The exhibition will present the vision of Belgrade in the near future. It will investigate the energy potential of certain city locations in the context of constant change, searching for the creative solutions within inevitable limitations, possibility of regeneration (re-use, re-energize) with the purpose to achieve better quality of life, rational use of space, energy saving, but also to achieve ’’the pleasure of architecture’’ (Bernard Tschumi).

THE URBAN YOGA by Ana Humljan (Slovenia)
Increasingly more people are convinced that the urban environment limits our freedom and causes stress. But still, ever more people live in cities. The Urban Yoga is raising the awareness about the importance of well-designed space around us. It is a call to action to design spaces that are not only visually stunning and technologically advanced, but are designed to please our whole body and all of our senses. Research shows that what we smell, touch, taste, see and hear subconsciously defines best if we feel good in a space. The Urban Yoga consists of photo series, a video and a theoretical research presented in a photo book. The Urban Yoga photos are metaphors for the way our bodies identify and respond to the space around us; while moving through a space we subconsciously measure and mimic the space with all of our senses at once. The Urban Yoga photo series are collaborations with local photographers. The Urban Yoga Beograd is made by Dušan Djordjević.

BARTLEBY IN BELGRADE by Miloš Kosec (Slovenia)
The exhibition “Bartleby in Belgrade” tries to relativize notions of ruins and decaying spaces within the city. Conventional imagery of war ruins and postindustrial voids are joined by entrepreneurial “developments of potentials” and unoccupied new buildings. “Bartleby in Belgrade” explores the possibility of architectural statement “I would prefer not to” as a technique of resistance – eliminating past and future potentials and thus making possible inhabiting the now.

IN-BETWEEN SPACES by S.O.B.A. Studio (Serbia)
The future of architecture may lie in the realization of new continuities of individual imagination and particular terms of social and natural reality. In-between spaces are the spaces of these continuities, because they don’t demand disavowal of hermeticality of one’s intimate goals and interests for the sake of the social environment and active participation in (micro)emancipation therein. Through forming a new unity of personal and common needs, in-between spaces build new affiliations amongst practices of everyday life, social and natural sciences. Following the remarks made by the philosopher Georg Simmel that the deepest problem of modern life is the individual’s struggle to defend its own autonomy in defiace to irresistible social forces which dismember the consistency of our inner worlds; in-between space presents a chance to incorporate the given architectural spacial-programmatic framework through a system of indications into the person’s inner world (of imagination), thereby upgrading and changing it in return. The possibility of architecture to offer cracks or baits towards one’s own experiences, desires and memories, enables the expansion of the real by the imaginary world, the objective by subjective one.The projects shown are based upon the intention to offer these baits inside architectural spacial and programmatic frameworks which will occupy intimate reactions that mobilize our creative capacities, and through which a dialogue with particular environmental terms is made possible. In that way the offered reaction is further incorporated — as a form of active participation in transformation of the use of public space in which the motivation for one’s participation in the development of the city is not requested as a moral obligation of a dutiful citizen, but through the levels of intimate desire to share inner aspirations and beliefs.

More on the exhibition.

Location

Cultural Center of Belgrade
Art Gallery and Podroom Gallery
Knez Mihailova 6
Belgrade, Serbia

Info

Future Architecture

Organization

Future Architecture platform
BINA

Link
http://futurearchitectureplatform.org/programme/4/energy-spots/