20/06/2018
In
Neri Gianfranco
Title of the work
Brutalist clouds
Short description of the work
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Key words
Brutalist – Clouds- Skopje
20/06/2018
In
Amaro Ottavio
Title of the work
Passato Presente
Short description of the work
Key words
Rovina – Internità – Temporalità
Section
Drawing
20/06/2018
In
Stojchev Gorjan
Title of the work
Homage to a city
Short description of the work
One square many possibilities, transforming it onto the x,y,z axes attributes to the complexity of form that math these architectural monuments into existence, giving a homage through sound and form.
Key words
Programming – Painting – Contemporary
Section
Video
20/06/2018
In
Grundy Helen
Title of the work
Naturist Brutalist (2018)
Short description of the work
I have created a digital collage where a Brutalist tower becomes at one with a natural landscape.
Key words
Collage – Brutalist – Natural
Section
Drawing
19/06/2018
In
Rafailovska A. Samardjiev D.
Title of the work
Brutally Fractured Patterns
Short description of the work
The disastrous natural and cultural origin of the brutally fractured patterns on the urban map of Skopje, seems to signify a scarified palimpsest of conflicting architectural layers. Nonetheless, to locate a certain historical stratum in the urban development of the city of Skopje as the original urban physiognomy is a highly questionable act. This exit from the architectural realm and the transgression towards traditional embroidery patterns allows us to critically maneuver at a safe distance from conflicting architectural viewpoints and pull the loose threads of the
urban map of Skopje from outside. That way we might employ embroidery as an ornamental way of stitching together historically and politically torn and fractured architectural patterns in new creative contexts. One might ask what is the relation of traditional embroidery and brutalist architecture, is not the escapade into the domain of textiles too safe of a distance to be of any relevance to contemporary theory of architecture ?
Key words
Brutalli – Patterns – Skopje
Section
Text
19/06/2018
In
Hristova Popovska Aneta
Title of the work
Trainspotting
Short description of the work
The anthropological standpoint that sees the particular reading of the ‘modern’ embedded in its key conceptual resource, the idea of the dynamic ‘cognitive map’, is crucial for understanding of the processes that influence the paradigm shift from the traditional to the modern reading of the city and by which the particular phases of the modern discourse can be identified. In the theory of perception the ‘movement’ defined by the Athens chapter as a synonym of the ‘functional city’ gains the role of a visual instrument, by which it is possible to create legible visual matrixes and then transmit them into a complex mental picture of the surrounding. The particular cinematic sequences of that picture generated by the transportation systems, create visual narratives whose strength lies in the permanent production of new interpretations of meanings. Two iconic buildings in Skopje from different generations of the Modern are benchmarking the local discourse paradigm shifts from ‘early modern’ through ‘doctrinaire modern’ to ‘late modern’: The Skopje Railway Station (Velimir Gavrilović, 1937) and the Transportation Centre (Kenzo Tange, 1980). Hereby, we present them as narrative tributes to the image of modern Skopje.
Key words
Cognitive map – Perceptual form – Visual narrative
Section
Text
19/06/2018
In
Fatigato Lecoeur Acampora
Title of the work
Lost In Translation
Short description of the work
Skopje an Europan Capitale through non sense ʺantiquisationʺ or unique European brutalism belonging to a web of extraordinary utopian project? By choosing a neoclassical decorum that is only a falsification of architecture and politics, Skopje did not make the choice of a ʺRenaissanceʺ, as Tange suggested in 1965, but of a great spring backwards, as others cities have done before. Rather than joining communities by a system architecture, which could be strengthened, but which made its identity, the capital chose to freeze its architectural future with the falsification of its image. And to ally itself with the merciless impoverishment of its values without bet on its European uniqueness. Who wins: false democracy of popular architecture or the populism of a false architecture?
1. The life of forms in architecture
2. Erasing potemkin’s dream
3. Skopje neo-animal brutalist capital
4. Greetings from skopje
Key words
Democracy – Falsification – Neo-brutalism form
Section
Drawing
19/06/2018
In
Russo Antonello
Title of the work
Il Campo di Skopje
Short description of the work
Lettura inedita della planimetria urbana di Skopje ottenuta dalla elaborazione digitale dell’incisione di Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Le antichità romane, Tav.II, del 1784.
