Eutopic Tirana and city utopias
This Meeting on Architecture, proposed by the Pavilion of Albania, is conceived as a discussion platform among the Curators of Albania and Kosovo, Elton Koritari, Jurtin Hajro and Eliza Hoxha, with the participation of the architect Pier Paolo Tamburelli, the artist Albes Fusha and the public present in the meeting. A performance inside the Albanian Pavilion by the artists Ardian Isufi, Albes Fusha and Ervin Bërxolli will open the day and a documentary by the artist Yllka Gjollesha will close it. The meeting links to the similarity of the experiences narrated and the concepts behind the two pavilions who express their own models of transformation carried out by citizens during a period of political, economic or social crisis. Fil rouge is the way in which citizens have opened the doors of their private homes to make public spaces, at the service of their city. The transformation in the destination of spaces from private to public represented an urban model of intervention from below, with profound positive implications for the quality of life. The eutopic Tirana (a term created ad hoc to play with the term "utopia" and the ancient Greek prefix "eu" - good, well done), communicates with the heterotopic Pristina looking further and making an original and concrete contribution to the urban models, sometimes utopic and sometimes subjectively pragmatic, but subtly unveiled during the Biennale Architettura 2018 Freespace.
Speakers: Albes Fusha, Jurtin Hajro, Eliza Hoxha, Elton Koritari, Pier Paolo Tamburelli
