OAW 2016 Main Exhibition
Living Spaces
One Architecture Week
Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 2016
Living Spaces is an exhibition examining the creation and modern inhabitation of the modernist mass housing complex “Trakiya” of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. The main exhibition of the international festival One Architecture Week, the content is based on my Fulbright research conducted in 2014 – 2015. Located in an abandoned supermarket, the exhibition moves in and out of scale, passing from private to public space and all of their negotiations. Each zone of the exhibition presents stories of its creation – from the architects through their design and from the inhabitants through their everyday living and appropriation.
The turbulent 50-year history of the neighborhood is broken down and the strength of identity emerges from the forced standardization.
The exhibition was designed as an immersive experience, each zone presenting maps and photo albums that represented the manifestation of the creation stories. The exhibition garnered media attention nationally and internationally, seeing thousands of visitors in its 10-day installment.