Michael Sorkin’s former students recall the spirit of their loving professor (article, EN)

On the first death anniversary of New York-based architect Michael Sorkin, four of his students reminisce fond moments and the biggest learning from their mentor.

articleMilota SidorovaMarch 25, 2021architecture, urban planning

It Has Resonated (Interview_CZ)

Once you realize it, it makes a profound sense: men and women use the public space differently. Transport, playground, but also cemeteries. But city planners often do not think about the different needs of people. Milota Sidorová is in the Czech Republic and Slovakia in order to change it. A graduated landscape architect has combined urban planning with sociology and other humanities, and offers another recipe to change it - to help female architects stand out.

articleMilota SidorovaJune 16, 2019gender equality, urban planning, architecture, feminism

Conference: Chief Architect: right model for Nitra (workshop_SK)

Facilitated workshop on the renewed position of chief architect in Nitra. The panel was part of the all-day conference organized by the City of Nitra.

moderationMilota SidorovaFebruary 14, 2019architecture, conference

Restless Cities: Lessons from Central Europe, Bratislava (book launch_EN)

Restless Cities: Lessons from Central Europe is a publication edited by Milota Sidorová and Zdeňka Lammelová that reflects a year-long training programme of the Prague office of the Heinrich-Böll Foundation focusing on understanding the political aspects of urban planning in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. It consists of four thematic chapters that offer introductions into social housing in Brno, participatory processes in Prague, urban development of Bratislava and influencing strategies in Budapest.

article, networkingMilota SidorovaNovember 22, 2018urban planning, democracy, architecture

Pecha Kucha Night: Fair-Shared City (presentation_SK)

Slovak native studied among other things. landscape architecture and urban planning (thanks to Fulbright scholarship even in New York). How accommodating is the urban space to its inhabitants? And are we equal in it? Why do women rarely appear in the role of experts on urban themes and what benefits do they have?

lecturesMilota SidorovaApril 6, 2018architecture, gender mainstreaming, gender equality, dem

Education in Architecture, Debate, Bratislava

Discussion on how architecture and urban planning should be taught (not only) at universities so the students are able to respond to current urban challenges. Guests: Petra Havelska (UK, SK), Ahmed Belkhodja (PT), Lukas Sip (SK). Moderator: Milota Sidorova, Language: English

Brownfields, Those common and creative ones, Prague (lecture)

When we are talking about brownfields we tend to confuse them with creative clusters and there is a certain unstoppable idealism that each brownfield can be revitalized by cultural interference. Let's have a little methodical insight into brownfield status quo in Czech Republic and Prague particularly. Language: Slovak

lectures, prednaskyMilota SidorovaJanuary 19, 2016Fresh Eyelecture, prednaska, brownfields, urbanizmus, ur, architecture, architektura