collect their own data; creating the necessary foundations to better understand the built environment and Decode the City. This workshop will introduce three novel approaches to urban data collection across several scales,…

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.

EN/ 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…

EN/ Through the methodology of the queer spheres, we will explore queerness in Prishtina. How can we map queerness in the city in order to reflect on the possibility for a queerer future? The media for the mapping can vary from a written piece like a poem or text, a drawing, a picture, a map, an architectural drawing, a story, a piece of music…  The workshop will be tutored by Alexander Auris a 2021 Future Architecture selected fellow.  All interested should send their short bio to workshops.kaf@gmail.com September the 11th. Because of covid-19 measures the number of participants is limited…

KAF 2020 online workshop by urbanaarchitettura  3 – 13 October There is a chandelier in every room We live in an age of ruins. The ruins of the welfare state in its various ideological and geopolitical embodiments in the form of those institutions that have been carefully choreographed to shape modern territories of top-down, domesticated, collectivised life. From education to hospitality, confinement to mental treatment, their architectures have often been relocated, sent to exile, vacated, forgotten, repudiated, or simply left to their own destiny in a state of controlled decay. Yet they might still be a resource for reinventing modes of…

Lecture + workshop about the climate and biodiverity emergency, architecture’s part in it and how YOU can get involved to make a difference. Register here for the ACAN WORKSHOP on Eventbrite. About the Event ACAN formed in London over the summer of 2019, in this talk we will take you through how ACAN was conceived, founded and is expanding. We will explain the principles and activities fundamental to the network, talk through some of the actions we have taken and explain the changes we are trying to bring about. We will discuss how to build effective campaigns and make an…

EN/ The workshop consists of theoretical and practical knowledge exploring the City of Prishtina (20/80), with a focus on both aesthetic and spatial topics. Each day is divided into two parts: preparing for shooting, with spatial observations, location scouting, shooting tips and photo review. While the second part is the photo shooting itself; which will improve photographic and aesthetic skills, and it will help you formulate an analysis of the built environment. We will explore Prishtina as a playground of viewpoints, taking pictures around artificial lit places. From the center to the overlook site to the City.  We will deal with…

EN/ “The public realm encompasses more than the streets and sidewalks of the city. It entails the complete social and public experience of moving through a city, from the inside of a cafe to the pathways of a park or waterfront, and the shifting vantage points that knit streets, sidewalks, shops, facades, and buildings into the whole urban experience.” “From the pedestrian’s perspective, the scale at which we can best judge the success of urban design, fine grained elements of buildings, streets, sidewalks, plantings, seating, lighting and other details help create an intimate human experience and contribute to the character…