Architecture of Cure
Periple Duet Collaboration
LINA Authors
Non-Aligned Authors
The Future Resides in What We Already Have
2023
From Care to Cure and Back
LINA Fellows
Programme in Pula
Experts
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Publishing Acts
ARCHITECTURE OF CURE
The DAI-SAI Architecture of Cure programme continues its exploration of critical architectural heritage, aiming to transform both physical and intangible environments from what were once “spaces of common disease" into places of “common healing". This initiative began in 2023, initially titled From Care to Cure and Back, with a focus on The Children’s Maritime Health Resort of Military Insured Persons, a remarkable architectural creation by the enigmatic Croatian architect Rikard Marasović in 1965. Through the lens of film, the program reimagined the mentioned architecture, envisioning alternative concepts of social interaction and spatial organization.
Architecture of Cure initiative now convenes a “pre-summer school” comprising selected LINA (Learning, Interacting, Networking in Architecture) fellows, international experts, and members of the local community. In collaboration with the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, some of the invited LINA fellows incorporate their findings or conclude their Periple Duet “residency on the move” in Krvavica. This integration aims to merge existing knowledge about The Children’s Health Resort with innovative, on-site experimental practices, including art installations and “daily performances”. The primary focus lies in redefining notions of collectivity, performativity, and materiality, leading up to the May Day Community Festival.
PROGRAM:
27 April 2024, Saturday
Rintintina Atelier, Prvosvibanjska 25, Makarska
18:00
City Walk and Visit to Mike Festival
28 April 2024, Sunday
The Children's Health Resort, Krvavica
12:00 – 13:00
“Architectural stories on the move”, perfomative guided tour of the Children's Health Resort, Ana Dana Beroš, Tina Divić and Mauro Sirotnjak (in English and Croatian).
18:00 – 20:00
“Critical tourism”, discussion and presentation of S'lim no. 7 ADRIA zine by Mika Savela (Selim), with Ana Dana Beroš (in English)
29 April 2024, Monday – 30 April 2024, Tuesday
The Children's Health Resort, Krvavica
10:00 – 20:00
“Daily performances”, internal workshops with Nikolina Rafaj (in English and Croatian)
1 May 2024, Wednesday
The Children's Health Resort, Krvavica
16:00 – 20:00
1 May Community Festival
Art installations and performances:
“On-time” by Johanna Musch, “Between Exhaustion and Cure” by wit[h]nessing (Tatuli Japoshvili Giga Tsikarishvili), “Continous Leisure” by Esteban Salcedo, “Children's Scale” by Tina Divić, “The Rampant Krvavica Walk” by Pavle Mijuca and more…
Music:
Babin Zub, DJ IL, Krvavica, Makarska
PARTICIPANTS:
Tatuli Japoshvili (writer and artist, wit[h]nessing, Tbilisi, Georgia), Giga Tsikarishvili (multidisciplinary practitioner, wit[h]nessing, Tbilisi, Georgia), Johanna Musch (social designer, Aubervilliers, France), Esteban Salcedo (architect, Madrid, Spain), Pavle Mijuca (artist and spatial researcher, Amsterdam, the Netherelands), Nikolina Rafaj (dramaturgist and writer, Zagreb, Croatia), Mika Savela (curator, SELIM, Helsinki, Finland), Henrik Drufva (architect, SELIM, Helsinki, Finland), Tina Divić (artist, mART, Krvavica, Croatia), Marija Ivanković (mART, Makarska, Croatia), Dijana Jelić Škorlić (mART, Makarska, Croatia), Matija Kralj Štefanić (filmmaker, VIDEODROM, Zagreb, Croatia), Nastja Štefanić Kralj (contemporary dance artist/ musician, Zagreb, Croatia), Bojan Divić (musician, Babin Zub, Krvavica, Croatia), Mauro Sirotnjak (architect and researcher, Zagreb, Croatia), Ana Dana Beroš (curator and architect, DAI-SAI, INTERMUNDIA, Zagreb – Graz, Croatia – Austria).
