Conceiving of tradition as an essentially current phenomenon, the ‘Conversations’ panel discussion series is organized with the idea to explore, develop, and promote traditional architecture, urbanism, and built heritage. The goal is to deepen the understanding of traditional architectural solutions, investigate their applicability to contemporary design challenges, and circulate the results among the members of academic, professional and general public. 

The participants of the ‘Conversations’ series are invited to present their current work. Enabling dialogues between architectural practitioners, historians, and heritage preservation specialists the event series will facilitate a critical examination of existing narratives about traditional architecture, building and urbanism in Serbia. The event series will also discuss to what extent traditional architecture is accepted by the public, and to what extent by the architects and design professionals in Serbia, in order to, ultimately, tackle the question what is the current position of tradition in Serbian architectural discourse. 

Eminent experts – heritage professionals, practicing architects, conservator-architects, and architectural historians – will discuss the questions listed above through the format of series of panel discussions that will be hosted by the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade. Partner institutions on the project are INTBAU Serbia, Cultural Heritage Preservation Institute of Belgrade and Digital Heritage Research Centre, Unitec Institute of Technology, School of Architecture (New Zealand). The three panel discussions will take place in front of the audience who will be encouraged to join in the conversations and share their views.

PROGRAM

Thursday, May 9

Participants:

Renata Jadrešin Milić

Unitec Institute of Technology

Sanja Iguman

University of Belgrade

Nebojša Antešević

Institute of Architecture and Urban & Spatial Planning of Serbia

Thursday, May 16

Participants:

Nađa Kurtović Folić

University of Novi Sad

Marina Pavlović

Academy of Arts – Novi Sad

Cultural Heritage Preservation Institute of Belgrade

Vladana Putnik

University of Belgrade

Thursday, May 23

Participants:

Jelena Bogdanović

Vanderbilt University

Magdalena Dragović

University of Belgrade

Ana Radivojević,

University of Belgrade

Jelica Jovanović

Technische Universität Wien

Moderators: 

Rade Mrlješ, Cultural Heritage Preservation Institute of Belgrade 

Ana Kontić, University of Belgrade

Milica Mađanović, University of Belgrade