The festival's underlying idea is to raise awareness of the scope, meaning and significance of landscape architecture in relation to contemporary architecture, art and public space. The Landscape Festival project seeks to raise awareness and promote interdisciplinary dialogue not only among Czech but also international experts, artists, politicians and the general public.
The Landscape Festival as a temporary laboratory will provide a platform for learning about the upcoming transformation of selected areas in Prague 3 and Prague 10, including the revitalization of a transport brownfield into a cultural and social cluster. Visitors will have the opportunity to explore unique Prague wilderness in the Žižkov and Malešice locations.
The festival presents total green urbanism and offers to create new stories in the micro-localities of the metropolis through temporary interventions. Our aim is to create a participatory process involving as many residents as possible.
The idea of this year's festival is to launch a process of "tactical urbanism" and "temporary land use", which will offer local residents and communities the opportunity to use the selected space temporarily. The phenomenon of temporary use plays an important role in the search for the future shape of public spaces as well as part of the functionalist monument of the Žižkov Freight Railway Station. Therefore, in addition to architects, urban planners, artists and landscape designers, the general public will also be involved. This may create an informal urban laboratory and experiments to test the success of different uses, bringing together urban planning, development, art, activist groups and the public.
Accompanying exhibitions, debates and lectures will provide a communication platform for private and public projects and discussion on important topics such as art in public space, tactical urbanism, green urbanism and adaptation to climate change.
The idea of this year's festival is to launch a process of "tactical urbanism" and "temporary land use", which will offer local residents and communities the opportunity to use the selected space temporarily. The phenomenon of temporary use plays an important role in the search for the future shape of public spaces as well as part of the functionalist monument of the Žižkov Freight Railway Station. Therefore, in addition to architects, urban planners, artists and landscape designers, the general public will also be involved. This may create an informal urban laboratory and experiments to test the success of different uses, bringing together urban planning, development, art, activist groups and the public.
program content/ temporary architectural and artistic interventions, exhibitions, discussions, workshops, environmental happenings
programme opening 13 June/ Vladimir 518 + DJ Mike Trafik, WWW Neurobeat
The basic idea and goal of the project is to indicate a green line, which with the revitalization of the brownfield of the Žižkov Freight Railway Station will become a path connecting the area of Krenovka (Florenc), the Hill of Holy Cross and a series of non-urbanized wooded areas around the Malešice Forest stretching to the Smetanka and Klánovice-Čihadla Nature Parks with links to the open landscape beyond the metropolis.
The journey will offer a different perspective on the urbanism and topography of Žižkov and part of Malešice, the meeting of city and landscape and the search for their balance. Through temporary artistic and architectural interventions, but also through exhibitions, performances, theatre, movement art or other forms of participatory art, it will convey a deeper experience of nature and initiate a process of discovering the urban landscape and the potential of public space.
The project demonstrates the importance of peaceful traffic for the metropolis:
· Prague's Gordian knot (around Florenc) and the body of the former railway under Vítkov
· Hill of the Holy Cross
· Olšanská avenue
· Žižkov Freight Railway Station area
This year three-month international project is being prepared in cooperation with the City of Prague and the Prague 3 City District and the Prague Institute of Planning and Development (IPR Prague) and is held under the auspices of the Deputy Mayor Petr Hlaváček and the Deputy Mayor of the Prague 3 City District Pavel Dobeš.
This year's edition of the annual Landscape Festival follows on from the five previous editions held in Prague (2014, 2015, 2018, 2020 and 2022) and the Žižkovská spojka project in 2021. Since 2020, these events have been held in cooperation and with the support of the Prague City Gallery.
The festival organiser is Architectura association
For more information visit www.architectura.cz.