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Switzerland

The World And The Flock speculates about the capacities of the famous Geneva sheep flock to change our perception of the city. Thus, the flock that roams the gardens of Jardin des Nations, the heart of so called International Geneva, becomes a connecting and form-making element. The project offers an alternative reading, beyond the dispersed, isolated and fenced estates of International Geneva. The circulating flock becomes a spatial factor that is ordering social realtions through the (un)built. Seen, observed, monitored, the event unfolds its impact on multiple channels: from the physical to the digital. Thereby, the public space which nowadays is weakly articulated, scattered and isolated within the city of Geneva, becomes more connected and attractive to both locals and tourists and not only for members of International Geneva. Ingredients Grass, fences, water, trees – everything the flock needs can be found on site. The only missing elements, were a barn and salt for the sheep to winter. The flock is kept on rotating pastures, called padocks. There it grazes for four days before moving on, rotating from land to land, using normal asphalt roads. In the course of one year, the flock visits the United Nations, the U.S. Mission, the Rothschild estate, and many others. Every last weekend of the month, the flock leaves the Jardin des Nations and moves into the city. This urban event reconnects the isolated Jardin des Nations with the city of Geneva which is itself a city of (dis)connected madows.

Georgia

Georgia

The fly watched the animation: "Human Evolution" at the museum in Bolnisi, the region where the oldest bones of the first Europeans were found. Then fly flew through the city and see how modern people live. The fly experienced the "kindness" of Bolnisi children towards other creatures. The film shows a typical, old, private Bolnisian house with a courtyard on a summer day.

Denmark

Women are, indisputably, affected by feeling unsafe in public spaces after dark. They change the way they act, move and live. Concrete-heavy, badly illuminated spaces, like bridges or tunnels create a nightmare scenery and exclude women, as well queer, trans and non-binary people from safely walking through them. The film LIGHTS immerse us into women's discriminatory reality, their vulnerabilities and desperate reactions in the dark. And investigates what can architects or urban planners do to help inclusive transformation of public spaces? How can designers ease omnipresent fear of experiencing sexual violence?

Italy

Sometimes memories suddenly caress you through sounds, images and even smells. They bring you back in time and, maybe, they can make you feel better.

Crete

Artist Mischa Leinkauf conducted an architectional experiment in transforming a square in Chania on the island of Crete into a public meeting point for everyone. In the midst of the covid pandemic he tried, together with students from the local university, to create an open meeting point where locals and tourists come together, talk about Europe and create understanding for eachother