- URBIQUITY 2018 Since twelve years Re:centering periphery develops a reflection on the relation between centres and peripheries as determined by modernist urbanization. Rebooting the project in 2018, we acknowledge that the modernist urban vision has collapsed into the planetary urbanization process. The spatial distinction between urban centres concentrating wealth and power, and dispersed, underprivileged peripheries is melting […]
- The future has designed us In Belgrade to prepare the Power and Architecture exhibition, we had the pleasure to be joined by ogino:knauss’ founder member, dj and sound producer Miki Semascus. The exploration of the spatial context was naturally complemented by an investigation of the soundscape that finally took the form of a playlist of great Serbian/ Yugoslav / Balkan […]
- Ne Davimo Beograd NE DAVIMO BEOGRAD / BELGRADE ON WATER A huge development project funded by Arab Emirates capitals aims at transforming Belgrade’s face. It has been imposed as a project of national interest without any democratic process, erasing existing masterplan and laws. The activists of the campaign Ne Da(vi)mo Beograd organise the resistance against the silence of […]
- Yugoslavia in between In December 2015 we had the opportunity to record a conversation with the Serbian architecture historian Vladimir Kulic, whose writings on Yugoslav spatial production, and in particular the book “Modernism in Between”, have been an important source of inspiration for our researches on Belgrade. We publish here three long excerpts of this interview, in a […]
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- Marginal Notes @ Remont Gallery 1-5 October 2015 Exhibition produced by Transeuropa Festival / Transnational Dialogues Curated by Luigi Galimberti Thanks to Miroslav, Marija and everyone at Remont gallery Photo by Boris Burić
- Towards Belgrade Invited by Transeuropa festival 2015, we had the opportunity to come back to Belgrade and open again our file on this city. We coordinated a urban reconnaissance workshop dedicated to the “City of Commons”, taking the cue from the concept of city as a common good to design an urban walk exploring key spaces of Belgrade and its political […]
- Stare Sajmište The urban periphery is a field of conquest and investment. It is the frontier of the advancing city, the front of the urban growth machine. Essential modern means to foster urban development are exhibitions, temporary events, the use of spectacular processes as ice-breaking operations towards new investment and settlement. The invention of modernism is indissolubly […]
- Modernism in-between (…) then, Yugoslav culture was not entirely open either functioning inside a systemic “membrane” that filtered the exchange with the outside world. Similarly, Yugoslavia’s position between the “three worlds” of the Cold War was not symmetric either. The chief reference points of exchange shifted at first from East to West and then only slightly back […]
- New Belgrade Day 3- Here come the tough guys… At the other extremity of Novi Belgrade from the historical centre, Bloks 61, 62, 63 are among the most extreme neighbourhoods of the city. Long transversal strips of high rise buildings connect two main bulevars. Pedestrian elevated floors are separated by the garages at the bottom level Between […]