ORGANIZATION:
LINA, DAI-SAI,
Lisbon Architecture Triennale
With special thanks to INTERMUNDIA & VIDEODROM, mART
27 April 2024, Saturday
Rintintina Atelier, Prvosvibanjska 25, Makarska
18:00
City Walk and Visit to Mike Festival
28 April 2024, Sunday
The Children's Health Resort, Krvavica
12:00 – 13:00
“Architectural stories on the move”, perfomative guided tour of the Children's Health Resort, Ana Dana Beroš, Tina Divić and Mauro Sirotnjak (in English and Croatian).
18:00 – 20:00
“Critical tourism”, discussion and presentation of S'lim no. 7 ADRIA zine by Mika Savela (Selim), with Ana Dana Beroš (in English)
BETWEEN EXHAUSTION AND CURE
Exploring the causes of exhaustion and the pathways of healing, Giga Tsikarishvili and Tatuli Japoshvili interweave subjective experiences into broader social, mental, and environmental ecologies. Journeying within and beyond the borderlines from Tbilisi to Lisbon, with a pause in Krvavica, the duo reflects on the interplays between human-made articulations and surrounding natural landscapes. Experiences, affects, and imaginaries are conveyed through the lens of speculative storytelling.
Tatuli Japoshvili is a writer in cultural criticism, a visual culture researcher, and an artist. Her research delves into the intersections between aesthetics, psychoanalysis, and the notion of the feminine, exploring these themes alongside a complex behaviour of images both in contemporary digital media and material archives.
Giga Tsikarishvili is a multidisciplinary practitioner with a focus on artistic research.
His work delves into the intricate connection between various subjects, both human and non-human, that encourages active engagement in establishing vivid relationships with nature-culture entities in dire need of care and respect.
wit[h]nessing
In 2023, they co-founded wit[h]nessing, a platform for transdisciplinary artistic research that aims to incorporate perspectives concerned with expanding the concepts of subjectivity, aesthetics and ethics at intersections between art, architecture and design.
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ON TIME
is a research journey across Europe, investigating the power of time on the regeneration and maintenance of “climate of care”, spanning from Paris to Lisbon and Krvavica on the Adriatic Sea. Along this voyage, audio-recorded interviews are conducted to gather accounts from diverse individuals embodying the role of “witnesses of care,” such as slow travelers, gardeners, and heritage curators. Invited by Johanna Musch, these individuals actively engage with the “desk of time,” a conceptual legal entity committed to forward-thinking urban (planning) practices.
Johanna Musch is a social designer, researcher, digital and cultural project practitioner based in Aubervilliers (France). She is the co-founder of the collective Umarell where she advocates for spatial justice through actions directed to bring out vernacular knowledge and help users recognize their own power of invention and intervention towards regenerative practices. In her work, she likes to hybridize architecture with other fields including: journalistic investigation, audio-recording, artistic intervention, writing and speculative design.
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CONTINUOUS LEISURE
consists of a continuous line of simply fabricated tents with fabric and supports, which serve as temporary accommodation and around which are occurring "islands" of leisure activities, such as a mini golf, a tennis court or a small beach. This installation is deployed crossing diagonally the inner courtyard of the Children's Health Resort in Krvavica, near Makarska, Croatia as part of the Architecture of Cure festival program.
The configuration of Continuous Leisure takes up the idea of Tempo Libero, introduced by Vittorio Gregotti and Umberto Eco, as curators of the 1964 Triennale di Milano, offering a critical view of the dominant expansive model of coastal tourism. The arrangement of the tents along a continuous line that diagonally crosses the courtyard manifests a vocation of temporal autonomy and resistance to the predominant chronological regime, establishing an environment where the experience of leisure is not subject to temporal restrictions, but offers a place of disconnection and introspection.
