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Helena Chmielewska-Szlajfer & Wojciech Kacperski

Mokotowska Street: The Fresh Start of an Old Sentiment

    “Are you a Varsovian? Bred-in-the-bone? Then show your ID!”, was one gentleman’s answer to the question what he thought about Mokotowska Street. In a perverse way his reaction expresses a pretty common attitude toward the street located in the city’s centre: Mokotowska has always been here and only those who know about it can claim to be True Varsovians.

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Budapest symposium

 

Researching and shaping post-socialist urban space 1.

 

 

 

On the 7th of November 2010, from 2 - 7 pm

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Emőke Kerekes

Vendor's Portraits, Király Street

While surveys generally focus on the residents of a particular area, we often have no information about the people who work there. However, these are the people who effect the character of a neighbourhood the most. Emőke Kerekes, in her series of portraits taken of shopkeepers of Király Street, reveal the great variety of retail types in the neighbourhood and the heterogeneity of their vendors.

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Péter Rákosi (Technika Schweiz)

Shop windows - an inventory, 2007-2010

Shop windows constitute the most visible layer of the urban signscape. Together with posters, advertisements and grafitti messages, they constantly update the city's visual environment: they discribe to the passer-by the current state of consumable objects. Created to animate the desire of shoppers, they are also talkative inventories of what a store has to comunicate. Crafted with humor or exhibitionism, some shop windows peel off from the store they represent and become self-referentional signs, mere decorations of the street.

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