Residency for an architect in Slovakia - Open call for architects, urban planners, and researchers.
Are you passionate about small-city urbanism, ecology, or excluded communities?
Cultural center Malý Berlín and City of Trnava are looking for Slovak or foreign architects, urban planners, and researchers. Applicants will receive opportunities to work on a selected topic, get to know the local context and propose a solution in direct collaboration with the main architect of the city Trnava and his department. At the end of residency, the candidate will present his or her ideas and work to the public.
Candidates can choose from these two
topics:
- Excluded
communities – the housing solution for the Roma minority
- Living
City – adaptation of socialist housing estates to climate change
The selected candidate will work in theoretical and/or practical
disciplines. The residency is best suited to applicants with a clearly
developed focus and/or approach who can work independently.
Short description of topics:
1. Excluded communities
Trnava is one of the cities in Slovakia that has within its boundaries a
segregated Roma community. The area where most of the Roma people are living is
located in the brownfield, industrial area of Coburgova street. The residents
suffer from various forms of social as well as spatial exclusion, with
incidence of socio-pathological phenomena. Even though several other housing
options in other parts of the city have been considered during last 30 years,
these may not bring a qualitatively better solution. The task is therefore to
address these numerous forms of segregation and exclusion via urban forms that
will enhance the quality of life of Roma residents and their sustainable
integration into the city life of Trnava.
2. Living City
It’s part of a larger cultural-artistic-research initiative of Malý Berlín,
within which we try to look at different aspects of housing in our city –
architectural, cultural, social, ecological. Within this residency we are
looking for ideas on how to adapt socialist housing estates mostly built in the
70s and 80s to current climate change.
Duration: October – December 2023
(3 months)
Deadline for applications is 3. 9. 2023!
Registration and more information: https://www.malyberlin.sk/en/open-call/residency-for-an-architect-in-slovakia/
