SAPROMAT

Inter-block Wanderings

BG · EN

AUDIO WALK
2023
Sofia

An audio walk by Konstantin Georgiev and SAPROMAT. A collaboration between Sapromat Association and the Center for Social Vision; part of the public programme Constitutions.

The walk turns our eyes and minds towards old and new questions about urban space, and looks at cities not only as places to live in but also as central industrial and transport hubs. At times these functions exist side by side, and the boundaries between them provoke a range of reactions. The project observes some of the ways in which these zones of contact have been tamed and aestheticised in one Sofia neighbourhood.

The audio guide is in Bulgarian only. Play it only if you are at the location, and follow the instructions in it.

STARTING POINT
13A Panayot Volov Street (by the green space)

Inter-block Wanderings
Inter-block Wanderings
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Inter-block Wanderings
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Inter-block Wanderings
Inter-block Wanderings
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Inter-block Wanderings
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Inter-block Wanderings
Inter-block Wanderings
Inter-block Wanderings
Inter-block Wanderings

Photography: Martin Atanasov

  • First walk — Inter-block Wanderings
  • First walk — Inter-block Wanderings
  • First walk — Inter-block Wanderings
  • First walk — Inter-block Wanderings
  • First walk — Inter-block Wanderings
  • First walk — Inter-block Wanderings
  • First walk — Inter-block Wanderings
  • First walk — Inter-block Wanderings
  • First walk — Inter-block Wanderings
  • First walk — Inter-block Wanderings
  • First walk — Inter-block Wanderings
  • First walk — Inter-block Wanderings
  • First walk — Inter-block Wanderings
  • First walk — Inter-block Wanderings

First walk, 2023

  • Second walk — Inter-block Wanderings
  • Second walk — Inter-block Wanderings
  • Second walk — Inter-block Wanderings
  • Second walk — Inter-block Wanderings
  • Second walk — Inter-block Wanderings
  • Second walk — Inter-block Wanderings
  • Second walk — Inter-block Wanderings
  • Second walk — Inter-block Wanderings
  • Second walk — Inter-block Wanderings
  • Second walk — Inter-block Wanderings

Second walk, 2024

Credits

Author of the walk: Konstantin Georgiev
Environment and realisation: the SAPROMAT collective
Photography: Martin Atanasov

Konstantin Georgiev is a doctoral candidate in anthropology at Rice University (Houston, Texas), with a project on the imagination and the environment of city and nature through the history of a former research institute in eastern Siberia. With Alexander Popov he co-founded Kosmotehnika — a collective exploring the intersections of science fiction, the social sciences and the humanities.

Further information

The project is a collaboration between Sapromat Association and the Center for Social Vision and is part of the public programme Constitutions.

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