This concept of liberation from time aligns with the radical cynical vision of the radical Italian office, Superstudio, and its Continuous Monument, to challenge established architectural and social structures to reflect on the authoritarian and homogenizing tendencies of modern architecture embodied by the Health Resort and to promote a new critical view of the relationship between architecture, society and the environment.
The diversity of recreational activities scattered throughout the tents offers a wide range of leisure experiences that invite visitors to unwind and enjoy leisure time in a unique and personalized way. A symbol of resistance and liberation from the pressures of efficiency and productivity, empowering the courtyard, a traditional place for rest, as a space for reflection, contemplation and connection with self and others.
The ease of construction and flexibility of the design make this facility highly adaptable to different environments and needs. In addition, the open and fluid layout of the tents and leisure areas allows for the creation of a variety of situations that can be captured and explored through audiovisual media, adding an additional layer of depth and meaning to the pavilion experience.
Continuous leisure is approached as a utopian proposal in the face of indiscriminate architectural planning and leisure, challenging established conventions and seeking to create a space that transcends traditional temporal and spatial limitations.
Esteban Salcedo is a PhD Architect from Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid (ETSAM). His academic production relies on the confluence between research and teaching. As a lecturer, he has taught at ETSAM, at the Architectural Association of London, and the University of Miami, and he’s currently lecturer at Universidad Andrés Bello in Chile. For the last ten years holded the head office position at estudioHerreros, an architectural firm with extensive experience in the design and construction of cultural buildings and exhibition displays. In 2023 he has founded his own firm, SALA, where he promotes, through spatial practice, the cultural relevance of architecture in relation with contemporary issues.
DAILY PERFORMANCES
Taking "the space of the Krvavica Children's Health Resort" as the largest unit of research, and "the space of one's own experience" as the smallest (and vice versa) the aim of the workshop is to re-examine the possible metamorphoses of the term "space" by changing the perspectives we approach it on the axes of objective-subjective, internal-external, private-public, and finally fictional- factual.
Autoethnographic research blurs boundaries between different imaginable fictions of this space - through rewriting the "self" within the social world we can open up a space of resistance between the individual (auto-) and the collective (ethno-), where writing (-grapho) calls for the establishment of a dialogue. Autoethnography is also understood as a critical approach against the claim of a privileged speaker who sometimes seems to want to explore anyone's social and cultural reality but his own. The desire is to offer possible ways of creative entry into the field of autoethnography that question one's own discourse of watching/listening/recording. And imagining.
Nikolina Rafaj holds a Bachelor and Master Degree in the field of Dramaturgy from the Academy of Dramatic Arts Department at the University of Zagreb and Bachelors Degrees in anthropology and ethnology and cultural anthropology (Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Zagreb). Alo she is a PhD student at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences.
As a dramaturge and writer, she works on projects in ITD theatre, Zagreb Youth Theatre, Marin Držić Theatre (Dubrovnik), National Theatre Ivan pl. Zajc (Rijeka), Dubrovnik Summer Festival, Trešnja Theatre, Komedija Theatre, Zagreb Dance Center… as well as many projects on independent scene. She presented a research paper titled Performing a passage – dramaturgy as a mode of disappearing in Dubrovnik (Theatrum Mundi) and in Zagreb (Innovative Methodologies in Art and Science). She received the Dean’s award and two Marin Držić awards for dramatic literature. She leads workshops, freelances as a writer and dramaturg, and works on intersections of ethnology and dramaturgy.
THE RAMPANT KRVAVICA WALK
The guided tour with a performative twist begins at the Children’s Health Resort and guides participants through the Krvavica village, offering insights into coastal urban planning in the Makarska Rivijera and Dalmatia. Conceived as a triad involving the tour guide, locals, and investors, the tour explores specific local phenomena such as illegal construction, apartmentization, and the rampant growth of tourism. Contrasting Krvavica with other Dalmatian resorts, the tour focuses on the emergence of the "neo-vernacular" style in coastal areas, emphasizing its dominance as the primary accommodation choice. Through the use of satire, the tour scrutinizes coastal urban planning and the decline of modernist heritage in Dalmatia.
