Understanding City Growth _ Collective spacesforfuture.org
Many citizens of Belgrade have the impression that Belgrade is losing its identity and urban functionality. This is the result of accelerated city growth without a clear development strategy which cares about the city and its citizens.
We will try to find out how new generations of creative people coming from other contexts perceive the city of Belgrade and its future growth through a three-year programme that would focus on urban planning, architecture and ecology. Three editions of fortnight-long residency programmes per year will be organized in the first and the second years. BINA will invite creatives selected through the platform open call. Their task will be to respond to the topic through different forms and media of expression: design proposals, films, photographs or essays. Creatives will be paired with a local team/person that will be selected by an open call or invited by BINA. During their stay, BINA will organize presentations of creatives’ work in the most appropriate format and medium for each participant.
Collective spacesforfuture.org
Collective spacesforfuture.org – Angelika Hinterbrandner, Rebeka Hirschberg and Laura Bertlet
(Germany/Austria/Switzerland)
The collective spacesforfuture.org consists of 7 members with different professional backgrounds. During May, three female architects stayed in Belgrade and conducted their research in line with their dominant interest - the global housing crisis with a special focus on affordable housing. Consulting with experts Dubravka Sekulić, architect, Royal College of Arts, London and Nikola Mitrović, researcher from the Faculty of Architecture, Belgrade, spaceforfuture.org visited some of the most important residential neighborhoods and based on the insight into the available online documentation, they supplemented the database necessary for their comparative research, which they do on this topic in several European countries. Upon completion of the research, the results and recommendations for solving this European and global problem will be presented online and in print and delivered to all relevant planning institutions and organizations.
