Upcoming event: Lift Workshop @ Hungary/Eastern Quartier

The Lift@home season is back. One month from now (on September 26), there's going to be a one-day workshop in Hungary in the Eastern Quartier of Pécs.

The Lift workshop in Hungary sets the scene in the Eastern Quartier of Pécs at a historical coal mining site. 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 @ Eastern Quartier 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 extend the discourse to specific regional issues. The workshop will address the implications of urban information systems for architecture and urban design.

Speakers will include: Violeta Bulc, Marcus Foth, Christophe Guignard and Martijn de Waal. See the detailed program here.

The workshop is organized by our friend from Kitchen Budapest media lab in partnership with the Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre. For those who attented Lift09, KiBu participated in the Lift Experience exhibit.