site.bta1st Brand The City Urban Design Festival Opens in Plovdiv

The first-ever Brand The City urban design festival opened in Plovdiv, the organizers from the Punkt design agency said on Thursday.

The festival is a new international cultural event dedicated to the modern city, its visual identity and the role of design in the public environment, they emphasized. The festival’s programme will focus on the one-day Brand The City Forum, which will be held on February 27 at the Episcopal Basilica of Philippopolis. The event will bring together leading European design studios, experts and representatives of the public sector, who will share real examples and long-term models for developing urban identities through design, culture and public policies.

The programme on the festival's opening day includes an ensemble of six artistic interpretations of emblematic features of Plovdiv, which will transform the walls of the pedestrian passage connecting the Odeon of Philippopolis with the Episcopal Basilica of Philippopolis. On the same day, two exhibitions of contemporary urban design will also take place, the first entitled The Plovdiv Typeface and the second called Cities with Faces.

A series of workshops with active participation of citizens are also planned within the framework of the festival.