Key words
Frammento – Città – Composizione
Section
Drawing
19/06/2018
In
Cattaneo Elisa Cristiana
Title of the work
42° 0′ 0″ N, 21° 26′ 0″ E
Short description of the work
Ricomposizione in distorsione degli ologrammi urbani.
Key words
Geografia – Ologrammi – Landscape
Section
Drawing
19/06/2018
In
Degli Esposti Lorenzo
Title of the work
Skopje2099
Short description of the work
Il disegno raffigura l’utopia di Tange realizzata nell’anno 2099.
Key words
Utopia – Tange – 2099
Section
Drawing
19/06/2018
In
Galofaro Luca
Title of the work
Atlas of Imagination
Short description of the work
Images is political says Didi-Huberman because dismantle, recompose, reassemble and in this way is a critical device of analysis. Then composing an atlas of dialectical images means opening a reflection, going beyond a single imagine, effectively defining a colloquial structure.
Key words
Atlas – Montage – Images
Section
Photo
19/06/2018
In
Baglivo Carmelo
Title of the work
Skopje – Roma
Short description of the work
Skopje – Roma 5 punti
1. Tutto si trasforma attraverso logiche di accumulazione – Accumulazione come strategia di crescita.
2. No all’ideologia come imposizione di un pensiero unico – Ideologia come apertura.
3. Fine della storia come sequenza temporale – Inizio della storia come accumulazione atemporale.
4. Progetto architettonico sempre figlio dell’Utopia – Utopia realizzata su cui è lecito riscrivere.
5. Accumulare sulle utopie degli altri – Processi d’innesti di riscrittura.
Key words
Accumulazione – Immaginario – Utopia
Section
Drawing
19/06/2018
In
Ginex G. Trimboli F.
Title of the work
1010_leaft
Short description of the work
L’albero è foglia e la foglia è albero_ la casa è città e la città è casa. Un albero è un albero ma è anche un enorme foglia. Un foglia è un foglia, ma è anche un piccolo albero. Una città non è una città se non è anche una grande casa. Una casa è una casa solo se è anche una piccola città.
Key words
Foglia – Casa – Città
Section
Drawing
19/06/2018
In
Capozzi Renato
Title of the work
Brutalismo tettonico
Short description of the work
Il disegno vuole sondare, attraverso la rielaborazione di una foto di Lucia La Giusa del MoCA – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Klyszewski, Mokrzynski e Wierzbicki del 1970, la possibilità di riconoscere anche nell’apparato figurale brutalista, di norma affidato alla parete, un assetto tettonico. Un assetto che connette in maniera evidente e riconoscibile alcuni elementi della costruzione (colonne, travi, vetrate) e non solo masse continue e opache per consentire, come in nel caso del MoCA per la sua posizione elevata, una apertura ala paesaggio urbano e naturale.
Key words
Tettonica – Elementi – Apertura
Section
Drawing
19/06/2018
In
Fusco Alessandro Fabio
Title of the work
Dis-continuity
Short description of the work
Modern’s fragments between continuity and discontinuity.
Key words
Continuity – Discontinuity – Fragments
Section
Drawing
19/06/2018
In
Marini Sara
Title of the work
A Tame Modernism
Short description of the work
The text proposes a reflection on the dimension of tame modernism. The realization of Kenzo Tange’s project for Skopje is read as evidence of the reconciliation between the heroic dimension and the domestic condition of the project. These two opposite natures, which the fragment of modernity holds together, continue to face each other inside but at the same time propose a possible useful cohabitation to the paths of contemporary architecture.
Key words
Kenzo Tange – Domestico – Modernità
Section
Text
19/06/2018
In
Positano A. Konstantinova J.
