Found Map from British Travel Agency. Conceptualization of Central Europe

Found Map from British Travel Agency. Conceptualization of Central Europe.

Found map from British Travel Agency. Central Europe as a Concept.

Samuel Huntington's Clash of Civilizations

Decline of the Ottoman Empire

Map 1. Ottoman Empire in 1683

A critical review of the Lost Highway Expedition appeared in the Central & European Review, written by Antonia Young. The review can be accessed here: http://spaces.brad.ac.uk:8080/display/ssishistoryjournal/Volume+2,+2008
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"How Soon is Now?", an exercise to imagine our provisional futures, brought together 10 cultural practitioners from 10 organisations across the so called Western Balkans - or as group rather prefers Untitled region - for a speculative imagination of their context and practices ten years from now, in the year 2018.

With the assumption that all (individuals and organizations) invited have developed over the last decade specific skills and qualities that stretch the possibilities of their present situation, we went into a collective brainstorm where will we be when/if the transition in these societies is over.

Edi Muka at HSiN, LjubljanaParticipants HSiN, LjubljanaAt Julija, Ljubljana: Albert Heta, Yane Calovski, Nebojsa MilikicTomislav Medak and participants at HSiN, LjubljanaDiscussion at HSiN, Ljubljana: Tomislav Medak, Davor Miskovic, Peter Lang, Ana Vujanovic, Alenka Gregoric, Antonia Majaca

Some images from the workshop session in Skuc Gallery on 12 May 2008.

NoPF - audienceNoPF - monument: Site for David Maljkovic's work "Scenes for New Heritage"NoPF - museum-garage: Alenka Gregoric on provisional museumsNoPF - empty lot: Ana Dzokic and Marc Neelen (STEALTH.unlimited) on project "Open Futures, still here to be claimed"NoPF - parking: Insert from documentary "Pretty Dyana, gypsy recycling saga", by Boris Mitic[img_assist|nid=1033|title=NoPF - roof extensions|desc=Dubravka Sekuli

As a part of "Happening" (http://happening.nai.nl/en), a two months program at the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAi) in Rotterdam a full evening program on the topic of provisional future is set-up on Saturday 19 April 2008, at 20.00

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COME AND VISIT the Provisional Future. Join in and observe, participate, discuss, relax, take notes and look around. It’s like a real city!

No one thinks the future will be shiny and rosy, but what will the future cities look like? We have gone to some of the most significant places in the new Europe to see further into the future then many have yet been able to do!

Together we will walk into the unknown, the fantastic, the commonplace!

Monday, 12 May 2008, 15.00 – 19:00h at Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana

Imagine 10 years from now - year 2018. You are still a cultural practitioner, or maybe not. What are you busy with? Where are you located, does your organization still have the same address as in 2008? What is your network?  Where do your resources come from (what is your economy) and in what kind of cultural climate is your country/city? How local is your scene and with whom are you (not) cooperating? Are you busy with these issues at all?

A nation's account of it's own history as a socio-political tool for identity engineering. Comparative case studies of the revisions of history text books in countries derived from the Yugoslavian ex-federation and the European Union.

http://www.irational.org/vahida/history/

Radical Education discussing alternative education with Mehmet Behluli and Dren Maliqi of the School of Missing Identity and Rizoma / Prishtina, Kosovo

Radical Education (R.E.): What was the context in which the School of Missing Identity was initiated?

Mehmet Behluli (M.B.): We must look at the former Yugoslav territory in its cultural and also in its political meaning. As you know, Kosovo was very underdeveloped in that context and it was a society with a strong patriarchal way of thinking, as well as a closed one. In fact, only Kosovo was a big problem as regards integration into that Yugoslav society. Probably also because of the language, as our language is completely different from the other, Slavic, languages.

A call out to anyone here in Sarajevo who I met or didn't get to meet during the expedition, I'm here for 2 months to work on my project about language and folklore and so far have just been settling in, but am really keen to get in touch with the cultural life here in the city! If anyone can let me know about any events going on or otherwise would just like to meet me for coffee please let me know! I just arrived on my own and am not really sure where to begin...

get in touch! +38763184778 or susannekass (a) hotmail.com

Susanne

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Lost Highway Expedition Photobook is a selection of over 500 captioned photographs by 31 participants in the Lost Highway Expedition, which took place during August 2006 through the emerging capitals of the Western Balkans. The book’s aim is to demonstrate the transitions and different speeds of recent urbanization that are challenging nine major cities in the Western Balkans.

TransAction 2: Carl + Jovanovic Weiss + Ferko
Oct 3rd, 2007 by transaction
described by Peter Ferko
http://transaction.wordpress.com/2007/10/03/transaction-2-ferko-carl-jovanovic-weiss/

Curator Katherine Carl and Architect Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss proposed a TransAction concerning their project, Lost Highway Expedition. Srdjan is Serbian, Carl is American, they lived most recently in Basel, Switzerland. The Lost Highway Expedition took place last summer on a route between the capitals of the countries formerly combined as Yugoslavia.

The TransAction interchange was a collaboration in a multi-tiered circumstance that is probably best to outline: