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Project “The Center for Everyday Design – CED”, Croatian Designers Association – HDD, and Shadow Casters invite you to a workshop:
“Heritage and Legacy for Shaping the Future”
– Documenting Everyday Life in Vitić’s Skyscraper (project “Vitić Dances”) –
Students and professionals in the fields of design, architecture, urban planning, new media, art history, journalism, political science, comparative literature, dramaturgy, and theater studies, as well as all interested citizens, are invited to participate in the professional workshop “Heritage and Legacy for Shaping the Future” as part of the “Center for Everyday Design” project by the Croatian Designers Association, the Museum of Arts and Crafts, ULUPUH, the City of Zagreb, and Shadow Casters.
When:
March 9, 16, 23, and April 13 from 9 AM to 4 PM (includes a free hot meal) – 4 Saturdays
Where:
POGON – Center for Independent Culture and Youth, Kneza Mislava Street 11, Zagreb
Registration: [HERE]
Maximum number of participants: 20. Registrations are open until the workshop is full.
Workshop duration: 4 sessions, 8 hours each (4 Saturdays). The workshop is free and includes a hot meal during the sessions.
Facilitators:
Sandra Uskoković, art historian and theorist of space and modern and contemporary architecture, art, and urbanism,
Marko Sančanin, architect and activist,
Boris Bakal, intermedia artist (see presenters’ biographies below).
Workshop implementation:
Shadow Casters Association with the support of project partners: Croatian Designers Society (grant recipient), Museum of Arts and Crafts, Croatian Association of Artists of Applied Arts, and the City of Zagreb. The workshop is also supported by Pogon – Center for Independent Culture and Youth in Zagreb.
About the COS/CED project:
The two-year project Center for Everyday Design (CED) is based on the thesis that there is a deep connection between culture and everyday life, and that cultural and creative activities, in the broadest spectrum of meanings, especially in the field of design, have a pervasive effect on shaping our living environments, i.e., on considering how to make our lives better, richer in experiences, more stimulating, and more layered.
This project will also determine the current state of participatory governance in culture and explore the possibilities of establishing a new and applicable model through a two-year collaboration of two professional associations in the field of applied arts and design (Croatian Designers Society – HDD, Croatian Association of Artists of Applied Arts – ULUPUH), the central museum institution for design (Museum of Arts and Crafts – MUO), a cultural association (Shadow Casters), and local government (City of Zagreb). The project will include various program activities intended to increase the local community’s awareness of the importance and impact of design in the context of everyday life.
About the workshop:
This workshop uses as its starting point the most well-known intermedia community project and successful advocacy for the restoration of modern and contemporary architecture in the Republic of Croatia – Vitić Dances; it explores various examples of heritage, inheritance, and the application of project methodology to new cases of heritage, legacy, and urban design.
Themes, terminology, and thematic units of the workshop: Topophilia and Teraphilia, Urban Performance, Recycling Reality and Everyday Life, Internal and External Mapping of the City, Urban Dramaturgy and Forensics, Urban Furniture and/or Inventory, Hypertextuality of the City, and more.
Brief description of the “Vitić Dances” project:
Vitić Dances is the longest-running “community project” in the Republic of Croatia and one of the longest and most successful in the world. The project focused on a multi-residential and commercial building (Block of the National Bank) at Laginjina 7-9 in Zagreb, envisioned by architect Ivan Vitić in the late 1950s, and constructed by Industrogradnja in 1962. This building is an icon of Croatian post-war architecture. Thanks to the “Vitić Dances” project, the building is protected as an individual cultural asset. After years of neglect and decay, threatening the lives and functioning of its 256 residents/co-owners and passersby in Zagreb, the project “Vitić Dances” and the active participation of the co-owners in the fight for renovation led to the building’s complete restoration in September 2018 after two years of work. This restoration represents the largest endeavor in preserving modernist architecture in Croatia, with a cost of about 2 million euros, covered by the co-owners’ reserve funds, the City of Zagreb’s “Monument Rent Fund,” and the European Efficiency Fund.