What defines the contemporary Dalmatian village, and how can we ensure its preservation? How do residents, tour guides, and architects perceive and tackle issues such as the loss of modernist heritage and the proliferation of apartment complexes?
Pavle Mijuca (HR/RS, *1999) is an artist and a spatial researcher. In his practice, he grapples with the phenomenologies of cities and spatial planning. He researches urban planning-related issues such as gentrification, illegal construction, and unregulated planning. The result of his research is often a satirical visual language translated into the medium of digital illustration. The illustrations are printed on various textile materials and presented as physical objects. He holds a Bachelor in Fine Arts from the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) and is currently enrolled in the Studio for Immediate Spaces at the Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam. For his BA graduation project "Full of new beginnings" he received the Bachelor Grant Award. He lives and works in Amsterdam.
DJEČJA SKALA/CHILDREN’S SCALE
Art installation addressing the issue of design tailored to children's sizes. It transports us into a realm of memories, evoking those from our own childhood. A tiny chair serves as a canvas for abandoned toys to "sprout like mushrooms" within the confines of an abandoned children's hospital in Krvavica, offering an apt backdrop to underscore the facility's present state. This on-site exhibit effectively conveys the site's history, concerns for children's well-being, and our own reflections.
Tina Divić, Krvavička from Zagreb. Metal designer (ŠPUD, Zagreb), art and culture teacher (UMAS, Split), painter, illustrator, art educator for children and adults, workshop leader in art therapy, craftswoman, cook, activist, member of associations... After ten years in education (GOGS, Split), proud owner of Rintintina Atelier in Makarska. Member of mART.
OBEZVRJEĐENJE/THE DEPRECIATION
Installation is a personal interaction and form of resistance that, on International Labor Day, simultaneously attempts to advocate for a more socially just and sensitive state, and to emphasize social values as contemporary values of global society. The installation addresses the issue of increasing income and wealth inequality in today's unlimited market and the inability of workers to secure a dignified life, better quality of life, and living space through their work. The installation is set up on the holiday in the space of a disrespected cultural asset in Krvavica, whose original purpose as a children's sanatorium was later converted into a resort, similar to workers' resorts that once sprang up along the Adriatic coast, now left devastated and not serving the rest needs of workers. The ubiquitous disrespect, both in the context of the values of today's society where the hunger for profit constantly increases while human values and work are simultaneously devalued, insufficient for a quality standard of living in the face of overall rising prices, and in the context of the devaluation of national wealth, serves as an impetus to install the work in the devastated building in Krvavica on Labor Day. A major problem today is the right to housing and the inability to obtain a loan based on personal income. The significant disparity between housing prices per square meter and incomes undermines the living standards, which are already very modest in Croatia. About a quarter of the population is dissatisfied with the quality of housing, and fewer households today can afford to buy an apartment that will provide them with an adequate standard of living, while the right to work is the most important value that enables a better quality of life, ensuring living space and means for everyday life.
Dijana Jelić Škorlić, a member of the mART association, dedicates her free time to volunteering and engaging in various organizations related to art, culture, sustainable development, as well as initiatives for environmental protection and cultural heritage. Her constant desire for artistic expression is channeled into her work through associations, research, and interventions. With over 20 years of experience as a real estate agent in Makarska, her personal interest in housing issues, architecture, urban planning, and the protection of cultural and public goods is understandable.
