Gunita Kulikovska

LATVIAN STARTUPS LAUNCH ARCHI TECH RIGA WEEK 

Lecture at Kaunas Street Art Festival on young urban cultures and participatory traditions established via urban space evident in her projects.

VR will revolutionize Architecture & Engineering!

The MANUAL: Urban Sports and Architecture is an ongoing research and experimentation with urban sports in public space and architecture in Baltics. The next pop-up workshop on August 12 (The International Youth day) Im gonna stretch it a little more towards an open space for sportive use of old town city grid. 

RIBBON FOR WALBRZYCH IN #ARCHITECTOUR

Team I mentored got the case  “Development of the area in front of the Museum and neighboring Primary School with proposals of the urban furniture coherent for the entire city”. 9 students 1 tutor in less then 3 days in small post coal mining town Walbrzych in Poland.

My personal objectives for this workshop was to open the eyes and ears of young architecture students and challenge their perception towards communicative methods and participatory design approaches to create meaningful places. Basically I wanted students to experience and live the place inside out, starting from very grassroots - questioning, experimenting, provoking, testing, prototyping and designing throughout all the creative process. Witch lead to spectacular project that reached far beyond just design. It was a grid of experiences and memories dressed in interactive, appealing and engaging design which drafts the community development and economic progress for the whole city. The yellow ribbON is physical, mental and digital link of interactive design furniture and network of “good places”. The idea arised from overlap of several layers investigated: 1) partners  - social/cultural players formal/informal groups, organisations and municipality entities, gathering all the information about their functions and operations

2) empty spaces - possible spaces of interaction, meeting points of “partners”, nodes within the network and visual landmarks

Oh yeah! Love to work with crazy and adventurous young wannabe architects! Promise to challenge their expectations and capabilities! I will be one of mentors for #Architektour2015‬ annual workshop  in another cute city of Poland - ‎Walbrzych‬. Check out how does it feels here and follow the Architektour 2015 on Facebook.

Our Award winning project #MANUAL is featured in last #Modernists no 6 winter magazine #Riga. The essay by pacemaker Jānis Ķīnasts

New technologies and architecture - working on the edge on creative industries for Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2015 #TAB15

MANUAL: Urban Sports and Architecture won the Latvian Architecture Award 2014

Presentation at TED x City Riga 2013

The crazy super cool event series we organised in September and made to happen in 3 weeks. - Built a skatepark in old town , next to the Architect house - the best skateboarding and architecture photo exhibition

- Unique lectures by IAIN BORDEN (London), RASMUS ANDERSEN (Copenhagen), JANNE SAARIO (Helsinki) All that for whole month  made in tree weeks by me, Helvijs and Kristaps

`The tiny little street full with buzz and young people at the opening.

The European skater of the year Madars Apse trying out our spot