Impressions of Belgrade Workshop
BELGRADE – 26 APRIL 2009
PARTICIPANTS 22Danubians: Jan ter Burg,Thijs van Velzen and Wouter van den Bos
Jury: Vukasin Rajic – Kulturni Front (Belgrade)
Stefan Unkovic – artist (Belgrade)
Jan ter Burg – Danube Foundation (Amsterdam)
Trash City will emerge in the midst of Belgrade, functioning as a city within the city. Situated on an island where the Danube and Sava rivers join, the island is crucial for the city. It has its own ecosystem and works as filter for the city. In its utopian conception Trash City will be used by people who just arrive in the city, not having a place to live yet. They will construct this temporal city using old materials and trash. It’s in constant motion and continuous development, because the inhabitants are supposed to leave the island when the find a regular place to live in the city.
All socio-economic layers of society are present on the island, striving for diversity.
Since the island adapts to the new inhabitants and the new inhabitants adapt to the island a new sustainable ecosystem will emerge. Therefore the island keeps its valuable role for the city of Belgrade.
In All the Same Behind Different Windows the main focus is on the human being, rather than structure. People are foremost equal. However the framing, the windows are numerous, resulting in different ideologies, religions and the like.
City of Wind and Lights can be typified as modernist in its approach of shaping the physical environment. Large building blocks on the slopes surrounding the Sava and Danube rivers are pierced by tunnels. These pipes can be used by transportation systems, connecting or disconnecting city blocks. But they can also house wind turbines, or other power generating machines. Wind and light pass freely trough them.
Utopian Wish does not present a map, because such would only restrict man. People are different and have different wishes. In order to have some ideas materialize Utopia Wish provides space for people to plant their individual ideas.
MECIII floats on water, since nature takes an prominent role. It is not place in itself, rather a mesh of connections. Dreams of all people come together and, as in a whirlpool of ideas, they blend into new ones. Perpetuately.
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