Cultural programs

Rien ne va Plus (Netherlands)

exhibition
16 September – 21 November, 2010, Pavilion Unicredit – centre for contemporary art and culture, Bucharest

The exhibition presents the impact of the economic, environmental and generation crisis over architecture and the way to approach the complexity of those issues to set up a future outline. “Rien ne va Plus” started as a research project with the starting point that we are the witnesses of a triple crisis: an economic one, connected to the estate speculations, another one, the environmental one, connected to unprecedented climatic changes and, finally, that of generations.

Magic Blocks 2010 – exhibition

The exhition presented the results of the Magic Blocks 2010 project to the audience – the key ideas ideas of the study and the strategy for urban activation, the interventions in the public space behind the blocks on Calea Moşilor and a documentary.

Magic Blocks 2010 – interventions

Calea Moşilor 2010: an aggressive and grey concrete curtain, specific to the ‘80s, which cuts a historical fabric and divides the city in two: in front of the boulevard a dense and well equipped city, yet ugly and aggressive, and behind, the historical city, hidden and isolated.

Magic Blocks 2010 – research

+ urban planning project, Bucharest

Following the project started in 2009, the team focused the research activities on the grand boulevards with blocks from the socialist era and the waste areas behind them, to find out solutions and draw up a strategy to turn those nobody’s lands into genuine public spaces and use them as components of activating the historical city behind the concrete curtain.

Magic Blocks 2009 – conferences & more

international conferences: Bucharest, Vienna, Cluj, Istanbul, Moscow
& expo integrated in Balkanology intl. exhibition: Vienna, Bucharest, Belgrade, Sofia, Podgorica
2009-2010

The results of the first stage of Magic Blocks were communicated in a series of 5 international conferences focused on the real principles, strategies and examples to revive the public space and carry out community projects

Magic Blocks 2009 – book

book [EN / RO]

Scenarios for the collective housing from the socialist period in Bucharest.