"The Christmas Festival of Bad Habits is a temporary -space installation located on Římské náměstí in the historic center of Brno, Czech Republic. Developed by architectural studio Peer Collective in collaboration with artist Kateřina Šedá, the non-profit organization Renadi, and the Brno-střed Municipal District, the project reconsiders the spatial and social format of the traditional Christmas market. Instead of retail-driven programming, the installation introduces a structured environment for reflection, movement, and collective experience."
"Peer Collective's architectural intervention consists of a lightweight, temporary structure made from truss systems commonly used in stage construction. From this framework, large red and white are suspended, subdividing the square into eighteen open-air 'rooms.' These spaces create a sequence of thresholds, passages, and partial enclosures that encourage slow movement and individual engagement. The curtains operate as soft architectural elements, forming spatial boundaries without fully enclosing the space and maintaining visual continuity with the surrounding city."
Christmas Festival of Bad Habits occupies Římské náměstí in Brno and reimagines the Christmas market as a reflective, non-retail public space. Peer Collective, artist Kateřina Šedá, Renadi, and Brno-střed Municipal District created a guided spatial sequence informed by Šedá's participatory project The National Collection of Bad Habits. A lightweight truss structure supports large red and white curtains that subdivide the square into eighteen open-air rooms, forming thresholds, passages, and partial enclosures that encourage slow movement and individual engagement while maintaining visual continuity with the city. The installation covers about 2,478 sqm and uses white curtain surfaces as evening projection screens for text-based testimonies from The National Collection of Bad Habits.
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