Tirana
HubFiliza*
Topics
Rural issues / Environment / Sustainability
Public space / Urban commons / Creative economy / Freedom of expression / Community development
Disciplines
Urban studies / Community arts / Music / Design & crafts / Architecture / Visual arts / Film & cinema / Community activation
Phase 1
The hub implemented a broad set of activities ranging between cultural events such as cinema evenings with talks, pecha kucha and poetry slams combined with acoustic concerts and a series of open talks and lectures around relevant topics such as urban commons and critical thinking. Uzina and Tek Bunkeri also implemented a set of weekly creative crafts and zero waste workshops targeting disadvantaged youth and young professionals, while Destil and its GurGur platform launched a young creative program for several disciplines, awarding students with workshops and material funding to realise their works.
* “Filiza” means seedling or cutting in Albanian. As all partners lost their previous cultural spaces in the last years, and with these happenings, their audiences a space to meet, interact and co-create, the name fits perfect to the collaborative restart of culture and open community spaces in Tirana.
Tirana
Tek Bunkeri
Tek Bunkeri is a grassroots organization working at the intersection of open culture, social entrepreneurship and sustainable development.
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Tirana
Tek Bunkeri
tekbunkeri.herokuapp.com/
Tek Bunkeri is a grassroots organization working at the intersection of open culture, social entrepreneurship and sustainable development through rural-urban collaborations. In a highly fragmented society it supports rural communities, youth and vulnerable groups in their ambitions to thrive, providing space and support to experiment, connect, learn and create. Tek Bunkeri's goal is an open and free society with equal opportunities. Therefore, it creates cross-sectoral partnerships for the sustainable creation of local perspectives and improvements of livelihoods. Since 2020 it is a registered NGO with a core-team of 4 people and a broader network of volunteers, experts and partner organisations.
Tirana
Destil Creative Hub
Destil is a co-working and co-living multi-functional centre focused on social, cultural and artistic events.
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Tirana
Destil Creative Hub
www.facebook.com/DestilAlbania/
Destil is a co-working and co-living multi-functional centre focused on social, cultural and artistic events. It is a hub designed for creative people to work on their projects, exchange local and international practices and exhibit their creations. With 6 years of experience, it has hosted over 150 conferences, 100 workshops, 200 exhibitions, 100 screenings, 300 concerts and many other initiatives. Destil is a flexible organism that can move and adapt to different locations, from reconstructed monuments of culture to outdoor and public spaces aiming to revitalize them. It supports artists and startups to establish themselves and being part of a community.
Tirana
Hapësira Kulturore Uzina*
Hapësira Kulturore Uzina is a space of the commons, social interaction, creativity, freedom and intrapersonal growth.
*Participated only in Phase 1
*Participated only in Phase 1
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Tirana
Hapësira Kulturore Uzina*
uzinaspace.wixsite.com/uzina
Hapësira Kulturore Uzina is a space of the commons, social interaction, creativity, freedom and intrapersonal growth. Uzina is held in common by and for the community. Uzina involves local people coming together to identify and work on issues that matter to them. Everything it does or initiates is based upon a community-led approach. It is trying to address mutual concerns in programs of combined action. Uzina is a volunteer-run space with a team of more than 20 youngsters who engage in daily needs and a bigger network of volunteers, activists, artists and community members who contribute to its activities.*Participated only in Phase 1
Phase 2
Concrete Contract
in collaboration with Athens and Diyarbakır I hubs
The sea is history.
The unity is submarine.
“Concrete Contract” is a collaboration project between Diyarbakır, Athens and Tirana hubs, trying to build an artistic relational context across places, people and their related aspirations about the concrete and concretisation of their surroundings. Looking at different sorts of nation-building processes, the making of places of belonging and identities, and the neoliberal global capitalism that both enforce and challenge the former two, the project searches for artistic and collaborative variations and mutations of the literary and visual representations of the concrete to challenge the multidirectional and all-encompassing material groundedness of the concrete and its homogenizing effects in our shared and identical spaces. Inspired by Caribbean writers, challenging the colonial history and looking for ways of reclaiming the land and the identity in its all multiplicity, the project title looks for different sorts of alignments of joy and care through artistic expression, between different histories, spaces, people, objects and discourses, challenging an imagined giant concrete construction. Opposing the “national” contracts written on the peoples of different pasts, the concrete contract works to find out what kind of multiplicities lie beneath the homogenised concrete surface, looking for creative archaeologies and shaking the ground of foundations of all kinds, handing in irony and improvisation. It’s a contract to look for ways of relations to enjoy the submarine.
