Naslov
Modeling State Space in Socialist Yugoslavia in the 60s and 70s

Autori
Bojić, Nikola

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni

Skup
Theory’s History - Challenges in the historiography of architectural knowledge

Mjesto i datum
Leuven, Belgija, 08.02.2017. - 10.02.2017

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Yugoslavia, post-war planning, line graph theory, production of space

Sažetak
As the lead member of the Non-Aligned Movement, Yugoslavia in the fifties managed to consolidate its position between the capitalist West and Soviet- dominated communist countries in the East. This interstitial geo-political position and vehement pursuit for modernization and economic growth required a new ideological framework and innovative models of the political and social organization based on the concept of autogestion (self-management). Urban planning was one of the main instruments for deploying a new socio- spatial order and a way to provide an equal development in the economically unbalanced, multiethnic territory. The post-war period in Yugoslavia was marked with a scientific approach to urban planning – sociology, geography and economics, among other disciplines, were used to collect and feed data into various planning models in order to render operative territorial structures. Graph theory applied to nodal region analyses was one of the most influential planning models of the time. This initially mathematical model entered the planning field through geography, setting out a quantifiable framework for a networked structuration of space across multiple scales. However, visualized as a diagram of points (settlements) and lines (interactions between settlements), graph theory also produced immense in- between space that surrounded the functional networks of the state-planned territory. Both, the networked and in-between spaces became the subject of humanistic approaches to environment. Aiming to criticize the scientific functionalism of the state planning, the new approaches produced proto-ecological, speculative spatial diagrams that blend philosophical dimensions of space with the official state ideology. The paper will analyze two different approaches to spatial modeling as simultaneous reflections and instruments for the production of state space in Yugoslavia in the sixties and seventies. In a broader sense, the paper will address diagrams as theoretical entanglements of politics, science and technology, which embody the complexity of the post-war, but also the current urban condition.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Arhitektura i urbanizam, Informacijske i komunikacijske znanosti, Povijest umjetnosti

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