Naslov
Unfinished Modernisations / Between Utopia and Pragmatism Architecture and urban planning in the former Yugoslavia and the successor states

Autori
Mrduljaš, Maroje ; Kulić, Vladimir

Vrsta, podvrsta
Ostale vrste radova, izložba

Godina
2012

Ključne riječi
modern architecture, architecture and urban planning in socialism, history of socialist Yugoslavia

Sažetak
The exhibition focuses on the physical space, e.g. on the production of city respectively as one of the fundamental means of socialist modernisation ; and on the role that architecture had played in this production. However the exhibition also interferes with symbolic spaces in which this production unfolded, such as geopolitical, cultural, economic and ideological spaces. During socialist Yugoslavia, modernisation was presented unilaterally like an everyday collective achievement that should reveal the progress of workers' self-management and make people feel proud of it. The life of Yugoslavs was thus marked by megalomaniacal, almost utopian projects in the fields of industry, energetics, traffic logistics, urban planning. On the other hand, today this socialist utopianism is often a synonym for or taken as the "original sin" of unsuitable economic structures, ecological problems and social conflicts. This project will review and present characteristic architectural and urban planning practices from the socialist period in relation to the social context from which they arose and define their current image and character. By encapsulating the collective works of young researchers from Croatia, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia, the exhibition addresses, next to the aesthetic and technological perfection of the architectural and urbanistic achievements, the social viewpoint of the processes that influenced the development, progress and collapse of Yugoslavia. The relevance of the projects will be estimated on the basis of the contribution of these achievements to the formation of the public sphere. Another important project goal is to challenge the (internationally acclaimed) uniform belief about the period of urban modernisation in former Yugoslavia and to promote the diversity of cultural identities in the region.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Arhitektura i urbanizam, Dizajn

Napomena
10.02.2012 - 22.04.2012
Umetnostna galerija Maribor, program European
Capital of Culture 2012

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