Heritage & Collective Memory
A constant aim across every project: preserving and valorising the material and immaterial heritage of the Fabric neighbourhood — its architecture, everyday life, disappearing social forms and collective memory. We document both buildings and rituals, capturing people and stories otherwise invisible, as a living archive of the district.
Related activities 18
Vanishing Forms of Social Life. A residency with Vasile Ernu
A series of "meditation-sketches" on the Fabric district, written by Vasile Ernu; the first text — "The Last Non Stop in Timișoara" — retraces the history of the round-the-clock corner kiosk.
The Cultural Lives of Infrastructures. A residency with Adrian Deoanca
An anthropological inquiry into how people in Fabric live together — in spite of, or thanks to, ethnic, religious and class differences.
Past and Present in the Same Photograph. A residency with Oana Stoian
A visual documentation of how the past coexists with the present in Fabric: the old architecture, the shops, the streets and the people who inhabit them.
Large Format. A residency with Vlad Dragne
Photography on sheet film and paper negatives: workshops, staged photographs, environmental portraits and street portraits made in the Fabric district.
Voices of Fabric #3
The neighbourhood newspaper of Casa Jakab Toffler, produced within the Social Fabric #3 programme: anthropological texts, architecture and landscape studies, photography.
Jakab Toffler's Report Palace Unveiled
Two August evenings in which the garden of Casa Jakab Toffler became a cultural space for the City Celebration: talks, debates, screenings, guided tours, music and a newspaper launch.
Carnaval de Traian. A residency with Arhiva de Sunet
The team behind the documentary podcast Arhiva de Sunet spent two weeks in Fabric with their microphones open. The result is a forty-minute special episode about Piața Traian.
The corner shops. A residency with Sorin Valea
A visual-anthropology inquiry into Fabric's small commercial initiatives, which produced the interview with "Tanti Gabi", published in "Voices of Fabric" #2.
Neighbourhood journalism. A residency with Vlad Marko Tolea
The residency produced the text of the "Married vs Unmarried" exhibition and the major pieces in issue 2 of the newspaper "Voices of Fabric".
A Brick-and-Clay Oven. A project with Vasile Leac
Building a brick-and-clay oven with writer Vasile Leac — rediscovering an almost-forgotten craft as a pretext to bring people together around work and fire.
The TerraPIA workshop with Alessandro Serra
An earth-building workshop — clay soils, straw reinforcement — testing the plaster for a future bread oven, followed by a public talk on architecture made from natural materials.
With Open Doors
Three evenings when the house stayed open to anyone: the opening of the "Femeia fără mână" installation, the residents' public presentations and two documentary screenings, free of charge.
Married vs Unmarried
A retrospective exhibition on the traditional amateur football match between married and unmarried men, begun in 1936 — an example of the Fabric district's intangible heritage.
Voices of Fabric
A neighbourhood newspaper published by Casa Jakab Toffler, born from Andrei Becheru's residency — 80+ interviews and photographs about how people live and remember the Fabric district.
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".
Crista Jianu Residency — a façade study for the Jakab Toffler Palace
An architecture residency devoted to the Jakab Toffler Palace: a detailed survey of the façades' decay and a restoration-and-colour proposal in three NCS tones — beige, white and a turquoise accent.
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.