1. www.belgradescapeslab.blogspot.com
Date: 11.11.2014.
Certificate of Attendance
Certificate of Attendance_ BELGRADE.SCAPESLAB - BiG PROJECTS_Nebojša Vilotić
This is to certify that Nebojša Vilotić, born on the 7/4/1990, on the 4th year of studies at the Faculty of Technical Sciences, Department
for Architecture and Urbanism, University of Novi Sad - Serbia, has taken part at the first BELGRADE.SCAPES:LAB / BiG PROJECTS
chain of events, held in Cultural Center of Belgrade, 4 - 8 April 2014. Agenda included the conference, workshop series, panel discussions
and movie screenings in order to generate a collaborative research platform, which helped establish and critically address tendencies in
the on-going big urban transformations in the city of Belgrade.
We might say that Belgrade cityscape cannot be introduced without rightful reading of conditions imposed by biased market demands.
Unreliable interpretations – beyond the logic of neoliberal economic models – are present in most of decision making processes,
generating a specific form of market driven urbanism. Thus, commonly reinforced with the cacophony of promising political statements,
this form is claimed to be the only possible solution in city planning and its development nowadays. Institutions – aimed at questioning,
criticizing and establishing professional conscience within the society – are being marginalized while relevant critic is in short supply.
BELGRADE.SCAPES:LAB offered emancipation of the questions that are left without any answer in the current circumstances. Numerous
findings within the temporary-framed lab have shown potential for shaping the space for permanent critical thinking and positioning of a
new model.
Nebojša Vilotić was selected as the member of international research team within the specific workshop named Agreement Arena:
Creation of Social Consensus -moderated by Marija Maruna / Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade and guest critic made
by Dubravka Sekulić / ETH Zurich and prof. Goran Milićević / Faculty of Economy, University of Belgrade. The purpose of the
workshop was a simulation of Arena for dialogue; structured as a basis for comparative exchange of
approaches and argumentative discussion in order to establish an agreement on the future transformation of the selected part of
Belgrade. The aim was to establish a common value framework of all relevant stakeholders.
Workshop outcomes: e-publication at www.belgradescapeslab.blogspot.com
SCAPES:LAB_?
The core idea of the SCAPES:LAB
initiative is to both define & produce
an independent platform for
knowledge transfer that addresses the
pressing, way-finding urge of
reshuffling architecture & urbanism
education modes. SCAPES:LAB
explores alternatives to hierarchical
models and produces knowledge
through innovative – critical and
progressive – readings of cities &
policies, direct collaboration with
professionals, colleagues and
institutions, variety of collectives
(large and small), activists and other
relevant initiatives - aimed at
establishing a transnational,
networked structure that focuses on
actualities without hesitation.
Research activities are concerned with
the impact of politics, economy and
society on architectural/urban reality
and vice versa.
WHO_?
SCAPES:LAB is co-initiated by
IDnet & Center of Architecture from
Novi Sad, Serbia with the support
and participation of students &
young professionals with
background in architecture and
urban planning, coming from Novi
Sad, Niš and Belgrade / Serbia,
Podgorica / Montenegro, Skopje /
Macedonia and Sarajevo, Banja
Luka / Bosnia and Herzegovina*.
Activities are organized with(in) the
autonomously built network of
collaborators across Europe.
* Countries with similar background;
from the Balkans region (ex
Yugoslavia); non-EU countries
(pol) in Europe (geo). EU Integration
(at the moment in the final stages)
process coincides with the transition
of their economic, political and
educational paradigms.
WHY_?
Deconstructed societies –
trapped in between the
challenges of transitional
tendencies toward EU
integration and the intra-
construction of
representative democracy
modes – are marked by
dramatic changes which
substantially involve
educational output.
Institutions aimed at
public schooling are
transformed formally, not
factually. Relevant
phenomenology is being
interpreted out of its true
context – uncritically –
and the content remains
highly mystified.
Confusion arises.
HOW_?
We believe that the continuity of
discontinuity and the permanent state of
(re)construction in the Balkans (and
Europe) can bring about a production of
relevant forms and formats for research.
Methodologically, SCAPES:LAB
advocates open, collective educational
structures –DIY Education modes –
where self-organized research groups
facilitate the production, exchange and
distribution of all findings.
By encouraging a critical mindset among
its participants, SCAPES:LAB expands
the field of studies on the behalf of post-
socialist cities in Serbia, Macedonia,
Montenegro and Bosnia & Herzegovina.
Actions are conducted through
temporary autonomous labs aspiring to
define, create and engage permanent
structures.
*PAST_? SCAPES:LAB is established to synchronize capacities built through five years of intense production in SCAPES separate programs/territories; FRearCH /
2013 in France and Confederatio Helvetica / Switzerland, EScapes / 2012 in Spain, FLATscapes 01, 02 and 03 / 2009-2011 in The Netherlands.
+ From 2009-2014, more than 900 young professionals had chance to collaborate and produce through different programs.