This “OFF THE MAP” tour, which takes place as part of the Ljubljana Art Weekend, will take visitors to the Nove Fužine neighborhood, known for its modernist residential architecture, rich demographic variety, and strong community bonds.

The visit of the neighbourhood will start with the guided tour of the exhibition Is nature modern? Ecological Perspectives in the MAO Collection, 1930–1979 in the Museum of architecture and design (MAO) by its director Maja Vardjan. The exhibition explores modernistic architecture and design’s relationship to nature and their approach to ecological thinking.

Alongside the current exhibition the director will present the museum’s involvement with the local communities, including projects like Museum in Community, and other transdisciplinary sustainable practices, promoting a diverse range of events and workshops that encourage intergenerational collaboration between individuals and institutions.

In the same participatory manner the tour will be followed by the picnic with What Could Should Curating Do (WCSCD), educational program which serves as a testing ground for creating a collective learning site and a space to think about how to institute differently. Their collaborative approach has led to forming bonds with the Robida collective, who will join the discussion and present their unique way of operating. Jointly they will present the new WCSCD’s publication created in collaboration with Archive Books and Sok Cooperative, as well as the recent Robida magazine, centered around the orchard as a landscape and fruit trees as powerful metaphors and living archives of stories and memories.

The gathering will be activated through the presence of WCSCD program participants, curators, Sara Kecman, Giulia Gaibisso, Irene Coscarella and Marie Tatjana Niederleithinger, artist based in Novi Sad (Sok Cooperative member) Nemanja Milenković, Robida Collective, and curator and WCSCD founder Biljana Cirić.

If you would like to join the tour, please apply at hello@ljubljanaartweekend.com.

*There will be free transportation from Tivoli Park to Fužine, however visitors are welcome to join the programme directly at the Museum of architecture and design (MAO).