step towards river
theme: research of potentials of spatial development and activation of pathways that connect central core of the city of belgrade with the sava river.
polygon: knez mihajlova street, terazije, kalemegdan, tram bridge.
strategy: step by step dispersion of multiple events and artistic interventions in public spaces within the target area, like urban magnetic fields set-up, intensifying space visits and usage frequency, lowering the distances between active city points and therefore making the pathway towards the river more attractive and accessible.
organization and work conditions:project was realized by organizing interdisciplinary students teams, with participants from different faculties of belgrade universities. all the work was supported and monitored by proffesionals – mentors with diverse background, coming from serbia and abroad.
starting limiting conditions were: undefined budget, lack of collaboration among faculties at university of belgrade and university of arts in belgade; time constraints (preiod – semester from february to july).
initial presumptions:
- interdisciplinary work of students o university of belgrade, eventhough there is no official cooperation between the faculties.
- motivation for realization of personal ideas is providing extraordinary strength for action in limited working conditions, initiating project realization with interdisciplinary approach to artistic design of public city spaces.
- possibility for mass and diverse intervantion during such a artistic design of public city spaces.
- students’ role as initiators of the work with the local community on the project realization.
- student can animate the citizens to actively participate in the realization of the projects of urban quality development.
1. phaze: initialization activities:
- research of the public open spaces and public buildings network within the target field
- research of the particular locations
- research of bibliography referring to target area
- pre-research of ideas about the possibilities and potentials for space significance and stopping by and within the public spaces (terazije terrace – terazijska terasa)
results: - publication: catalogue of public spaces in the central zone of belgrade
- project presentation on the terazije terrace: urban stop
- presentation of the PaPs program
2. phaze: ideas generation and development activities:
- selection and definition of subprojects (themes, content, methodology, tools,…)
- project development on the two levels:
„great vision“ – project’s spatial simulation, the one like it that should be if the enough finances would allow it.
second level of „less, but possible“ – project which can be realized with minimal investments
results: - publication of initial workshop proposals
- presentation of preliminary concepts by multidisciplinary teams
3. phaze: realization activities:
- selection of particular pathways – connections between the city and the river, and therefore selection of the spaces which will be primarily activated with this aim.
- scenarios of integral presentation of the workshops with the aim to realize their synergetic impact on the public spaces.
- development of the realization plan of every particular workshop.
- particular activity was dedicated to fund raising and sponsor pool gathering, where the students took active role in presentation in front of potential sponsors and lobbying for their project realization.
- cooperation with international summer school of university of arts.
results:
- step towards the river event – july 12th2003
step towards river / gallery
