For the Alternative Culture and Urban Space conference, but also for our foreign visitors, here is this map of Tűzoltó utca which has an interesting although not too apparent history of self-organisation. This is still a draft and once there is a version I am totally satisfied with it could go Hungarian since maybe not too many people know all of these. Also, the people who know more should add their bits! Certainly I missed out on some key spaces like an old gallery which operated before my time, and the future riots that will hopefully bring justice to the local population. :)
The Fire Tour explores the alternative history of Tűzoltó Street and Tűzraktér through visits to specific sites and discussions with key people who are/were involved in the various initiatives. Alternative culture in this particular sense is understood as the critical evaluation of the present conditions followed by practical engagement to improve the situation, ranging from armed struggle through social work in the local community to staging international exhibitions. For a reason not understood properly, Tűzoltó ("Fireman") Street has been the location of multiple such critical projects in the past and present, even though they failed to leave an impression on the face of the street itself. Thus, what we explore during the Tour may not be evident for the casual observer.
In case you are wandering the graphics was created with Inkscape, a free vector graphics application, and the sources are available in the cool W3C SVG format: foo bar
