
Made in Fabric / #social fabric
The founding year's programme of free workshops and events in the courtyards of the Jakab Toffler Palace and in Piața Traian — from drawing, fanzines and sound-making to community meals, picnics, debates and film screenings.
2022 was the year the house learned to belong to the neighbourhood. In May, the newly founded association won two "Impuls în Comunitate" municipal grants at once from Centrul de Proiecte Timișoara — "Social Fabric", with 149,814 lei, and "Făcute în Fabric", with 74,954 lei. With them, the courtyards of the Jakab Toffler Palace and Piața Traian filled up with free workshops for children, young people and adults.
There were two editions of Atelier Creion, the drawing workshop, an Atelier de Fanzine for zine-making and an Atelier Sgomot devoted to sound creation, while the linden tree in the courtyard was scanned in three dimensions, in an intervention called "Tei 3D". The kitchen had its place too: the Delikat Essen culinary workshops always continued into community meals, alongside the Cultura Cafelei coffee sessions and the yoga classes. The series was completed by a community-activation workshop and the publication that followed it, the Kit de activare comunitară.
On 16 July, a Picnic Party closed the two weeks of the architecture students' practice. In Piața Traian, the programme stepped out of the courtyard with a public debate and a book launch. The year also included the music and performance event Rekabu und Sillyconductor — "Always a Party" — and documentary film screenings made together with One World Romania and Bloc Zero.
The programme was co-organised with Minitremu and funded by Centrul de Proiecte Timișoara, and the culinary workshops were run together with Delikat Essen.
Within this programme

Social Fabric: The House with Monkeys
Basca Theatre's documentary-theatre piece about the stories of the Fabric district and of the Ștefania Palace, performed in the courtyard of Casa Jakab Toffler, with free entry.

Voices of Fabric. A residency with Andrei Becheru
A research-and-creation residency in which photographer Andrei Becheru gathered over eighty interviews and photographs from Fabric, later assembled into the first issue of the neighbourhood newspaper "Voices of Fabric".

An Architecture Residency. Bogdan Isopescu
An architecture residency hosted by Casa Jakab Toffler in 2022, recorded on the timeline of the association's first year.

A Joint Residency. Paul Breazu & Cătălin Matei
A joint residency hosted by Casa Jakab Toffler in 2022, recorded on the timeline of the association's first year.

A Residency. Sorina Vasilescu
A residency hosted by Casa Jakab Toffler in 2022, recorded by name on the timeline of the association's first year.

A Residency. Vlad Cadar
A residency hosted by Casa Jakab Toffler in 2022, recorded by name on the timeline of the association's first year.

Voices of Fabric #1
The first issue of Casa Jakab Toffler's neighbourhood newspaper, the outcome of Andrei Becheru's residency: interviews and photographs about how people live in and remember the Fabric district.