Kosovo Architecture Festival _ Hide and Seek

This year the Foundation decided to invite 3 creative fellows (collectives) with a diverse background. Jean-François Gauthier is a landscape architect and founder of SYLVA Landscape Architecture & Urban Forestry. In this year's KAF edition, Jean-François Gauthier leads the Pristina Habitat Corridors Workshop—a hands-on, multidisciplinary exploration of how urban streets can become ecological green corridors. Through mapping, walking, sketching, and planting, participants will experiment with design approaches that center trees, biodiversity, and community well-being.

The second fellow selected by KAF is Dea Buza, an architect and urban designer from Kosovo and co-founder of Apparat Collective, is leading a workshop titled "Play, Connect, Resilience: Redefining Public Spaces in Prishtina". Drawing from her experience in landscape urbanism and community-focused design, the workshop aims to transform neglected urban areas into multifunctional, ecologically resilient, and playful public spaces.

The third collective of LINA fellows are the Ukrainian architect and researcher Iryna Miroshnykova and curator Maria Noschenko leading the Hide and Seek three day workshop exploring fortifications as spatial, political, and emotional constructs. Through discussions, a magazine launch, and a city walk in Prishtina, participants will examine how defensive architecture shapes urban narratives and collective memory.