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is an one week workshop (8days) part of Tirana Architecture Week (T.A.W) organized by Polis Alumni Group and Polis Student Council and curated by Chris Luth (NAI). [ne Lagje]'s goal is to understand, interpret and transform a specific neighborhood of the city of Tirana and is being developed from 28 September till 04 October 2012 with the participation of students from U_Polis from the Alumni Group and also 20 students from mixed courses of U_Polis. All the above work will be made in the site of the neighborhood in order to understand better the problematics and characteristics of the area and promotedesign by process and participation. The programatic distribution of the workshop is the following : Day 1: A general introduction of the neighborhood and the beginning of the mapping phase in order to create a specific questionnaire to be applied in the area. This mapping wants is made to understand the way this area behaves emotionally. Emotionally in connection to the emotion that transmits to the people that live there and also to the ones that visit the neighborhood or even just pass by from it. Day 2: The application of the questionnare that is already made is the main goal of this day having as a result also to unfold the hidden story that the people / neighborhood itself reveals to us. Day 3 : In this day the students will be divided in two groups . After having in consideration all the above a set of different scenarios for the development /transformation of the neighborhood can be created driven by a specific concept. One group will be dealing with the conceptualization of a performance to be elaborated in the neighborhood and the second group with the creation of an instalation in the area. Day 4 & 5: Final scenario development and design proposal according to a research of the selected materials that will be used for the performance and also for the creation of the instalation. During the 5th day a presentation and visit by night on site will be made from the students in order to show the results of the mapping process/ emotional cartography. Day 6 & 7: These two days will be used in order to develop and realize the performance that will be selected and also the installation for the neighborhood. Day 8: Project launch and performance of the above activities will be made and of course the start of the debates in the installation and the bus tour.