City guerilla Year 2017 by City Guerilla

CITY GUERILLA /// YEAR 2017

Museum in disappearing

PROJECTS IN REVIEW

DACIDA DEVELOPING ARTS AND CULTURE IN DIGITAL AGE The digital form of the conference ephasizes limitlessness in communication, exchange of ideas and opportunities that young people in Serbia do not use because they are not sufficiently familiar with them. The expected result will be development of strategies for easier and faster promotion of young talents, finding digital soluitions and audience development.

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DACIDA

fAIluRE AS Practice _performance

DEVELOPING ARTS AND CULTURE IN DIGITAL AGE

program STEEVEN HELLER

STEEVEN HELLER 100 Ideas that Changed Graphic Design 10:00-10:45

Graphic Design Thinking

NOW

11:00-11:45

STEEVEN HELLER

The Design Method: A Philosophy and Process

12:00-12:45

CITY GUERILLA 2017

In 2017, City Guerilla continued its previous activities, displayed past results at the big Actopolis exhibition which took place in Belgrade in May, and initated several new projects, some of which have already begun, while the others will be realized during the second half of the year. Apart from being a laboratory of ideas, in 2017 City Guerilla also leaned towards becoming a kind of a mental workspace. Having no fixed headquarters as of 2016, we used this disadvantage to our advantage, switching either to online collaborative platforms or building a bigger network of collaborators and sister organizations with which we realized several projects in a mutual effort. Within the framework of Actopolis Belgrade exhibition City Guerilla presented the work it had done up until May 2017. This included: a presentation and installation of the participatory project My Piece of Savamala initiated in 2015 by the City Guerilla module School of Urban Practices; a new media installation entitled Synapse whose aim was presenting the problem of pain perception; a presentation of the book the Encyclopedia Savamala of Beings (2017) and a 3D exhibition of beings from the book, which were all part of Guerilla project Belgrade Imaginarium. Apart from the said projects and presentations, the members of City Guerilla also took part in a workshop Failure as practice led by Berlin based artist Darko Dragićević. The aim of this workshop was to contemplate upon general understanding of failure in given social contexts while questioning normative ethics of social behavior using diverse forms of expression such as movement, music, language, inter-relations and collective memory. The workshop itself yielded several performances shown during the Actopolis Belgrade exhibition where every participant battled his or her own fears about failure in a specific and unique way with the audience free to participate. In the year 2018. City Guerilla members together with Darko Dragičević will work on developing book Failure as practice. As far the new initated projects are concerned, 2017 saw the onset of a big collaborative project My Piece of the City - Škograd (Schoolcity), an urban-educational research whose goal is to initiate a long-term process of community and dialogue in Ledine, one of Belgrade’s suburban settlements. The Škograd team focused on urban issues in a similar vein as in Savamala with the main objectives to mobilize the local community and demonstrate a creative approach to education with the idea of building a community’s social capacity. The second realized project, entitled the Museum in Disappearing, had an aim of enabling an abandoned building of former Yugoslav army for exhibition activities and gallery activities i.e effectively transforming the space into a musem. City Guerilla dialogues also continued its activities well into 2017 with an aim of bringing new guests and expanding its activites. This year we initiated three new projects:DACIDA is an online conference gathering several hundred young people with artistic and cultural background with an aim of encouraging creative entrepreneurship focusing on new technologies and creative solutions. The second is Belgrade Imaginarium, an online creative platform and a continuation of the Savamala Imaginarium project whose aim will be gathering various creative young people in an attempt of re-imagining the city via different creative media. The third is the musical performance entitled The other side which will question the impact that art has on mental disorders.

CONTENT

City Guerilla 2017

1 City Guerilla within Actopolis Belgrade exhibition:

Failure as practice / workshop_performance / CG

Savamala Monsters/ exhibition_book presentation_guided tour / BI

My Piece of Savamala / installation / S.O.U.P

Synapse / Installation

2 City Guerilla project review:

My Piece of the City_Ĺ KOGRAD (S.O.U.P + Ĺ kogled) / summer school_performance_lecture_dialogues_guerilla actions

Dacida / Online Conference

Belgrade Imaginarium (BI) / book_walk_exhibition_blog

Museum in Disappearing (CG + Catch 22) / exhibition_talk

City Guerilla Dialogues / lecture_talks

The Other Side of... / performance

My Piece of the City_ŠKOGRAD (S.O.U.P + Škogled)

Museum in Disappearing

CG Dialogues

The Other Side of...

Actopolis Belgrade Exhibiton

JAN

FEB

MAR

APR

MAY

JUN

JUL

Failure as Practice / workshop

Dialogue #1 Dialogue #2

Shared cities / conference Dialogue #3

Play your way round / action BINA participation / presentation 4cities excursion / guided tour

Mixer festival participation

Elementary school w

Schoolabora

Museum in disappearing / p

Belgrade Imaginarium

DACIDA Online Conference

AUG

SEP

OCT

NOV

DEC

DACIDA / 3 day online conference

CG website launch

The Other Side of... / performance

n / presentation

workshops / workshops

atory 001 / summer school

presentation & debate

Human Library / education event Elementary school workshops / workshops 4Cities/ presentation Oktobarh/ presentation Schoolaboratory XY / BITEF Poliphony performance

ACTOPOLIS BELGRADE / EXHIBITION

PROJECTS IN REVIEW

My piece of Savamala _installation

City Guerilla web archive Synapse_installation

fAIluRE AS Practice _performance

SAVAMALA Creatures _book _exhibition _guided tour

DARKO DRAGIĆEVIĆ + CITY GUERILLA

FAILURE AS PRACTICE / WORKSHOP

Workshop author and coordinator: Darko Dragičević Venue: Museum of the City of Belgrade Timeframe: 9th -15th of May Participants: Ivana Andrejić (CG), Dragana Krtinić (CG), Simon Marić (CG), Mirjana Utvić (CG), Valerie Quade (GI) Perfomance visitors: around 35 Description: Performances ‘Failure as Practice’ are a result of a week-long workshop led by Darko Dragičević in collaboration with the members of City Guerilla. During the Workshop ‘Failure as Practice’ participants contemplated on general understanding of failure in given social contexts questioning normative ethics of social behavior through use of language, movement, inter-relations and collective memory. Set of analytical and practice based tasks were reflected upon the production of knowledge in relation to self and other bodies in public space. Final showing in the format of performance/s and lecture performance/s present various try-outs using text, sound and movement based scores. Memory and repetition served as articulable elements to demonstrate the transformative powers of fear of failing into creative processes of individual and collective trust. Performances: “Routines” - all participants “Stop me from Writting” by Simon Marić “Failure Compilation” by Dragana Krtinić “Repetitions” by Mirjana Utvić “The Sound of Failure” by Ivana Andrejić “Concious Failing” by Valerie Quade

AS PRACTICE Darko Dragičević & City Guerilla ACTOPOLIS BELGRADE 2017

Ground Floor

Performance

Failure Compilation Dragana Krtinić Starting at: 19:00

Performance

Repetitions Mirjana Utvić Starting at: 19:00

Performance

Stop Me From Writing Simon Marić Starting at: 19:00

Performance

The Sound of Failure

AS PRACTICE Darko Dragičević & City Guerilla ACTOPOLIS BELGRADE 2017

Ivana Adrejić Starting at: 19:00

1st Floor Performance

Repetitions Mirjana Utvić Starting at: 19:00 Performance

Conscious Failing Stationery Valerie Quade Starting at: 19:00 | 19:15 19:30 | 19:45

“Stop me from Writting” by Simon Marić

“Failure compilation” by Dragana Krtinić

“Routines” - all participants

“Concious Failing” by Valerie Quade

BELGRADE IMAGINARIUM

Simon Marić & Olga Jorgačević

SAVAMALA CREATURES / BOOK AND EXHIBITION

Venue: Museum of the City of Belgrade Timeframe: 25.4 - 20.5.2017 Visitors: 50 Description: The Encyclopedia of Savamala’s Monsters is a City Guerilla project, whose aim is to present Savamala as a habitat of numerous imaginary and fictional creatures. These creatures, some of which are smaller than a unicellular organism while the others being skyscraper sized, influence Savamala on a daily basis, through their existence or their actions. Even though imaginary, this book treats them as real creatures, giving us a detailed illustration and description of their habitat, endangerment, habits etc. The main idea of the book and the 3D monster exhibition, that took place during Actopolis project, was to emphasize the historical importance and problems of Savalmala, through an imaginary perspective.

“Savamala Creatures”

SCHOOL OF URBAN PRACTICES

MY PIECE OF SAVAMALA / OVERLAPPING_Installation

Venue: Museum of the City of Belgrade Timeframe: 25.4 - 20.5.2017 Description: “My Piece of Savamala” is a participatory project which tends to directly include Savamala citizens in decision making processes regarding public spaces. The initiative started as a reaction to the citizens being excluded from planning processes and represents an attempt of practically employing the principles of participatory urbanism as well as demonstrating them publicly. The workshop results served to shape mutual opinion of the citizens and opened the possibility for equal dialogue between all the interested parties concerning the use of this piece of the city. This opinion was formulated on two levels: as a project task defining planning principles and as a common design proposal, a result of all authors participating in the workshop. The final solution was presented to the city leaders and to an investor as one of the possible solutions for the organization of this space. The citizens were direct participants with an invitation for the dialogue to continue until the very end, which would contribute to all the sides included via education and significant experience gained through this uncommon collaboration. The project My Piece of Savamala won the prize of the Architecture Salon in Belgrade in the category Urbanism: starting an open dialogue. As a part of Actopolis exhibition, the School of Urban Practices will present its work through an installation in space entitled “Overlapping” which shows complexity and multiple layers of the design process. Participatory design does not aim to produce a solution which would satisfy all the users: a consensus and an absolute overlapping is an utopia. What it strives to achieve is an agreement: it is not necessary that everyone is for it, but that no one is against it. Overlapping in the My Piece of Savamala project represent the process of opinion agreement out of conventional tools of including the citizens in the planning process (survey forms, public access to projects and the like). By overlapping, an architect completely relativizes his role as an author in design making process and opens a possibility to transfer the responsibility of common space production to the users themselves. The installation presents 120 different ideas about the piece of Savamala, printed on a transparent paper so that they can be seen together, overlapped, as a whole, or as a specific segment. The pieces of Savamala belong to its citizens, visitors, passers-by, workers, aficionados, conquerors. Among the participants of the project, there were experts in fields of architecture, landscape and design, technology and the environment, as well as the City Mayor, all of whom presented their pieces of Savamala.

My piece of Savamala “Overlapping”

“Synapse”

Stanislav Drča (CG) SYNAPSE/ INSTALLATION

Venue: Museum of the City of Belgrade Timeframe: 25.4 - 20.5.2017 Description: Synapse is an interactive audio-visual installation which aims to represent the problem of pain perception as an information through direct interaction with the viewer. The installation consists of two computers, one which is directly connected to the speakers and serves as the means of generating audio content of the installation. The other computer is connected to Microsoft’s Xbox Kinect sensor and a projector displaying generated visual content. The sensor provides coordinates which are in constant communication, exchanging information the computer receives from the sensor. Produced audio-visual content can be divided into three stages. The first one is the painless sleep mode in which a small green ball defined by a network of lines, pulses in synchronization with accompanying sound which resembles a calm heartbeat. When an observer comes closer to the projection and when the sensor detects him, this marks the beginning of the second phase, which aims to awaken a sense of tension in the observer. The ball, depending on the proximity of the observer, grows, and changes color from green to yellow according to the gradient basis. The audio content that is in sync with the visuals is also changed, adding new sounds that accompany the agitated state. The third stage is a condition of pain in which the ball’s form completely loses its structure, organic pulsations of volume become geometric and sharp, its lines get a bright red color, and the size fills in the entire defined digital space. The sound gets amplified and intense. The entire synesthesia is transmitted to the observer as a state of pain and discomfort which he can easily get out from, if he steps back from the projection he is confronting, but another thing happens if he stays in front of it with the idea of overcoming it. The pain gradually starts to disappear and a state of relaxation and “zen” takes place.

MY PIECE OF THE CITY_

ŠKOGRAD - SCHOOLCITY School of urban practices + Škogled + Political Space Matters

Project Željko Lučić coordinators:

Project Collaborators: David Stanley, Dušan Milić, Dušana Nikolić, Hana Godomski, Ljubica BeljankiRistić, Maja Bosnić ,Marina Ristić, Sanja Milić, Simon Marić, Željko Lučić, Ivan Gradišar, Gordan, Education Forum

(S.O.U.P) Mirjana Utvić, Natalija Ostojić, Olivera Petrović , Ivan Simić

Project partners: Elementary School ‘Vlada Obradović Kameni’

(Škogled) Anja Petrović, Jelena Joksimović, Predrag Milić

Supported by: Goethe Institut Belgrade Škozorište BINA (Belgrade International Week of architecture) Entrepreneurs and neighbors from the neighborhood of Ledine key words

Description:

community mobilization,social capacity building, Željko urbanLučić periphery, grassroots education, participation design

Škograd is an urban-educational research which aims to initiate a long-term process of community activities and dialogue in Ledine, one of Belgrade’s informal suburban settlements. Team Škograd is focused on urban issues which are often out of focus in current planning and educational practices. Main areas of the team’s activity are community mobilization and alternative approach to education, with the idea of building a community’s social capacity. By stepping out from both the urban center and the school curriculum, the team tries to enroot its work with children from the suburban neighborhood of Ledine, led by the idea of building a different understanding of our society through communal local action. School and its schoolyard are the only shared community spaces that families and children can use during their free time, but growing segregation and decreasing number of students threaten to bring the school to closure. Together with local children, the school staff and neighbors, the team is working on reversing this trend and transforming the school into a creative and inviting space for the entire neighborhood. United in this process, the local community is creating the conditions for a long-term collective effort to improve the quality of life in the neighborhood. Situated in the municipality of New Belgrade, Ledine is only one of Belgrade’s many illegally constructed peripheral neighborhoods with inadequate life conditions. Still, team Škograd believes that the neighborhood - with its morphology, spatial, and functional scope - presents a suitable ground for identifying and understanding phenomena that occur in such environments, as well as for starting a series of interventions with the goal of improving the quality of life of its inhabitants. Škograd emerged from cooperation between collectives Škogled, School of Urban Practices and Political Space Matters.

Elementary school OŠ „Vlada Obradović – Kameni“ covers the area of the municipality of MZ Ledine in New Belgrade. The neighbourhood is very specific, diverse in national structure and consists of members of the Serbian, Roma and Albanian populations. Children come from very different families in cultural, educational and socio-economic terms, mostly from very poor families and with a scarce foreground. The school intends to nurture and develop healthy relationships among its students with its contents and programs and to use this diversity as its advantage. The strength of the school lies in a young, creative and capable collective who wants to make this school a better, more beautyfull and more pleasant for life and work. The official cooperation between the association of citizens Škogled and the Elementary school Vlada Obradović Kameni was started by signing a cooperation agreement at the beging of year 2017. Specificity of the school - it has about 350 pupils, of which about 38% are Serbs, 40% are Roma, and 22% are from other ethnic groups. School of Urban Practices (City Guerilla) is dedicated to building dialogue and including the community in the process of developing new concepts of common public spaces. United during master’s studies, they wished to direct their newly gained professional calling – that of the architect – into a new way of thinking about the surroundings, its changes, agents, and (their own) roles in the process. Since 2013 they have been exploring new local practices of participative design through one-on-one meetings with citizens, experts, investors and urban decision makers. ŠKOGLED is a collective continuation of social engagement of its members. This engagement tries to challenge current status in the Belgrade’s peripheral neighborhood called Ledine. Their actions are directed toward restrengthening social capital from bottom up, inside outwards, from citizens toward society. The team gathers experts from fields of psychology, sociology, pedagogy, andragogy, philology, economics, law, arts, design, architecture and urban studies. Through transdisciplinary work, the team seeks to discover new urban and educational practices, interpret them creatively, and put them in new relations which then have the potential to improve the quality of urban life. POLITICAL SPACE MATTERS explores the process of improving the quality of life in urban areas by reflecting on the role of political actors - citizens and organizations - during this process. PSM explores the areas and ways of acting and practice of networking of political actors in cities, as well as the importance of the role of public space in their work.

,,We build the school, because the school build us’’

Project Activities: Before our actions in the neighborhood of Ledine itself, based on desk research on urban and social transformations in the community in the period from December 2016 to June 2017, we have applied for several project grants competitions, those funded by: Ministry of culture and information (Serbia); Secretariat for Culture (Belgrade); Shared cities creative momentum; UN Habitat; SchĂźler helfen leben. Unfortunately, these applications went without positive response. Participation at the Shared cities conference Date: 3rd May, 2017 Venue:Contemporary architecture centre, Budapest Link: https://www.sharedcities.eu/city/budapest/ Visitors/participants: 2 team members presented, number of visitors of the presentation was around 20 Short description: Presentation of project was foxused on urbanistic proceses and politics in Ledine. This presentation brought about a very positive response from our colleagues from Europe.

Guerilla action - play your way around Date: May 10th, 2017 Venue: Streets of Ledine Link: http://gradimoskolujerskolagradinas.blogspot. rs/2017/05/akcija-krede-10-maj-2017-300-630h-am. html https://www.facebook.com/pg /skogled/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1890166347907961 Participants: 6 persons in setting the action, and numerous children (approximately 30) in using chalks to transform the streets of Ledine Short description: The aim of this action was to provoke children to engage in using the public space creatively. In the night between 9th and 10th of May we have set the baskets with chalks on the different sites along the streets in Ledine. Baskets were positioned so that children can easily spot them, and we have started some drawings to encourage them to use the chalks. In the morning, children transformed the streets with drawings and messages. They showed that any place can be a playground when there is not enough playgrounds otherwise. Moreover, this action was a research process that showed us which parts, specifically which streets of Ledine are used by children in which way. As a result we have mapped the spaces where children do not spend much time.

Participation at the Belgrade International Architecture Week (BINA) Date: 12-13th May, 2017 Venue: Urban Planning Institute of Belgrade; Bina walk through Ledine Link: http://futurearchitectureplatform.org/programme/28/belgrade-outskirts-envision-future/ http://www.bina.rs/program-2017 Video of the presentation: https://www.facebook. com/pg/skogled/videos/?ref=page_internal Visitors/participants: 5 team members and numerous local and foreign urbanism experts audience (approximately 50 people) Short description: Our participation at BINA was twofold: presentation of our project on the Future architecture platform conference - Belgrade outskirts/Envisioning future; and leading a part of excursion of Belgradeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s suburbs when it passed through Ledine.

Participation on the Mixer festival (Mixer talks - Cities for all) Date: 27th May, 2017 Venue: Ĺ˝itomlin Silos Link:http://festival.mikser.rs/en/project/mikser-talks-cities/ video of the presentation https://www.facebook.com/pg /skogled/videos/?ref=page_internal Participants: 2 of our members presented, three were recording and number of visitors of the presentation was around 20 including international guest experts. Short description: Our presentation was focused on the ways of sharing public spaces and improving those spaces by developing their educational role.

4cities master program excursion Date: 20th May, 2017 Venue: Ledine Link: http://www.4cities.eu/ ; https://drive.google. com/drive/folders/0B2HVmDBwbYqOd2YyZm5vR0tONjQ Visitors/participants: 15 (two members of our team and the rest were 4Cities master programe students) Short description: Excursion through Belgrade for these students included a guided walk around the neighborhood of Ledine with special focus on the discussion about of our work on strengthening the bond between the local school and the community. As a result, one of the students is dealing with the issue of this community in her master thesis and is about to finish and defend it soon.

School workshops Date: May 24th & June 7th, 2017 Venue: Elementary School ‘Vlada Obradović Kameni’ Link: http://gradimoskolujerskolagradinas.blogspot. rs/2017/05/radionica-1.html http://gradimoskolujerskolagradinas.blogspot. rs/2017/06/radionica-2.html Visitors/participants: 20 (12 children, 2 librarians, headmistress, teacher) Short description: During the first workshop, we arranged several introductory activities and presented to the students our intentions on working with them and the school in the coming period. Then we divided into teams and discussed all the things we’d like an ideal school to have. The second workshop was dedicated to planning the summer school - Schoolaboratory 001 - together with children (10), librarians (2), and us (2). We made a draft plan of the summer school’s aims, activities, organizational teams and timeline.

Participation at the Belgrade crowdfunding convention Date: 7th June, 2017 Venue: Dorćol Platz Link: http://crowdfundingconvention.eu/belgrade/ belgrade2017 our pitch video: https://www.youtube. com/watch?v=vPirXKkL1mU Visitors/participants : 2 team members Short description: We have applied to pitch our project idea at the event (link above), and during the Convention our pitch won by audience vote. Our price will be help in design, copywriting and video making (in value of 1000 euros) for our crowdfunding campaign from Brodoto agency, which organized the event.