Title of the work
Skopje. A Transitional Model
Text by Jana Konstantinova and Anna Positano – Photographs by Anna Positano
Short description of the work
Skopje is a case study to analyse contemporary architecture and identity in the Balkans, in the light of the current Macedonian political affairs and urban transformations. Several cultures and long-lasting migrations shaped Skopje’s urban fabric. Yet the city is mostly the result of political choices of the last fifty years. In 1963 the global political response to Skopje’s earthquake profoundly affected the city. As the Cold War reached its climax, international efforts to rebuild the city had the objective to pursue a global political stability. With the support of the United Nations, the Yugoslavian government adopted Kenzo Tange’s reconstruction plan of brutalist buildings, which made Skopje a modern, utopian metropolis. When Macedonia gained independence in 1991, nationalist politics changed the identity of Skopje’s architecture. The Socialist, international post-quake architecture could not represent Macedonian identity any more. Along with slow political transition, in 2010 the government announced a plan of urban renovation, Skopje 2014. The plan is turning Skopje’s brutalist heritage into neo-neoclassical buildings. The new confused and scattered built environment takes apart the civil society from architecture. This in combination with a young, uncertain political situation affects people’s personal and socio-cultural values. The plan attracted strong criticism since its announcement. Protesters have taken to the streets of Skopje and recently have turned into a Colourful Revolution against the general cultural austerity. Similar to other former Socialist countries, Skopje appears unable to re-examine and evaluate its architectural past. A city that once was the model of global architectural solidarity, now offers a case study of transitional post-Socialist dystopia.
Key words
Brutalism – Transformation – Politics
Section
Text
19/06/2018
In
Batakoja Meri
Title of the work
Skopje’s Mega Block: modern architecture as an art of grafting
Short description of the work
The formative idea of “grafting” or “graftage” is originally a horticultural technique of inserting tissues from one plant to another in order for them to join together and continue to grow as a single plant. The technique of “graftage” in architectural context would mean that a new architecture is being interpolated over an old one, but by a set of treatments used, the different architectural interventions function as a single entity. It is presented in this text in the context of modern architecture of one singular urban block of Skopje.
Key words
Grafting – Modern architecture – Skopje
Section
Text
19/06/2018
In
Naumovski Maksim
Title of the work
Dispositif
Short description of the work
Michel Foucault
“What I’m trying to pick out with this term is, firstly, a thoroughly heterogeneous ensemble consisting of discourses, institutions, architectural forms, regulatory decisions, laws, administrative measures, scientific statements, philosophical, moral and philanthropic propositions–in short, the said as much as the unsaid. Such are the elements of the apparatus. The apparatus itself is the system of relations that can be established between these elements.” “The Confession of the Flesh” (1977) interview. In Power/Knowledge Selected Interviews and Other Writings (ed Colin Gordon), 1980: pp. 194–228.
Key words
Infrastructure – Territory – Apparatus
Section
Drawing
19/06/2018
In
Prati Carlo
Title of the work
Forma Brutalista
Short description of the work
Forma Brutalista è ispirato al brutalismo slavo con particolare riguardo al progetto del Museo della Macedonia realizzato nel 1972 da Kiril Muratovskj e Mimoza Nestorova-Tomić.
Key words
Brutalismo – Progetto – Utopia
Section
Drawing
19/06/2018
In
Noev Igor
Title of the work
Walking on broken glass
Typological shifts of Skopje and the continuing discontinuity of its urban landscape
Short description of the work
The essay introduces a particular historical frame, interpreting the urban development of the city of Skopje as a self-referential paradox. Within its turbulent history, Skopje survived three significant typological shifts represented with the urban designs by the teams of Josif Mihajlovic, Ludjek Kubes and Kenzo Tange. Partially carrying out and later abandoning these projects, led Skopje to reawake each time portraying a new typological narrative.
In this context, the so called “project Skopje2014” is interpreted as the latest narrative which continues the discontinuity of the urban landscape. In addition, it poses a great ethical challenge for the urban thinkers in Skopje at present time.
Model 01 – “Traditional” Skopje 1890
Model 02 – De-facto to De jure 1929
Model 03 – From “Genius loci” to “Zeitgeist” 1948
Model 04 – From “Modern” to “Postmodern”
Key words
Skopje – Typological shifts – Historical urban plans
Section
Text
19/06/2018
In
Misiti Marina
Title of the work
MUP Mappe Urbane Personali – Skopje
Short description of the work
Alcuni degli edifici in stile brutalista e modernista di Skopje sono qui scomposti e rivisitati attraverso pattern colorati per offrire una nuova mappa urbana (e personale), sospesa tra memoria e presente. La rigenerazione e rivalutazione in chiave contemporanea del patrimonio architettonico brutalista, avviene qui attraverso un uso politico e poetico del colore (così come utilizzato nella recente “rivoluzione colorata” del Paese, durante le proteste del 2016), con le sue infinite possibilità di reinvenzione e recupero creativo del paesaggio urbano.
