Levente Polyak

[adaptable city 12] The city as an ecological system
Lecture by Paul de Graaf about the agricultural strategies of Dutch cities.
Gólya, Bókay János utca 34., Budapest 1083
http://lakatlan.kek.org.hu/a-varos-mint-okologiai-rendszer/
https://www.facebook.com/events/1609346402615386/

Paul de Graaf is an architect and system thinker interested in the relationship between architecture, landscape and ecology. He investigates possibilities for designing the human habitat as a sustainable socio-ecological system; reintroducing natural processes and ecological principles in the humanmade environment. His work involves design, writing, research, organisation and teaching and is informed by more than 15 years of experience and meeting with and learning from pioneers in the field of ecological design, ecological engineering and sustainable agriculture. He combines his international network and expertise with strong local engagement. A founding member of the Dutch expert group in urban agriculture Eetbaar Rotterdam, he is initiator and main author of the study “Room for Urban Agriculture in Rotterdam” and expert on the sustainable integration of urban agriculture and other multifunctional living systems in the modern city. In his Budapest lecture and the picnic organized by Community Gardens, Paul will explain his work and help Budapest practitioners connect their efforts into an overall Budapest urban agriculture strategy.

Registration to the lecture and picnic: https://goo.gl/rxXOor

Supported by the Creatieve Stimuleringsfonds NL and EEA Norway Grants.

Spaces of Creation – Lecture and Urban Walk
Art Quarter Budapest, Nagytétényi út 48-50., 1222 Budapest
http://lakatlan.kek.org.hu/az-alkotas-helyei/
https://www.facebook.com/events/557514434388672/

SKAR, the Foundation for Art Accommodation Rotterdam was established in 1987 in order to create the right conditions for artists of all disciplines, by offering them affordable and adequate workspace. Managing both permanent and temporary spaces, SKAR enables cooperation between visual and performance artists by bringing them together in specific work and production areas. Working closely with the Urban Development department, and mediating between developers, managers and artists seeking space, SKAR manages almost half of the permanent communal workspaces for artists in Rotterdam, among them many formerly vacant buildings. More information: http://www.skar-ateliers.nl/ On May 26 and 27, SKAR member Yvonne Wieringa will be with us in Budapest. On May 26, she will participate at a guided tour of studio houses in Budapest, and on May 27, she will present SKAR’s work at Art Quarter Budapest.

5.26. Tuesday 17.00
Artist studio walk in Buda with Yvonne Wieringa
Registration and details: http://lakatlan.kek.org.hu/az-alkotas-helyei-varosi-seta

5.27. Wednesday
17.00 Art Quarter Budapest artist studio visit
18.30 Lecture by Yvonne Wieringa, SKAR

Supported by the Creatieve Stimuleringsfonds NL and EEA Norway Grants. The lecture and workshop are organized as part of the OFF-Biennial. More informations at http://offbiennale.hu/

COMMUNITY AS RESOURCE
The architecture of space&matter
May 14-15, M56 – Mészáros utca 56., 1016 Budapest
http://lakatlan.kek.org.hu/a-kozosseg-mint-eroforras/
https://www.facebook.com/events/841281359271202/

May 14, Thursday 7pm
Lecture by Tjeerd Haccou and Marthijn Pool (space&matter)
May 15, Friday, 11am-7pm
Workshop with Tjeerd Haccou és Marthijn Pool (space&matter)

The lecture and the workshop will be held in English.
Participation is free, registration is required.

Space&matter is a young architecture office, based in Amsterdam. Using community networks and existing resources, they create new spatial situations, buildings, and entire neighborhoods. In their architectural, urban planning and cultural projects, the office makes an innovative use of social media: their online platforms, like “CROWD BUILDING”, connecting vacant office spaces with potential users, or “WEBUILDHOMES”, collecting open source residential building designs, link the capacities of virtual communities with opportunities in physical space.

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Creating Urban Value from the Unused Potentials of Vacant Buildings
http://cityfestival.urbact.eu/walkshops-1
THURSDAY 7 MAY : 10:15 – 15:00
Kaņepes kultūras centrs
Skolas iela 15, Rīga, LV-1010

Speakers:
Daniela Patti, Coordinator, URBACT TUTUR Network
Levente Polyak, URBACT TUTUR Network
Jonas Buchel and Marcis Rubenis, Free Riga

This walkshop will address the phenomenon of vacancy in Riga, using the Latvian capital as a case study to discuss general tendencies and responses to vacancy in European cities.

