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Žižkov freight station
Vlčková, Jovanka ; PROKOP, Petr (advisor) ; SULŽENKO, Jiří (referee)
Diploma thesis is focused on Žižkov freight station and its transformation to cultural center. It introduces its characteristics, operation and construction. It further explores the process of becoming a cultural heritage site. It describes various obstacles including complicated relations and interests of owner of the site, developers, municipality, politicians and at last but not least non-profit organisations and citizens' initiatives. It is a study of an environment, which requires to be understood prior to any further project planning. The thesis also includes concrete vision of the cultural center, introduces involved subjects - future inhabitants of the freight station and depicts the property and financial situation of the complex. This part of the thesis also includes one concrete project, which is to be organized and run by the author herself. Further on the thesis includes examples of similar cultural centers, which are already in operation both in the Czech Republic and abroad, and which prove to have positive impact on the society, art community and economics of its surroundings. Future of Žižkov freight station is merely a fraction in the issue of conversion of industrial spaces in general. Nevertheless it remains an unique opportunity to build up an extraordinary project in one of the most impressive industrial environments of Prague.
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INDUSTRIAL VENUES IN PRAGUE
Blumentrit, Václav ; SVOBODOVÁ, Doubravka (advisor) ; VÁCLAVOVÁ, Denisa (referee)
Qualification work Industrial venues in Prague is documenting the beginnings of cultural activities of ten converted buildings on the area of the Capital. First seven - Studio ALTA, Trafačka Gallery, Karlín Hall, Underground Venue, Hall C and DOX - are mapped closely thanks to avaliability of informations and will of theirs representatives. Three of described venues - La Fabrika, Kokpit Café and Club Blink Excelent - are for lack of data or short time of existence described only externaly. This thesis is trying to set these cultural facilities to mutual context and also to the context of Capial city Prague. In closure it sums up elements which are for their existence in common for all of them.
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