Alamar is a new city built in the 1970s in the outskirts of La Habana, Cuba, mostly with rudimental prefabricated technologies inherited from the soviets. It has been put in place through self-construction teams of 32 citizens employed in the so called microbrigadas: a system affecting not only the way the physical environment has been produced, but also the social texture formed in the process.
The Asilo (The shelter) is a centre for independent production and sharing of art, managed by an informal open community.
Koľaj 22 is an underground cultural centre located next to the railway tracks of Poprad’s main station, in a former carpentry workshop. Over the past years, it has been regenerated by a collective of young people into a safe and open space for alternative communities in the region. The centre regularly hosts music and cultural […]