Culburb

The CULBURB is an urban cultural development programme initiated by the Prague-based Central European Architecture Centre (CCEA) in the suburbs of Central European capitals. The aim of the project was to examine the characteristics of suburban development around Central European cities, as well as to implement interventions that respond to the lives and needs of local communities, supporting and catalysing the development of those areas.

Among the known tools of urban development is the concept of "acupunctural" interventions - implementing programmes, artistic creations, and architectural developments that respond on a small scale to local, immediate issues, placing the long-term activities of development under local community control, relying on their cooperation.

In each city, five such interventions were carried out, a total of 30 projects in the areas surrounding Vienna, Budapest, Ljubljana, Bratislava, Prague, and Warsaw. In Hungary, the projects took place in Délegyháza, where, among other things, a school garden, a community sauna, and an oral history project titled Délegypercesek were implemented. The benches and network of stories designed from this research remain, to this day, important places of local memory.