Read publications that provide insight into new possible models and methodologies for collaborative urban design. They are the outputs of Never Never Schools, which test interdisciplinary mapping and contextual utopias in the context of Central and Eastern Europe.
Housing in Times of Crisis (2025)
What does it mean to talk about housing in a context where housing policy is increasingly shaped by market logic and less by care and solidarity? What forms of housing can respond to overlapping crises in fair and sustainable ways?
Bilingual publication Housing in Times of Crisis (2025) brings together essays, conversations, mappings and visual materials that explore housing across Europe in a moment of environmental, economic and social instability. Emerging from Never Never School 2023 and Košice—a city shaped by intersecting borders, experiences of displacement and everyday struggles with housing affordability—it reflects on the tensions between solidarity and structural failure that became visible during the arrival of people fleeing Ukraine in 2022.
The contributions connect local experiences from Slovakia with a broader European context. They trace how climate crisis, market failures and migration materialise in everyday housing situations, while also opening space for new alliances, imaginaries and practices grounded in care and collective responsibility.
Compendium on caring urban design (2022, in Slovak)
What is a caring city? What does caring mean?
Publication Put on Your Caring Hat (2022, in Slovak) shows through stories, essays, an interview, photographs, a video and a game manual the different aspects of caring for places. It is based on workshops, interventions and lectures of Never Never School 2021, which were situated in various places in Košice. You will therefore find local themes, but the care approaches presented are also applicable beyond the borders of this city and the summer school.
A collection of essays on Košice housing estates and the 'post-socialist' city (2021, in English)
We are publishing a shorter collection of essays, utopias and other contributions – Urban Dialogue with the Post-Socialist City (2021).
The essays are based on our observation of the prefabricated housing estate Ťahanovce in Košice during the pilot year of Never Never School 2018. How can housing estates be places to live and not just places to sleep? How do they respond to changing policies and economic systems? Can new utopias respond meaningfully to old ones?
Never Never Talk (in Slovak)
An online format that has theoretically supported the call for Never Never School 2021, which focused on caring places and cities. Through a form of transdisciplinary dialogue, we created a space to discuss cities from a futures planning perspective.
With philosopher Adriana Jesenková on the topic of caring futures of cities. →
Mapping the in-between: Interdisciplinary methods for envisioning other futures (2019, bilingual)
The bilingual publication Mapping the in-between (2019) is the outcome of Never Never School 2019, which tested interdisciplinary mapping and the creation of contextual utopias in the context of Central and Eastern Europe. With the help of the participants, the collected texts are a unique insight into new possible models and methodologies for collaborating on alternative ways of planning and making the city.
Mapping the in-between (short film)
Filmmaker Poppy Illsley captures the events and methodology of the summer school Never Never 2019. through a 25' documentary.
Mapping with care: Never Never summer school in Košice (2020, in Slovak)
Mapping with care as an outline for post neoliberal architecture methodologies – tools of the Never-never school (2020, in English)
Academic article in Architektúra & Urbanizmus (2020, Volume 54, No. 1 – 2)
The article is available for reading on the Academia portal. You can also find it in audio & presentation form in the online conference archive of the (UN)PLANNED CITY.