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'Creativity and art often start in unlikely places': Exploring Albania's hidden creative potential

on Dec 4, 2015 | 0 comments

By Andrew Barratt

When I say Albania, creativity and design probably isn’t the first thing you’d think of. The capital city’s architecture has an intimidating simplicity to it, and the country’s history is fraught.

From the end of the Second World War until 1990, the Albanian people were under the rule of the dictator Enver Hoxha, in a situation similar to what can be seen in North Korea today.

The country was isolated for 50 years. You and your family could, and would, go to jail for life if you listened to the Rolling Stones; wore blue jeans; created a DIY antenna to receive TV Read full story ›

Source: The Drum