Autor:innen:
Danijela Dugandžić | Association for Culture and Art CRVENA | Germany
Boriša Mraović | Bosnia and Herzegovina
Development of the city of Sarajevo started in the 15th century, but the area was populated long before, going back to the neolithic times. From then until now different visions have influenced the way the city is built and expanded, from Romans, Goths, Slavs, Ottomans, Austro Hungarians, Germans, old and new Yu-goslavs, Bosnians and internationals, depending on the periods in city history.
In Sarajevo all these visions came together in a city that amazingly, thanks to its positioning in a valley, can be fully grasped from the mountain tops. What can we see? If we walk from Baščaršija on the East to the West, we see traditional oriental architecture that amazed architects such as Le Courbusier himself, Austro-Hungarian buildings in its full glory, Moorish Revival architecture, Vienna Secession architecture, Art Nouveau architecture, Bosnian style architecture, royalist Yugoslav architecture, Socials Yugoslav architecture, Mod-ernist architecture, Brutalist architecture and post war transitional and amateur architecture visible in private housing. But the city is not just its buildings, it's the roads that connect, infrastructure, resources, public spaces, parks and its people.
We will explore different visions for the city and travel through time via tailor-made walk lectures that will be led by two walk enthusiasts and city dwellers from CRVENA, Danijela Dugandžić and Boriša Mraović.
During the walk we will critically look at some of these visions and expose how and why some failed and some succeeded in exercising a collective power to reshape the processes of urbanization (Harvey, The right to the City). Following this line of thought we will look deeply into the idea of The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves as a right to partake in these visions, not as bystanders but as agents with rights to decide what will be the future of our city.