Throughout the walkshop you will discover the main reasons for the abandonment of centrally located properties; what administrative barriers obstruct their revitalization; and how to engage creative and community energies in the revitalization of public properties. You will be introduced to the various approaches and experiments in the partner cities of TUTUR as well as in Riga, and will be invited to share your impressions and ideas.

The walkshop will take place in the historical centre of Riga, where the challenge of vacancy is most visible with a multitude of buildings, including valuable historical heritage, deteriorating due to the lack of use and maintenance. The walk will visit notorious vacant properties and get acquainted with strategies for their revitalization community engagement.

The paper Frameworks for temporary use: The case of Rome and Budapest, by Daniela Patti and Levente Polyak, is now available online. The paper was prepared for the “Transience and Permanence in Urban Development” International Research Workshop, The University of Sheffield : 14th – 15th January 2015.

Conference on Urban Issues
Hungarian Cultural Center
İstiklal Cad. No: 213, Beyoğlu/İstanbul
http://www.urbanseries.org

27 March, Friday: Rethinking Architecture
Levente Polyák (Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Center), Gábor Szohr (Ujirany Landscape Architect), Júlia Oravecz (Open! Festival)

28 March, Saturday: Small communities in big cities
Zsófia Szonja Illés (Collective Plants), Gábor Szohr (Ujirany Landscape Architect), Balázs Szőllőssy (Valyo – City&River Association)

29 March, Sunday: Design for livable cities
Samu Szemerey (Design Terminal, Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Center), Janka Csernák & Anna Baróthy (S’39 Hybrid Design Manufacture), Anna Göttler, Éva Tornyánszki, Júlia Oravecz (Kulturgorilla)

Lectures: 12:00-14:00
Workshops: 14:00-19:00

Free entrance

Uránia National Film Theatre
Rákóczi út 21., Budapest, Hungary, 1088
http://filmnapok.kek.org.hu/en/
https://www.facebook.com/events/1545444222372470/

‘If buildings could talk, what would they say about us?’ – Cathedrals of Culture offers six startling responses to this question. This 3D film project about the soul of buildings allows six iconic and very different buildings to speak for themselves. Six acclaimed filmmakers bring their own visual style and artistic approach to the project: the Berlin Philharmonic, an icon of modernity; the National Library of Russia, a kingdom of thoughts; Halden Prison, the world’s most humane prison; the Salk Institute, a scientific monastery on the California coast; the Oslo Opera House, a futuristic symbiosis of art and life; and the Centre Pompidou, a modern culture machine.

18: 30 Cathedrals of Culture, part 1 (81 min | English | Hungarian simultaneous translation)
(Wim Wenders, Michael Glawogger, Michael Madsen)

20:45 Cathedrals of Culture, part 2 (85 min | English | Hungarian simultaneous translation)
(Robert Redford, Margreth Olin, Karim Aïnouz)

Toldi cinema
Bajcsy-Zsilinszky út 36-38., 1054-Budapest
http://filmnapok.kek.org.hu/en/
https://www.facebook.com/BudapestArchitectureFilmDays

This March, KÉK – Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Center brings you the seventh edition of its architectural and urban film selection in Budapest. We launched the festival eight years ago to bring the most important questions of contemporary architecture, design and urbanism closer to the wider public – through the medium of film. Since then, we learned that the films we detected or received to our calls have more power than this: they reveal viewpoints, approaches and layers of the built environment that help us looking at the surrounding city in different ways. That help us to perceive the problems and shortcomings of urban life and explore the untapped opportunities of urban space, society and communities.

MONDAY 2nd MARCH 2015, 14:00 – 20:00
Location: UARK Rome Centre in Palazzo Taverna, Via dei Gabrielli 92, Rome
Language English – Italian with official translation

14:00 – 16:00 : TUTUR partner presentations
14:00 – 14:15 : Greetings by City of Rome, URBACT Secretariat and UARK Rome Centre
14:15 – 14:35 : “The value of Integrated Approaches and Cohesion Policy”
by Ivan Tosics, Thematic Pole Manager
14:35 – 14:55 : “Introduction on TUTUR methodology” by Pietro Elisei, TUTUR Lead Expert
14:55 – 15:15 : “The Bremen Case” by Oliver Hasemann, ZwischenZeitZentrale in Bremen
15:15 – 15:35 : “The Alba Iulia case” by Ovidiu Podaru, City of Alba Iulia
15:35 : 15:55: : “The Rome case” by Rossella Caputo, City of Rome
15:55 – 16:15 : Q&A

