Every day, we see different urban spaces around us; some are where we live, while others are work areas or streets that we frequently walk or pass by. I grew up in Tbilisi, and my home is near the most famous bazaar in Tbilisi, called the Deserter's Bazaar. It's the most chaotic, noisy, and filthy place I’ve ever been. Public spaces are areas where different people meet each other for different purposes. The bazaar is one of the strangest examples of public space and relations. The people who are here every day at work are boxing everything as much as possible. My main character is space itself, which we see in the first scene. The area really looks like an ocean, but inside the bazaar, people are boxing the spaces. Everything is boxed, like the fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs, and even the fresh fish are boxed in glass boxes.

PEDESTRIANIZE! is a micro-urbanism intervention in architectural language located in the city of Guadalajara, Mexico... but for you (yes, THE ONE WHO IS WATCHING) is a protest, it's a missed call, an awareness project on pedestrians and cyclists.

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.

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

A video-essay: Biomimicry acts as an undisputed guiding thread in many design and creation processes and creates a certain harmony between built and grown environments through its basis, consisting of the sophisticated shaping of nature. But why only imitate the forms of our living environment when we can also take the functioning of cross-global communication, which fauna and flora have refined for millions of years, as a model to transform our social coexistence into a living together and for each other?

The streets of Baku used to be full of kids and young people filling them with joy and now we are reclaiming the streets for the use of different human activities! The film is mostly shot in the central streets of Baku where roads are very narrow and cars are allowed to park and commute. Sidewalks are insanely narrow and interrupted by many parked cars and artificial plants. The street design makes it very hard to walk and pass by.

Due to public shaming, lack of awareness and education, and exclusive spaces, disabled communities struggle the most and turn into home prisoners at some point. The integration of disabled people into society is very limited in Azerbaijan and the film highlights a deaf person’s perspective on daily life. Due to little to no existing inclusive infrastructure in Baku, most disabled people find it hard to go out of their houses without being dependent on a helper. Also, those who feel comfortable going out are always subjected as someone “in need” and get many offers from the public for help which the person did not even ask for in the first place. Many also assume that people with disabilities are in need of money and often offer them some financial help as well, which leaves many in an uncomfortable situation. The public authorities who are responsible for the city design and institutions working with people with disabilities are usually very irresponsive and the needs of the community have been unfortunately neglected for years with many empty promises to provide necessary design and tools around the neighborhoods to make life easier for them.

Increasingly, nature has become more of a luxury for city dwellers to access in our everyday life, an indicator closely tied to real estate value and the process of gentrification. Meanwhile, our building industry is established upon the constant exploitation of nature and the production of waste. Can we redefine and up-cycle trash to create public space that serves us all? This project by Ensemble Studio transcends the shackles of a tight budget and designed a public corridor with recycled CDs and leftover quarry stones - a gigantic sculpture, a playground, a microcosmos of nature that welcomes everyone to rest, wander, play, and decompress.

Natur Park Amager, an urban nature park in the south of Copenhagen offers many ways to enter nature. In this short film Johnny shares how walking the Amarmino trail helps him recharge and renew. Even if urban parks in theory are accessible to everyone, much is still needed to make them both more sustainable and more accessible. In this ongoing project I ask how more people can get access to nature experiences in the city, and what is needed to use these natural resources in a more sustainable way.

The assumption that all people are able to actualize the rights, benefits, and responsibilities of citizenship within the built environment is misleading. African Americans’ ownership of property and use of public space for personal enjoyment has been historically perceived as transgressive behavior, and often met with punitive legal action, violence, and, at times, death. Given this context, the ability of African Americans to successfully navigate and shape the physical spaces within their lives has amounted to de facto survival strategies. Addressing this fraught social-spatial condition and its impact at the scale of the citizen, Thrival Geographies (In My Mind I See a Line), an intervention in the courtyard of the US Pavilion, is rooted in the historical spatial practices of African Americans, yet speculates upon new spatial strategies that support the most precarious of populations. We foreground these practices as manifestations of civic agency and freedom that move all citizens beyond mere survival toward thrival and full participation in the democratic ideal.

Second episode of a mini series about Belgian contemporary architecture commissioned by Wallonie-Bruxelles Architecture in the framework of EUMiesAward 2022 . Let’s discover iMAL, the Brussels based Art Center for Digital Cultures & Technology designed by Central Ofaau and Np2f.