Contact

curators: Eszter Steierhoffer & Levente Polyak

email: info@anatomyofastreet.org

Events and Performances

London Publication Launch & Roundtable

Wednesday 2 November 2011, 6.30-8.30 pm
The Showroom, 63 Penfold Street, London NW8 8PQ
Tel: 020 7724 4300, E-mail: info@theshowroom.org

On the occasion of the launch of the Anatomy of a Street publication, a roundtable discussion will focus on plans and perspectives for Church Street in London Westminster, an area under major transformation, addressing questions related to urban regeneration, the role of internal borders and isolation in the preservation of neighbourhood character, social cohesion and local economy.

Warsaw symposium

Researching and shaping post-socialist urban space 3.

20
November

11.30am – 4pm

11.30 Meeting at Mokotowska and Hoża st. corner, Warsaw

11.30-14.00 Common walk trough Mokotowska street guided by Magda Śliwka (accompanied by Wojtek Kasperski)

14.00-16.00 Open discussion at Info Qultura at Plac Konstytucji 4. Participants: Levente Polyak, Eszter Steierhoffer, Grzegorz Piątek, Ola Wasilkowska and Wojtek Kacperski.

Organizer: Bęc Zmiana Foundation

Bratislava symposium

Researching and shaping post-socialist urban space 2.

12
November

1pm – 4pm

Lectures and discussions about the transformation of East-Central European cities.
At STU in Bratislava, Institute of Management
Vazovova 5, 812 43 Bratislava, Room No.: UC 301

Budapest symposium

Researching and shaping post-socialist urban space

7
November

2pm – 8pm

In Labor , 1053 Budapest, Képíró u. 6. Map

14.00 Steierhoffer Eszter & Polyák Levente: Anatomy of a Street: Budapest, Pécs, London
14.30 Aleksandra Wasilkowska: Anatomy of a Street: Warsaw

15.00 Dagmar Petrikova: Anatomy of a Street: Bratislava

16.00 Gregorz Piatek (Bec Zmiana, Warsaw): Debating the City: Art and Cultural Organisations
16.30 Jakob Hurrle (Multicultural Centre, Prague): Cultures from Around the Block
17.00 Constantin Goagea (Zeppelin, Bucharest): Interventions in Socialist Neighborhoods + urban report project
17.30 Ivan Kucina (Faculty of Architecture, Belgrade): Conditions of Self-Regulated Urbanity

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

Publication Launch

6
July

6pm – 8pm

Coinciding with the exhibition a corresponding publication will be produced comprising research material.

The Showroom Gallery, 63 Penfold Street, London NW8 8PQ

Anatomy of a Street is supported by the European Capital of Culture - Pécs 2010 and the International Visegrad Fund, in collaboration with the Hungarian Cultural Centre and the KÉK - Contemporary Architecture Centre in Budapest, British Council Budapest and the Church Street Neighbourhood Centre in London. Screenings by no.w.here and the Free Cinema School in London were organised in collaboration with The Egware Road Project of the Serpentine Gallery. The London exhibition was part of the International Architecture Showcase organised by the British Council and The Architecture Foundation for the LONDON FESTIVAL OF ARCHITECTURE 2010. The Budapest, Bratislava and Warsaw events were supported by the International Visegrad Fund and the Erste Stiftung, and organised by the KÉK - Contemporary Architecture Centre, the Bęc Zmiana Foundation and the Slovak University of Technology.