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INBETWEEN ZONE WORKSHOP
short description of the topics

1. Public art and urban planning  -- Conditions of "constructive" criticism.
(group tutor: Monika Bálint)
Can art projects be active initiators of change in urban regeneration processes?
By examining some local and international art projects, we will try to define the differences in between them by discussing how they refer to their conditions concerning: time, space, the different actors who can be connected to them (and the social and political structures that have an effect on them), and also the expectations on the aesthetic features of the work. Who are these projects really for?

2. Grassroots in the City : organizations, grassroots and DIY initiatives and urban planning . Potentials , visions, future scenarios
(group tutors: Monika Bálint and Levente Polyák)
The aim of this workgroup is to observe impacts, identify indicators and sketch possible future implementations of organizations, informal and grassroots activities in the City life. How do, and how can 'grassroots' respond to the changes in the society? (strategies, mistakes). What other informal effects on urban development exist besides 'grassroots'?
How can we re-appropriate public space through alternative networks, and what is the purpose of such activities ? What kinds of alternative economies exist in the city, and how are they connected to other grassroots activities?

3. Techniques of collective and individual intervention: how inhabitants can use and form their own living-space
(group tutors: Sophie Dodelin and Tamás Kaszás)
Contemporary city planning is made in favor of the economy, it push us to live a fragmented life of a worker/consumer. Each place is build for specific activities and we are not allowed to step out. Just think about the well-planed route of public transport that takes us from our flat-blocks to our factories. There are no spaces for spontaneous and community activities. We are going to explore the emotional effects of different spaces and draw the psycho geographical map of the city. We want to discover places which inspire us and that are usable as we wish, even if it was planed for another function or wasn't planed at all. We would like to understand which place let us being active agents and which one bring us to be passive consumers. And since this will be an active process we will transform our surroundings.

4. Limits to planning: limitations of urban planning projects
Mistake assessment: analysis and planning of errors in city development projects.
(group tutors: Samu Semerey and Bálint Kádár)
Pregnant spaces – critical views of the creative city.
Our project is based on a fictional feasibility study for a creative incubator in the designated area of Budapest. We will explore the boundaries of urban planning, activist architecture, critical thinking, cooperation with local politics and communities and networked performance to understand and provoke post-socialist urban context and planning regulations.