Meeting of Styles 2019

Charity Night

Kosovo Architecture Festival

Tonight at the public program of the Kosovo Architecture Festival, starting from 8.00 pm at Kino Armata, Jeffery Shumaker URBANscape (US) and from 9.00 pm Marcus Fairs, of Dezeen (UK) will hold their lectures.

Kosovo Architecture Festival Opens on Light Note

Blerta Begisholli Pristina – BIRN – July 5, 2019

The Kosovo Architecture Festival has launched its seventh edition in the capital Pristina with a presentation on the dramatic impact of electric light on the urban environment and on the planet.

The biggest architecture festival in Kosovo has opened its seventh session, with two documentaries and a lecture from Italian photographer Jessica Bizzoni on the disturbing impact of electric light on our planet.

“Electric light is a man-made aurora,” Bizzoni, 29, said during her presentation at the Kino Armata on Thursday, discussing her own photographic project, called Electric Sun.

This explores night-scrapes and daily lit environments, investigating the blurred boundary between the technosphere and biosphere.

She collaborated with astronomers and traveled between cities to follow light. She said she went from big cities to places in the middle of nowhere in search of man-made auroras. “Lights create an identity for a city,” Bizzoni observed. “Electric light surrounds us in many ways, becoming our second nature,” she noted.

Bizzoni also spoke about the impact of light on animals and the human ecosystem. She explained how moths and plants grew faster in artificial light, as they were tricked by it, as if it were real sunlight.

On the other hand, she explained, butterflies were impacted negatively, because the light of cities confuses their biological rhythms. By night, when they are supposed to take rest from traveling to mate, they continue flying because they think it is still day. This causes them to weaken and die faster.

The festival continues until October 1 with different architects and artists expected to take part. Celine Baumann, a French landscape architect based in Switzerland, is due to hold a lecture that questions the notions of inclusivity, gender and social equality through an intersectional lens.

The Kosovo Architecture Festival is organized by the Kosovo Architecture Foundation in partnership with the Future Architecture Platform.

Its main objective is to present to the local architecture community and the general public the contemporary global theories and methodologies in the field of architecture and urban planning.

This is the largest event of its kind in Kosovo with more than 40 individual activities in numerous cities in the country. This year the events will be held from the 1st of July till the 1st of October.

City of Pristina, taken during a workshop of the Festival of Architecture.Photo:Orgeta Aliu

The Mother Teresa square, taken during a workshop of the Festival of Architecture.Photo: Anita Morina

Photo of lights during the night in Pristina, taken during a workshop of the Festival of Architecture. Photo: Ejona Murtezaj

Landscape of Pristina, taken during a workshop of the Festival of Architecture. Photo: Anita Morina

Mapping Pristina’s Nightscape, Kosovo Architecture Festival Workshop 2019. Photo: Jessica Bizzoni

Idealised Flora – Indoor Farming, The Netherlands, 2018. Photo; Jessica Bizzoni

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Open Air Party Tonight

Tonight Latin Dance Night @Terrace038 (above the Cuban) with Salsa, Bachata, Kizomba music and special guest from Macedonia with a show from @kizombatouch… see you

Meeting of Styles in Kosovo

Meeting of Styles in Kosovo

FemArt 7 – Day 5

14th June

10:00 – 13:00 / Etno Village Kukaj
Feminist discussions “Connect + Engage + Inspire”

Hiking, sightseeing, rest and relaxation with artists and activists of Femart Festival.

13:00 – 14:00 / “Fidan Lahu” Center – Fushë Kosova
Workshop in the street “Be the Rhythm” / (African singing and dancing) / Portugal

Do you need a Visa

WE CANNOT WAIT TO HAVE YOU IN PRISHTINË!
Yet, the beauty and the diversity of Kosovo, comes with few visa struggles.
▫️For all our international artists and friends coming from abroad, please start your process of visa application if you:
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▫️If you are an artist keep us informed if you need help for any of the requested documents.
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