481
Arte Útil archive nr:
481
Initiator:
Shirin Homann-Saadat
Location:
Kosovo, The Netherlands, United Kingdom
Category:
politics, urban-development, social
Users:
Women of Vushtrri / Kosovo, Radio Vushtrri, Metropolitan School of Architecture London, School of Architecture, Prefecture Architecture UK, Prishtina, Shirin Homann-Saadat.
Maintained by:
School of Architecture Prishtina, Metropolitan School of Architecture London, Architectural Summer Hamburg, Uta Homann Minden, Kunstlerhaus Hamburg-Bergedorf, galerie Xprssns Hamburg
Certification:
prototype
Duration:
2001 - 2006
Shirin Homann-Saadat
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Kosovo Box
Description:
The project involved a series of interviews and fieldwork with women in Kosovo regarding their lack of shelter. I It was an architectural Self-help / self-built-project for women. t was developed in collaboration with the School of Architecture in Prishtina and in London.
Goals:
Propose a solution for the lack of shelter for women.
Beneficial Outcomes:
Some of the Kosovo Box‘s architectural ideas were integrated into an architectural local proposal; women of Vushtrri formed a group and occupied the building site for their ’women only-building’ (finally the site was not given to the women and the house was not built); the project was published in architectural journals in England and Germany and shown on Kosovo media.
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