Street is one of the main actors in urban pulsation and urban space. It is a communication line – in material and immaterial sense. Each one is different, individual - wide or narrow, with more or less traffic, more or less interesting - depending on from where it comes and where it leads, what is going on in it. Some of them are neglected - because of their location, by mistake, even if they are beautiful. As if somebody would ‘cross them out’. One of such streets id Križevniška Street in Ljubljana. At the south it leads to an ‘offence’ – to the crossing of Zoisova Road. But on its other end we can glimpse into a beautiful garden, identified in our minds also with artistic light installations presented at the Lighting Guerrilla Festival.

 

Under the mentorship of Prof Tomaž Novljan, PhD, the head of Colour in Architecture and Light in Architecture study programmes at the Faculty of Architecture of the Ljubljana University, national and international students of have been exploring relations between the interior space of the garden and the exterior space of the street. By means of five different lighting effects they plan to interactively – and somewhat provokingly – connect with the passers-by. They intend to redirect the attention from the main, more exposed and visited façade facing the Francoske Revolucije Square, to the corner and the side façade looking at the Križevniška Street. Since the existing window frames in this façade enable the view of the garden from five angles, they will have the main role during the festival, acting as a kind of interface between the public space of the street and the semi-public space of the garden, while at the same time being a sort of lighting magnet investing this part of the Križevniška Street with a little more ‘urban’ character.

Co-produced by Faculty of Architecture and Festival Ljubljana.