Prague Quadrennial of stage design and stage space 2019 – Urbanium – centre for research and sustainable development in architecture and urban planning

01 Name of author/applicant:

Team of authors: Natalija Bogdanović, Marija Simović, Aleksa Đurić, Petar Simović, Ana Zorić, Miloš Kostić, Desirée Tilinger, Jovana Vidaković

02 Category:

Intervention in public space

03 Project title:

Spatial/artistic intervention Connector – Collective Breakthrough

04 Description (not exceeding 50 words):

Designed in the period of socialist construction, the square with greenery that served for organising events in Kragujevac has undergone many changes over time. It is divided in two wholes, and then fragmented by the parking area and an undefined green zone. The intervention – an open-air cinema – represents a programme transformation, i.e. “return” to the originally conceived collective use of space. The film selected for projection comes from the socialist epoch and that is The First Citizen of a Small Town.

05 Impressum (production, place, year, other authors of the team):

Production: association Urbanium – centre for research and sustainable development in architecture and urban planning, Days of Architecture in Kragujevac, 2018

06 Photography:

Illustration 01: Ana Zorić, Miloš Kostić, Desirée Tilinger and Jovana Vidaković
Photograph 02: Miloš Kostić
Photograph 03: Neda Gavrilović

07 Biography (not exceeding 100 words):

The team of authors consists of the members of the association Urbanium (Natalija Bogdanović, Marija Simović, Aleksa Đurić, Petar Simović), and authors of the work Connector – Collective Breakthrough which was prepared for the Competition for Conceptual Setups of Interventions in Public Spaces in Kragujevac – About Public Spaces – from the Beginning (Ana Zorić, Miloš Kostić, Desirée Tilinger and Jovana Vidaković).

Urbanium is a team of architects who deal with architecture from different perspectives – from the perspective of architectural practice, design production, education in higher education institutions, and who treat architecture as an activist practice. Zorić, Kostić, Tilinger and Vidaković are graduates from the Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade, who currently attend their post-graduate studies at the same faculty. They have rich exhibiting experience and have earned recognition, and they also participated in many competitions and workshops.