The city is moving. Including the other side of Unirii Boulevard: new nature in Văcăreşti, galleries, art and design centres appear in old factories, cool bars and restaurants and new generation entrepreneurship. The isolated and forgotten South is today one of the busiest areas.
We explored the South of the capital, with two specific themes: finding new cultural, social and business initiatives, and transforming industrial spaces. As a result, in Carol Factory three events took place on October 21st, 2015:
Opening Exhibition Bucharest South
Zeppelin flew over the Southern central part. We selected and brought together several projects and organizations, 12 independent initiatives from less privileged part of the city. We found stories about authors, about what they have done so far, and what they prepared next, but also about the way they created and transformed places.
Industrial Conference. RE-industrial.
We talked about old and new industrial architecture, about avoiding standard solutions and the industrial heritage regeneration. And we did that from the architect’s point of view, but also from that of the entrepreneur.
Key speaker was Ronald Schleurholts, partner within cepezed office, one of the most innovative architectural and engineering companies in the Netherlands. While designing thousand square meters assemblies, for their headquarters in Delft they restored an industrial building – the former Technology Museum in Ezelsveldlaan, turned into a collective complex for enterprises in the creative industries, project presented in the journal Zeppelin # 132.
Among the participants were: Tamina Lolev – architect, partner at Wolfhouse Productions, and one of the key people of NOD makerspace, the platform and creative industries centre in Timpuri Noi area; Ion Sturza – Chairman Capital Fribourg, initiator of the project Liberty Technology Park in Cluj.
Digital-industrial exploration
art-installations by Modulab & Kotki Visuals
Organizer: Zeppelin
Main sponsors:
Cultural project co-funded by the National Cultural Fund Administration
Project financed by the Order of Architects in Romania
Cultural project financed under the ARCUB program „You are Bucharest”
Partner: Hesper S.A.
Other sponsors: Reynaers, Knauf Insulation, Flowcrete
Communication and media partners: Arhitext, Cărtureşti, De Design.Tv, Designist, Feeder.ro, Igloo, IQads, Modernism, RFI Romania, Radio Romania Cultural, Radio Romania Music, Ring, Seven Nights, The Institute, Urbology
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