PerspectLab

PerspectLab gathers experts in architecture, philosophy, heritage, history of art, anthropology and sociology who provide a scientific research core to an international network of individuals, civil organizations, activist groups, social movements, as well as academic and other institutions.

The findings gained from research projects and theoretical analysis are continuously presented at conferences and in publications, as well as challenged through debates and round tables. PerspectLab’s mission is to find effective pathways for the application of scientific research on this cluster of topics, thus positioning itself as a locus of communication between the scientific community and the broader public.

• Annual Summer School on boat “Waterscapes in Heritage and Environment,” in collaboration with the University of Bergamo.
• Annual Summer School “Architecture & Philosophy,” held in Cres, Croatia, in collaboration with the University of Rijeka, Technische Universität Berlin, Politecnico di Torino.
• Annual Conference “Moise Architectural Seminar,” held in Cres Croatia, in collaboration with DeltaLab, University of Rijeka.
• Insurgent-Berlin-Belgrade, in collaboration with the Department of Geography at Humboldt University in Berlin
• Research platform “Green Extractivism on the (Semi-)Periphery: The Jadar Project,” in collaboration with SolidCareLab and CriticLab

Coordinator:

Secretar:

Members:

External associates:

Bougleux Elena (University of Bergamo)
Ćurčić Danilo (A11 Initiative for Economic and Social Rights)
Galway Neil (Queen’s University Belfast)
Maruna Marija (Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade)
Milovanović Rodić Danijela (Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade)
Minić Maria (Kingston School of Art)
Morezzi Emanuele (Politecnico di Torino)
Ničić Miloš (Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade)
Timotijević Jovana (Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade)
Vesnić Snežana (Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade)

