Sine cūrā:
A Future In What We Already Have
The DAI-SAI Sine cūrā: A Future In What We Already Have programme continues the exploration of critical architectural heritage and transformation of material and immaterial environments from “spaces of common disease” into places of “common healing”.
At a time when the traditional understanding of care for architectural icons is becoming a universal and ever-expanding professional question, we ask ourselves: how can we build strategies of care? As not everything worth preserving can be preserved as an icon, how can we expand the concepts and pursuits of care that are meaningful and sustainable to both the local and the global communities? How may such buildings become something more for their communities, or for people who care about them?
The programme started under the title From Care to Cure and Back, focusing on The Children’s Maritime Health Resort of Military Insured Persons in Krvavica, a modernist masterpiece built by the enigmatic Croatian architect Rikard Marasović, and communities around it, through investigation in film medium. While the complex sparks nostalgia and even international architectural interest (it was included in MoMA’s 2018 exhibition Toward a Concrete Utopia Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980), its contemporary and local realities are tied to multiple layers of current uses, legalities, ownership questions and societal tendencies that reach far beyond purely architectural appreciation. This year, within the LINA programme, the cinematic production of architectural knowledge will be joined with experimental practices of in-situ installations, peripatetic storytelling and community gathering, with the emphasis on reinventing collectivity, performativity and materiality, under the title Architecture of Cure.
Sine cūrā: A Future In What We Already Have programme in 2025 is conceived to curate and exhibit a postdisciplinary interest in critical architectural heritage, which has turned into a multifaceted front of projects in the case of The Children’s Maritime Health Resort in Krvavica. Moreover, we seek to combine learnings and collect examples of the plurality related to acts of care in a discursive exhibition and its publication, where curiosity is sparked by contemporary communities and their imaginaries, together with a future in what we already have.
PROGRAMME:
28 NOV 2024
THURSDAY
DAI-SAI Gallery, Smareglina 1, Pula18:00 - 18:30
NEW LOCAL: Examples from Finland
Lecture presentation by Mika Savela (TAIKE, Helsinki)18:45 - 20:00
Community Architecture Here and Now: Pula, Višnjan, Rijeka, Krvavica
Presentation and Discussion, moderated by Ana Dana Beroš, with:Breda Bizjak (DAI-SAI)
Jasmina Bašić (DAI-SAI)
Marin Nižić, Tanja Blašković, Mara Prpić (Urbani Separe)
Mauro Sirotnjak (Pravo na grad)
Jasmina Bašić (DAI-SAI)
Marin Nižić, Tanja Blašković, Mara Prpić (Urbani Separe)
Mauro Sirotnjak (Pravo na grad)
20:00
Sine cūrā: A Future In What We Already Have
Documentation installation opening featuring works by Rebeka Bratož Gornik, Joaquin Mora, Matija Kralj Štefanić, Esteban Salcedo, Pavle Mijuca, Tina Divić et al.29 NOV 2024
FRIDAY
DAI-SAI Gallery, Smareglina 1, Pula10:00 – 13:00
Acts From Sites of Care
Editorial Workshop, facilitator: Mika Savela (TAIKE, Helsinki)18:00 – 20:00
Sine cūrā: A Future In What We Already Have
Public Talks with LINA Fellows, respondent: Ana Jeinić (IZK TU, Graz)Liisa RyynänenHow to Dismantle the Master's House Using the Master's Tools?
The evaluation criteria typically assess a building’s value based on authenticity, preservation, and cultural-historical value. Rooted in the ideals of nationalism and the conservation of monuments, this framework is more suited to protecting unique historical buildings than modern, mass-produced ones. The lecture will explore how traditional architectural research tools can be reimagined to create something new—after all, any tool can be a weapon if held differently.
The evaluation criteria typically assess a building’s value based on authenticity, preservation, and cultural-historical value. Rooted in the ideals of nationalism and the conservation of monuments, this framework is more suited to protecting unique historical buildings than modern, mass-produced ones. The lecture will explore how traditional architectural research tools can be reimagined to create something new—after all, any tool can be a weapon if held differently.
girlscanscan collective
Tripping on Modernist Monuments: A Panorama of Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Germany, and Hungary
This research project investigates local initiatives in the former Eastern Bloc, aiming to understand their approaches to preserving and promoting modern architectural heritage while examining the social impacts of late modernity on our communities.
Tripping on Modernist Monuments: A Panorama of Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Germany, and Hungary
This research project investigates local initiatives in the former Eastern Bloc, aiming to understand their approaches to preserving and promoting modern architectural heritage while examining the social impacts of late modernity on our communities.
Loris L. Perillo and Andrea Arcese
From Space to Environment: Elementary Notes on Housing and Displaying
This discussion will analyze the spatial qualities of modern housing and interpret exhibition design as a contemporary architectural tool, exploring alternative methodologies for transforming residential spaces through processes of exhibiting.
From Space to Environment: Elementary Notes on Housing and Displaying
This discussion will analyze the spatial qualities of modern housing and interpret exhibition design as a contemporary architectural tool, exploring alternative methodologies for transforming residential spaces through processes of exhibiting.
Rajna Avramova
Uncanny Spatialities and Minor Architectures
This lecture will delve into the relationship between minor and major spaces, examining how they reflect and influence power dynamics. It will introduce the concept of minor architectures as a framework and methodology for mapping alternatives to major spatial theories.
Uncanny Spatialities and Minor Architectures
This lecture will delve into the relationship between minor and major spaces, examining how they reflect and influence power dynamics. It will introduce the concept of minor architectures as a framework and methodology for mapping alternatives to major spatial theories.
20:00
Periple Duet II
Publication Presentation by Ana Dana Beroš, DAI-SAI in collaboration with Trienal de arquitectura de Lisboa, featuringworks by Johanna Musch and wit(t)nessing collective (Giga Tsikarishvili and Tatuli Japoshvili)30 NOV 2024
SATURDAY
10:00 – 12:00