Participation at the Belgrade crowdfunding Academy Date: 1st and 2nd of July, 15th and 16th of July 2017 Venue: GIZ, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit, Belgrade Organisors: Marketing Agency Brodoto and German agency (GIZ) Link: http://www.crowdfunding.rs/ Participants : 3 team members Anja Petrović, Jelena Joksimović and Olivera Petrović Short description: Attendance at this academy is a start in development of our crowdfunding campaign. This was a uniqe educational program 1st time organised in Serbia.

Announcement of Schoolaboratory 001 and preparation of working materials Date: July 15-19th, 2017 Venue: Goethe Institute, elementary school “Vlada Short description: Obradović Kameni”, neighborhood of Ledine Visitors/participants: 7 team members and visitors As part of the announcement, we put up posters (approximately 100 persons) around the neighborhood, posted the call for participation on social media and organized a campaign in the school, where a student was announcing the application for the summer school in each classroom and other students filled application forms. Application was voluntary and attendance at the summer school was free of charge.

Schoollaboratory 001 Date: June 20-17th, 2017 Venue: Elementary School “Vlada Obradović Kameni” Link: http://gradimoskolujerskolagradinas.blogspot.rs/search/label/%C5%A1kolaboratorija%20001 Visitors/participants: 45 participants, up to 100 visitors Project Partner: Elementary School ‘Vlada Obradović Kameni’ Support: Goethe Institute Belgrad, Center for Promotion of Science with donation of Popular Science magazine), local craftsmen and entrepreneurs, friends, family and neighbours Collaboratos: David Stanley, Dušan Milić, Dušana Nikolić, Hana Godomski, Ljubica Beljanki-Ristić, Maja Bosnić, Marina Ristić, Petar Petrović, Sanja Milić, Simon Marić, Željko Lučić

From June 20th to 27th 2017th, team Škograd held Schoolaboratory 001, a summer school for local children in Ledine, a suburban neighborhood of Belgrade. The weeklong activities took place in the yard and classrooms of the local school with the aim to strengthen the communication between the school nad the neighbourhood. The goal was to connect with the local children, develop a sense of belonging to the local school, and strengthen connections between the community and the school - both spatially and symbolically - through play, conversation and collective creation. Children’s participation in Schoolaboratory 001 was free and voluntary. We invited local children from pre-school to graduate ages, no matter if they are students of the local school or not. Finally, the group was very diverse, gender-vise, age-vise, and school enrollment vise. Some of the children in Schoolaboratory 001 never attended school, some were early school leavers and some were regular students of Ledine’s or some other schools in the New Belgrade municipality. During the summer school, we had common activities for all participants and group projects in four sections: music and choreography, storytelling, video and drama, and crafts. All sections were together with participants created in a very open and participative dialogue driven by children’s initiatives.

Summer school program was held everyday in following schedule: 9:00-10:00 Gathering in the schoolyard of participants and Streching activities 10:00 -12:00 Work in groups: Crafts Music and Choreography Video&Drama Storytelling or Joined activities with Summer Schoolguest 12:00-13:00 Break for refreshment and snack 13:00- 14:00 Closing activities witin sections - including demonstration of the achieved results and discussions about the tomorrow’s activities.

On the first day, we created a list of rules of friendly behavior and painted our tools and equipment (pallets used as furniture, styrofoam cubes used as drums etc). We organized a storytelling workshop led by our guest, journalist and writer Hana Gadomski, and a workshop on making musical instruments out of recycled materials, led by another guest - Maja Bosnić, composer in projects Shhumigrad and Đubrofonija. In one of our morning stretching sessions, we were joined by pedagogist and yoga instructor Marina Ristić. We had a few evening activities as well: On the second day - 21st of June - with the group of six children we went to Kolarac for the performance of Elemental Culture Collective - an international percussionist group. On Saturday, June 24th, we took a group of children to Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra’s open-air concert, and on Sunday we organized a screening of short films in the school yard. The final day was made memorable in the neighborhood as we passed through the streets of Ledine in a festive atmosphere, inviting neighbors to join us in the evening to celebrate the end of Schoolaboratory 001. In the school yard, we set up an exhibition of artifacts created during the week-long workshops, screened a film made by the video and drama section, and handed diplomas to the participants. Schoolaboratory 001 was the beginner phase of collaboration between team Škograd and the local school in strengthening and expanding the role of the School in the local community.

Celebrating the closing of Schoollaboratory 001 program on the streets of Ledine ,,We build the school, because the school build us’’

Day 1 - Setting of the Schoollaboratory 001 Day 5 - atmosphere in breaks

Day 2 - Presentations of sections Day 6 - Group visit to Philharmonic picnic

Day 3- Morning streching Day 7 - Envisioning the new school Video&Drama group

Day 4- Making of collective mental map ,,From house to school, from school to house’’

Human Library Date: 11the of September 2017 Venue: Elementary School OŠ ,,Vlada Kameni Obradović’’ Collaborators: School Librarans, Social Inclusion and Poverty Reduction Unit and Center for interactive Pedagoy Links : http://socijalnoukljucivanje.gov.rs/rs/ http://www.cipcentar.org/ Participants: around 20 Short description: This is a project of performative act where “Human books” - young Roma talk about their experiences and struggles while growing up. The “books” are trained and prepared to tell their stories with the positive ending and a success tone as it actually developed for them. After the stores were told discussion with children and school staff was opened with each “book”Through hearing these stories the ,, Readers’’ in this case School pupils and staff and Ledine neighbours could find out more about how these young people fought throuh judgment and sterotypes as students.

Škograd presentation at 4Cities September Salon Date: 23rd of September 2017 Venue: Brussel Collaborators: 4Cities study programme Links : http://www.4cities.eu/ Participants: around 50 Short description: This event is organised as part of 4Cities studies programme which gathers students and alumnis in one place. This time two of our members that finished this study programme were invited to talk about Škograd project and our practice. This opportunity was a way to invite students to collaborate with us and to follow the process. Another one of the students that was at our study visit during month period decided to have Ledine and our project as a case study for his master thesis.

Ĺ kograd at OKTOBARH Date: 22nd of October 2017 Venue: Cultural Center LAB, Novi Sad - Serbia Collaborators: Oktobarh Links : http://socijalnoukljucivanje.gov.rs/rs/ http://www.cipcentar.org/ Visitors: around 10 Short description: Oktobarh is dedicated to connecting architecture students and wider audience with architecural practices formed by real time circumstances. As a result we have been invited to be guest at Techical university to give another presentation to their students.

