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Azerbaijan

The film addresses the issues around the lack of public trash bins around the central parts of the city. Already existing general irresponsibility of the citizens and the institutions with waste management gets worse when people need help finding trash bins in public spaces to dispose of their own trash. The situation leaves many parts of the city with open trash in the streets. Although it is cleaned regularly, still the inconvenience is real when one feels responsible and is in need of a bin to dispose of the trash.

Phillipines

Overview: Lost in Manila? How about have a shot? We start spectating a creative person who misses a chance to make something great. Did we miss her starting point?

Brazil

The project of improvement of the residential area of the favela in Brasilia is made in the form of a three-dimensional layout using the following materials. The project provides layouts of public toilets. They are painted with white, brown and pink acrylic paint. Next to the toilets, trees -birches, maples - are planted at a distance of 5-7 meters. These trees pull up to 200 liters of water out of the ground in 24 hours. This solution significantly reduces sewage waste water. Drinking taps should be provided on the streets of favelas.

Albania

Play is older than culture. Play theorist Johan Huizinga in his book Homo Ludens (1955) defined play as "a free activity standing quite consciously outside ‘ordinary’ life as being ‘not serious,’ but at the same time absorbing the player intensely and utterly. It is an activity connected with no material interest, and no profit can be gained from it. It proceeds within its proper boundaries of time and space according to fixed rules and in an orderly manner." While exploring Tirana in Albania I searched for signs and acts of playfulness in the built environment. A lot of play spots can be found in the city centre in parks, where people play chess and domino, especially the elderly. They bring their own games, organise and spend time with friends outdoors. Play is in the city incorporated as a design (chairs as domino blocks), and use of public space (covered areas) in parks. As a result of my research, I choose to make a short film in which the play is addressed as a sign of inclusiveness which gives the feeling of belonging and identity.

Azerbaijan

The film addresses the struggles of queer artists due to the ongoing oppression and phobia against LGBTI+ youth. The situation in the country leaves many with mental health problems and generally adds up to the lack of motivation that has been there due to the lack of financial and moral resources. Increasing hate crimes against the community threaten many young people and shrinking public safe spaces leave LGBTI+s behind. The film is a self-protest against the ongoing situation and addresses the poor realities of the country regarding queers.

Georgia

Vernacular extensions of modernist buildings have been created since the 1990s as an organic response to the new, “lawless” times after the fall of the Soviet Union. They increase the living space and are usually used as terraces, extra rooms, open refrigerators,It is said that a Russian journalist named them “kamikaze,” drawing a parallel between the romantic and suicidal character of such an endeavour and the typical ending of most Georgian family names “-adze.” This architecture also refers back to the local palimpsestic building technique, which since the Middle Ages has allowed new houses to be built on top of existing ones on the steep slopes of the Caucasus Mountains, thus not monumentalisation of the past but expanding on it for the future. Three residence from different flat which have extensions tell their stories, why they decide to build it and how they use this part of house. The facades of all these types of buildings look chaotic, but from the inside they are all ordered.