Ivan Kucina, arhitekta, docent, član Upravnog odbora Društva arhitekata Beograda i Saveta Oktobarskog salona, nažalost mnogo je poznatiji u inostranstvu nego u rodnom Beogradu. Naime, ako kliknete Google, pretraživača na kompjuteru, dobićete nekolicinu stranica o akcijama i projektima u kojima je učestvovao Kucina kako u inostranstvu tako i u sopstvenoj domovini. Slična je situacija i sa domaćim pretraživačem Krstaricom.

Newspaper article from an Albanian newspaper Shqip, in Albanian. File attached.

On Sep 3, 2006, at 12:25 PM, jaume nualart wrote:

> LHE people are mainly architects and artists, and some of them are
> afraid about their "creations", you know :-)
> I proposed to use the module Copyright (http://drupal.org/project/
> copyright).

hi!

i would strongly recommend to make a general note that all work is
published under a creative commons license. every other license or copyright would heavily collide with our policy (and this is share-alike! by nature), with our free hosting concept and the idea of collaboration and networking as such.
i am sure that it is possible to explain this to the artists and
architects in a way that they
understand that only CC enables creativity and makes sure that the
rights of the authors are respected at the same time...

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/29/arts/design/29high.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all

A Pilgrimage Through the Balkans, Looking for Dots to Connect

By STEPHEN ZACKS

Published: August 29, 2006

SARAJEVO, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Aug. 25 — A guard approached a vehicle on the border of Montenegro and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Something was slightly suspicious. He asked the occupants to get out. A Catalan wearing a multicolored beanie, a Korean-American with longish hair and a camera hanging from his neck, a blonde from Finland and a Serbian girl with a yellow towel wrapped around her waist emerged from the small Volkswagen. The occupants of the three cars behind them — four Americans, a Slovenian, two Serbs, a Dutchwoman, a Spaniard and an Australian — started laughing at the improbable sight. Pretty soon the guard was laughing, too.

Join the chat during the roundtable discussion about the Lost Highway Expedition at LMCC conference: Cities, Art and Recovery. http://www.europelostandfound.net/chatbox?autolaunch=1

Friday, September 15, 2006; 2:00PM - 4:00PM

or welcome in person to
http://www.lmcc.net/art/recovery/2006/panels.html

Resurgent Cities: On the Lost Balkan Highway with: Dragan Protic (Serbia), Marko Sancanin (Croatia), Yane Calovski (Macedonia) and Zoran Pantelic (Serbia) in conversation with Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss (Serbia/USA)

Place: Theresa Lang Community and Student Center at the New School, 55 West 13th St., 2nd floor
Limited seating. RSVP recommended

reserve your seat here: http://www.formassembly.com/forms/23452

[from Ivan Kucina: 09/July/2006]

I have been in Podgorica during the last week. I had to have final workshop for the students of architecture faculty and I use that opportunity to deal with organization of LHE Podgorica Days together with Boro and Slavica. Four days students workshop was dedicated to develop Podgorica alternative guiding tours. I had six groups and each was developing sites for selected profession: architect, philosopher, artist, jobless, economist and writer. Idea was to have independent guiding routs classified through proffesion identity that is very appreciated in independent Montenegro.

However during work these all started to be connected and final result is that we shall have collection of id cards describing about 50 sites in the city and to let people who are interesting to be guided to choose some number of this cards and create their own routs. Then there will be students around to take them either individually or in small groups. That is possible because in Podgorica hou can get anywhere in 15 min. This cards will be finished until July 13 which is the day of montenegrian independency and everything they are working on last months have to be finalized for that celebration. They will be in digital and paper copied version so that can be shown before actual event in Podgorica.

KozaraBelow is the write-up from Metropolis July issue 2006.
[http://www.metropolis.com/]
"Informal networks are all the rage in certain antiestablishment architectural circles; loosely affiliated groups and individuals are seen as antidotes to out-of-control commercialism and nationalism. Later this summer you can join one such network, Europe Lost and Found, and witness its evolving "Lost Highway Expedition" in the Western Balkans (imagine The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test in various Slavic languages and degrees of broken English). Whether or not these networks have real impact is an open question, but being guided through former Yugoslavia by expatriate Serbian architects and members of the local counterculture s

kuda.org Novi Sad aerial: http://ns.zig.nsinfo.co.yu/bn_index.cfmCan be found here: http://ns.zig.nsinfo.co.yu/bn_index.cfm

Podgorica[from Ivan Kucina] I have been in Podgorica during the last week. I had to have final workshop for the students of architecture faculty and I use that opportunity to deal with organization of LHE Podgorica Days together with Boro and Slavica. Four days students workshop was dedicated to develop Podgorica alternative guiding tours. I had six groups and each was developing sites for selected profession: architect, philosopher, artist, jobless, economist and writer. Idea was to have independent guiding routs classified through proffesion identity that is very appreciated in independent Montenegro.

[from Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss] draft prepared for Goldsmiths Centre for Architecture Research, London, 2006/03/24 http://roundtable.kein.org/node/397

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“Balkanisation is a geopolitical term originally used to describe the process of fragmentation or division of a region into smaller regions that are often hostile or non-cooperative with each other. Recently the term has been used in American urban planning to describe the process of how gated communities are created. There are also attempts to use the term Balkanization in a positive way equating Balkanization with the need for sustenance of a group or society. It used to be hostile, but recent usages of the term show the potential of Balkanization vis‐à‐vis democratic processes.”