A community festival celebrating the city’s built heritage and common values
Come in! – Talking Houses / Shared Stories
The ‘Come in! – talking houses shared stories’ URBACT Transfer Network is centred on the good practice entitled Weekend of Open Houses. This is a community festival in Budapest called “Budapest100” celebrating the city’s built heritage and common values. The Budapest100 community festival was initiated in 2011 by the Open Society Archives and the Contemporary Architecture Centre, celebrating buildings turning 100-years old that year during a thematic weekend. Since 2015 the celebration of 100-year-old buildings is not possible anymore due to WWI, so each year the focus is on different themes (2017: buildings along the Danube, 2018: buildings around squares).
The main aim of the good practice is primarily not to protect buildings, but to encourage civilian power alongside the built environment as a catalyst. Its broad mission is to initiate a common discussion about urban revival and to inspire the establishment and strengthening of residential communities and to take action against urban social isolation by using cultural heritage and built environment as a tool.
