Katarina Sevic, Budapest: Contact Zones versus Turbo City. The case of Budapest and Novi Sad (working title)

I will give a parallel overview on the Contact Zone and Turbo City phenomena in Budapest (Hungary) and Novi Sad (Yugoslavia). I will document these phenomena with photos and talk about certain places and initiatives of both cities. This is neither an academic analysis, nor an approach from an architectural or urbanist point of view. The collected phenomena can rather be seen as observations of somebody (me) who happens to have a bilingual background and accordingly a comparative view on these two cities in transition. I will show examples of contact zones and of turbo city developments as parallelly co-existing value systems in each of the cites. They probably mirror my own mental map, as well as the reason why I work on the formation of contact zones such as Dinamo, an art space in Budapest.