
The New Bulgarian Community Center
Dr. Arch. Aneta Slavova
The new Bulgarian community center as a challenge in the 21st century. The topic is innovative for the conditions in our country with morally outdated and depreciated community center buildings.
Our success depends on our spiritual foundation, the richness of our connections, the strength of our families and the character of our communities. These communities are an interdisciplinary process for the local people of a neighborhood, for example, strongly tied to the new school, to the new community center, which shelters everyone, for various activities, 365 days a year, as a social factor for a more meaningful life. The community center is returning and becoming a cultural, social phenomenon and mediator for the community, in the new cultural and educational centers of the 21st century. We are contemporaries of a great dynamic of changes today. In them, architecture has a leading role in these processes in society, even more specifically in the strategic areas of education and culture.
Against this background - Where are we ?
"Human power is never the product of individual effort. It is always born from the cooperation of large numbers of people." Yuval Harari
The Focus - The Community Center is Back! And its future is connected to architecture. As of January 2016 , the number of registered community centers in Bulgaria was 3614. In December 2017 , Bulgarian community centers were included in the Register of Good Practices for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, maintained by UNESCO .
