<p><strong>ONE ARCHITECTURE WEEK 2016 enters the socialist collective housing neighbourhood</strong></p> <p> </p> <p><em>and discusses the transforming power of citizen participation in forming the urban environment</em></p> <p> </p> <p>The 9th edition of ONE ARCHITECTURE WEEK enters the socialist collective housing neighbourhood and will focus on the mechanisms of citizen participation. For the main location and the subject of the festival the organizers chose Trakia, a typical Bulgarian socialist panel-block neighbourhood from the 70's. With the motto <em>ACTION! Towards a neighbourhood practice </em>and a significant program OAW aims to go beyond a festival's pattern, and is already acting on the ground developing tools in an attempt to start a neighbourhood practice. </p> <p>The official opening will be on 30th September, the so called "Day of Trakia". The festival's program is full with different activities between 30.09 and the weekend of 8-9 October, when the Forum will gather 16 speakers from 14 countries.</p> <p>The festival will explore and learn from the everyday experiences of living together, accumulated by a socialist collective housing neighbourhood. The central topic which is being interpreted by research, exhibitions, interventions and a forum, is the transforming power of citizen participation in forming the urban environment.</p> <p>The curator of ONE ARCHITECTURE WEEK 2016 is the Romanian architecture studio <a href="http://www.studiobasar.ro/?lang=en">studioBASAR</a>.</p> <p>The main events during the festival will be situated in a former hall, in the empty space between the first three panel blocks of Trakia.</p>