Goli Otok - the naked island - was the gulag of the Tito regime. After Tito had detached from the Soviet Union, Yu¬goslavia was an authoritarian country where Stalin was to be opposed. Those who rejec¬ted his system disappeared to a place where people became prisoners and prisoners turned into each other’s worst enemies. People were brought to the island without court processes. Within sight of the holiday island Rab they were deprived of their individuality and, in many cases, also of their lives.
In spring 2014 supervisors and students of the Faculty of Architecture of Graz Univer¬sity of Technology took a trip to Goli Otok exploring the history and experiencing the atmos-phere of the place. The absence of any documenting remembrance culture on the island and the relation between the pre¬sent and past state led to different atti¬tudes and approaches.
Thus, by what means can architecture professio¬nals and scientists contribute to a persistence of past events in the future? On the