The Anatomy of a Street: Researching and shaping post-socialist urban space

Art, architecture and civil initiatives in Central and Eastern Europe

An event by the KÉK – Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre, the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design and the Budapest University of Technology

In the past decades, political, economic, social and cultural changes in Central and Eastern Europe also led to an important transformation of cities. The region’s cities have struggled with similar problems and have often faced the same challenges. However, there is no sufficient exchange of experiences between these cities; this is the gap KÉK’s event is devoted to bridge. There has been many institutional answers offered to the dilemmas raised in these cities that have become veritable battlefields of opposing political, economic and social visions. Parallel to that, reflections of post-socialist urban transformation have also began at the intersections of professional, civil and cultural spheres.Cooperations between architects, artists and activists have resulted in numerous innovative and courageous ideas, proposals, projects.

What are the new methods and tools with which the contemporary city can be approached? Where are the junctions between architecture, urbanism, art and activism? What is the role of research and intervention in cultural projects addressing the city? What are the capacities of cultural projects to make pressure on decision-making institutions? The meeting is looking for answers to these questions.

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