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Marcel Breuer Doctoral School of Architecture
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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:

  1. Excluded communities – the housing solution for the Roma minority
  2. 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/