Workshop on the investment projects of Košice ECOC 2013 – use of rainwater in the city

Workshop on the investment projects of Košice ECOC 2013 – use of rainwater in the city

Košice, a candidate for the title of European Capital of Culture (ECOC) 2013, has also included an ecological dimension of water and its use into its application project. Rainwater is in the spotlight of a two-day international workshop held on June 25-26, 2008 at the Barracks/Kulturpark in Kukučinova Street in Košice. To learn more about the workshop subject, please attend the briefing of the workshop participants at the Barracks/Kulturpark on June 26 at noon.

The workshop is construed as a two-day encounter of foreign and domestic experts engaged in the environment science, urbanism and architecture, and is to end in the preparation of the underlying details of the specific project applications within the investment programmes run by the Košice´s application for nomination as ECOC 2013. The application projects include: Cultural Sites on Margin – SPOTS, BLUE PARK and BARRACKS/KULTURPARK.

“The participants to the workshop will work together to find the best solution to the implementation of some eco-systems at the referred-to sites while proceeding from the conception set out by the Košice Water Protocol for 21st Century, which was approved by the City Council in 2005. The document defines frameworks of good management of water so that the rainwater could not go down the sewer system and continue to increase the risk of flood, but could improve the conditions of healthy life style right in the cities. The innovative conception has set itself the aim of preparing specific implementation of new water culture in the urban environment in order to make the best of the very idea of the Košice protocol within a short-time horizon in the real situation of the cities and their development. The international workshop will be part of the said processes and will also support the environmental line of the Košice candidacy,” said Peter Beňo, the co-author of the conception of the environmental line of the Košice ECOC 2013 project.

On June 25, between 4 p.m. and 8 p.m., the participants to the workshop will take a view of the Barracks/Kulturpark to see a pilot application project of the Košice Water Protocol at the KVP housing estate, they will have a look at the facility at the heat exchange station in Trieda SNP which is intended for cultural activities and they will also stop by at the future Blue Park to be located in the Anička holiday resort area. The second day of the workshop will be devoted to brainstorming and drawing specification of details of the implementation of the mentioned investment projects. 
Workshop topics:
Rainwater management
Applications in the urban environment
Conception of the Blue Park

Workshop participants:
Michal Kravčík (NGO People and Water)
Eugen Tóth (NGO People and Water)
Pavol Varga (NGO People and Water)
Marco Schmidt (University of Technology, Berlin)
Raphael Ziegler (European College for Liberal Art, Berlin)
Martin Bucholtz (University of Technology, Berlin) PO
Alessandro Mazzota (Poly-technical University, Torino)
Jan Pokorný (ENKI, Czech Republic)
Jaroslav Tesliar (Regional Development Agency, Košice)
Ivan Matúšek (EKOSUR, s.r.o, Trnava)
Michal Hladký (coordinator for the ECOC 2013 investment projects)
Peter Beňo (co-author of the ECOC 2013 environmental line)
Martin Gavlík (technical documentation of the buildings)
Representative of the Office of chief Architect (invited Martin Jerguš)
Representative of Listed Buildings Authority Košice (invited Radoslav Mokrýš)
ECOC representative (Marek Kolarčík)
Find more information with Peter Beňo, Tel.:  0904 195 889, E-mail: peter.beno@kosice13.sk