16:15 : 16:45 : Coffee break

16:45 – 18:00 : European good practices of Temporary Use Agencies
16:45 – 17:00 : Emily Berwyn from Meanwhile Space, London (UK)
17:00 – 17:15 : Stephanie Raab from Coopolis, Berlin (DE)
17:15 – 17:30 : Jeroen Laven from Stipo, Rotterdam (NL)
17:30 – 17:45 : Levente Polyak from Kek, Budapest (HU)
17:45 – 18:00 : Roundtable discussion

18:00 – 20:00 : Roundtable discussion: “The perspectives of innovative urban regeneration strategies in Italy and the role of European Funds”
-Raffaele Barbato, Project Officer of the URBACT Secretariat
-Ada De Cesaris, Vice Mayor and Planning Commissioner of the City of Milan
-Giovanni Caudo, Planning Commissioner of the City of Rome
-Alessandra Cattoi (tbc), Real Estate Commissioner of the City of Rome
-Marta Leonori (tbc), Productive Activities Commissioner of the City of Rome
-Paolo Marchionne, President of the III District of Rome

TUESDAY 3rd MARCH 2015, 10:00 – 18:00
Location: 3rd District of Rome
Language English – Italian with no official translation

10:00 – 12:00 : walk and cycle at Viadotto dei Presidenti close to Via Virgilio Talli
“Round table on transforming infrastructures”
-Sotto il Viadotto (G124, Greenapsi, Brainheart Works and local citizens)
-Jeroen Laven from Stipo, Rotterdam (NL)
-Daniel Schnier, Oliver Haseman from ZwischenZeitZentrale, Bremen (DE)
-Gaetano Mollura from Useact Urbact project
-Ivan Tosics, Thematic Pole Manager Urbact Secretariat
Moderated by Pietro Elisei, TUTUR Lead Expert

12:30 – 14:30 : lunch at market in Viale Adriatico 104 *
“Round table discussion on markets as reactivator of neighbourhoods and sshort food chain distribution”
-Local Support Group of Market project
-Emily Berwyn from Meanwhile Space, London (UK)
-Eliana Saracino, Nina Artioli, Alessandra Glorialanza from T SPOON, Rome (IT)
-Ioana Baba, Alba Iulia Municipality (RO)
-Martina Magnani, City of Milan (IT)
Moderated by Levente Polyak from Kek, Budapest (HU)

15:00 – 18:00 : Discussion in theatre of Don Bosco school in Piazza Monte Baldo 2

15:00 – 16:00 : “Workshop on the evaluation of the lessons learnt”
moderated by Pascal Chazaud, Urbact Secretariat

16:00 – 18:00 : “The future of reactivation of spaces for culture and employment
-Local Support Group of III District
-Stephanie Raab from Coopolis, Berlin (DE)
-Maria Prezioso from ReBlock Urbact project
Moderated by Daniela Patti, TUTUR coordinator

18:00: Farewell

18 febbraio 2015, 16:30
Casa della Città, via della Moletta 85, Roma

Si svolgerà mercoledì 18 febbraio 2015 alle 16:30 presso la Casa della Città, in via della Moletta 85, Il mercato al centro, un’iniziativa promossa dal progetto europeo TUTUR del Comune di Roma in collaborazione con l’Ambasciata del Regno dei Paesi Bassi, l’Associazione Eutropian e TSPOON.

L’obiettivo è di esplorare con esperti locali e dall’Olanda quale possa essere il ruolo futuro del mercato nella rianimazione del quartiere da un punto di vista sociale tramite i servizi al cittadino, della salute grazie al cibo di qualità, ambientale con prodotti a chilometro zero ed economico supportando la produzione locale.

L’iniziativa è stata sviluppata all’interno del progetto TUTUR del Comune di Roma con il contributo del Programma Europeo Urbact ed in collaborazione con l’Ambasciata del Regno dei Paesi Bassi grazie al supporto dell’Associazione Eutropian, TSPOON, Roma Resiliente, il LabGov dell’Università LUISS Guido Carli, il Rome Centre dell’Università dell’Arkansas ed il Gruppo di Supporto Locale del III Municipio di Roma.

Per maggiori informazioni www.tutur.eu