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Battling residential emergencies

“Housing is healthcare”. This sentence popped up in a recent discussion around the Corona mitigation efforts that cities are undertaking to strengthen the livelihoods and well-being of their citizens during and after the pandemic. This notion of housing as a physical and psychological setting for both hardship and relief is opening our view again to the significance that housing has for our local communities.

Come in! An uncomfortable heritage told by its inhabitants

“The 2020 edition will focus on houses built during the 20-year period of Fascism, just to support the vulgate that fascism did good things too!” 

“I would gladly commit myself to the city, but I just can't do it for what was built during Fascism. See you again for the next editions, if the theme changes.” 

These are the first comments posted on the project's FB page. We cannot say we were surprised, so why decide to venture on such delicate ground? Why make a community festival that tells the story of the residential buildings built in Forlì during the twenty-year Fascist period? To answer this question we take a leap back three years when we first heard about the Budapest 100 festival and we decided to venture into an exciting and challenging URBACT project. 

Come in! An uncomfortable heritage told by its inhabitants

“The 2020 edition will focus on houses built during the 20-year period of Fascism, just to support the vulgate that fascism did good things too!” 

“I would gladly commit myself to the city, but I just can't do it for what was built during Fascism. See you again for the next editions, if the theme changes.” 

These are the first comments posted on the project's FB page. We cannot say we were surprised, so why decide to venture on such delicate ground? Why make a community festival that tells the story of the residential buildings built in Forlì during the twenty-year Fascist period? To answer this question we take a leap back three years when we first heard about the Budapest 100 festival and we decided to venture into an exciting and challenging URBACT project. 

Come in! An uncomfortable heritage told by its inhabitants

“The 2020 edition will focus on houses built during the 20-year period of Fascism, just to support the vulgate that fascism did good things too!” 

“I would gladly commit myself to the city, but I just can't do it for what was built during Fascism. See you again for the next editions, if the theme changes.” 

These are the first comments posted on the project's FB page. We cannot say we were surprised, so why decide to venture on such delicate ground? Why make a community festival that tells the story of the residential buildings built in Forlì during the twenty-year Fascist period? To answer this question we take a leap back three years when we first heard about the Budapest 100 festival and we decided to venture into an exciting and challenging URBACT project. 

Come in! An uncomfortable heritage told by its inhabitants

“The 2020 edition will focus on houses built during the 20-year period of Fascism, just to support the vulgate that fascism did good things too!” 

“I would gladly commit myself to the city, but I just can't do it for what was built during Fascism. See you again for the next editions, if the theme changes.” 

These are the first comments posted on the project's FB page. We cannot say we were surprised, so why decide to venture on such delicate ground? Why make a community festival that tells the story of the residential buildings built in Forlì during the twenty-year Fascist period? To answer this question we take a leap back three years when we first heard about the Budapest 100 festival and we decided to venture into an exciting and challenging URBACT project. 

Come in! An uncomfortable heritage told by its inhabitants

“The 2020 edition will focus on houses built during the 20-year period of Fascism, just to support the vulgate that fascism did good things too!” 

“I would gladly commit myself to the city, but I just can't do it for what was built during Fascism. See you again for the next editions, if the theme changes.” 

These are the first comments posted on the project's FB page. We cannot say we were surprised, so why decide to venture on such delicate ground? Why make a community festival that tells the story of the residential buildings built in Forlì during the twenty-year Fascist period? To answer this question we take a leap back three years when we first heard about the Budapest 100 festival and we decided to venture into an exciting and challenging URBACT project.