On January 17, 2025, a screening of the documentary film The Making of Corona Plaza, Queens was held, the producer and author of the concept of which is Miodrag Mitrašinović, Professor of Urbanism and Architecture at Parsons School of Design, The New School University in New York City. Then there was a discussion about the…
On December 23, 2024, the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory hosted the seminar “How Is Space Thought?,” dedicated to the book Scenes of Urban Life: The Single-Family House in the Contemporary City by Dr. Ana Nikezić, Full Professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Belgrade. The event brought together researchers from…
On December 16, 2024, the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory hosted a roundtable discussion titled “Belgrade’s Built Heritage: Challenges of Preservation in the Context of Contemporary Urbanization,” organized by Perspect Lab. The event brought together experts in heritage conservation, as well as researchers from Perspect Lab at IFDT. The panelists included Estela Radonjić Živkov,…
The lecture, held on November 13, 2024, at the IFDT, focused on the safety of vulnerable road users—pedestrians, cyclists, children, the elderly, and people with disabilities. Key challenges and solutions were explored through contemporary approaches to sustainable urban mobility and human-centered engineering. Igor Velić, a master transport engineer and editor of the Safe Paths portal,…
The agreement was signed by Gazela Pudar Draško, Director of the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, and Neil Galway, Director of Postgraduate Studies at Queen’s University Belfast. This collaboration was established several years ago and has been reflected in joint research projects, events, and publications. On the first day of the five-day study visit…
On October 14th, the Bartlett School of Architecture at UCL held a panel discussion titled “Now-ness,” where philosophers, architects, and theorists explored architecture as a force of change, anticipation, or healing, and its resonance with our environment. The discussion centred on how professionals engage with the present and its connection to future experiences.
A seminar on Khōrein: Journal for Architecture and Philosophy was held at Parsons School of Design, New York, on September 27. Prominent philosophers, architects, and historians, alongside editors Petar Bojanić and Snežana Vesnić, discussed the journal’s published and upcoming issues, as well as its role as a project of the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory.
The Summer School WATERSCAPES in HERITAGE and ENVIRONMENT brings closer together, in the same ideal and practical framework, cultural heritage and environmental preservation, fundamental resources at the same time precious and very limited. The main actors involved in the use of these coupled resources are local communities since they maintain with both heritage and environment…
The Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory is pleased to announce the presentation of Khōrein: Journal for Architecture and Philosophy at Harvard Graduate School of Design on November 3 at 4:00 PM ET. The inaugural double issue will be presented by Petar Bojanić and Snežana Vesnić, editors-in-chief, and Paul Guyer, Jonathan Nelson Professor Emeritus of…
Khōrein: Journal for Architecture and Philosophy is a newly established academic journal published by the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade. The journal is dedicated to the dialogue between architecture and philosophy and the problematization of key concepts and protocols that make the connection between the two disciplines possible.
