IMT Institutional Repository: No conditions. Results ordered -Date Deposited. 2024-03-19T09:20:55ZEPrintshttp://eprints.imtlucca.it/images/logowhite.pnghttp://eprints.imtlucca.it/2015-12-16T13:24:29Z2015-12-16T13:24:29Zhttp://eprints.imtlucca.it/id/eprint/2975This item is in the repository with the URL: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/id/eprint/29752015-12-16T13:24:29ZThe acropolis of the socialist Yugoslavia between absence, presence and non-existenceIn our search for the Acropolis of the socialist Yugoslavia we should focus our attention
on New Belgrade, as it was planned to be the new capital of the country led by the
Communist Party, victoriously emerging from the Second World War. In their
enthusiastically organized volunteer labor, they have rendered absent both material and
immaterial traces of the urban and architectural efforts of the previous regime. In that
way they have effectively cut them off from any stake in future discussions. By
adopting this “tabula rasa” concept they allowed themselves freedom to search for the
new identity of the Yugoslav architecture independent from both Western and Eastern
patterns and models. Was it successful can be a topic for another discussion but it is
evident that many project remained on paper for various reasons. Those building who
were constructed, suffered a lot in this post-communist period from negligence and lack
of maintenance that this rendered them presently absent or absently present. Some
underwent such huge makeover, losing their original identity to such an extent that they became non-existent. In this period of transition from the communist/socialist to postsocialist
society, the history repeated itself with different actors only in an attempt to
render absent material and immaterial traces of the previous regime.
The Acropolis of the socialist Yugoslavia was executed only partially, although it was
envisioned as a core made of buildings serving executive, theoretical/ideological and
symbolical/commemorative functions. Their present day appearance could serve as a
paradigm of the political and societal changes that this country underwent in last
seventy years.Srdjan Milosevicsrdjan.milosevic@imtlucca.it2015-12-16T13:15:30Z2015-12-16T13:15:30Zhttp://eprints.imtlucca.it/id/eprint/2974This item is in the repository with the URL: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/id/eprint/29742015-12-16T13:15:30ZContemporary (re)appropriations of anti-fascist
heritage in Croatia: Rijeka as a case-studyThe year 2015 marked the 70th anniversary of victory over fascism but still the
relationship towards anti-fascist heritage in Croatia remains a highly debated subject.
During the violent disintegration of socialist Yugoslavia, the destruction of anti-fascist
heritage in Croatia was used as yet another tool of warfare. From around six thousand
anti-fascist monuments and memorials, more than half were destroyed either through
administrative removals or direct military targeting (Pavlaković 2014).
Heritage that “survived”, not fitting the newly-created nationalistic ideology, has been
systemically marginalized and gradually erased from the official memory discourse.
Moreover, anti-fascism was progressively identified with the post-war communist
regime and thus criminalized by the dominant memory entrepreneurs. Nevertheless, in
the past few years, such selective articulations of collective memory have been
challenged by several bottom-up artistic initiatives re-evaluating the cultural legacy of
the Yugoslav anti-fascist struggle. The present paper wants to focus on the specific case-study of the city of Rijeka,
traditionally recognized as the “red city”, and bring forward several examples which,through different artistic interactions with antifascist heritage, interrogate contemporary
hegemonic politics of spatiality. More broadly, the paper aims at questioning the
necessity of the relationship towards anti-fascist values and the extent to which antifascist
heritage still belongs to the domain of the collective.Mateja Sincicmateja.sincic@imtlucca.it2015-06-30T13:27:47Z2015-07-10T13:12:37Zhttp://eprints.imtlucca.it/id/eprint/2725This item is in the repository with the URL: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/id/eprint/27252015-06-30T13:27:47ZThe ghosts of the past, present and future: the case of the Army Headquarters in Belgrade, Serbia AbstractWhen the construction of Dobrović's Army Headquarters in Belgrade, Serbia was finally finished in 1965, at a location continuously designated for the Army, it was thought that it would serve its purpose in a secured future, the socialist one. And it was thought that it would house the leadership of the Army, which was seen as the rightful heir of the most glorious examples of military tradition from the Second World War. With his building Dobrović filled the void left by the WWII, but he also left a true mystery – how to interpret it. Long after the date of inception, in 1960, he offered two clues, the philosophical one – through the Bergson's dynamic schemes and the void as the central dynamizing element of the composition and the symbolically appropriate one – through the story of the Sutjeska canyon. In this way he allowed everyone to find a reading suitable for them. But when the system changed, followed by a decrease in size of both the State and the Army, the question of the dual reading, which functioned so perfectly, suddenly became the cause of conflicts, conflicts of a more profound nature than ever before. Even in these changed circumstances the building performed its function, until the 1999 NATO aggression, when it was, although empty, bombed several times. The history repeated itself and this location once again experienced bombardment which left disturbing ruins, voids and shattered identities, in need of renegotiation. How to interpret a building from a socialist period in a society which is both post-socialist and post-conflict? How to find peace with the ghosts of the past, present and future, which permeate both the location and the building? How to approach different narratives surrounding the physical structure destroyed by war and considered as heritage even before those events, although officially listed only after the ruination and cessation of use. Those are the main subjects of this article. Srdjan Milosevicsrdjan.milosevic@imtlucca.it2013-11-08T09:02:03Z2014-09-02T09:52:15Zhttp://eprints.imtlucca.it/id/eprint/1892This item is in the repository with the URL: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/id/eprint/18922013-11-08T09:02:03ZInteraction design e tecniche di sviluppo agileLuca SecchiAlessandro Chessaalessandro.chessa@imtlucca.it2011-10-13T09:06:25Z2011-10-13T09:06:25Zhttp://eprints.imtlucca.it/id/eprint/928This item is in the repository with the URL: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/id/eprint/9282011-10-13T09:06:25ZTra inventari e testamenti : uno sguardo all'interno di palazzi e ville della Valdinievole Emanuele Pellegriniemanuele.pellegrini@imtlucca.it