Schoollaboratory of the Future Performance Date: 5th of November 2017 Venue: Elementary School “Vlada Obradović Kameni” Link: http://gradimoskolujerskolagradinas.blogspot.rs/search/label/%C5%A1kolaboratorija%20001 Visitors: up to 100 visitors Participants: up to 40 school students and memebers of school staff Partners: Bitef Polifony, CEDEUM (Center for drama in education and and art), Elementary School ‘Vlada Obradović Kameni’, Goethe Institute Belgrad, Educational forum Support: Goethe Institut Belgrad, Ministry of Culture and Information - Repulbic Serbia,Belgrade public Transportation - line 71, local entrepreneur ,, Sunce’’, friends, family and neighbours. Collaboratos: Dušana Nikolić, Sanja Milić, Ivan Gradišar, Ljubica Beljanki-Ristić

At the beginning of November, at the elementary school “Vlada Obradović Kameni” in Ledine, it was very lively and cheerful because at the school there was a “Schoollaboratory of the Future” which was attended by all the children, teachers, parents and numerous distinguished guests - professors of the Faculty of Philosophy, public figures, more associations and schools, led the exploration journey that opened the marvelous spaces of imagination with a look into the future which with this encounter became even more wonderful reality. Through this reactions, an exceptional event, the initiative of the “Škograd” collective and the “Obradovic Kameni” elementary school continued in the joint action of improving the quality of life and a sustainable local community, as well as the cooperation initiated by the project “Creative Games” with the exchange of experience and incentives to mark 40 years since the founding of the “Škozorišta”, a children’s drama studio, which resulted in numerous programs of creative workshops and innovative, creative and participatory projects from “Školigrice” to Bitef Poliphony, accompanying program of the famous festival of new theater tendencies - promoters of innovative, creative and participative methods and activities of drama and theater in education. In the best sense of this memorable 5th of November, creative workshops of the “Schoolaboratory of the future” have made their creative contribution to the significant jubilee of “Škozorište”. Founder of the “Škozorišta” and esteemed drama teacher Ljubica Beljanski-Ristić pointed out that the Škograd collective and students of the “Vlada Obradović Kameni” school, with the librarians who worked with them for months, consider the followers of the 40-year ŠK tradition - an innovative, creative and participative drama work with children. Concept for this performance and preparation period lasted for full 2 months since the beginning of the school year in September. School librarians and Škogad team together with children made a concept of the School of the future - Schoollaboratry XY. The result of these workshops is three part performance. Three clasrooms have been transformed into places for three interactive classes of future: Škosmos,

Škodom and Šknjigoteka.

In the days of preparation and at the day of performance the space of School has been transformed into true Cultural Community Center.

Ĺ KOSMOS Ĺ kosmos was a small drama performance about learning that does not even know about age, science, art or religion as a special discipline, but for all of them together. It was a time of love, life, happiness, evil, death, knowledge, inspiration, good and madness. This class promoted experiential learning through drama where children and adults played/impersonated complex concepts about human existence.

Ĺ KNJIGOTEKA Participants in Ĺ knjigoteka have met books that fly and do a lot of unusual things. But, most importantly, the participants managed to create common stories from revived sentences from different books. The goal was to enable everyone to act as creators and to feel joy. Divergent thinking, playfulness, imagination and cooperation were the channels of discovery and learning during this class.

ŠKODOM At Škodom, guests felt the home atmosphere at school and met each other in an unusual way - through games, dancing and home cooking. Škodom’s goal was to show the importance of learning through feelings, to make students at school feel at home. Children with their families tried to make the service rich and delicious. It was a class that really connected the community and the school. It displayed what the school can learn from the community and vise versa. Moreover it showed that expanding the role of the school by opening it toward the community is not only natural but creates a very fruitful soil for the learning itself.

After all, all students had joint activities, because togetherness is very important in the Schoolaboratory of the future. Participants in the school hall together watched a film about the school of the future, which was created at video workshops at the summer school “Školaboratorija 001”.

Guests coming from all parts of Belgrade came with an extra organized line of bus No. 71 - direct line to Ledine. This was organized in collaboration with City transportation.

Reach & impact The conferences where we have presented our project gathered from a dozen to a hundred participantsProfessionals, practicians and scientists coming from the fields of urban studies, architecture and education..Attendance and active participation in discussions strenghten our critical thinking and broaden our network scope. Meeting people and witnessing their true interest into our project and significance they give to it, proves to us that is of relevance to our proffesional community. Schoolaboratory 001 - summer school, was the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s major activity so far, gathering more than forty children from the neighborhood for the week long diverse activities. News of the summer school echoed on social media, where our Facebook Pages gained several hundred new Likes. This is where we built trust of community, and that is of great importance for participation processes and design. Schoolaboratory of the future - performance, present continuation of our efforts and a great honor as we made it as one of participant of Bitef Poliphony a relevant and established cultural event. The greatest impact is connections kids have made with other participants in this program. They had opportunity to perform outside of their school. We gained a great support from Educational Forum which gathers a lot of educational professionals and scientists with wide experinece in practice, academia and govermental institutions. At Belgrade Crowdfunding Convention, our project pitch won by audience vote, in a crowd of a hundred participants. non-presence in media (tv & journals): The process of getting to know the neighbourhood and the school was our main goal in this phase of the project, meaning that we completely focused on developing internal cohesion and sense of partnership between our collective, school staff, children and neighbours, which is why we avoided wider publicity and media coverage of our activities. The community we are working with is marginalized and has many different social disadvantages making the process of building the trust even more complicated. Regular social media presence was our only way to communicate with the community but also with wider audience, and only in later phases we plan to intensify cooperation with other sorts of media. The media that did report of our activities are Radio Belgrade 1 - live from performance Schoollaboratory of the Future, and publicity followed on platforms where we gave presentations and talks ( Mikser, Bina, Future architecture, Cultural Center LAB, 4Cities) and a text written for Educational Review.

Future plans Until the end of year 2017 it is expected that we sign a contract with BINA ( Belgrade international Week of Architecture) which recognized us and invited to be partners in next years Shared cities platform - Urban Hub 2. Through this platform we will make a co-design together with school students, staff and neighbours for an open classroom pavillion in the schoolyard. We will apply for Istanbul Bienalle themed The School of Schools as well as for participation at the European conference on educational research ECER. Along side we see it important to start with our program of open dialogues in which we want to invite proffesionals to communicate with us on the relevant project questions. This way we want to broaden the question on peripheral urban and educational processes and practices, and create a network involved in rethinking and re creating it. Links Team Ĺ kograd blog: http://gradimoskolujerskolagradinas.blogspot.rs/ Ĺ kogled: https://www.facebook.com/skogled/ https://www.instagram.com/skogled/ School of Urban Practices: http://cityguerilla.org/ https://www.facebook.com/skolaurbanihpraksi/ Political Space Matters: https://politicalspacematters.org/ https://www.facebook.com/politicalspacematters/

DACIDA Online conference

key words art entrepreneurship, online communication, new media and technology, idea

Project coordinators: Ivana Andrejić, Arsenije Savić, Miloš Jovanović Support: Goethe-Institut Belgrad

Description: DACIDA is a three day online conference which gathers several hundred young people from the domain of art and culture with an aim of encouraging creative entrepreneurship focusing on new tehcnology and digital solutions. The DACIDA project seeks to create a regional platform that will, through a mixture of lectures, talks and workshops, address the problem of passivity of artists and their insufficient knowledge of modern media, with an emphasis on education, networking and interaction of artists and young people coming from the domain of culture. The initial phase of the conference will be an interactive blog with an interesting visual graphic-map, which follows the stories (blog posts) of three protagonists who, with every story, capture one part of the map therefore making their way to the conference. In a picturesque and autobiographical way, blog posts will describe problems, opportunities and solutions regarding positioning on the market, using available digital and technological capabilities. three imagined characters (who are actually the authors of the project, and professionals in concrete real-life fields) will be the authors of the blog using general pseudonyms (musician, designer, programmer) with the aim of realizing their annual goals.

