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The context in design: from the city to the object and back
The following article is based on an excerpt of a conference lecture planned for a scientific event in New York, co-authored by architect Petra Probstner and Géza Kulcsár. Their aim is to reveal both the often hidden principles behind design processes and the tensions that may arise between site- and
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Is the Danube taking a new Bend? | URBANUM X KanyarGO
”Indulj el egy úton, én is egy másikon” (”You go down one road, I’ll go down another”—free translation): a nice earworm. Several generations are already humming the folk song performed by the Muzsikás Ensemble, familiar from the theme song of the documentary ”Másfélmillió lépés Magyarországon”. But what if
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The shadow of the city | URBANUM
Since the foundation of the Contemporary Architecture Center (KÉK) fifteen yeas ago, in addition to professional talks and projects, it has also given room to visual arts from time to time, as an art exhibition is a medium in which the theoretical and practical complexity of the built environment and
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Metaurbanism in practice | The projects of Urbanum
Since their launch in October last year, Urbanum’s team has not only organized events and sparked discussions in the spirit of metaurbanism, the interdisciplinary urban research approach represented by them. Their three-fold motto—theoria, praxis, imaginatio, that is theory, practice and imagination—is not only about concept formation and
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Data hunger - A scientific gastronomic tour in District V, Budapest | URBANUM
With the restrictions that have been in place for the past three months, probably many of us miss the hospitality sector that usually fills our city with life while also functioning as a melting pot for the various communities, and with it, the cozy cafés, homey Italian restaurants and the
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The Danube Chapel | URBANUM
The main goal of Urbanum as an interdisciplinary platform is to explore not only a slice of particular topics, but their whole conceptual and associational field. Following the first Urbanum Podium round table, the event Urbanum Salon, debuting on January 28, will focus on the theoretical-conceptual but even more on
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The Urban Metabolism | URBANUM
Various streams of material goods, energy, services contribute to the living organism of the city. Only by observing the flux of these elements flowing in and out the urban space, can we then better understand the very mechanisms that keep the City alive. This is the Urban Metabolism.
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Danube: more than a river | URBANUM
City, river, boat – the Danube has become an inseparable part of Budapest’s essence. An important momentum of this is related to the launch of the capital’s waterway transport celebrating its 200th anniversary this year, but the river also played a central role in several research projects and civil
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Understanding the city of the future | Meet Urbanum
What does a livable, inclusive or sustainable city mean? What relationships can be formed between the built environment and the residents of the city? To whom does the city belong, for whom is it built and what factors influence it? Balázs Csizik, Géza Kulcsár and Vo Son Nam explore questions
