IAAU
A Platform for Culture and City-Making
Many Balkan cities today witness the positive impact of the local self-organisation networks when it comes to cultural, economical, social and spatial revitalization of the neglected (and sometimes vacant) inner-city urban neighbourhoods. The typical “yes we can” culture is showing great vitality and creativity in the times of unclear urban policies and economical instability, but still the potentials of this energy are not being fully utilized, partly because of a lack of a strong platform to showcase local knowledge and offer support in finding the common ground with the institutions. In order to make the creative energy and cultural patterns of the self-organisation visible, the project uses four key-perspectives (The Initiator, the Artist, his Advocate, and the Urbanist) to determine a course of action.
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Urbego is a multidisciplinary platform for young, motivated and highly skilled professionals from around the globe. Urbego provides rapid responses for specific challenges in cities by applying an in situ approach in collaboration with local partners. Urbego is currently based in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Co-PLAN works with people and institutions to foster tangible social transformation and positive change on the ground by inducing change-driving knowledge in our society for smart management of our habitat. Co-PLAN is based in Tirana, Albania.
The School of Urban Practices develops advanced educational work that redefines design, architecture and urbanism as a field of transformative activity. Selected students and young professionals of many disciplines seek the ways how to improve everyday environment of the devastated neighborhoods whether through public policy, mediation, urban planning and architecture design, or any other forms of design that involves citizens from the very beginning of the project. The School of Urban Practices is based in Belgrade, Serbia.
Blok74 develops urban games and collaborative maps for evidence-based research on troubled public spaces: station surroundings, degraded streets, abused squares or hospital waiting areas. Next to providing tools and resources to identify problems and drive up spatial solutions, Blok74 frequently collaborates with other offices on various community and public space renewal projects worldwide, from Asia and Africa to Europe and the Balkans. Blok 74 is based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
KOR-CSD's mission is to initiate, promote and implement activities for sustainable development in Macedonia, and wider in the Region by bringing together and working in partnership with the governmental and civil society actors to achieve meaningful and sustainable development in the society. KOR-CSD is based in Skopje, Macedonia.