Anna Beata Háblová: Unplaces of Cities - online lecture

On Tuesday, March 23, 2021, at 5:00 PM, the online cocktail evening hosted by the House of Arts Ústí nad Labem will take place on Facebook, featuring a lecture on lost places, an author reading of a short story on the same theme, complemented by poetry readings, and concluded with slam poetry about Ústí nad Labem!
The lecture will focus on how neglected and lost places arise, what problems they present, and how they can be beneficial. What other kinds of non-places can we find in the city and what do they tell us about today’s times? The short story will take us to the inner periphery of London, to a homeless man who found a home in this part of the city, and we will see how many such places can be found even in Czech cities. The poetry will concern the mysterious tension between the city and the landscape, and the slam poetry will be a surprise!

Anna Beata Háblová (*1983, Prague): architect, urban planner, writer, poet, slam artist. She occasionally hosts evenings themed around architecture, poetry, and art. She has received awards for her architectural designs and theoretical work, including the Young Architect Award 2010 and the Young Planning Professionals Award 2012. In 2017, she published a popular science book "Města zdí" about the history, interpretation, and foundations of shopping centers in relation to the city. Since 2018, she has contributed articles on architecture to Morning Reflections on the radio station ČRo Vltava. Her most recent book, straddling genres, is "Nemísta měst" (Host, 2019) about neglected, fleeting, and overlooked places. She has published four poetry collections, and her poems as well as excerpts from "Nemísta měst" have been translated into several European languages. She collaborates with the Civic Association Kruh. Her poem-painting titled "Nevýslovný" was exhibited in 2021 at the Prague gallery Artwall. As an architect, she worked at the Dutch office SeArch and the Czech office Headhand. As an urban planner, she has worked at IPR, with which she continues to collaborate. She works in the team of the Czech Television program Artzóna on biographical sketches about architecture. She is a member of the Writers' Association.

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