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The Ruins of the General Staff Building: A Stake for Gambling Away the Past and the Future

Published: 19 April 2024
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Due to its imposing design, function, as well as central location directly across the street from the Government of Serbia, the General Staff building has become a symbol of the 1999 bombing, and everything consciously or subconsciously connected to that event - the undeniable trauma from those times, the self-righteous indignation at the “unprovoked” illegal NATO aggression and violation of Serbia’s territorial integrity, as well as the all-consuming stagnation and inability to recover from the defeat and create a functional society.  
By Nemanja Georgijević
belgrade

The Monument to Stefan Nemanja in The Context of the Memory of The 1990s Wars

Published: 1 February 2021
The statements by state and city officials since the beginning of the construction works on the monument have made it clear that the monument is not only about Stefan Nemanja or medieval history. The war in Kosovo and the NATO bombing of FR Yugoslavia in 1999 constitute key points of the official memory politics in which the current state actors invest incredible efforts. 
By Jelena Đureinović

Capetown: Politics of Crisis, Crisis of Politics

Published: 23 May 2017
Almost every museum in Cape Town which in some way covers the period of apartheid includes among its exhibits a wooden bench with a variant of the sign “Whites Only” on it. This is no surprise, because these benches are a very vivid reminder of the brutal racial segregation which lasted in South Africa up to the mid-1990s. However, I was somewhat amazed that, in Cape Town today, there are almost no public benches, so that, if you want to sit down somewhere and have a rest in the city centre, you have to buy a coffee, a juice or a sandwich.
By Marko Aksentijević

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A novel model for affordable, cooperative housing in Serbia

Published: 28 January 2019
This brochure introduces a resident-driven approach that can help a substantial segment of the population to address these housing needs. Based on the “smarter building” approach developed by Ko Gradi Grad (Who Builds the City), a flagship building is being prepared to prove the concept.  

Housing from Below: A Smarter Building Model for Affordable Housing in Serbia

Published: 6 June 2017
Housing in Serbia is in crisis. Over the last 25 years, housing has been transferred from collective to private ownership, which has shifted responsibility for the provision of housing to the private sector. Smarter Building was initiated in 2012 by the platform Ko Gradi Grad (“Who Builds the City”) to challenge this model.  

Gendered Reading of The City of Belgrade

Published: 15 December 2013
Human rights activists have made significant efforts in intervening and resisting the dominant politics of exclusion, discrimination and inequality by means of practicing a variety of strategies and methodologies of action.


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Belgrade 2041: Back to the Future

Published: 22 October 2021
The Ministry of Space proudly presents Belgrade 2041: Back to the Future. The film is made to mark the drafting of a new General Urban Plan for Belgrade for the period between 2021 and 2041. The guiding idea for the film (but preferably also for the Plan itself) is the question -  What kind of city do we want to live in? How do we deal with its growing problems, and what can we do to make it a good place to live in 20 years?
By Vladimir Milovanović

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