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Post-Disaster City and Injured Territories: Sarajevo
A Lab Talk in collaboration with ETH Zurich, Urbanthinktank_next and the 15th Days of Architecture Sarajevo exploring visions for regenerative architecture in post-conflict Sarajevo
© Urbanthinktank_next, Klearjos Eduardo Papanicolaou
Date: Thursday, 05.10.2023
Introduction
After the Wall had fallen in Berlin, the collapse of Yugoslavia and the Balkan wars in the 1990s led to a fractured territory of Sarajevo. The conflict left the city in ruins, erasing possible long-term benefits of the successful 1984 Winter Olympics for urban transformation.
Decades later, the city is still divided, but architecture, culture and public spaces are becoming drivers for the development of the first General Urban Plan shaped by an alliance of the City, regional government and international universities together with a new generation of local architects, urban designers and planners. Their aim is to re-generate Sarajevo as a multi-cultural, ethnically diverse, and religiously inclusive cosmopolitan heart of Southeastern Europe.
The Lab Talk introduces a selection of projects from Sarajevo’s 100 Ideas for the Western Balkan exhibition and creates an open dialogue with key figures from Sarajevo and Berlin. To achieve this exchange, ETHZ and Urbanthinktank_next developed the Studio Mobil, a mobile research unit, which will make a stop-over in the Aedes courtyard to capture visitors’ thoughts and ideas and to create a collective process. The Lab Talk also presents the new Architectural Guide Sarajevo by DOM Publishers, which explores 150 landmarks, buildings and projects over the last century.
Programme
Welcome
Hans-Jürgen Commerell, Director, Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory, Berlin
Denise Quistorp, Director, Austrian Cultural Forum, Berlin
Keynote Lecture
Hubert Klumpner and Michael Walczak, ETHZ and Urbanthinktank_next, Curators of the 15th Days of Architecture Sarajevo, Zurich
Presentations
Senka Ibrišimbegović, UNSA/Architectural Faculty Sarajevo and Director of ARS AEVI Art Museum, Sarajevo
Dimitri Hegemann, Founder Tresor Berlin, Happy Locals, Berlin
Nedim Mutevelić, UNSA/Architectural Faculty Sarajevo, Co-Founder Days of Architecture, Sarajevo
Nermina Zagora, Associate Professor, Faculty of Architecture, UNSA/Architectural Faculty Sarajevo, Partner Studio Firma, Sarajevo
Panel Discussion and Poster Exhibition at the Studio Mobil
moderated by Hubert Klumpner
Video
Video by Reframe
Publication
SARAJEVO ARCHITECTURAL GUIDE. Buildings and Projects since 1923
Edited by LIFT Sarajevo | Nedim Mutevelić, Irhana Šehović, Dunja Krvavac, Jasmin Sirčo, Senka Ibrišimbegović, Irfan Salihagić, Edin Sarić, Farah Zubović, Zerina Salketić, and Edin Zoletić | with further contributions by Hubert Klumpner and Michael Walczak
DOM Publishers
134 × 245 mm | 240 pages | 550 images | Softcover
ISBN 978-3-86922-381-0
Discover the architectural wonders of Sarajevo, a city that bears the vivid scars of its complex history. From hosting the 1984 Winter Olympics to enduring a brutal civil war in the 1990s, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina has woven its tumultuous past into its urban fabric. Today, this modern metropolis harmoniously combines the remnants of Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian influence along with the striking architecture of the Yugoslav socialist era.
The publication will be available during the event.
