Battle for the Last Panel Blocks, First Developers, and Escapes from the City - Screening at Gallery VI PER
Commented screening of selected journalistic programs from Czech Television in the 1990s focusing on housing issues. From the plight of the homeless to concerns and hopes associated with the future of housing estates, leading to the first satellite towns. With commentary and introduction to broader political and art-historical contexts by architectural historians Michaela Janečková and Karolina Jirkalová.
The program is part of the research project City as a Laboratory of Change supported by the AV 21 Strategy of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
“Let them find better-paying jobs. Or move away from Prague.”
a banker’s advice to young people without housing, Fleeing / Questions around Housing, 1994
“The entire middle class should have the opportunity to acquire their own apartment.”
a developer of new apartment buildings in Malvazinky, In a State of Housing Emergency, 1997
“They are people who have lived their entire lives somewhere in a housing estate; for them, this way of thinking is so natural that they must create housing estates. At any cost.”
a resident of Kamenice looking at new satellite construction in his community, Scarred Face of the Land / Kamenice...misted, 1994
“I am a meter outside Prague, and yet in the countryside.”
the owner of a newly built luxury villa in Přezletice, Our Czech Nature / Where They Got It, 1995
The program is part of the research project City as a Laboratory of Change supported by the AV 21 Strategy of the Czech Academy of Sciences.
“Let them find better-paying jobs. Or move away from Prague.”
a banker’s advice to young people without housing, Fleeing / Questions around Housing, 1994
“The entire middle class should have the opportunity to acquire their own apartment.”
a developer of new apartment buildings in Malvazinky, In a State of Housing Emergency, 1997
“They are people who have lived their entire lives somewhere in a housing estate; for them, this way of thinking is so natural that they must create housing estates. At any cost.”
a resident of Kamenice looking at new satellite construction in his community, Scarred Face of the Land / Kamenice...misted, 1994
“I am a meter outside Prague, and yet in the countryside.”
the owner of a newly built luxury villa in Přezletice, Our Czech Nature / Where They Got It, 1995
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