Urban Artefacts
Project details
- Year
- 2024
- Programme
- Bachelor – Graphic Design
- Practices
- Honours Programme
- Minor
- Visual Culture
About the Project
The “Urban Artefacts” is a project, archiving the constantly changing urban graphics and mysterious objects of the streets of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria. From the creative ways of advertising private businesses, to the strategical placement of big water containers, claiming a parking spot.
The focus of the project is both on the colorfulness of the city with all its details and compositions, and on its inhabitants – with their traces and interventions in the public space. These mutations done by both the residents and the visitors of the city are creating not only the overall exterior of the streets, but also forming the soul of the town.
The archive aims to create an online space for sharing and appreciating the countless colorful cultural artefacts, covering the streets of Veliko Tarnovo. The users will have the chance not only to browse through the archive, but also to contribute to it with a picture.
The project, not only visualizes the character of Veliko Tarnovo, but also creates a space for its inhabitants to reflect on their relationship with it. The totality of the colorful graphics and architectural mutations are just a small sample of the contemporary Bulgarian visual culture.
The fragmentation and grayness of this former working-class town represent only an empty field on which its inhabitants can leave their personal mark, adapting not themselves to the city, but the city to their needs; creating a collective portrait of a city with a colorful historical and cultural past.
- link to the website >
https://www.gradskiartefakti.com/
