Open Tours: Meet me at the Germia Department Store

Throughout the last twenty years, Kosovo’s wish is to politically and administratively modernise the public domain, through a top-down and neoliberal approach to transforming the city’s urban space. Prishtina’s public space is developed in peculiar ways, as you can see through the forms the streets take, the squares, roofs, terraces and other urban elements mutating and growing, often one on top of the other. It’s spaces, through the influence of privatisation and neoliberal politics on the city’s environment, resist various forms of oppression, from social and economic to cultural and architectural. The reclamation of public spaces in Kosovo’s capital was a key ambition to be investigated and engaged in the Manifesta 14 Prishtina urban and artistic programme.

Registration for these tours is at the front desk at the Grand Hotel, and places are offered on a first-come, first-served basis up until 15 minutes before the tour commences.

Tours are offered in both English and Albanian – the mediator will adapt depending on the group.