• Pantić, M., Toković, M., Maričić, T., Milosavljević, D., and Vuković, M. (2026). Mining-Scapes of Participation in Serbian Extractive Regions: Enhancing Participatory Processes in Decision-Making. Urban Science, 10(1), 5.
• Ćipranić, M. (2025). Trag i život: refleksije o slikarstvu. Beograd, IFDT.
• Ereš, D. (2025). “The Scope of Architectural Contemporaneity: Reference on Display at the First Architecture Biennale in Venice.” In Reference and Contemporaneity in Architecture: Techniques for Designing the Present Needs, edited by D. Erben and C. Ruhl, 119–145. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag.
• Ničić, Miloš, and Sanja Iguman Glušac. 2025. “Heritage, Public History and Democracy.” Philosophy and Society 36 (2): 521–536.
• Dukanac, D. & Nikolić, S. 2025. „Comparing Fieldnotes, Converging Methodologies: Architectural and Anthropological Perspectives on Socialist-Modernist Mass Housing in New Belgrade“. In The Routledge Handbook of Architecture and Anthropology: Contemporary Approaches to a Cross-Disciplinary Field, edited by Marie Stender, Claus Bech-Danielsen, Aina Landsverk Hagen, Madlen Kobi and Ying Zhou, 50–62. London, Routledge.
• Nikolić, S. I. Išpanović, and D. Milosavljević (2025). “State-Sponsored Unhomeliness: Struggle for Certainty and Privacy in Serbian Social Housing.” Slovenský národopis 73(3), 403–432.
• Sustain Action Method Lab, Bródy, L.S., Fekete, D., Florea, I., Pixová, M., Polanska, D.V., Ratecka, A., and Vilenica, A. (2025) “The kitchen-work of collaborative research: Recipes for transformative methodologies,” Antipode 58(1), e70098.
• Toković, M., Milosavljević, D., Vuković, M., Pantić, M., and Maričić, T. (2025). “Resistance and engagemnt in mining communities: Experiences from Bor and Majdanpek (Serbia).” Spatium 53, 11–21.
• Vilenica, A. (2025). “From anti-socialist urbanism to fostering paths for insurgent global urban futures: Thinking from the (post-)Yugoslav perspective.” Eurasian Geography and Economics, 66(6): 732–740.
• Vilenica , A . (2025). “Cross-Movement Radical Housing Alliances in Argentina: For a feminist grammar of tenant organising.” Antipode 57(5): 1995–2014.
• Alexandrescu, F., Powell, R., and Vilenica, A. (eds.) (2025). Urban Marginality, Racialisation and Interdependence: Learning from Eastern Europe. London: Routledge.
• Alexandrescu,F., Powell, R. and Vilenica, A. (2025). “Thinking from the East: Urban Marginality, Racialisation, and Interdependence in Eastern Europe.” In Filip Alexandrescu, Ryan Powell, and Ana Vilenica (eds.), Urban Marginality, Racialisation and Interdependence: Learning from Eastern Europe. London: Routledge.
• Vilenica, A., and Mentus, V. (2025). “Urbanization of Racial Capitalism in Serbia: Transition, Racialisation, Evictions.” In Filip Alexandrescu, Ryan Powell, and Ana Vilenica (eds.), Urban Marginality, Racialisation and Interdependence: Learning from Eastern Europe. London: Routledge.
• Bougleux, E., and Iguman, S. (2024). “Aquatic Teaching Frameworks in the Anthropocene: Navigating for Natural and Cultural Heritage.” World Futures 80(8), 669–683.
• Iguman, Glušac, S. (2024). O čemu govorimo kad govorimo o nasleđu. Beograd, IFDT.
• Iguman, S., and Galway, N. (2024). “The Battle for Belgrade’s Historic Riverfront: Citizen Resistance to Radical Urban Changes.” In G. Bozoğlu, G. Campbell, L. Smith, & C. Whitehead (eds.), Handbook of Politics and Heritage, 489–504. London: Routledge.
• Nikolić, S. 2024. “Beyond Vandalism: Gentle Privatism and the Graffiti Code of Conduct in Block 45.“ Maska Performing Arts Journal 219-220: 62–79.
• Vilenica, A. (ed.) (2024). “Pursuing Tenant International: Learning from Struggles for Home in Abya-Yala (Part I).” In Judith Keller, Erin McElroy, Samantha Thompson, and Ana Vilenica (eds.), Archiving the Housing Conjuncture. The Radical Housing Journal, 6(2), 1–10.
• Iguman, S., and Galway, N. (2024) “The Battle for Belgrade’s Historic Riverfront: Citizen Resistance to Radical Urban Changes.“ In Handbook of Politics and Heritage. London: Routledge.
• Ćipranić, M. (2023). “What is a Book?.” B. Baltrusch, C. Salzani, K. K. P. Vanhoutte (eds.), A Responsibility to the World: Saramago, Politics, Philosophy. Berlin: Frank & Timme, 243–260.
• Ereš, D. (2023). “The Influence of Temporality: Exhibiting Architecture and the Prospect of Immediacy of Discipline at the Venice Biennale.” AM Journal of Art and Media Studies, 31, 11–22.
• Vračarević, B., Mirković Svitlica, A., and Milošević, B. (2023). “Značaj Dževonsovog paradoksa i povratnog efekta u saobraćaju.” Zbornik radova Dvanaestog naučno-stručnog skupa sa međunarodnim učešćem „Planska i normativna zaštita prostora i životne sredine“, Novi Pazar, 2023, 269–276.
• Vilenica, A., Pantović, N., and Škobić , M. (2023). “CHF-Indexed Housing Debts and the Housing Struggle in Serbia.” City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action.” Special Feature: Dependent Financialization and Urban Struggles in East Europe, 27(3-4), 636–653.
• Bojanić, S., Ćeriman, J., and Nikolić, S. (2023). “Upotreba foto-elicitacije u sociologiji: kontekstualizacija siromaštva i društvene isključenosti.“ Revija za sociologiju 53(3):429–457.
• Nikolić, S. (2023), “Burning Tires, Sauerkraut and Dung: The (Classist) Boundaries of an Olfactory Landscape.“ Pp. 155–173 in Sensory Environmental Relationships: Between Memories of the Past and Imaginings of the Future, Blaž Bajič and Ana Svetel (Eds.). Delaware: Vernon Press.
• Vesnić, S., Bojanić, P., and Ćipranić, M. (2023). “Object as a Series of Its Acts.“ Filozofski vestnik 44(3): 131–144.
• Ristić, M., and Vesnić, S. (2022). „The Conceptual Act of (Non)Instrumentality.“ AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 29: 1–11.
• Ristić, M. (2022). “Bachelard en vacances: The Subject of Surrationalism and Its Functional Value.” Philosophy and Society 33 (3): 621–631.
• Bojanić, P. (2022), In-Statuere. Figures of Institutional Building. Translated by E. Djordjevic. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann.
• Ćipranić, M. (2022). Opisi arhitektonskih objekata u antici. Beograd: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju / Orion Art.
• Iguman, S., Mijatović, N., and Nikolić, S. (2022), “‘Keep up the Good Work, Za naš Kej!’ Citizens’ Passive Support to the Local Activist Group.” Filozofija i društvo / Philosophy and Society 33(1):120–142.
• Iguman, S. (2021), “Urban Rivers in Belgrade, Serbia: Radical Transformations and Illegal Urban Practices in a Post-Socialist Capital.“ Archivio Antropologico Mediterraneo 23(2): 1–17.

Miloš Ćipranić:

• “Arhitektura i filozofija kao sestre” [“Architecture and Philosophy as Sisters”], Politika (Culture Supplement), Belgrade, July 1, 2023, p. 3.
• “Arhitektura i opšte mesto” [“Architecture and the Commonplace”], [O]gled, Belgrade, Spring, 2024, pp. 16–21.

