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The KUD C3 Society for Culture and Arts, established in 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). Members of KUD C3 include architects, choreographers, dancers, media artists, photographers, composers, theorists, translators, writers, and more.

Interventions in urban spaces

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.

International cooperation

Since its inception KUD C3 has conducted several projects, involving international architects, urbanists, sociologists, and city planning experts. In 2012–2013 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.

Water in Megalopolis

The international project Hall of Mirrors focuses on urban communities within a specific urban project related to a residential program of Casa Imelda in Mexico City. KUD C3 collaborated with the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana (UAM, Mexico City) and various local partners in order to set up an urban laboratory in November 2014. The intervention aimed at the inclusion of local users in a more coherent development of the community. The project addressed mainly the water usage 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.

Interactive Blind date

In cooperation with Wonderland and the Museum of Architecture and Design in Ljubljana an interactive Blind Date of European architects, planners and experts in urban development is to be organized in September 2015 in Ljubljana. Under the title Urban Realities a collaboration of three selected teams and local experts will be set up to work on some proposals and solutions for reanimation of abandoned construction pits in the city of Ljubljana.

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 ==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.
+== Water in Megalopolis ==
+The international project ''Hall of Mirrors'' focuses on urban communities within a specific urban project related to a residential program of Casa Imelda in Mexico City. KUD C3 collaborated with the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana (UAM, Mexico City) and various local partners in order to set up an urban laboratory in November 2014. The intervention aimed at the inclusion of local users in a more coherent development of the community. The project addressed mainly the water usage 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.
+== Interactive Blind date ==
+In cooperation with Wonderland and the [[Museum of Architecture and Design]] in Ljubljana an interactive ''Blind Date'' of European architects, planners and experts in urban development is to be organized in September 2015 in Ljubljana. Under the title ''Urban Realities'' a collaboration of three selected teams and local experts will be set up to work on some proposals and solutions for reanimation of abandoned construction pits in the city of Ljubljana.
 ==External links==