The Cube is a simple unit system consisting of an iron structure with dimensions of 3x3x3m. The structure can be enlarged in any direction and shaped into a multitude of compositions. Using different panel variants for individual sides, the Cube becomes a multifunctional platform adaptable for various uses, ranging from one-off cultural venues, long-term creative work places, or testing a model of some…

The Institute of Urban Development suggests standardizing the procedure for issuing mandatory investment activities for the capital city of Bratislava. The suggested amendment would be implemented in the form of a decision of the Mayor, which would describe the processes and procedures, define those responsible and determine deadlines for the whole process, as well as some of its parts.

IUD suggests to standardize…

A game that can be played by passersby and passengers waiting for the bus under the SNP bridge every night. Players may play on the alien or human team. The aim of both aliens and mankind is to get the SNP bridge, a key location on Earth, under their control. In the evening and at night a black hole – a kind of…

A simple and technically easily implementable intervention is to run a dedicated City Data Catalogue for people to find information easily.

The data is often (and rightly) linked from the city website. On the other hand, in recent years people could have noticed the data catalogue of the SR (http://data.gov.sk/), as well as similar catalogues of other cities:

- Vienna: https://open.wien.at/site/datenkatalog/

- London:…

The digital intervention consists of documenting the history of Bratislava on a scientific basis and a subsequent transformation thereof into software providing an opportunity to walk around Bratislava in several key moments of selected historical eras. It would be possible to compare the past and present states. Besides creating a 3D environment based on a physical-space study of the historical documents, the project aims at capturing the…

With the development of digital communication, the post office annually registers a decrease in the number of mailboxes, but also a significantly different fulfillment of their capacities. Although mailboxes represent a sort of “endangered species”, worries about their disappearance are without merit. The number of mailboxes is ruled by a binding ordinance where mailbox accessibility principles are governed by rules similar to the…

Tree alleys

Nowadays, the main roads of Bratislava are full of billboards, old, dying greenery and dry grass. What about planting kilometers of plane tree alleys along those main roads? The trees are able to absorb huge quantities of dust and noise. In summer, they could offer pleasant shade, cooling down all the overheated town. They could produce tons of oxygen where there…

Institute of Urban Development suggests automated processing and issuance of land-use information (hereinafter “LUI”). The suggestion uses existing data in conjunction with a server-based application. The application should provide LUI by an informative way for the public free of charge via the website (same as the extract from the land register), simultaneously, it would generate LUI, which would be issued by request in…

The square in front of the Old Market is waiting. It is an urban landscape, a part of infrastructure. The focus of our decisions. It represents the culture as well as business. It allows movement and residence. It is a dynamically repeating cycle of seasonal activities. It is a chance to embrace the productive landscape in itself. To become an educational element in…

The intervention aims to organize and publish data on the budget plan and subsequent real performance of the city (list of orders, contracts, and invoices) for further use at OpenSpending.org. This makes is easy for people to obtain an idea of the budget and provides a basic analytical tool for better understanding of the budget; for example, see older visualizations for 2009 – 2012: https://openspending.org/bratislava-city Read More >