Sanja Iguman Glušac

• On the practice of Kafana culture:
  • Radio Študent
  • Radio Slovenija
  • N1
• On cultural heritage in the context of controversial urban changes:
  • Vapaj za odbranu kulturnog nasleđa Beograda [A Cry for the Defense of Belgrade’s Cultural Heritage] (Peščanik)
  • Dnevnik Nova S
  • Stepenik (Radio Beograd 2)

Dušanka Milosavljević

• “Oslobođenje životinja će biti delo samih životinja ili čemu se nadaju zarobljenici ‘Vrta dobre nade’” [“The Liberation of Animals Will Be the Work of the Animals Themselves, or What the Prisoners of the ‘Garden of Good Hope’ Are Hoping For”], ResPublica
• “Čiji je Branko Pešić?” [“Whose Is Branko Pešić?”], Mašina – Culture section
• Inicijativa za zaštitu kafane kao nematerijalnog kulturnog nasleđa Srbije [Initiative for the Protection of the Kafana as an Intangible Cultural Heritage of Serbia]– UNA TV (0:20:00–0:32:10)
• “EKSPO2027: manje hleba, više (video) igara” [“EXPO 2027: Less Bread, More (Video) Games”], Mašina
• Participation in the Panel “Dupla EXPOzicija: pljačka i pobuna” [“Double EXPOsure: Plunder and Rebellion”], March 30, 2025, The Liberated Cultural Centre of Belgrade

Branko Milošević

• Guest Appearance (May 9, 2025): Podcast Serbia IN FOCUS Episode 6: They Build, Students Organize: Belgrade Expo 2027 and Student protests

Sara Nikolić

• “Kako ovi ljudi žive?” [“How Do These People Live?”], Peščanik
• Participation in the Panel “Studentski prostor studentima” [“Student Space to Students”], February, 27, 2025, The Liberated Cultural Centre of Belgrade

Ana Vilenica

• Deadly Urbanism in Serbia: Killing Cities and Creating Cities That Kill, Berliner Gazette, October 3, 2025

• [Lecture] Igor Velić, “Designing Traffic Spaces to Accommodate Vulnerable Road Users,” November 13, 2024
• [Seminar] “Materiality: space, practices, symbols,” May 30, 2024
• [Panel Discussion] “Conversations: Traditional Architecture, Building, and Urbanism,” May 23, 2024
• [Lecture] Richard Parncutt, “Modeling Climate Mortality: Implications for Ethics, Human Security, and Climate Litigation,” May 17, 2024
• [Panel Discussion] “Conversations: Traditional Architecture, Building, and Urbanism,” May 16, 2024
• [Panel Discussion] “Conversations: Traditional Architecture, Building, and Urbanism,” May 9, 2024
• [Lecture] Sanja Bencetić, “Inclusive Design for Sustainable Future: Six Prejudices about Inclusive Design,” March 13, 2024
• [Seminar] “Single Acts,” May 12, 2023
• [Workshop] “Single Acts,” May 10–12, 2023
• [Book Seminar] Željko Radinković, “Philosophy of Technology,” May 5, 2023
• [Book Seminar] Miloš Ćipranić, “Descriptions of Architectural Objects in Antiquity,” March 10, 2023
• [Roundtable] “A Sustainable Development Model for Archaeological Parks,” January 24, 2023
• [Lecture] Antonio Agrosi, “ADRION Programme, Present State and Future Possibilities of European Territorial Cooperation in the Adriatic Ionian Region,” January 24, 2023
• [Panel Discussion] “Technology as Fictional (Sur)realism (nad)realizam,” December 13, 2022
• [Lecture] Sanja Iguman, “Spatial Cosiness,” – New Urban Living Rooms Workshop, June 9, 2022
• [Lecture] Sara Nikolić, “Ethnography for Design,” – New Urban Living Rooms Workshop, June 8, 2022
• [Lecture] Snežana Vesnić, Marko Ristić, “On the Second Analog Space,” – New Urban Living Rooms Workshop, June 7, 2022
• [Lecture] Manuel Orazi, “The Adriatic: History, Cities and Architecture of a Borderline Existential Space,” June 3, 2022
• [Lecture] Manuel Orazi, “Translatability and Untranslatability in Architecture: Genius Loci,” June 2, 2022
• [Book Seminar] Dario Gentili, “The Age of Precarity,” June 1, 2022
• [Seminar] “Waterscape Politics in Urban Contexts,” May 20, 2022
• [Lecture] “Sensory Transformations and Transgenerational Environmental Relationships in Europe,” April 13, 2022
• [Panel Discussion] CZKD, Nova planska praksa and Tačka komunikacije – “Demystifying Planning Procedures,” March 3, 2022