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What Else a Chimney Can Be, if not a Chimney…?

Resumen

The exponentially spreading changes recently do not allow the previous objective technical approaches, the renewal of thought is not linear anymore, but brings new creative runs. The intellectual revolution of our time brings emotions and feelings into the transformations of thinking and then reality. The paper introduces the concept of ‘engagingscapes’ designed by artistic practices in the site of Csepel (a part of Budapest, in the capital of Hungary) in the 2010s. ‘Engagingscapes’ especially emphasizes the importance of mental models and the process of bodily understanding. There and then, artistic practices, which actually scape-designs, acted as unique forms of cultural communication, paid attention to civic imagination, cultural and participatory politics, for empowering to ask the question: what else…? The retrospective study is an observational review and reassessment of artifacts, events, documents and interviews with the aim of analyzing previous interest in Csepel.