Key words
Mappeurbane – Rivoluzione colorata – Skopje
Section
Drawing
18/06/2018
In
Softic Adnan
Title of the work
A plea for the balkanization of europe
Short description of the work
The storytellers of the new Balkan states are diligently handicrafting something using memories and desires. However the price cannot be measured in euros. The price is the transformation of the local inhabitants into foreigners. It is time we remembered the true history of the Balkans. In the 20th century, the history of the old multinational states was overwritten with a national history. Let us expose it. We will see: The “Balkanization of Europe” is not a doomsday scenario. It is, with its democratic characteristics, the only way.
Key words
Nation-building vs. Balkanisation – A-Better-History
Section
Text
18/06/2018
In
Pop Trajkova Maja
Title of the work
Sidetracked recollections
Short description of the work
Fictional text that explores the problem of preserving the private, or nearly mundane experiences of structures of cultural significance. Where there is the tendency of bringing elements of the built environment to the level of monuments, how does the quality of the habitual get introduced to it.
Key words
idiosyncrasy – temporality – Preserved
Section
Text
18/06/2018
In
Sattin Laura
Title of the work
“Skopje 2030” interview with Simon Hartmann
Short description of the work
Simon Hartmann was born in 1974 in Bern, Switzerland. From 1994 to 2000 he studied at ETH Lausanne, TU Berlin and ETH Zurich. He collaborated with Rolf Furrer Architekten from 2000 to 2003 and he is teaching assistant at ETH Studio Basel from 2002 to 2007. In 2003 he founded HHF architects with Tilo Herlach and Simon Frommenwiler. HHF architects, based in Basel, has completed and ongoing projects in Switzerland, China, the United States, Germany, Italy and Montenegro. Simon Hartmann is a professor from 2009 to 2017 at HEIA Friborg. In 2011 he is Visiting Professor at the University of Innsbruck and in 2014 at the KIT of Karlsruhe. Since 2018 he has been Visiting Professor at the Yale School of Architecture.
Key words
Intervista – Interview – интервју
Section
Text
18/06/2018
In
Casari P. Di Carlo P.
Title of the work
Politiche di nazionalizzazione e architettura: la radicale trasformazione urbanistica della città di Skopje
Short description of the work
Al fine di comprendere le ragioni delle scelte che hanno portato alla distruzione del patrimonio architettonico brutalista, si propone qui un’analisi che mette in relazione l’architettura e il nazionalismo. Tale trasformazione urbana è dovuta al totale stravolgimento del centro di Skopje fortemente voluta dal governo VMRO-DPMNE. La ricerca mette a confronto più teorie derivanti dalla scienza politica, dalla sociologia e da quest’ultima applicata all’architettura. Il periodo cui si fa riferimento nello studio è quello compreso tra le ricostruzioni del 1963 e dei primi due decenni del XXI secolo.
Key words
Nationalism – Architecture – Skopje
Section
Text
18/06/2018
In
Cazzaniga Laura
Title of the work
Vardar’s Banks
Short description of the work
15 cm of rope River Vardar, Skopje-Macedonia 2009
Action realized for the Workshop “Public Invasion. Derivè in Skopje”, curated by Marco Trulli, in collaboration with Bjcem and Arci Viterbo. “Vardar’s Banks” is an action realized in correspondence of the banks of the river Vardar, in the city of Skopje. The characteristic of this river is that divides in two parts the city: from a side there is the commercialized & gentrificated Skopje, in the hand of Realestate speculation; from the other the poor Skopje, of Roma camps, where marginalised gypsy community live, and where you can still see naked children play at the foot of the river (at least until 2009, year of the action). With this work I have wished to connect and getting the two cities talking. I met a friend in the midpoint of a bridge, each of us took an head of the rope and, keeping the rope tight, we separated by crossing the opposite banks of the river Vardar. The rope was then fixed to the ground.
Key words
Skopje – Vardar – City
Section
Video
18/06/2018
In
Talaat Hazem
Title of the work
[re]thinking: brutal
Short description of the work
[re]thinking: brutal is not just a recall of a nostalgic socialist architecture, but also a brutal [re]design of an important representative building of skopje 2014, dreaming of new brutal because brutal maybe is not brutal enough.