DACIDA 27th - 29th October developing arts and culture in digital age Who is the artist in the 21st century? What makes his identity today and what role does he play? In what ways can it survive in today’s economy? And to what extent is the community important and how to cooperate outside the borders? DACIDA is a fully online conference, developed via livestream, from Oct 27-29th 2017. The DACIDA conference has been trying to raise key issues that accompany the life and identity of artists today, highlighting the importance of new technologies and their many possibilities. Through the conference program, which was divided into 3 thematic units (Aesthesis, Mimesis, Poiesis), we tried to carry you through important topics and segments that relate to the existence and life of artists today. The conference was completely free and could be followed via live-stream on the DACIDA YouTube channel and website.

Programe: I Aesthesis I Oct 27th 2017 14:00 - 15:00 - Who is the artist in the 21st century? prof. Jovan Čekić and doc. mr. Maja Stankovic, RS 15:00 - 16:00 - Art Education in the Digital Age TeYosh, NL (Teodora Stojkovic & Sofija Stankovic) 16:00 - 17:00 - Digital Movement Erdem Dilbaz, TR 17:00 - 18:00 - The life of artists today Osman Koc, Darko Dragicevic, Aleksandar Sedlar, US, DE, RS I Mimesis Oct 28th 2017 14:00 - 15:00 - FT1P - (You miss one paper) Milan Trbojevic, RS 15:00 - 16:00 - Team, vision and toilet paper Nana Radenković, RS 16:00 - 17:00 - Virtual identities Vanja Smiljanić, PL 17:00 - 18:00 - Bulb - (interdisciplinary experiment and diversity of perceptions) Jovan Stamatovic Karic, Nemanja Cerovac, Simon Maric, Pavle Jovovic, Milos Jovanovic RS, US, JP, CH I Poesis I - HackARThon Oct 28th 2017 Hackarton is conceived as a 24-hour creative challenge with the goal to get young people from the field of art and culture to know which ways they can realize their artistic idea with mentoring support, which was canceled due to insufficient number of applications. 3 people in the org team: 1 designer 1 art director

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Project activities : January - December Activity: designing program activities Date: February 2017 Activity: defining systems of functioning and design of the conference Date: March 2017 Activity: Contacting the lecturers and working on the platform design Date: April 2017 Activity: Contacting the lecturers and working on platform design Date: May – July 2017 Activity:Launching the website and DACIDA blog, preparations for the conference promotion Date: August 2017 Activity: Promotion and conference Date: September 2017 Activity: Evaluation and promotion of new activites on the platform Date: October 2017 Activity: Preparing the final report of the projectDate:Novembar 2017

“Digital tools in culture: funds, projects, audience” Date: 28th November 2017 Location:Kinoteka, Belgrade On the second day of the two-day seminar “Digital Culture Tools: Funds, Projects, Audiences”, dedicated to the topic of digitization and the application of digital tools in culture, held on Nov 27th and 28th 2017 in the Yugoslav Cinema in Belgrade, organized by Deska Creative Europe of Serbia and the Sector for Development of Digital Research Infrastructure in the Field of Culture and Art of the Ministry of Culture and Information of Serbia, DACIDA conference was presented. The program of the first day of the event was designed to present various possibilities for financial support of projects of contemporary creativity in the field of digital arts, digitization of cultural heritage and its interpretation and promotion, the use of digital tools and innovations in working with the audience, the development of digital infrastructure and online distribution of content , intersectoral cooperation and capacity building of professionals in the culture in the process of digitization.

On the second day, examples of cultural initiatives and projects that successfully implement digital tools were presented. Pointing to the changes in the interaction of cultural programs and audiences, through this part of the program we introduced the audience with how digitalization influences the creation, as well as with the process of work, creations and issues that we encountered in the process of work.

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BELGRADE IMAGINARIUM

key words Imaginarium, city re-imagining, Internet platform, artistic endeavours

Project coordinators: Simon Marić Support: Goethe-Institut Belgrad

Description: This project stems from a project entitled Savamala Imaginarium which focused on re-imagining the urban city neighborhood of Savamala in various creative ways: via stories, drawings, photography, audio gudies and the like. The aim of the project was to turn attention to Savamala’s historical significance as well as its peculiarities and problems by employing creative means of expression. Two of the most prominent sub-projects within the framework of Savamala Imaginarium were: Savamala postcards, which, through various creative and innovative ways, demonstrated interesting facets of Savamala such as its former inhabitants, former buildings and history, and Savamala monsters, which grew into a bigger project entitled The Encyclopedia of Savamala Beings, a richly illustrated book which comprised around 50 imaginary monsters and creatures, both extinct and alive, inhabiting and shaping Savamala as we know it today. The book, an interesting and fun mixture of facts and fiction, was published in February 2017 and has received favorable reviews. Belgrade Imaginarium, on the other hand, will primarily serve as an expansion of the aforementioned project. However, the focus of the said project will be an internet platform in a blog format. Now expanding to the entire territory of Belgrade, this internet platform will serve as a melting pot of ideas regarding the city. It will include various artists (current and future members of the City Guerilla), such as illustrators, animators, writers, photographers, musicians, and other artists with different artistic and creative backgrounds. Belgrade Imaginarium will not only serve as a platfrom for re-imagining the city through an array of various innovative ideas, but will also become a sort of a time capsule, documenting ephemeral changes which our city faces. This project will aim to document such diverse things as compositions made of city sounds; parallels with other regional and world cities (including their overlapping and comparing the key intersection points); forgotten yet significant people and buildings; passing cities – the cities which Syrian and other refugees carry within themselves while passing through our city; incidental street art (such as the pareidolic pictures formed by water on the streets of Begrade or cracks in the walls serving the same purpose); street art made on purpose; imagined stories about passers-by and people we have never met; animations with plastic decorations on Belgrade facades as protagonists; re-imagining seemingly regular inscriptions on the city walls and billboards as well as common city objects with a new, almost fantastical purpose, creating various guided artistic tours through Belgrade in the vein of flanerie concept – the artistic discovery of the city. The project’s goal, as it was with Savamala Imaginarium is to turn attention to the significance and beauty of neglected places, point out historical and other possible sinficances a place in the city can have, and overall to use creativity to breathe more air and bring more light to the city.

