Write a short story about how you see it, remember it or imagine it! Share your story with the place or with the people you wrote about and do not forget to send it to us too: we will pick 10 stories and together with 10 illustrators, we will bring them to life throughout the city.

The contest launched by the Art Encounters Foundation, with the support of Timișoara City Hall and the Local Council, as part of the Timisoara Biennial of Architecture BETA 2016, tries to find creative solutions to the challenges arising from the theme: “The Equestrian Statue – Contemporary Subject (?)”.

The opening event of „Yes, but there is a problem” invites Julia Oravecz and Samu Szemerey to present urban planing strategies and the people involved in their design and application.

The exhibition analyzes urban projects and policies from the CEE region that support more flexible, incomplete, and possibly more resilient urban systems.

The founders of BINA will open the discussion on the main topics of the exhibition: Bartleby in Belgrade, In-Between spaces, Model of temporary housing, Between projection and execution, Urban Yoga Beograd.

The exhibition Energy Spots focuses on the quickly-developing Belgrade, being an attempt to point, on a small scale, to particular spatial and energy spots of the city. 

The presence of the BETA 2016 competition exhibition in the public space relies on the collaboration with various locations from the city center that have adopted the exhibition panels in their windows.

Masterplan for art is a complex multidisciplinary project for the spatial reading and programming of art in the public space.

UrbanEye Film Festival proposes two documentary film nights that bring into question themes such as habitation and urban development. Be it an architectural object, an area or an entire town, the films bring to front the lives of people who use these spaces. 

Sinaia Urban Game is a participatory simulation game. Its main goal is to explore the possibilities for participatory design through the extreme version of Central-East European individualism/idolizing of private property.

The symposium introduces new urban strategies in the perspective of very different actors of city making, from independent expert groups and professional institutions to the public administration.

Levente Polyák, member of KÉK, will make an introduction for the Adaptive City exhibition based on the logics of temporary use and adaptive reuse of vacant buildings and sites.

The exhibition Adaptable City gives an introduction to the logics of temporary use and adaptive reuse of vacant buildings and sites, discussing its fundamental questions.

Upgrade My City is an event organized with the purpose of identifying, promoting and implementing the ideas that can improve the quality of urban life, while stimulating the large-scale involvement of the city’s inhabitants.

Pecha Kucha presentations have become viral in over 900 cities all over the world - and now, anyone who has ideas about or for the city is invited to present them in this format.

Our installation, embodied as a visual alert, aims to bring awareness and provoke constructive debates regarding the condition of our wooden churches and the way they are being cared for, exploited and restored, because to many are left in decay, or end up in such a situation due to unprofessional interventions.

Through these conferences we intend to talk about models and methods of operating at the city level, which varies depending on the scale, involved actors, duration, as well as other cultural and economical factors.