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workshop on RTK TV show

The students are proud to announce that the final discussion of the workshop has been featured at the most important youth show of Kosova: ”Amazing b’e njeri” on RTK TV. ”Amazing b’e njeri” presented the international workshop, including interviews with students and tutors.

Editor: Flaka Xerxa
Camera: Kushtrim Kadriu
http://www.rtklive.com/tvk/pam_amazing.php

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Ecology of Narration - appendix

Group K (Enrico Forestieri, Leart Mullademi, Leka Kelmendi) would like to send a brief introduction and some other images about their project, showing the recreational and political uses of their game.

Evolutionary myths
Political devices for town pla(y/nn)ing

“Evolutionary myths” is a political and recreational tool for creating new collective myths.
It’s made by a set of basic rules (constitutional kosovarian values), objects (cards which represent people, social groups, functions, wishes, places, ecosystems, etc.) and relational operators (quantitative, temporal, spatial, directional, emotional, etc.).
In children, it stimulates creative associations within the scope of shared kosovarian values.
In politics, it promotes transparency in decisional processes and visualization of different relations implied in whatever process of transformation.
Both projects try to stimulate the dawn of future narrations based on the acknowledgement of relations among people, objects and environment.
Possible myths
When personal expectations about change are shared within a community, there might rise new collective narrations: the myth of cultural renaissance, the American dream, the access to a high educational system, the option of basic infrastructure for wellbeing. These are shared fragments of more complex narrations which can act at urban scale before stratifying in collective memory.
One of the possible myths: Balloons
“Balloons” is a project about managing cultural activities in Prishtina.
It’s made by a fixed element (cultural headquarter) and a variable number of energetic landmarks (Magenn helium rotors).
By cooperating with political institutions and citizens, the cultural headquarter chooses the events to be sponsored and estimate their energetic request. A Magenn rotor starts “colleting” locally the energy for the happening and, doing so, it begins the promotion of the manifestation at the urban scale. The rotor, suspended at 300m height, stresses the activation of an area and determines the type of activity trough a simple colour code; additional information can be displayed by LED moving tags, placed directly on the tether. When the event has expired, the rotor is assigned to another cultural point.
In the passing of time, we can imagine the variations of these cultural and luminous landscapes.
All those datas will get stratified in personal memory as it happens with retinic images and, from them, people will begin structuring new kosovarian myths

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final workshop party

The Italian students left Kosova, after an amazing - much too short - week in Prishtina, on Saturday Morning.

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Ecology of Borders

Final presentation by GROUP A / Ecology of Borders:
Alberto Clerici, Enis Pakashtica, Rineta Jashari

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Video GROUP A / Ecology of Borders - PART 1 (Presentation)

Video GROUP A / Ecology of Borders - PART 2 (Discussion)

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Ecology of Buildings

Final presentation by GROUP V / Ecology of Buildings:
Laura di Donfrancesco, Arlinda Sheqiri, Besarta Elezaj

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Video GROUP V / Ecology of Buildings - PART 1 (Presentation)

Video GROUP V / Ecology of Buildings - PART 2 (Discussion)

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Ecology of Heritage

Final presentation by GROUP S / Ecology of Heritage: 
Adelina Berisha, Francesca Guarascio, Maljetë Hoxha

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Video GROUP S / Ecology of Heritage - PART 1 (Presentation)

Video GROUP S / Ecology of Heritage - PART 2 (Discussion)

Video GROUP S / Ecology of Heritage - PART 3 (Discussion)

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Video GROUP O / Ecology of Networks - PART 1 (Presentation)

Video GROUP O / Ecology of Networks - PART 2 (Discussion)

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Ecology of Narration

Final presentation by GROUP K / Ecology of Narration: 
Enrico Forestieri, Leart Mullademi, Leka Kelmendi

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Video GROUP K / Ecology of Narration - PART 1 (Presentation)

Video GROUP K / Ecology of Narration - PART 2 (Discussion)

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Introduction to the final presentation of the international eco ID Kosova 2008 workshop!

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The students are proud to announce and invite to their final presentation and final discussion today! it will be take place at the UBT, Prishtina - 2nd Floor, Room number 207 -  starting at 15:00 hours.

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Video 60 Minutes to Final Discussion

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Announcing the Guestlist for the Final Presentation / Final Discussion on friday:
Verena Ringler, ICO International CivilianOffice EU Special Representative
Karmit Zysman, discovery center 
Edmond Hajrizi, UBT 
Binak Beqaj, UBT
Bersant Selmani, UBT

Lorenzo Bini, studiometico (BAD-MIL)
Paul Burgstaller, bad architects group (BAD-INN)

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Group S

individual discussions with the different student groups on their projects.