Project activities : January - June July-August â&#x20AC;&#x201C; forming the core team of artists August-October - designing the web platform October-December â&#x20AC;&#x201C; setting up the initial contents of the Internet platform, and launching the website December-March â&#x20AC;&#x201C; filling the contents of the website and launching several sub-projects such as the Passing cities, where we will interview refugees and sketch their cities and other places of memory from their stories Future plans Future plans include making various publications regarding Belgrade and our common topic of city re-imagining. This might include the second installment of the Encyclopedia of Savamala Beings, now set in some other part of the city; initiating creative alternative city tours, there including the possibility of international projects and tours, such as overlapping of the cities, where maps of two cities will be overlapped and then guides in each city will lead tours through the unknown sites of the other city, while staying in their own cities; possiblity of developing smartphone platform which would include various mobile applications with an aim of artistic discovery of the city (quizzes, treasure hunts etc.) Expected reach & impact The reach will depend on the number of visitors on the website. However, we intend to be active on social platforms promoting the projects.

MUSEUM IN DISAPPEARING An example of an unconventional approach to Museology

key words Museum, The Museum Catch 22, disappearing, debate, digitalization

Project coordinators: Milan StanimiroviÄ&#x2021; Collaborators: Goran Rister, Catch 22 Support: Goethe-Institut Belgrad

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The project was created as a collaboration between the organizations City Guerilla (Gradska Gerila) and Catch 22 (Kvaka 22) after the guerrilla venture - occupation of abandoned building by members of the organization Catch 22. Collaboration was made due to the recognition of common spheres of interests and action of these two organizations, such as: the right on the City, right to the Museum, the (un)sustainability of the Collective, the attitude towards the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cultural heritage, archive etc. The focus is on the enabling of abandoned building for exhibition activities i.e. museum and gallery activities, as well as the need to preserve archival and audio-visual material from the period of the 50s of the 20th century to the half of the first decade of the 21st century, where Military Orchestra of YPA (The Yugoslav Peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Army) has actively acted. The former workshop for repairing instruments and space for rehearsals, had been left by the members of the Orchestra in 2005. They left behind a vast amount of documentation in the form of items, mainly parts of instruments and paper documentation materials that are used as the basis of permanent Museum exhibition. The Museum Catch 22 (Muzej Kvaka 22) is a collection of objects and documents found in an abandoned building in Roosevelt Street 39 in Belgrade. Besides historical and ideological context, the exhibition applies to the present moment in which the position of the state as the bearer of cultural policy for the Art, Museums and Culture in general, works on the model of market policy and thus brings into question the survival of its vital institutions that build the cultural identity of its citizens. This is also a good example for further stimulus for active participation of citizens in reviving and giving new content to many derelict buildings in Belgrade, whose status and purpose are not completely defined by the relevant city administration. Using modern digital technology, ie. digitizing the Museum, we documented the authentic exhibition and authentic space. Since the closure is announced by the official authorities, we launched with this project a series of museological procedures and actions - scanning photos and documents; virtualization Museum Catch 22 and its exhibition (enables a virtual walk through the authentic space and exhibited items which together form a uniqe totality); setting the Colection on the appropriate internet platform, as well as on

The final event was organized in Roosevelt Street 39 on 24th June 2017. There was a presentation of digitizing the Museum Catch 22 and public debate Museum in disappearing. Debate was conceived as an open dialogue between visitors and participants. Participants of discussion were scholars from the world of Museology and Heritage science, as well as professionals acting on related projects: Milica Pekić, Stevan Vuković, Marija Vasiljević, founder of the Museum Catch 22 Goran Rister (Catch 22) and moderator of the project Milan Stanimirović (City Guerilla).

Project activities : January - June January - February 2017 Working meetings (Belgrade) March - April 2017 processing and classification of documentation and objects (Belgrade) May-June 2017 Recording virtual-tours and forming the site structure, contacting the participants and conceiving topics of debate (Belgrade) Reach & impact: Presentation and public debate: about 50 visitors Live streaming: 1860 people reached Future plans: Continuation of project with main topic - the closeness of Museums in Belgrade. Links: https://www.facebook.com/events/1389099117841663/ http://www.designed.rs/news/gradska_gerila_kvaka_22_muzej_u_nestajanju_-_primer_nekonvencionalnog_muzeoloskog_pristupa

Presentation of the project in Kvaka 22

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Collaborators: Željko Lučić Nina Džuver (writer), Isidora Goncić (director), Marko Čelebić (assistant director), Željko Maksimović (actor), Marko Pantelić (singer), Sara Mandić (piano)

Project coordinators: Miloš Jovanović (CG), Nina Džuver Support: Goethe-Institut Kolarac Foundation, Citizen Association Prostor

key words schizophrenia, composer, music, opera, art

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The goal of this project is to destigmatize the mental illness by becoming the window into the world of it. The performance questions the impact that art has on mental disorders. It targets both people that have knowledge of mental disorders and the ones who don’t. Each person, whether having certain artistic knowledge and inclination or not, always has the latent ability to project his/her feelings through different forms of art. When a person presents inner experiences through some form of art, it often happens that the person even begins to express it verbally. At the center of the performance is the Composer as a symbol of an universal creator who experiences a schizophrenic crisis. The immediate cause of his crisis is the fact he has fallen in love. He feels need to realize this emotion, but on this path he stumbles on the obstacles and limitations that the society just sets in front of him. A quest for the solution to his situation lies in creation that becomes his only hope and cure. The compositions of Mozart, Ravel and Tchaikovsky lead Composer through his crisis. Libretti heroes and melodies are embodied through the piano musician and singer that will perform different characters that come to the Creator’s world. They will obstruct him and torture as much as they will give him relief but at the end he will manage to regain his peace and overcome the crisis. On the external layer, the audience will enjoy some of the most famous opera arias written and composed by people with mental disorders.

Project activities : January - June May 2017. Team gathering@Kolarac Foundation The team members have met and discussed the ways they see performance storytelling development. July 2017 . Research and project further development@ Citizen Association Prostor Team members are taking part in the workshops and research of the Citizen Association ,,Prostor” in order to get to know the problem better. further activities: July-August 2017. Script development: Having all the information needed, the writer will develop the final version of the script. August-September 2017. Rehearsals at Kolarac Foundation, Director and the performers will have music, acting and dancing rehearsals. September 2017. Performance premiere at Kolarac Foundation,

Reach and impact: The performance “Druga strana normalnosti” (“The Other Side of Normality”) was originally performed in November 2016. On the opening of the Take Over festival at the Kolarac Foundation. Because of the huge success and great interest it had made on the audience, Kolarac members and most important users of the Citizen association “Prostor” who were among the audience, project went on to the second phase with the idea of reaching even more people and spreading the message.