Key words
[re]thinking – [re]drawing – [re]design
Section
Drawing
18/06/2018
In
Lister Graham
Title of the work
Demolition Site, Blocked View (2017), ink and oil on board.
Short description of the work
So much of the modern and brutalist architecture of Europe faces the risk of demolition and ‘Demolition Site, Blocked View’ is a drawing / painted reflection of this situation. Often, the erasure of modernist and brutalist legacies are hidden from public view.
Key words
Demolition – Drawing – Painting
Category
Drawing
18/06/2018
In
Pascale Francesco
Title of the work
People from Skopje
MEPSO lifting
Short description of the work
Quasi il 10% dei fondi del programma Skopje 2014 è stato impiegato per la costruzione di statue monumentali. La città si è popolata di persone inanimate: santi, poeti, re e guerrieri a cavallo. Nel frattempo le persone vere, con tutte le difficoltà, continuano a esistere.
Il piano di rinnovamento urbano Skopje 2014 comprende molti interventi di ricostruzione delle facciate. Un esempio è il rivestimento eclettico che ha subito l’edificio MEPSO: come in un lifting si sovrascrive prendendo come riferimento un’idea di bellezza generica e fuori contesto.
Key words
Monumento – Statue – Persone – MEPSO – Facciata – Lifting
Section
Drawing
18/06/2018
In
Volfovich Polina
Title of the work
Baltijos kelias vs. Coca-Cola
Short description of the work
A collaged accordion book measuring 6.5” x 39” exploring the function of the human chain under opposing economic systems, as those actions took place in The Baltic Way and Hands Across America.
Key words
Baltic way – Collage – Book arts
Section
Drawing
18/06/2018
In
Ventura Valerio
Title of the work
Brutalism, concrete, paper?
Short description of the work
Brutalism, concrete, paper?
Key words
Brutalism – Concrete – Paper?
Section
Drawing
18/06/2018
In
Schwager Matthew
Title of the work
Skopje Texture Pack
Short description of the work
I took a few grains of Skopje brutalism and expanded them into a complete texture pack. The result is a preservation of essence, a brutal mycelium, or perhaps an infinite building.
Key words
Skopje – Texture – New-media
Section
Drawing
18/06/2018
In
Canziani Stefano
Title of the work
L’impero colpisce ancora
MoCA Expansion
Stroboskopje
LHSB – Lunar Hydrometeorological Service Building
SK-SK
Short description of the work
L’operazione SK2014 si sta attrezzando per far scomparire testimonianze importanti del modernismo di Skopje. Ma c’è ancora qualche speranza di salvezza nella lotta tra il “bene” e il “lato oscuro”.
Si vuole creare idealmente un dialogo tra il progetto contemporaneo e gli edifici del moderno a Skopje. Una convivenza possibile che porti un valore aggiunto al patrimonio esistente e non il contrario.
L’intento del disegno è fornire uno spunto per cercare di far notare come una seconda vita sia possibile per determinati edifici che caratterizzano Skopje, senza doverne cancellare il carattere originale, basta vederli da un altro punto di vista.
La luna è davvero l’unica speranza per salvaguardare il brutalismo macedone?
Invertire il punto di vista può permetterci di vedere tutto in un’ottica differente.
Key words
Resistenza – Utopia – Brutalismo – Megastruttura – Borko Lazeski – Luna – Upsidedown – Second life
Section
Drawing
18/06/2018
In
Simone Sante
Title of the work
Le tre città
Ponti e Porte
Il sogno yugoslavo
Short description of the work
Il disegno è parte della tesi di dottorato in Composizione Architettonica discussa a Roma nel 2012. La ricerca indaga il legame tra il motto ‘Fratellanza e Unità’ e il progetto della città moderna.
Key words
Yugoslavia – Città – Modernità
Section
Drawing
18/06/2018
In
Mammoliti Michele
Title of the work
RE-new
Short description of the work
Al comando cancella/copia/incolla…ricostruzione sulla costruzione
Key words
RE – Costruzione – Reconstruction
Section
Drawing
18/06/2018
In
Russo Marco
Title of the work
Greetings from Skopje!
