Name and Surname
Jovana Timotijević

Affiliation
Ministry of space Collective

Contact email
jovanatimotijevic88@gmail.com

 

 

Short Biography

Jovana Timotijević is an activist and researcher in the field of spatial justice. She completed BA studies in architecture at the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade, and a master’s degree in Gender Studies at the Faculty of Political Sciences, where she is currently working on a doctorate on the topic of spatial democracy. Her work crosses the fields of urban critical studies, feminist and contemporary political theory. Within the collective of the Ministry of Space, in which she holds the position of program coordinator, she works on analysis and policy proposals in the areas of urban planning, housing and land management, trying to contribute to fairer development of the city through connecting the academic community, experts, the civil sector and the citizens themselves.

 

Research abstract
The mass privatization of the housing stock in the nineties, as well as the orientation of housing policy primarily to the creation and support of the development of the housing market, simultaneously reducing investment in affordable and public housing, led to a state of constantly growing housing unaffordability. This housing policy is complemented by other urban development policies, such as public land management or urban planning. Private capital and individual interests have an extremely strong influence on the creation of public policies, and the spatial footprint of such urban development is characterized by growing social, economic and spatial inequalities.

The project “Towards fair housing policies through the interdependence of urban planning and human rights” aims to shed light on the phenomenon of de facto spatial segregation and its impact on access to social and economic rights in Serbia through an interdisciplinary approach. The research will try to formulate criteria for identifying spatial segregation, and then map the policies and measures that affect such a situation and that need to be revised and improved. In addition to the fact that it is important for us to contribute with this research to the topic of spatial segregation, in all its manifestations and consequences for social and economic inequality, to be more present and discussed in the public sphere, we want to propose in what way and in what cutting-edge sectoral policies we can strive for desegregation.