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participation in several festivals

City Guerilla DIALOGUES

Collaborators: Željko Lučić Cultural Center GRAD Topolska 18 Meduza

Project coordinators: Ivana Andrejić, Katarina Kragović Arsenije Savić Support: Goethe-Institut Kolarac Foundation, Citizen Association Prostor

key words experience, meeting, talk, questions

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Dialogues represent the cycle of informal talks with the aim of sharing both success and failure, raising awareness about the importance of non-formal education and personal development. Once a month, discussions led by successful representatives of various fields, such as art, culture, media, or technology. https://www.facebook.com/dijalozi/ https://www.facebook.com/gradskagerila/

Project activities : January - June DIALOGUE #1

Braća Burazeri (Nikola Radojčić, Nenad Radojčić) 23.02.2017. @Topolska18 Visitors: round 20 FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1844747182466223/ Photos: https://www.facebook.com/pg/dijalozi/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1100726553372829 The first CG dialogue was held on Thursday, Feb 2nd 2017 at 19h at Topolska 18 together with Nikola and Nenad Radojčić (Braća Burazeri) who told us about their experience and work as the creators of the , “Dechkotzar” brand, how they became entrepreneurs although they were not thinking in that way, as well how one of their collections become official souvenir of Belgrade. Nikola and Nenad Radojcic, or Braća Burazeri, the faces behind the brand “Dechkotzar”, which originated as a series of T-shirts for the Red Dragon band in 2001 as an idea to initiate in Serbia a real local t-shirt brand. Specially designed T-shirts from the collection Dechkotzar for Belgrade are as well and an official souvenir of Belgrade. http://www.bracaburazeri.com/ http://www.dechkotzar.com/ Published on the following websites, blogs: http://www.adriadaily.com/najave/dijalozi-sa-bracom-burazerima/ http://www.youthnow.rs/dijalozi-sa-bracom-burazerima/ https://www.youth.rs/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10515:dijalozi-sa-bracom-burazerima&catid=73:akcija&Itemid=388 http://bljak.info/srbija/gradska-gerila-dijalozi-sa-bracom-burazerima-u-topolskoj-osamnaest/ http://www.designed.rs/news/gradska_gerila_dijalozi_sa_bracom_burazerima_u_topolskoj_osamnaest http://www.najstudent.com/programi-za-studente/dijalozi-sa-bracom-burazerima-5079

DIALOGUE #2

Kristijan Molnar 21.03.2017. @Meduza Visitors: round 20 FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/697599927079071/ The second CG dialogue was held on Tuesday, Mar 21st 2017 at 19h at caffe/bookstore Meduza together with Kristijan Molnar, curious DJ and the author of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Christalisationâ&#x20AC;? radio show . In the informal conversation, Kristijan reveals more about his experiences playing music abroad, what happens behind the scenes of his radio show and how he experiences music. Kristijan Molnar has so far the opportunity to perform throughout Europe, including Serbia and EXIT festival and Love Fest, as well as Amsterdam, Paris and Zurich. He likes to experiment with different musical genres such as disco, Chicago house, deep techno, new wave, funk and soul. In his show, tries to present the latest trends in electronic music while promoting global and national artists through numerous visiting mixes and interviews. http://www.christallization.rs/ https://www.facebook.com/djkristijanmolnar/ Published on the following websites, blogs: http://designed.rs/news/city_guerilla_dijalozi http://www.studentskizivot.com/predavanja-i-radionice-za-studente/dijalozi-kristijan-molnar/ http://www.dijalog.net/dijalozi-sa-kristijanom-molnarom/ http://www.najstudent.com/vesti/dijalozi-kristijan-molnar-48974 http://www.izlazak.com/knjige-i-stripovi-25440/17699-dijalozi-kristijan-molnar http://youth.rs/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10548:dijalozi-kristijan-molnar&catid=73:akcija&Itemid=388 http://www.cupavakeleraba.site88.net/2017/03/19/dijalozi-u-meuzi-gost-dj-kristijan-molnar/ http://www.beforeafter.rs/grad/gradska-desavanja-119/

DIALOGUE #3 * special edition* Alternative Futures - Istanbul Talks 23.04.2017. @KCGRAD

Visitors: round 50 FB event: https://www.facebook.com/events/412030209152741/ City Guerilla in cooperation with KC GRAD invites you to Dialogues *special edition* / Alternative Futures: Istanbul talks in which prominent artists, agencies, engineers, designers and creative industry actors of Istanbul, such as curator and Media Teorist Asoc. Prof. Ebru Yetiskin from Istanbul Technical University, multidisciplinary artists Gizem Renklidag and Pinar Akkurt, co-founder and director Candas Sisman from NOHlab, sound artist and composer Alican Okan from Audiofil, project manager Doğuş Dilbaz from Nerdworking and co-founder and production manager Cihan Cankaya from DECOL, will share their recent works and perspectives. While predicting the future is an eternal pursuit, rendering it experiential is a more modern innovation. Indeed, “The World of Tomorrow,” echoes back from the 1939 World’s Fair. Today art works, projects, products and ideas related with the design of alternative futures shapes our expectations of technology, politics and society in decades to come by demonstrating us what that emerging world might appear as well. Alternative future ideas are made real in the form of interactive exhibitions, product demonstrations, and behind-the-scenes consulting work. But some critical questions seem to remain: How can we make alternative futures by not reproducing the future propaganda for corporations and governments? How can we flee from the mainstream futuristic aesthetic and create alternative modes of existence? Websites: http://www.alicanokan.com/ http://www.ebruyetiskin.com/ http://blokartspace.com/en/2017/02/28/gizem-renklidag/ http://pinarita.com/ http://www.nohlab.com/ http://nerdworking.org/ http://decol.tv/ Published on the following websites, blogs: https://www.evensi.com/dialogues-special-edition-alternative-futures-istanbul-talk/207521388 http://youth.rs/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10594:dialogues-special-edition-alternative-futures-istanbul-talks&catid=73&Itemid=388 http://otkucaji-grada.rs/sr/dogadjaji/detalji/21684/dialogues-special-edition-alternative-futures-istanbul-talk http://www.nadji.info/rs/dialogues-special-edition-alternative-futures-istanbul-talk/ev43829/ http://www.wherevent.com/detail/Kulturni-centar-GRAD-Dialogues-special-edition-Alternative-Futures-Istanbul-talk

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CITY GUERILLA /// JANUARY-DECEMBER 2017

City Guerilla active members: Mirjana Utvić, Simon Marić, Milica Nikolić, Olivera Petrović, Milan Stanimirović, Ivana Andrejić, Arsenije Savić, Miloš Jovanović, Stanislav Drča, Olga Jorgačević, Natalija Ostojić, Ivan Simić. Supported by: Goethe-Institut Belgrad Coordinator (Goethe-Institut): Zorica Milisavljević Goethe-Institut director: Frank Baumann Collaborators: Škogled, Political Space Matters, Kvaka 22, Goran Rister, Darko Dragićević, Elementary School “Vlada Obradović Kameni”, Center for the Promotion of Science, Maja Bosnić, Ana Marjanović Shane, David Stanley, Dušan Milić, Dušana Nikolić, Hana Gadomski, Ljubica Beljanski-Ristić, Marina Ristić, Petar Petrović, Sanja Milić, KC Grad, Meduza, Topolska 18, Citizen Association Prostor, Kolarac Foundation, Katarina Kragović, Nina Džuver, Isidora Goncić, Marko Čelebić, Željko Maksimović, Marko Pantelić, Sara Mandić. Design and layout: Mirjana Utvić Photography: Milica Nikolić, David Stanley, Anja Petrović, Predrag Milić, Mirjana Boba Stojadinović, Arsenije Savić, Una Laurenčić Translation and editing: Simon Marić Number of visitors and participants in the projects: 750 http://cityguerilla.org/ http://facebook.com/gradskagerila/