26-31 May 2013
MüSzi, 1085 Budapest Blaha Lujza tér 1.

The LAKATLAN BUDAPEST FESTIVAL (Vacant Budapest Festival) is a cooperation between the KÉK Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre, Wonderland – Platform for European Architecture and the Vacant Central Europe project. The festival’s goal is to summarize current research on mapping and reusing vacant properties and to explore new methods and solutions. It includes an architecture workshop, the Vacant Central Europe cooperation workshop and international exchange on in-between use, as well as urban walks and architectural visits. The event helps visitors contextualize the debate with the help of an information hub, pop-up library and exhibition.

SUNDAY
26th May 2013
Throughout the day: Civil society organisations can map the unoccupied real estates of Budapest!
Please contact lakatlan@kek.org.hu if you are interested.

MONDAY
27th May 2013
10:00-17:00 Vacant City Workshop
International workshops of the Project Space Budapest and the Vacant Central Europe.
(The event will be held in Müszi but not be open to public so any interest participants are invited to contact the organisation.)
17:00-19:00 Vacant Jewish District (walk)
The BUPAP walks to visit buildings of interest in the city has recently developed a new feature by providing tours of spaces that are waiting for transformation. Their fate is mapped in downtown recent past and present. (The tour will be in English. Registration is needed, application available soon!)
20:00 Vacant City on Screen (film screening)
(The event is open and free of charge.)

TUESDAY
28th May 2013
10:00-17:00 Vacant City Workshop
International workshops of the Project Space Budapest and the Vacant Central Europe.
17:00-19:00 KÉK city walk
Details soon.
(A séta angol nyelvű. A részvételhez regisztráció szükséges. Jelentkezés hamarosan!)
(The event will be held in Müszi but not be open to public so any interest participants are invited to contact the organisation.)
20:00 Replay it, Central Europe! (lectures and panel discussion)
Budapest is the last stop of a series of workshops that examined towns of the Central and Eastern European region vacancy, with a particular focus on mapping vacancy and temporary uses. Workshop presentations from Katowice, Brno and Povázska Bystrica. (The event is open and free of charge.)
Lecturers:
Šárka Svobodová és Jarumzyl Sedlak (4AM Forum for Architecture and Media)
Peter Lenyi (PBlog, Považská Bystrica)
Szymon Żydek (Bec Zmiana, Warsaw)
Followed by discussion, moderated by Levente Polyák. The list of lecturers is not final.

WEDNESDAY
29th May 2013
10:00-19:00 Vacant City Workshop
International workshops of the Project Space Budapest and the Vacant Central Europe.
(The event will be held in Müszi but not be open to public so any interest participants are invited to contact the organisation.)
20:00 Replay it, Budapest! (lectures and panel discussion)

The lectures will focus on existing solutions which use vacant land and buildings for cultural or social purposes. (The event is open and free of charge.)
Lecturers:
Viktória Kulcsár (Jurányi inkubátorház)
Marcell Pátkai (PP Center)
Ádám Lendvai (Körút Fesztivál)
Followed by discussion, moderated by Levente Polyák. The list of lecturers is not final.

THURSDAY
30th May 2013
10:00-19:00 Vacant City Workshop
International workshops of the Project Space Budapest and the Vacant Central Europe.
(The event will be held in Müszi but not be open to public so any interest participants are invited to contact the organisation.)
18:00 Replay it, Vienna! (lecture and panel discussion)
Vienna has been dealing since a long time with the issue of recycling empty properties. The Vacancy Festival will host the IG Kultur Wien representatives who will speak about the challenges of the Austrian capital’s experiments. (The event is open and free of charge.)
Lecturers: Anna Hirschmann (IG Kultur Wien). The list of lecturers is not final.
20:00 Presentation of the workshop results
(The event is open and free of charge.)

FRIDAY
31st May 2013
10:00-13:00 Vacant City Workshop – Evaluation
International workshops of the Project Space Budapest and the Vacant Central Europe.
(The event will be held in Müszi but not be open to public so any interest participants are invited to contact the organisation.)
14:00-16:00 Vacant Csepel
Walk by Placcc Festival.
(The tour will be in English. Registration is needed, application available soon!)