This artistic-activist project revitalizes and socializes the common space of the building through the presence of artists to unite the residents around the protection and preservation of this structure. Conceived, initiated, and implemented by Boris Bakal and Shadow Casters, this project examines and explores the mechanisms of artistic creativity to uncover, recontextualize, and recreate the cultural and urban memory of architecture (and individual works), emphasizing the role of artists as mediators and agents of contemporary regeneration of material and intangible aspects of urban life, including participation and interaction with the local community, i.e., the building’s residents.
By placing objects and practices in the broader framework of human relations, the project questions which meanings need to be rediscovered to make (this) architecture “social” again. Started in 2003, this project has over 15 years evolved into a human-urban multidisciplinary network of cooperation between various institutions, activists, and artists in the form of various cultural and artistic activities (lectures, concerts, performances on the rooftop terrace, project methodology workshops in other cities, states, and continents) and has become an illustrative example for applying this or similar methodologies to other buildings worldwide facing similar problems and fates. More about the project: [HERE].
In today’s dynamic development and degradation of cities, which calls for new ways of thinking about local communities, the artist, through contemporary creativity and innovative practice, influences our reconceptualization of cities and urban landscapes, contributing to the diversity of identity horizons, beliefs, and value creation.
Sandra Uskoković je povjesničarka umjetnosti, predavač, pisac i kritičar. Nakon završenog magisterija na George Washington University (USA), doktorirala je na Sveučilištu Zagreb. Autorica je nekoliko knjiga i oko 50 stručno-znanstvenih članaka na temu arhitekture, baštine, teorije umjetnosti i performativnih umjetničkih praksi. Stipendistica je ICCROM-a (RIm) i UNESCO-a (2003/2004). Dobitnica je međunarodnih nagrada iz umjetnosti: Samuel H.Kress Foundation (NY), Getty Trust, The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts (Chicago). Izvanredni je profesor na Sveučilištu Dubrovnik, Odjel za umjetnost.
Predavala je na brojnim međunarodnim univerzitetima (Helsinki, Copenhagen, Manchester, Bangkok, Montreal, New York, Tokyo, Singapore) te simpozijima. Ekspertna je članica ICOMOS-ovog odbora za modernu baštinu, međunarodnog odbora College of Art Association, međunarodne platforme za kritičko promišljanje baštine (ACHS), Društva povjesničara umjetnosti Hrvatske, te udruge "Bacači Sjenki". Njena posljednja knjiga zove se “Anamnesis – dijalozi umjetnosti u javnim prostorima”, u izdanju UPI2M Books.
Boris Bakal je kazališni/filmski redatelj, glumac, producent, intermedijalni umjetnik, interdisciplinarni javni povjesničar, aktivist i pedagog. Tijekom više od 40 godina karijere stvara kazališne i filmske projekte, predstave, multimedijalne instalacije te pokreće kulturno-socijalno-političke inicijative koje su predstavili i/ili producirali festivali, manifestacije i skupovi u više od 20 zemalja svijeta (između ostalih: Bologna Kulturna prestolnica Europe 2000., Dubrovačke ljetne igre, Praški Quadrienale, Bollwerk Belluard International/Fribourg, Eurokaz/Zagreb, BITEF/Beograd, MESS/Sarajevo, Borštnikovo srečanje/Maribor, Akcent/Prag i INTERFERENCIJE/Cluj, Akademie der Kunste der Welt/Koeln te mnogi drugi) .
Piše, predaje i objavljivljuje tekstove o društvenim prilikama, umjetnosti i kulturnim politikama u zbornicima, časopisima i dnevnicima u Italiji, Hrvatskoj, Njemačkoj, Srbiji, Belgiji, USA, UK i Nizozemskoj. Kao gostujući predavač izlagao i vodio radionice na više univerziteta (ADU/FF/ALU Zagreb, New York, Columbia/NY, Perugia, SACi-Firenca, Leiden, Exeter, Kent, Bangkok, Prague, Helsinki, Kopenhagen, itd.) te na brojnim simpozijima, konferencijama i tribinama.
On je također suosnivač umjetničkih i aktivističkih platformi poput Bacača Sjenki, Orchestra Stolpnik, Letećeg sveučilišta, Antiratne Kampanje Hrvatske te Saveza Operacija Grad. Bacači Sjenki (umjetnička organizacija od 2002, te udruga od 2006) koje vodi od 2001. osvojila su i dobila brojna domaća i međunarodna priznanja i nagrade.
