Students should be enabled to understand the problems of a poor municipality with serious decline. The rich local culture which led to diversified building traditions from Russian, Ukrainian and Romanian groups that settle in C.A.Rosetti will be presented to participants. The exploration of the fluvial landscape of the Danube Delta is another target.
The excursion will take place in cooperation with students and teachers of the Ion Mincu University of Architecture and Urbanism in Bucharest. We will explore the landscape and settlement structure of C.A.Rosetti, perhaps the poorest municipality in the entire EU. There are five villages, two of them Sfi¿tofca and Periprava have Russian speaking inhabitants, in Letea most people speak Ukrainian and in C.A.Rosetti and Cardon villages the population speaks Romanian. During the last 20 years the municipality lost 40% of its population. It is difficult to keep municipal services alive.
Individual Travel Arrangement: We will meet on Monday, Feb. 8th, in the provincial capital Tulcea at the bus terminal at 12:30. At 1 p.m. we take the boat to Periprava a several hours boat trip. We will transfer to Sfi¿tofca where we will stay with the local population in their houses. We will have three days of excursion or optional the possibility to take part in a design studio supervised by Romanian colleagues. The trip back from Periprava/Sulina is on Friday, Feb. 12th, 6 a.m. and we will arrive at noon in Tulcea where the excursion ends. Cost: appr. € 200.- for transportation in Danube Delta, lodging and full board (Organisation via Sfi¿tofca Art Association). Calculate additional costs for arriving individually in Tulcea!
Register via e-mail: meinhard.breiling@tuwien.ac.at or http://tiss.tuwien.ac.at latest by January 15th , 2016
a) An analysis of the settlement structure with an inventory of buildings in different states of degradation should be undertaken.
b) Together with Romanian students ideas will be developed on how to conserve and improve the traditional buildings. A joint publication with individual student contributions as a result of the excursion is targeted.
For preparatory reading:http://www.breiling.org/lect/euamende/quellen/Sfistofca_Report_Dan_2010.pdf http://www.breiling.org/lect/euamende/quellen/090923_tuwien_exkursionsbericht_donaudelta.pdf http://www.breiling.org/lect/euamende/EUamEnde_Publikation_Version1_150427.pdf
