The publication is the result of an IP Erasmus workshop held in Bucharest in March-April 2013. Why did we go to the periphery of Europe in order to look at the periphery of a city? We definitively found a good place to hide, something not so easy any more in a digitalised world. The other reason was to push the periphery into the very core of our consideration. We meant this not only in spatial terms. Both students and teachers – regardless of their discipline and country of origin – were forced to move into the periphery of their own competences. Is this still mine or already the other’s territory? And what if we do not know at all whose territory this might be?
The Bucharest periphery provided an excellent experimental ground for an interdisciplinary field test. This fragmented urban landscape was so simply so diverse and bizarre that none of the disciplines involved was able to apply a known formula. The momentum of crisis was the actual source of creative development.
