In a group of 20 architects, urban planners, artists, designers and critics, Elger Blitz has participated in a 17-day studytrip. This studytrip of the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture (Fonds BKVB) is titled "What's up, what's down. Cultural catalysts in urban space". Its aim is to investigate urban transformations of the recent decades in a number of secondary cities in Europe. Between October 1 and 17 the studytrip visited the Balkans (Skopje, Prishtina, Tirana), Marseille, Northern England (Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool) and the Basque region (Bilbao and Vitoria-Gasteiz).
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