FROM CARE TO CURE AND BACK
The DAI-SAI From care to cure and back programme explores critical architectural heritage, depletion of human communities in relation to abandoned architecture, and encourages transformation of both material and immaterial environments from “spaces of a common disease” into places of “common healing”. The LINA fellows Rebeka Bratož Gornik and Joaquin Mora expand their knowledge in investigations of architecture with pioneering imagination of sociality and spatiality through the medium of film. The focus of the research is The Children’s Maritime Health Resort of Military Insured Persons, an architectural masterpiece built in 1965, by the enigmatic Croatian architect Rikard Marasović, and communities around it. The fellows are working with experts in film and architecture (critics, historians, curators) and local communities (artistic organisations, ex-employees of the resort, inhabitants), proceeding to practical work of audio-visual documentation “with others” (DIWO), both in the site of the former resort in Krvavica near Makarska, and in Pula (DAI-SAI Gallery), Croatia. The existing knowledge is being implemented with the experimental practice of documenting and transmedial storytelling, the emphasis being put on redefining collectivity, subjectivity, performativity and materiality. The activity contributes to more sustainable architectural practices, and the local communities, in creation of a kaleidoscope of fiction about the society that created the health resort, and the imaginable new collectivity, which will govern it in futurity, by transformation of all stages of “architecture’s illness” – with great affection and empathy.
The meeting in Pula, 27-29 April, 2023, brings together the selected LINA creatives with curators, film critics and architecture historians, together with the art organization mART from Makarska into a “performative workshop” to reflect on the filming exercise of documenting The Children’s Maritime Health Resort of Military Insured Persons in Krvavica, done in March, 2023, together with the with the cinematographer Matija Kralj Štefanić and From care to cure and back curator and architect Ana Dana Beroš.
LINA FELLOWS
About the films:
Rebeka Bratož Gornik’s short film Timecapsule deals with the enigmatic architect Rikard Marasović. His voice is an omnivoice of the Krvavica community, architects, researchers, local historian and former employees, while his character is played by a prominent local actor. The narration presents and questions the position of architect's authority in describing the past, present and possible future state of the building, as well as the communities around it.
Video interview with Rebeka:
The film Sound That Remains by Joaquín Mora aims at manifold interpretations of architectural space, that could be called as a sound identity of a place. The author investigates, documents and redefines relationships between contemporary subjects and sounds of the former Children’s Maritime Health Resort. The video is composed in layers, from the sound and visual recordings of the building in its current state, empty and abandoned, to the confrontation of sounds in choreography with members of the local female choir Tempet.
Video interview with Joaquin:
Film Interviewees:
Miranda Veljačić, architect researcher from Split, Croatia
Stevan Rodić, architect from Novi Sad, Serbia
Rajko Jurišić, local historian, Baška Voda, Croatia
Ineska Paić, former receptionist, Makarska, Croatia
Josipa Balajić, art historian and pedagogue, Krvavica, Croatia
Special Thanks:
Dino Beroš, Krvavica, Croatia
Folklore Ansamble Tempet, Makarska, Croatia
Lovrenco Laušić, local actor, Krvavica, Croatia
Bojan Divić, voice-over, Krvavica, Croatia
mART, Makarska, Croatia
Intermundia, Zagreb, Croatia
Videodrom, Zagreb, Croatia
Progamme in Pula, 27-29 April, 2023
The programme will be held in English, partially in Croatian language.Thursday 27 April,
DAI-SAI Gallery, Smareglina 1, Pula
Presentations and discussions on publishing
19:00
Dobrolet Edition, Giancarlo De Carlo ‘An Architecture of Participation’, publisher DAI-SAI,
Emil Jurcan
20:00
Publishing Acts,
publisher DAI-SAI, Future Architecture platform,
Ana Dana Beroš
S’LIM Adria fanzine,
publisher Selim Projects, Helsinki,
Mika Savela
Friday, 28 April
Carrarina 2, Pula
Architecture guided tours
10:00
The Little Roman Theatre,
Emil Jurcan
11:30
Revitalisation of the Austro-Hungarian Underground System in Pula,
Breda Bizjak
DAI-SAI Gallery, Smareglina 1, Pula
Performative lectures
Moderated by Ana Dana Beroš
16:00
To Cure a Place of Care
Communal cleaning action of the Children’s Health Resort, with related cultural programme
