With this public discussion, we continue to explore human interaction with the city and this time we want to focus on the words we use to describe the city in everyday life. In the professional circle of architects and urban planners, much attention is paid to visual images, while the statements that people use every day to describe their environment are perceived as a given and something separated from spatial experience.
Orientation in the city, meeting places, the reputation of neighbourhoods, and even time and distance are measured by linguistic constructions that we repeat, often without even thinking about where they come from and how they shape the idea of the city. In order to understand the language of the city, we invited art critic Borys Filonenko and writer Ostap Slyvynsky for an open discussion at the KHSA and welcome everyone to join our conversation about how words and ideas shape the space around us.