Short description of the work
Futuristic mistakes. How would be Skopje if Kenzo Tange’s metabolic vision had been built? Pecche di avvenirismo. Come sarebbe stata Skopje se fosse stata realizzata la visione metabolista di Kenzo Tange?
Key words
Skopje architecture – Kenzo Tange plan – Brutalism.
Section
Drawing
15/06/2018
In
Schroder Alessio M
Title of the work
BLOKOVI
Short description of the work
The in 2009 pursued photo project BLOKOVI explores both social and spatial patterns of the district Novi Beograd (Belgrade), the most ambitious urbanisation project carried out in ex-Yugoslavia.
Key words
Novi – Beograd – Urbanization – Ex-yugoslavia
Section
Photo
15/06/2018
In
Babic Maja
Title of the work
Re-Building Skopje: The Curations of Past and Present in the ‘Capital of Kitsch’
Short description of the work
Architectural investigation into Skopje provides us with the tools to understand both the Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav architectural and political events. The contemporary architecture of Skopje exemplifies of the architectural production in the post-socialist Southeastern Europe and its deeply intertwined relationship with politics. The examination of the re-production of politics and ideology through architectural construction, allows for an insight into events taking place in Skopje today, in the deeply problematic processes of both canceling and negating of the communist past. I study the two reconstructions of Skopje, the post-1963 earthquake period and the contemporary architectural events in the city, and I argue that both projects exhibit the shifting relationships between architecture and politics, as well as its perpetual re-negotiations, and the paramount importance of their contexts in understanding the conjunction of the past and present in the city.
Key words
Brutalism – Heritage – Nationalism
Section
Text
15/06/2018
In
Debowska Monika
Title of the work
Game of Form
Short description of the work
Residential quarter as part of a utopian city inspired by the brutalist architecture.
Key words
Solids – Axonometry – concrete
Section
Drawing
15/06/2018
In
Debidda Caterina
Title of the work
SKOPJE spaces
Short description of the work
Skopje. Una città di frammenti, simbolo della storia macedone che ha subito nel corso degli anni continue e successive metamorfosi. Dopo il terremoto degli anni ’60 il maestro Tange definisce un’idea utopica di una metropoli balcanica urbana caratterizzata da edifici brutalisti di forte spessore. Il mio collage cerca quindi di esprimere in maniera concisa l’idea urbana e architettonica dell’architetto attraverso la rappresentazione di alcuni edifici simbolo assieme allo skyline della città. Tange appare come il deus ex machina che definisce l’assetto del futuro, un’ideale di città moderna con un centro forte, infrastrutture e grandi edifici chiave.
Key words
Collage – Tange – Urban
Section
Drawing
13/06/2018
In
Minotti Luca
Title of the work
BRUTALIST (COLL)AGES_Skopje
Short description of the work
Il disegno mostra gli edifici brutalisti più rappresentativi di Skopje in un’unica costruzione. L’intento è valorizzare il forte ruolo iconico e scenografico che possiedono.
Key words
Skopje – Brutalism – Collages
Section
Drawing
13/06/2018
In
Casini Enrico
Title of the work
Hotel Jugoslavija
Short description of the work
The monument loses its nature, continuous metamorphosis, becomes an incubator of human lives. Hotel Jugoslavija, new of device of the common living.
Key words
Collage
Section
Drawing
13/06/2018
In
Tatić Saša
Title of the work
The Bedrock
The Bedrock II
Short description of the work
The development of an intervention realized on the same spot: before, during and after the excavation of the soil for the future house.
The excavated soil, that was supposed to be filled with the concrete in order to become a proper house foundation but continued to wait that moment, represented my attempt to built a house in the same age in which my father was when he started to build his. Under the influence of weather conditions, the significant amount of already excavated soil has returned back in its original state, leaving the visible traces of previous intervention that took place at the same spot several months earlier. Re-engagement of close friends and family members, in order to re-excavate the soil witnesses of investing, sometimes, Sisyphus effort and patience to overcome current possibilities and chances.
Key words
Three-generation – Heritage – Value
Section
Photo
13/06/2018
In
Trevissoi Michela
Title of the work
Cement invasion_vs_future light
Short description of the work
A lawn can be born from a trampled ground. My optimistic wish borns from the hope that a territorial energy of a fertile country can flourish starting from an architecture capable of supporting human dynamism.
Key words
Energy – Light – Power – Future