Marko Sančanin, dipl. ing. arh. (Zagreb, 1975.) studirao je političke znanosti i arhitekturu, a diplomirao Arhitekturu na Arhitektonskom fakultetu u Zagrebu. Godine 2000. godine su-osniva Platformu 9,81 i – neprofitnu organizacije koja je istraživala prostorne posljedice kulturne, ekonomske i političke tranzicije i bavila različitim oblicima arhitektonskog i urbano - kulturnog aktivizma. Koautor je brojnih publikacija, tekstova te autor brojnih radijskih emisija na Hrvatskom radiju i kolumni na T-portalu na temu arhitekture, prostornog razvoja i kulture. Od 2012. djeluje kao free-lance arhitekt, umjetnik, kritičar kulture i arhitekture te autor i suradnik na projektima u polju kulture.
Biographies of the Lecturers:
Sandra Uskoković is an art historian, lecturer, writer, and critic. After earning her master’s degree from George Washington University (USA), she completed her PhD at the University of Zagreb. She is the author of several books and about 50 professional and scientific articles on topics such as architecture, heritage, art theory, and performative artistic practices. She has been a grantee of ICCROM (Rome) and UNESCO (2003/2004). She has received international art awards from the Samuel H. Kress Foundation (NY), Getty Trust, and The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts (Chicago). She is an associate professor at the University of Dubrovnik, Department of Art.
She has lectured at numerous international universities (Helsinki, Copenhagen, Manchester, Bangkok, Montreal, New York, Tokyo, Singapore) and symposiums. She is an expert member of ICOMOS’s committee for modern heritage, the international committee of the College of Art Association, the international platform for critical heritage studies (ACHS), the Croatian Art Historians Society, and the “Shadow Casters” association. Her latest book is titled "Anamnesis – Dialogues of Art in Public Spaces," published by UPI2M Books.
Boris Bakal is a theatre/film director, actor, producer, intermedia artist, interdisciplinary public historian, activist, and educator. Over his 40-year career, he has created theatre and film projects, performances, multimedia installations, and initiated cultural-social-political initiatives that have been presented and/or produced at festivals, events, and gatherings in more than 20 countries (including: Bologna European Capital of Culture 2000, Dubrovnik Summer Festival, Prague Quadrennial, Bollwerk Belluard International/Fribourg, Eurokaz/Zagreb, BITEF/Belgrade, MESS/Sarajevo, Borštnikovo Srečanje/Maribor, Akcent/Prague, and INTERFERENCES/Cluj, Akademie der Kunste der Welt/Cologne, among others).
He writes, lectures, and publishes texts about social conditions, art, and cultural policies in anthologies, magazines, and daily newspapers in Italy, Croatia, Germany, Serbia, Belgium, USA, UK, and the Netherlands. As a guest lecturer, he has given lectures and conducted workshops at various universities (ADU/FF/ALU Zagreb, New York, Columbia/NY, Perugia, SACi-Florence, Leiden, Exeter, Kent, Bangkok, Prague, Helsinki, Copenhagen, etc.) as well as at numerous symposiums, conferences, and forums. He is also a co-founder of artistic and activist platforms such as Shadow Casters, Orchestra Stolpnik, the Flying University, the Croatian Anti-War Campaign, and the Operation City Alliance. Shadow Casters (an artistic organization since 2002, and an association since 2006), which he has led since 2001, has received numerous domestic and international awards and recognitions.
Marko Sančanin, , M.Arch. (Zagreb, 1975) studied political science and architecture, graduating from the Faculty of Architecture in Zagreb. In 2000, he co-founded Platform 9,81, a non-profit organization that researched the spatial consequences of cultural, economic, and political transitions, and engaged in various forms of architectural and urban-cultural activism. He is a co-author of numerous publications, texts, and the author of many radio programs on Croatian Radio and columns on T-portal on topics of architecture, spatial development, and culture.
Since 2012, he has been working as a freelance architect, artist, cultural and architectural critic, and as an author and collaborator on projects in the field of culture.
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