Tina Divić i Dijana Jelić Škorlić, mART, Makarska
16:30
Nature as Subject
Case study of the Youth Health Resort in Debeli Rtič, Slovenia
Boštjan Bugarič, Architectuul, Koper/Berlin
17:00
Sanatorium Spectres – Experiments in Generating (Petty) Archival Drama
Case study of the Paimio Sanatorium by the architect Alvar Aalto, Paimio, Finland
Mika Savela, SELIM projects, Helsinki
Break 17:30-18:00
18:00
Boys Don’t Run Away
Case study of the Marchiondi Spagliardi Institute by the architect Vittoriano Viganò, Milan, Italy
Alessio Rosati, MAXXI, Rim
18:30
Parallel Tracks of the Architect Rikard Marasović – a Sketch for Biography and Further Exploration
Tamara Bjažić Klarin, Instute of Art History, Zagreb
19:00
Human and Political Ecology of a Place: Krvavica – Architecture that Heals
Sonja Leboš, UIII, Zagreb
Break 19:30-20:00
Film Screenings on the Children’s Health Resort and Artist's talks
Moderated by Ana Dana Beroš
20:00
The Sound that Remains
Joaquin Mora, Santiago de Chile/Vilnius
Timecapsule
Rebeka Bratož Gornik, Ljubljana
Saturday, 29 April
DAI-SAI Gallery, Smareglina 1, Pula
10:00-12:00
Collective reflections From care to cure and back
Moderated by Ana Dana Beroš
TO CURE A PLACE OF CARE:
The Forgotten Children's Health Resort
mART, art association from Makarska, CroatiaThe Children’s Maritime Health Resort of Military Insured Persons, for a long period of time, was controlled by the Yugoslav People’s Army (JNA), first as a children’s health resort until 1973, then as a vacation resort for military persons and their families. With the outbreak of war in the former Yugoslavia, the JNA left the building in 1991, when it was put in use to house the refugees, and to train special military units. In 2000 the establishment was “demilitarised”, and put in control of the Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Croatia, and in the “care” of the Club Adriatic, a state agency. The Children’s Health Resort, among many other exceptional military facilities, during the transitional period of rejecting the socialist heritage, entered its chronic deterioration phase that lasts until the present day. The current status quo, in which the building is listed as a cultural heritage, in the reign of the Ministry of Physical Planning, Construction and State Assets, is up for sale – and its destiny unknown.
Many civil initiatives to restore the building happened in recent years, especially to regain its primary function as a health resort for respiratory diseases during the pandemic times. One of the many endeavours was a public program To Cure a Place of Care. It was organized within the international CITY≤ ≥HOSPITAL project, by the association f.act from Graz, through a cooperation with associations Intermundia from Zagreb and mART from Makarska.
The idea and the need to clean up the children’s health resort in Krvavica have existed for a long time in the minds of the locals, and it was finally realized in Oct 2021, within To Cure a Place of Care project. The pedestrian access, ramp and circular passage through the building were cleaned of the broken glass and debris. The following day a participative programme involving the local community was performed. The participants engaged in a natural environment and with the architecture of cure, to think about the potential transformations of the establishment in Krvavica together – through a photographic walk, collective performance, architectural “side-guided” tour and a creative visualisation workshop.
NATURE AS A SUBJECT
Dr. Boštjan BugaričShared spaces are the future of our common life in the city. During the modernist era a term public space was used to define such places but the constitution of them were much more based on local economic and anthropocentric criteria, which allowed a strong touristification of public spaces and their transformation into the places of the production of private capital. As the so popular business construction PPP (private public partnership) didn’t deliver to the community realities, needs and/or desires for people inhabiting stressed circumstances of the area. As Marjetica Potrč states “the communities imagine the future city as a network of neighborhoods and neither group was interested in public space, but they were all interested in shared space, community space,” it is important to follow some of the main paradigms of the changing world to therefore make a new agreement that is not human centered. Decolonizing methodologies can change the perception of ownership into caretaker. The first step is a definition of a new vocabulary based on trust and creating a ritual of transition within structuring new relationships in space.
