Reading Rijeka (The Secret Ingredient - 30/04/14)

The Secret Ingredient

After a trip to Rijeka for a gathering to check in on the ongoing artistic programming Musagetes has been doing there, we talk cities, people, and soft architecture. The Promise of a City was an event that brought artists, architects, municipal figures, etc. to a number of exciting events, including a screening of Althea Theaburger’s Film Preuzmimo Benčić, walking tours of the city, and a series of discussions about Rijeka’s cultural dynamic and built environment. We chat about the real and imagined cities in connection with a number of books, including Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, Michel De Certeau’s The Practice of Everyday Life, and Lisa Robertson’s Occasional Work and Seven Walks From the Office for Soft Architecture. Based on our readings from Rijeka, how can we understand the changing city? Calvino, Italo. Invisible Cities. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974. Certeau, Michel de. “Walking the City.” The Practice of Everyday Life. 3rd Revised Edition ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. Robertson, Lisa. Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture. Portland: Publication Studio, 2003.