Lift Workshop @ Hungary

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The first edition of Lift Workshop in Hungary sets the scene in the Eastern Quartier of Pécs at a historical coal mining site, an outstanding architectural merit, now part of the city’s cultural heritage. As European Capital of Culture in 2010, Pécs attracts international attention as a cultural pole on the periphery of the European Union.

Departing from this context Lift Workshop @ Hungary addresses the possibilities of new technologies in the socio-cultural periphery of a changing post-industrial urban landscape. It turns this particular locality and its challenges into the centre of the attention of architects, artists, social scientists from the region and from regional media labs with the objective to explore and connect with recent discussions regarding urban computing and situated technologies and extend the discourse to specific regional issues and problems.

The aim of the workshop is to explore the implications of urban information systems for architecture and urban design, disciplines that have been largely absent from the mostly technologist-driven discussions of "ubiquitous" computing but nevertheless can provide new insights and alternative perspectives on the implications of “networked objects” for urban culture, newly emerging spatial practices and organizational forms. During the workshop participants develop responses, scenarios applicable to Eastern Quartier and later other urban areas undergoing similar transformation.

Lift Workshop @ Hungary: Eastern Quartier is organized by Kitchen Budapest in collaboration with KÉK - Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre. To find out more about the organizers, our sponsors click here.

Széchenyi mine, old compressor hall

Location

The workshop will be held in the old compressor hall of Széchenyi mine, in the Eastern Quartier of Pécs. map

Please note, that the building doesn't have heating and is somewhat abandoned. We expect good weather at the end of September, but please dress warmly and/or bring additional clothing. Please be warned and accept that we cannot guarantee full comfort on the site.

Registration

You can register to the workshop as described on the bottom of this page. Please follow the instructions described there.

A few discount tickets were reserved for students and selected participants from the region, upon request. Sold out.

Program

The workshop will be held on Sunday, 26 September 2010, all day. See detailed program.

For early arrivals and late leavers we propose optional programs on Saturday, 25 September in Pécs and on Monday, 27 September in Budapest.