Dr. Boštjan Bugarič is an architect, researcher, curator, critic and editor. Since 2014 he has been an editor at the open source community Architectuul in Berlin. For the University of Primorska in Koper he coordinated the accreditation and established the Faculty of Built Environment (2008-13), where he took a position of the acting dean (2011 – 2013). In 2017 was a research collaborator at Faculty of Architecture Ljubljana. He is a professor at the Visual art and Design department at the Faculty of Pedagogy in Koper. He exhibited at the U3 Triennial of Contemporary Art in Slovenia in MSUM+ Ljubljana (2013). Since 2016 he has been coordinating the Architectuul’s associated partnership at the Future Architecture Platform. Architectuul is a member of the LINA research project.
SANATORIUM SPECTRES – EXPERIMENTS IN GENERATING (PETTY) ARCHIVAL DRAMA
Dr. Mika SavelaThe celebrated total design of the Paimio Sanatorium was originally crafted for the care of a single illness. More accurately, its highly idealised and aestheticised view of modern care became the basis of its architectural fame. Suddenly, in June 2018 the Sanatorium was put on the market. Unusable for its original, singular purpose, all that was left was its legacy. Today, salvaged by the Finnish state after an international publicity campaign, Paimio is in the process of reimagining its future as a cultural foundation. In some ways, the story seems to have a happy ending. But is such architectural salvation and smoothness of canonisation the only storyline we should follow or imagine? Is the architectural iconography we associate with Paimio (or perhaps any building within the modernist canon) ultimately a repetition of the same mechanics - of modern architecture as mass media - occasionally saved by its own replicated image? As an exercise in subversion we turn to explore such iconographies further within our regional and global radar through generative creation, recreation, and queer inspiration. By working with the archival and technological commons, we hope to open more unclear and fleeting storylines for Paimio. For all its sedimented fame and architectural lore, we want to see if for the Sanatorium, the drama is not over.
Dr. Mika Savela is an architect, curator, editor and designer. Together with architect Henrik Drufva he is co-founder of Selim Projects, a Helsinki-based platform for projects navigating the off-context, margins, representation, and approaches between the historical, the modern – and the digital. He has practiced professionally in architecture and urban design and holds a doctorate from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), where his research focused on global curatorial narratives around the Asian megapolis trope. He has subsequently worked in several capacities in research-led curatorial projects, including at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA). For the 3-year term 2018-2020 he served as editor-in-chief at he Finnish Architectural Review. Currently, he works with national architectural policy and public art advisory at Arts Promotion Centre Finland (Taike) and the Finnish State Art Commission.
BOYS DON’T RUN AWAY
Alessio Rosati Founded in 1800’s the Marchiondi Spagliardi Institute was dedicated to the education of difficult boys. Its original premises were located in a central area of the city which was bombed during World War II.
While the educational institution was being relocated to the outskirts of the city in 1952, the old legal structure of the reformatory was being rethought with the idea of transforming it into a sympathetic village. It is for this reason in the early 1950’s the new Marchiondi Spagliardi Institute was designed by the Italian architect Vittoriano Viganò not as a reformatory but a “school of life”, a civilized environment based on spaces aimed at encouraging democratic socialization.
Praised at the time by Reyner Banham as “one of the major surprises of European architecture in the late fifties”, the model of the project even became part of the New York MoMA architecture collection.
In 1970 the complex was partially closed, becoming permanently disused about 30 years later. Since then it has been abandoned, squatted, vacated, listed, as well as subject of ambitious projects that have gone nowhere.
Today its possible recovery raises paradigmatic questions for many other modern buildings around the world.
Alessio Rosati was born in Rome where he studied at the local architecture school. He founded an independent design firm while working for some of the main cultural Italian institutions, namely the Auditorium Parco della Musica and Rome International Film Fest.
