Project promoter: VIRA Association
Project partners:
Project value: 169,402 EUR
Grant value (85% Grant SEE and 15% national budget): 683,746 lei (152,461.91 EUR)
Website: bucharesthousingstories.ro
“Living Houses. Cultural diversity of living spaces in Bucharest and surroundings” highlights the organization’s main instruments and objectives for a number of areas of interest: social research, documentary film and cultural education. The project contributed to raising awareness regarding the variety of forms and housing experiences in Bucharest and neighbouring surroundings as expressions of cultural diversity.
Bucharest Housing Stories is a documentary series about the diversity of housing experience in Bucharest and the neighbouring surroundings. The project was composed of seven episodes focused on different dwelling spaces and housing forms – blocks from the Communist period, new residential areas, ghetto neighbourhoods, dormitories, public spaces (homeless living), former nationalized houses and homes from suburban areas – and follows the diverse experiences of 21 characters. The project documented the cultural diversity of housing and living practices in the Romanian present day urban area. Each episode released on www.bucharesthousingstories.ro focuses on the diversity of vicinity experiences, on routine and on the relationships developed with the dwelling space by people with different profiles.
1. Bucharest Housing Stories
2. From street living to gated communities. Eight ways of housing in contemporary Bucharest
3. Lived-In Homes Stories
Bucharest housing stories web documentary is available here: http://bucharesthousingstories.ro/episoade/