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Guestpresentation by Ing. Lorik Haxhiu, nov.2008

We are honored that Mr. Ing. Lorik Haxhiu was giving a presentation on “Strategic Environmental and Social Assessment - Kosovo C” to the workshop participants in Prishtina. Mr. Ing. Lorik Haxhiu is currently Project Manager at the Ministry of Energy and Mining, Kosova. if you are interested for further informations, please feel free to contact: The LPTAP Project Office in Prishtina

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Ass. Prof. Lorenzo Bini was giving a lecture on “Ecology of Planning” to the workshop participants in Prishtina. He presented 2 workshops and 2 competitions.

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The 5 studentgroups will present their project improvements at 17:00 hours today.
Critics will be by Paul Burgstaller / Lorenzo Bini / Bersant Selmani

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working on MID-WEEK presentation

The five international student groups are working for the MID WEEK presentations.

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1st SKYPElecture, nov. 2008 - Milan/Prishtina

bad-architetcs.network is proude to announce the 1st SKYPElecture! 
Prof. Gennaro Postiglione - currently in Milan - was giving a lecture on “Ecology of Power - Urban voids & temporary uses” over SKYPE to the students in Prishtina. He presented studentswork on the city of Berlin and on the city of Milan.

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forming groups, nov.2008

After forming international student groups, first group discussions on the ecologies

GROUP K / Ecology of Narration: Enrico Forestieri, Leart Mullademi, Leka Kelmendi
GROUP O / Ecology of Network: Zana Elezi, Faton Spahiu, Matteo Perin
GROUP S / Ecology of Heritage: Adelina Berisha, Francesca Guarascio, Maljetë Hoxha
GROUP V / Ecology of Buildings: Laura di Donfrancesco, Arlinda Sheqiri, Besarta Elezaj
GROUP A / Ecology of Borders: Alberto Clerici, Enis Pakashtica, Rineta Jashari

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Student Presentations

Students from Prishtina will produce, collect, and find material about Prishtina and Kosova.This preliminary work should be a research on the different ‘classical’ topics like demography, geography, planning, etc. and will be developed from the beginning of the semester.

Video by Leart Mullademi, Enis Pakashtica, Faton Spahiu - Prishtina

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Students from Milan are asked to produce their own, individual (and probably unconscious) ‘Image’ of Prishtina and Kosova. They should imagine and describe 24hours of the Kosovarian life in Prishtina, reduce it to a ‘6-minutes-presentation’ and locate it on a manipulated map of the city. This preliminary research should be developed and presented individually and based on the individually reflected, media generated image of Prishtina/Kosova.

Video by Alberto Clerici, Enrico Forestieri - Milan

Video by Francesca Guarascio, Matteo Perin - Milan

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the bad-architects.network collaboration, between BAD-MIL and BAD-INN, is honored to announce that the Italian students have arrived on November 09th, 2008 in Prishtina, Kosova. The first international student workshop, within the envelope of workshops.bad-architects.network, will be continuously documented on workshops.bad-architects.net!

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Prishtina Kosova, oct.2008

Let’s meet at newborn! The list of Students who will participate at the workshop eco ID Kosova 2008 in Prishtina (release 2008-10-22):

Students from UBT, Prishtina and POLIMI, Milan:
Adelina Berisha, Prishtina
Alberto Clerici, Milan
Arlinda Sheqiri, Prishtina
Besarta Elezaj, Prishtina
Enis Pakashtica, Prishtina
Enrico Forestieri, Milan
Faton Spahiu, Prishtina
Laura di Donfrancesco, Milan
Leart Mullademi, Prishtina
Matteo Perin, Milan
Maljetë Hoxha, Prishtina
Rineta Jashari, Prishtina
Zana Elezi, Prishtina
Francesca Guarascio, Milan

We still invite students from politecnico di milano who might be interested in participating to send a brief curriculum and an application - as well as any question - to mail[at]lablog.org.uk.

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The Workshop will be located at the University for Business and Technology in Prishtina, Kosova (STUDIO 1st FLOOR) from 2008-11-10 till 2008-11-14.

Monday 2008-11-10
10:15h  Beginning of UBT workshop with Politecnico di Milano:
  Presentation of work by the students from Milan
  Presentation of work by the students from Prishtina
  Hand-out: Data Material DVD
  Formation of groups (international groups, 2-4 students)

  Sightseeing of Prishtina highlights related to students’ presentations (both from Milan & Prishtina)
  Presentation of the „Ecologies of ID“ by the tutors
  Hand-out: workshop topic ‘Working on the Ecologies of ID’ in different scales (City > Region > Nation)

Tuesday 2008-11-11
09:15h  Working on the topics / Individual group critiques

Wednesday 2008-11-12
09:15h  Morning lecture (45 minutes)
  Individual group critiques, defining the media of the output
  according to the development of the student projects.