In 2010 he started his collaboration with MAXXI - Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI Secolo (The National Museum of 21st Century Arts) where he headed the Research Department, curating exhibitions and editing publications. Currently he's the Head of Institutional Projects, curating events ranging from art to architecture, literature to film and more.
He regularly gives lectures in both Italian and North American architecture schools and engages in the architectural design process, either entering competitions or designing and building spaces.
PARALLEL TRACKS OF THE ARCHITECT RIKARD MARASOVIĆ - A SKETCH FOR BIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER EXPLORATION
Tamara Bjažić KlarinLike the Children's Health Resort in Krvavica, its architect Rikard Riko Marasović (1913-1987) was excluded from previous analysis of history of Croatian architecture of the 20th century. Marasović received his first biographical unit in the editions of the National Lexicographic Institute only recently, in 2021. In both cases, it is, of course, a big mistake.
Rikard Marasović is a shining example of an architect of "the new kind" with wide interests and fields of professional work. He is a painter, designer, publicist, urban planner, educator, conservator, but also a socio-politically engaged expert. After the Second World War, he participated in the reconstruction of the destroyed Yugoslavia, defining tasks and roles of the profession in the new socialist society, the establishment of educational and professional institutions, while continuously practicing as an urban planner and architect of public and residential buildings.
Despite the great design potential and enthusiasm, the exceptional ease of designing, Marasović, however, realized a small number of buildings after the WW2, which is also the main reason for his neglect. In addition to tracing the "parallel tracks" of Marasović's work, especially his projects that have been preserved in fragments, the lecture will also try to answer the question why an architect of such high position in the political and professional structures of Croatia and Yugoslavia left behind a modest realized oeuvre.
Tamara Bjažić Klarin is Senior Research Advisor at the Institute of Art History in Zagreb. Graduated in architecture and received a Ph.D. in History of Art. Her field of expertise is a 20th-century urban planning and architectural history with a focus on the mediation of knowledge and public engagement by architects. She authored the books Ernest Weissmann: socially engaged architecture, 1926-1939 and Za novi, ljepši Zagreb! – arhitektonski i urbanistički natječaji međuratnog Zagreba, 1918. – 1941. She co-authored scripts for several documentaries on 20th-century Croatian architecture produced by and for Croatian National Television. She was an expert adviser for the exhibition Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980 (MoMA, New York, 2018-2019).
HUMAN AND POLITICAL ECOLOGY OF A PLACE: KRVAVICA -
ARCHITECTURE THAT HEALS
Sonja Leboš
What were the features of a place that once healed children with respiratory diseases? What kind of a relationship between humans the built environment facilitated in Krvavica? By applying transdisciplinary analytical tools on a film which was made in a place similar to Krvavica, located in nearby Montenegro, in Igalo, where children were cured of rickets, Sonja Leboš will try to answer these questions while having in mind the politics of the possible futures of Krvavica drafted in a time-based media.
Croatia based cultural and urban anthropologist Sonja Leboš, PhD in Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology(University of Zadar); MA in Cultural Anthropology and Spanish Language (University of Zagreb), Expert in Cultural Tourism (University of Bologna&UNIADRION) and Educationist in Art (Freie Hochschule Stuttgart). Cultural practitioner with broad interests in performative strategies of humans in space, a founder and chairwoman of the Association for Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Research (AIIR, www.uiii.hr) where she initiated and carried out a number of interdisciplinary programs and platforms since 2002, tackling urbanology, politics of remembrance, and relational tactics among the fields of art, architecture, design, and time-based media; Coordinator at AIIR since 2019, Researcher and Production Manager at grey)(area – space for contemporary and media art (www.sivazona.hr) from 2014-2021. Regular contributor to Vizkultura and Vox Feminae, which, together with Kulturpunkt, are the leading independent media platforms in Croatia. Mother of one.