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{{image|KUD C3 Society for Culture and Arts 2008 Reflecting the Wish Photo Domen Grogl.jpg}}
{{TeaserImgDesc|The project Reflecting the Wish by the KUD C3 Society for Culture and Arts on the Prešeren Square in Ljubljana, 2008}}

The [[KUD C3 Society for Culture and Arts]], established in [[established::2000]], is a platform for the research of urban public spaces. The main focuses of KUD C3 are the communities in urban environments and the relationship that inhabitants have to the space they live in. 

In their projects, KUD C3 chooses key places in urban environments and tries to involve the local community in transforming the socially-conditioned habitat. The projects take into account the architectural, economical, cultural, or gender-based characteristics of a certain urban settlement. The research of trends in urban studies focuses on interventions in public spaces in Slovenia (Ljubljana, Koper) and abroad (Central European cities, Mexico City). 

In 2018 the project ''Collective Housing: New Initiatives'' has presented, defined and disseminated topics of past and contemporary collective living, urban planning and architecture, urban solidarity practices, cooperation in neighborhood communities as well as progressive sustainable housing policies and housing models. 

Members of KUD C3 include architects, media artists, photographers, theorists, writers, and more.}}

==Interventions in urban spaces==

The project ''Reflection of Desire'', which took place in 2008 in Ljubljana, addressed the issue of the city as a place of trade and/or meeting. Three installations in the city centre spurred an inquiry about desire as a perpetual mechanism and its relation to space.

The project "Zalograd" is an outcome of the project "Public City", initiated by STEALTH.unlimited and KUD C3. It was conducted in cooperation with Zalog Youth Centre, [[Moderna galerija]] and supported by the [[Ministry of Culture]] and the [[Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Slovenia]]. The project took place in Ljubljana's suburb Zalog, which involved underprivileged members of the local community in building an inclusive social place that transformed their public and communal space with minimal spatial interventions. The project in Zalog was also exhibited at the 7th edition of [[U3 Triennial of Contemporary Slovene Arts]] in 2013, held at the [[Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova (MSUM)]]. In the framework of the project CULBURB the Zalograd project was presented at Gallery MC in New York.

{{wide image|KUD C3 Society for Culture and Arts 2012 Zalograd project.jpg}}


==International cooperation==

Since its inception KUD C3 has conducted several projects, involving international architects, urbanists, sociologists, and city planning experts. 

In 2012&ndash;2013 KUD C3 was a co-organiser in the EU-funded project CULBURB, CULtural Acupuncture Treatment for SuBURBs of Cities in Central Europe, which involved organisations from Prague (project leader), Bratislava, Budapest, Ljubljana, Vienna, and Warsaw. The acupuncture interventions in Ljubljana took place mainly in Zalog with the help of 4 art groups with the themes of The Meeting Stripe, Womenspace, Design Your City, Conversations, and Down By the Water.


In November 2014 KUD C3 collaborated with SPAZI and the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana (UAM, Mexico City) and various local partners in order to set up an urban laboratory. The intervention aimed at  inclusion of local users in a more coherent development of the community. The international project ''The Hall of Mirrors'' tackles urban communities within a residential program of Casa Imelda in Mexico City. The project addressed mainly the usage of water and the community coexistence in the barrio of Santa Maria la Ribera in the Mexico City, which is a megalopolis built on a former lake, however, facing today a lack of clean water for its inhabitants. 


In September 2015 an interactive ''Blind Date'' of European architects, planners and experts in urban development is to be organized  in Ljubljana, in cooperation with Wonderland and the [[Museum of Architecture and Design]] in Ljubljana. Under the title ''Urban Realities'' three selected teams and local experts will collaborate to propose some solutions for reanimation of abandoned construction pits in the city of Ljubljana.

== ''Collective Housing: New Initiatives'' ==

A two-day event was held in June 2018 at the [[Faculty of Architecture, University of Ljubljana]], [[City Museum of Ljubljana]] (MGLM) and [[Museum of Architecture and Design]] (MAO, Ljubljana), focusing on topics related to collective housing. It took as na outlet strong traditions of collective housing developed in Germany, France, Austria and Slovenia in the 20th century, and tackled contemporary issues of degradation of collective housing estates as well as urban solidarity practices. Different aspects of the collective and its significance for urban living were examined anew: new visions for potential initiatives were discussed by Alessio Rosati (Rome), Davide Marchetti (Rome), Gabu Heindl (Vienna), Florian Köhl (Berlin), Frédéric Druot (Paris), Rémi Buscot (Paris), local stakeholders and initiatives. The purpose of the event was to define the role of different parties involved in the process of creating policies that regulate collective forms of housing such as cooperative and co-housing. 

The event included a presentation of student housing projects and the presentation of results of a student study entitled ''The Collective Housing in Ljubljana from 1965 to the Present'' performed by the Design Studio of Prof [[Anja Planišček]] (Ljubljana). 


{{wide image|KUD C3 Society for Culture and Arts 2018 Collective Housing lecture Photo Nada Zgank.jpg}}

== See also ==

*[[Museum of Architecture and Design]] 


==External links==
*[http://www.kudc3.net KUD C3 website]
*[http://www.kudc3.net/collective-housing-new-initiatives/ Collective Housing: New Initiatives project information]
*[http://www.wonderland.cx/urban-realities/ Urban Realities Blind Date info on the Wonderland website]
*[http://www.archdaily.com/636874/call-for-participation-urban-realities-takes-a-look-at-abandoned-construction-pits-in-ljubljana Urban Realities Ljubljana Blind Date call on the Archdaily]
*[http://www.culburb.eu/ CULBURB project website]
*[https://www.youtube.com/user/CCEArch/videos Videos about Culburb and interviews with project participants on Youtube]
*[http://issuu.com/janezpetergrom/docs/pametni_urbanizem_2013 Smart Urbanism - Innovative approaches to Urban Planning and Design] (in Slovenian)
*[http://www.gallerymc.org/h/stories-from-zalog/ Stories from Zalog, at Gallery MC, New York]


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