WORK R E S U L T S S I T E

PUBLIC CITY
Public city deals with problems of Ljubljana’s youth. Since their birth
(app. 15-20 years ago), the society underwent dramatic changes that
resulted in physical transformation of the city structure. Ljubljana is
characterized by a generation of descendants from other cultures.
New relationships and creative potentials of the young living in the city
are the starting point of the project.
The project began by examining the teens’ relationship with the city,
the level of accessibility and the use of space. Together, a team of
teenagers, architects, artists and researchers analysed the urban
space in Zalog, which contributed to the making of a documentary
that deals with the problematic way the youth deal with space. The
analysis, the creative possibilities and the documentary were the first
part of the project, which was presented at the Museum of Modern Art
in Ljubljana to invite the public to cooperate. Also, there were several
interviews and texts in local newspapers, radio and television with
the purpose to educate the general public on the topic. Its goal was
to include a multitude of different audiences, which in turn helped to
increase the awareness of the discussed urban topic. In the future,
the project will take place on a local level as well as in a larger context. On the local level, the project will include the young in designing
the local sport-field and its sitting area. It is designed as cooperation
between the young and the selected experts, who will help them in
building and selecting materials. The project is designed to use recycled waste material. The project, reusing materials, thus stimulates a
larger sense of responsibility to the environment. It turns from a
Institution
Slovenia, Ljubljana
CULTURAL ASSOCIATION C3
ČAMAC (Ljubljana, Zalog): Erika Dolenc, Marko Taljan
STEALTH.unlimited (Rotterdam / Belgrade): Ana Džokić, Marc Neelen
FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE (Belgrade): Ružica Jovanović, Milica Tasić
KUD C3 (Ljubljana): Boštjan Bugarič,
Ognjen Radivojević, Domen Grögl, Luka
Bogovčič, Tina Cotič, Tamara Rijavec,
Katarina Žakelj
consumer society to a society that has a higher awareness of the
spatial, ethical and ecological aspects of our environment. The experience and knowledge from the project and the reflection on the city’s
workings and possibilities will be published in a textbook available to
educational institutions and general public.
Public city builds the communication between various users of space
and overcomes preconceptions of different generations - who they are
and who we are - and at the same time encourages the teens to find
possibilities to participate in creating their space. It is a collaboration
between KUD C3 (artists, architects and researchers), Neighbourhood
Youth Centre Zalog (ČAMAC) and STEALTH.unlimited (Ana Džokić,
Marc Neelen).
8-22 years
25
November 2009 to December 2010
The goal of the project is to include young
people in the design of a new public city. Working with the Youth Neighbourhood Center, we
analysed what the needs of teenagers are. Our
discoveries and the documentary were presented at the Museum of Modern Arts in Ljubljana. Later, teenagers together with architects
started on the renovation of the sportfield using
recycled material. Working with the young in the
period of a year we succeeded to start a new
form of communication about space, its creative
possibilities and their involvement.
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“If you want them (the city hall) to give you anything, you have
to go there with a bomb.”
“We are here, without an education, without a job, we know we won’t get far.”
“Hit it with your head, it is not for studying.”
“I am not for schools, who feels like it.”
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“What will they teach me, if they haven’t already, they won’t now.”
“Nothing’s happening here.”
“Will the workers do that? We don’t know how, it’ll be crap.”
“If I went to a school, I’d be a manager. Now I work at Leclerc shopping mall and
you can’t get a promotion there, but if you’re a manager, you can advance. What
would I do? I would be a businessman, as long as there’s money. Money is the
most important.”
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“As long as it is not made from iron or copper, it’ll all
get stolen.”
“WHO WILL
YOU TELL,
WHO WILL
LISTEN TO YOU?”