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Reflection

From a discussion amongst Ukrainian participants on May 7, 2009:

AZ: When I returned to Kyiv, I wanted to warn architects/builders about gentrification.

SB: They [Berliners/Germans] are fighting all this power/money from a much more comfortable, stable position than us. Their economy, legal system is in place; their urban space is humanistic, heterogeneous. “All in all, to any Kyivan, it[Berlin]’s paradise.”

LB: I disagree, I missed Kyiv.

LN: After returning from Leipzig, Ukraine woke me up, as if I had fallen asleep.


Soft Gentrification

 


Project Process

28.03.2009
Day 0: Arrival
Activities: exploring Berlin
Themes: the value of art (commercial versus spiritual/aesthetic/personal/human), feeling “at home”…anywhere!
Notes
Process

29.03.2009
Day 1: Memory
Activities: Gentrification in Prenzlauerberg, (frantic) walking tours, documentary film “PereSTROIKA- Renovation of an apartment” (dir. Christiane Büchner)


Anna Zvyagintseva “The Courtyard”

   My work  “The Courtyard”  is built on combination of the documentary observation (video, notes) after an own yard with poeticizing of everyday experience in the sketch drawing which has a form of the personal diary.


Alevtina Kakhidze/Zdanovka/2006

“The thought hit me that no books had ever been written about my town. I decided to write one. It turned out there were more cities by the name of Zhdanovka and this made writing more complicated. There was a lot of similar information that felt familiar, whereas I had yearned to find something distinctive...”, thus writes Alevtina Kakhidze.


living inside a Tessaract

 The world outlook of modern architects’ majority is based on opinion, expressed by Louise Henry Sullivan in his book “Kindergarten Chats”. According to it “everything looks like what it is, and vice versa, everything is what it looks like.” This thesis is fundamental in context of gnosiology. It gives the evidence that architects follow speculative concept of cognition. Our project is impossible in the network of that concept.


Public events: March 29th – April 2nd 8pm at Arttransponder

Every evening during the workshop (29.03. – 02.04) there are public presentations and screenings at Arttransponder

arttransponder e.V.

Brunnenstraße 151

10115 Berlin

Tel: 49(0)30 - 30642400


Homestories Program

Program March 29th – April 18th 2009

 28.03 Saturday Arrival of Ukrainian participants


Wednesday 01.04 – Tenant's initiative Oderberger Strasse

On Wednesday April 1st we'll be visiting Kerstin Karge, member of Arttransponder to speak about the tenant's initiative Oderberger Strasse. What is the history of the tenant's initiative in Prenzlauer Berg, how has the area been changing since the re-unification?

 


Gentrification blog

We'd like to recommend the gentrification blog for further reading (in german), which updates on recent developments in Berlin, relating to urban development, city renewal and gentrification.


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