The Finale
The growing urban population faces various challenges. How can we find creative answers for that? This is just one of many questions and topics which have been discussed during the international project Shared Cities: Creative Momentum from 2016 to 2020. The project accomplishments were presented at the two-day festival Shared Cities: The Finale on October 2nd and 3rd 2019 in Prague, Czech Republic.
The Finale did not only bring together skilled urbanists, curators or theorists of architecture. It was also open to the public, since the sharing of information, knowledge, governance, space and infrastructure has become the new imperative in the architectural and cultural discourse.
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Taking place in the Archa Theatre and the Center for Architecture and Metropolitan Planning (CAMP)??The Finale featured the following formats:
Book Launch: Shared Cities Atlas ??? Post-Socialist Cities and Active Citizenship in Central Europe
Helena Doudova (ed.), published by??nai010 publishers.
The Shared Cities Atlas applies the new, global ???sharing paradigm??? in architecture and public sphere to a site-specific situation in seven cities in Central Europe. Mapping current practices of sharing and new fields of action in case studies, it contextualizes the phenomenon in research papers, data, and photography.
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Have a closer look at the Shared Cities Atlas
Read the interview with editor Helena Doudov????
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Shared Cities: The Discussions
The second day of Shared Cities: The Finale consisted of three panel discussions on Shared Identities, Spaces and Politics in Central Europe with renowned European architecture theorists, curators and urban researchers.
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Shared Cities: The Videos
Eight videos, each related to a creative adventure, to real problems and their solutions, to stories from different European cities. They are answering the following questions: How to better understand our cities? How to better plan our cities? How to better use our cities?
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Virtual Ritual ??? Premiere
The original gaming performance takes its viewers to the parallel world of online video games. Virtual space offers its users endless possibilities to enjoy themselves without the constraints of physical reality. Urban researcher Osamu Okamura, YouTuber Atlet, and photographer and gamer Ad??la Vosi??kov?? join an expert gaming panel to unpack the hidden mechanisms and rituals that shape not just virtual cities but also the cities we live in.
Virtual Ritual was co-produced by Goethe-Institut, Divadlo Archa and SixHouses as part of the Shared Cities: Creative Momentum project. It premiered on October 2nd in the frame of Shared Cities: The Finale.
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Read the interview with the theatre makers??Jan Mocek and T????a ??vehlov??
Read the interview with the Chief Curator of The Finale Osamu Okamura
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Credits ??? Shared Cities: The Finale
Chief Curator Shared Cities: The Finale: Osamu Okamura
Curator Shared Cities: The Finale (Discussions, Atlas Exhibition): Helena Doudov??
Production management and artistic collaboration: Stefanie Heublein
Production: Zuzana ??erm??kov?? & Kamil Pavelka
Communication: Tom???? Moravec & Sofia Tscholakidi & Denisa ??elelyov?? & Martina Peachment Brehmer
Assistance: Teresa Hilscher & Wolf Arne Storm
Advisory Board: Ivana ??ern?? & Sandra Kar??csony (Czech Centres); Martin J. Barry & Ludmila Hasmanov?? & Gil Cienfuegos (reSITE)
Special Thanks to
??t??p??n B??rtl, Barbora Peroutkov??, Kl??ra Vetterov??, Martin Vronsk?? (IPR/ CAMP); Ond??ej Hrab, Jind??ich Krippner, Ji???? Popelka, Pavl??na Svato??ov?? (Divadlo Archa); Haeun ?????????, Marley Ketchum (reSITE); Michaela Kippes, Ond??ej Novotn??, Jacob Zitzmann (Goethe-Institut).
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Downloads
Shared Cities: The Finale Program Flyer
??Shared Cities: The Finale Press Kit
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