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Interdisciplinary Talk Series - What Do We Have in Common
On September 28th, 2021 at 19:00 CEST time, Dijana Vučinić will hold the 4th talk in the framework of our new project: the Interdisciplinary Talk Series - What Do We Have in Common.
The series of online talks aim at continuing the conversation started during the last edition of the Tbilisi Architecture Biennial (TAB) in 2020 and builds on the already existing critical discourse of the topic. It will bring together various artists, scholars, urban and architectural professionals from Armenia, Belarus, Serbia, Georgia, and North Montenegro.
The talks will be held in English.
"Being located in the middle of the Balkans, middle of the ex-Yu region, and being part of Europe, our practices, research, and eventually lives are in constant rapport with various commons on many levels: within the context of cities, nature, and landscape, cultural heritage, and history.
Ten years ago we started this expedition navigating the practice, research, and education while introducing hypotheses and interventions that will help improve and strengthen the public space and program concerning common territories and history we call Balkans and Yugoslavia. We conduct our mission through two channels DVARP and APSS Institute. APSS Institute serves as a platform for architecture and design thinking and development focusing on several conditions, including the shift in post-war cities of Yugoslavia and urban conditions under transition in cities in Montenegro.
It started off reactivating a massive abandoned structure at the center of the World Heritage Site: The former Austrian prison and continued with programs of the revitalization of abandoned and misused structures of Hotel Fjord, Dom Revolucije, Ulcinj Solana. We have worked using different formats - workshops, summer schools, and exhibitions - to juxtapose a class / a course with cultural, activist, economic, political practices that take place elsewhere outside of school, continuously broadening the definition of commons among us.
For many years now our focus remains on the reuse of space and buildings to contribute to a more sustainable, diverse, inclusive, and collective public territory. Today we are working on similar research broadening our interest and network while rethinking resources as both architects and citizens.", is written in the description of the event.
Dijana Vučinić is a practicing architect, researcher, and founder of an interdisciplinary architectural practice DVARP from Montenegro. The projects she works on range from urban design via the design of hotels and residential buildings to stage design. In her work, she tends to introduce structures and spaces that reveal the process of critical thinking and sustainable solutions. Vučinić is the founder and program director of the APSS Institute.
Vučinić has participated in Chicago Architecture Biennale in 2017, and she was commissioner for Project Solana – Montenegrin pavilion at XV Venice Architecture Biennale in 2016 and co-curator and co-author of the exhibition Treasures in disguise – Montenegro Pavilion at La Biennale di Venezia in 2014.
Vučinić’s work has been recognized internationally, within networks of architects, designers, and educators with whom she has been working closely on various projects. Most recently, she was awarded Architectural Visionary of the year in SE Europe by Zavod Big in Ljubljana. She has been the co-curator of the exhibition Skirting the Center: Svetlana Kana Radević, On the Periphery of Postwar Architecture that is currently on show at Venice Architecture Biennale.
Everyone interested in the event can follow the live stream on the Facebook page of the Tbilisi Architecture Biennial.
The Interdisciplinary Talk Series is made possible with the support of the #Summa Artium Foundation and the #Trust for Mutual Understanding in partnership with the #Goethe Institut Georgien. Tbilisi Architecture Biennial is co-funded by the Creative Europe program of the European Union.