Thursday 2008-11-13
09:15h  Morning lecture (45 minutes)
  Working on the topics / Individual group critiques

Friday 2008-11-14
09:15h  Working on the topics
  Final presentation

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Prishtina Kosova, oct.2007

BAD-INN (University for Business and Technology in Prishtina, Kosova) has invited BAD-MIL/Lorenzo Bini (Politecnico di Milano) with Prof. Gennaro Postiglione to lead a joint-workshop in Pristina November 2008. 12 students from Milan, Italy and 12 students from Pristina, Kosova will participate in this urban design workshop.

The idea is to work on the complex topic of “building” a national identity of Kosovo and its consequences for the urban development of Prishtina and the whole Kosovo.
The framework is the recently declared independency of Kosovo from Serbia and the need to build its own identity in order to proceed with the international discussion. A clear and visible identity is vital if you need to assert your country in relation to other countries. This is a consequence of a long term policy dating from last century where the idea of Nation & State was gathered together bringing also the theme of ethnicity.

“ECOLOGIES OF IDENTITY - eco ID 2008″ INTRODUCTION:

The topic will be approached via several ecologies of identity:

1. The ecology of narration:
In “Nation and Narration”, Homi Bhabha defines the relationship built in the 20th century history between the need of national identity with the practice of “story-telling”: The mythology of the foundation/birth of your own nation – and all the connected stories – was the first step towards independency, autonomy etc, all needed characters in order to be able to compete in the global society. National writers have a relevant role in this concern. In this ecology relevant writers will be traced.

2. The ecology of “power buildings”
A second step towards a “building” of a national identity is the role of the built environment: power and architecture have an even too easy to relationship to be understood. One can think about all the strong dictators/dictatorships and the role architecture has always had in the building of the social image of the power but also of the image of the national identity (Culture?). In this concern the architects and the urban planners are relevant figures.

3. The ecology of cultural heritage and nature:
There are also other “genuine” aspects we can recognize to be part of a national identity policy: every country has a culture (even we should state clearly that this is neither monolithic neither static neither forever: concepts such as tradition, origin, roots, and similar are both powerful and dangerous and very often manipulated in order to demonstrate the opposite of what they are). See also Iain Chambers, Homi Bhabha, and the Cultural studies group working on this topic. Back to the idea of a “genuine” culture, it was manifested into the “built environment” of some quality (tangible heritage: an heritage we recognize has something to say about the Culture that produced it) it depends, or it descends, or it come from something it is defined as Un-tangible Heritage (few years ago UNESCO launched a campaign for taking into serious consideration non visible aspects of own culture as they are, at the very end, what is deeply connected with what we are able to recognize as Culture Products). Knowledge, skills and other similar categories have the privilege to “maintain & transform” or better “maintain through transformation” the DNA (the Identity) of a specific Culture.

4. The ecology of networks:
The people in Kosovo dispose over several densely knit networks inside Kosovo and across the world. Refugees in the European Union and other countries, who have not returned after the war, still hold contact with the family and support them financially. For the people in Kosovo these contacts to their family members abroad are in most cases vital and helpful if they need a visa in order to get abroad. (See also Mark Lombardi’s visualisation of networks) Next to these invisible networks also other networks like highways, railways, air routes etc. have to be examined and related to identity.

5. The ecology of energy:
An important step in building Kosovo’s new independence is to support all sustainable energy sources, since they represent, next to Kosovo’s own resources the only reliable independent source of energy. Moreover Kosovo is asked to strengthen and develop partnerships with energy suppliers in the neighbouring countries. The need of energy (quantity & uses) of the country, a possible urban strategy for energy saving (quantity & places) and alternative energy productions (wind parks? Earth
heating/cooling systems, etc.) will be defined, in order to give a chance to work with the question of shaping those structures and solving their relationship with the context (built or natural environment);

6. The ecology of taxes
Via flat tax or other tax measurements, incentives for investors can be built, in order to keep the money in the country and in order to diminish the high percentage of unemployment. Businesses and industry buildings will need special areas in the city, and have to be included in the next update of the Prishtina master plan. Prishtina or Kosovo’s identity as tax haven?

7. The ecology of speed
In emerging countries or zones after a war you can observe two different speeds of adapting to a “western” lifestyle. Therefore students in Prishtina listen probably to the same kind of music, have the same mobiles and drive the same cars as students in Milan, while “heavier” factors like infrastructure, economy, politics etc. are adapting much slower. Which potential can be derived from these parallel worlds or speeds? The higher speed of un-tangible versus tangible culture.

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