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This catalog accompanies the exhibition Urban Activations in Romania, that took place in November 2011 at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest. The program is part of the Zeppelin Festival 2011. 

The Conditions of the Self Regulated Urbanity
– to cultivate an enabling knowledge on self regulated urbanity, its concepts, conditions and developing strategy.

Team: Ivan Kucina, Todor Atanasov, Peter Torniov, Miklós Péterffy, Samu Szemerey, Ștefan Ghenciulescu, Cosmina Goagea, Constantin Goagea.
Institutions: BINA, SAW, ZEPPELIN, KEK, Transformatori.
Thanks for their contribution at UR Volume #2: Boris Žerjav, Milica Topalović, Archis Interventions, Hackenbroich Architekten, Space Syntax Romania, ATU, Levente Polyak, Club Electroputere, Fabrica de Pensule, Luminiţa Klara Veer, STEALTH.unlimited – Ana Dzokic & Marc Neelen, Srdjan Jovanović Weiss, Valeri Gyurov.

Urban Report is a cross culture programme bringing together theories and critical discourse on contemporary urban phenomena in 4 countries: Romania, Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria.

Urban Report team:
Ivan Kucina, Todor Atanasov, Peter Torniov, Miklós Péterffy, Samu Szemerey, Ştefan Ghenciulescu, Cosmina Goagea, Constantin Goagea

Institutions : 
BINA, SAW, ZEPPELIN, KEK, Transformatori

photo installation by Ştefan Tuchilă
17 Oct. – 15 Nov. 2008, Museum of Romanian Peasant (Foyer), Bucharest

The project outlined, through the photo installation proposed by Ştefan Tuchilă, in a deliberately challenging, almost polemic, action the current Romanian urban background to its basics: the conflict between the city and those who populate it.

Beyond the concrete curtain / brochure

The activation of central urban areas along socialist boulevards in Bucharest. Case Study – Calea Mosilor.

Project initiated by Zeppelin Association, Point4, Archis Interventions and Hackenbroich Architekten and supported by Erste Stiftung, the Union of Architects of Romania, Bucharest Goethe-Institut, Centre for Visual Introspection and National Cultural Fund Administration.

art installation by Radu Comşa
17 Cct – 15 Nov 2008, Museum of Romanian Peasant, Bucharest

The Hyperlocked installation was designed to function as a support to introduce the Hiperbolism in circulation, which could define an architectural trend at the end of the 20th century and featuring an exhaustive use of succession of spherical and hyperbolical surfaces.

exhibition
18.10. – 18.11. 2007, met-room Gallery, Barcelona

An exhibition of Bucharest architecture presented in Barcelona. Apparently, our capital is a colage of fragments, a place of colission of architectures and identities; actually, an incredible laboratory of modernity.

exhibition in Basel and Bucharest

The interactive project representing Romania at the 10th edition of the Venice Biennale in 2006, where it had 50,000 visitors and 3,500 active participants, was presented in 2007 to the Basel audience (in November, at the Swiss Museum of Architecture, under a great festival dedicated to Romania, Culturescapes) and in Bucharest (June 2007, Dalles Hall).

Starting from the fragmentary character of the Romanian reality, the exhibition presented nine basic types: energies and potentials, public space, housing models (dream house), social segregation (gentrification as opposed to extreme poverty), environmental issues, monuments and heritage, the city, the village and, finally, the planning. Alternative approaches were also presented – democratic urban planning, responsible architecture, social projects – which try to balance global trends.

The Zeppelin team organized the 2004-2010 editions of the Bucharest Architecture Biennale, which travelled in 10 cities in the country later on, the competition-exhibitions of the most valuable Romanian works of architecture. During the 7 (2044-2011) years when the zeppelin team built the identity and the programme of the biennale, the number of entries in the competition, the visitors of exhibitions and the international exposure of the Romanian architecture production were constantly growing.