Velevski, Slobodan

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Velevski, Slobodan
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Velevski, Slobodan
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    DOMESTICATING GARDENS. Excavating New Patterns of Growth for the City
    (STRAND - Sustainable Urban Society Association Belgrade, Serbia, 2019)
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    Urban growth is a generic condition inherited in contemporary metropolitan reality, embracing various programmatic constraints: from housing and the very idea of domestic space to the public realm and urbanity as a practice of collective experience. In the prevailing ongoing discussions around urban growth, space is generally perceived through its built structure, whereas the empty (un-built) space is rather neglected or misused as mere building asset. Acknowledging the urban consequences and the spatial effects that urbanization and globalization have on the public space and life in the contemporary city, we call for a critical reassessment of city’s unbuilt resources and potential. Therefore the task of this paper is to reveal the hidden dimension and potential of gardens as resource for urbanity, juxtaposing the notion of architecture and dwelling with cultivated landscapes, both being seen as interwoven experiences that create the beauty of living. In order to challenge the perpetually accelerated building activity on the territory of the city of Skopje, we examine the relationship between the built and the un-built space by exploring new narratives that emerge in re-appropriation of the concept of a garden as urban entity and the potential of the productive landscape as a collective endeavour.
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    ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDIO COURSES IN AND OUT COVID-19: Adaptive processes in academic knowledge exchange
    (University of Belgrade – Faculty of Architecture, 2022)
    Mano Velevska, Marija
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    This paper elaborates on the work of the Growth 2.0 design studio at the Faculty of Architecture in Skopje that, over the years, has built its own methodology around different modalities of collaborations, prompting immediate and direct exchange of knowledge in the learning process. Restrictions in movement and access to other commodities, caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, have shaken every sphere of society, including education as it was inevitably transferred from the physical classroom into online forms of communication. Such a major shift especially reflects architectural education that basically evolves around the very notion of space, spatial practises and physical encounters. History has proven that in times of 'crises' (as the pandemic certainly is), new ways of thinking emerge that further instigate novel and innovative acts and deeds. Nevertheless, education being conceived as an act of continuation by sharing and exchanging knowledge, could not withstand a rapid shift without leaving a rupture in the process. Therefore, this paper shows how pedagogy and methodology changed in the Covid-19 era to adapt the particular circumstances of physical distance and isolation in the framework of the design studio, adjusting design tasks and communication tools as new modes of collaboration.
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    OLD LOCATIONS FOR NEW ECONOMIES: CASE STUDY OF CITY OF SKOPJE
    (STRAND - Sustainable Urban Society Association Belgrade, Serbia, 2019)
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    Mano Velevska, Marija
    Rapid urbanization and forced industrialization during socialism, lead to enormous extension of urban territory and unrestricted and irrational utilization of locations for industrial production. The end of socialist system caused multiple processes of transformation in the city, where one of the most expressed was the deindustrialization. It produced vast areas and numerous locations to be permanently abandoned or insufficiently utilized. This paper examines and presents the opportunities for reuse of abandoned or unused industrial locations and buildings within the urban territory of the city of Skopje. The industrial locations and buildings had became valuable and attractive urban assets with potential for reuse. In addition, both represent important part of city history, where the process of industrialization contributed tremendously to social, economic and cultural development of Skopje. Their prospect use shall create link with social-economic background, culture and architecture of certain era and continuity with the past. We represent the standing that abandoned industrial locations and buildings in Skopje should be used by creative and non-material production industries. The creative economy as generator of growth can be treated as crucial sector for innovation, knowledge transfer, economic diversification, pool of highly skilled educated employees necessary to achieve sustainable development goals for the city of future.
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    EDUCATING FOR A DEMOCRATIC PRACTICE OF ARCHITECTURE
    (AMPS - Architecture, Media, Politics, Society, 2020)
    Mejia Hernandez, Jorge
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    Havik. Klaske
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    Mano Velevska, Marija
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    This contribution will discuss the shared educational project for the city of Skopje, North Macedonia, by two European graduation studios of architecture, as a shared ambition to develop educational methods for a more democratic practice of architecture. Conquered by the Ottoman Empire, inscribed within a kingdom after World War I, within a socialist republic after World War II, and currently tense between global economic interests and regional political power struggles Skopje also bears the scars of a massive earthquake and copes with ethnic and religious tensions fueled by the rise of divisive and dissociative political initiatives. It is against this background that special attention has been given in the studio to three aspects that define built environments in which all citizens can thrive together. Firstly, citizens should be able to find meaning in and convey meaning to the spaces they use and inhabit. Secondly, they should be able to appropriate those spaces, by being able to project their hopes and feelings onto them. Finally, they should be able to integrate with others based on their ability to imagine and project visions of possible futures for the city in which they all live. Rather than defining a specific brief or site, the studios promote an ambition for intervention in the built environment. Against the rise of divisive and dissociative political initiatives, students are encouraged to envision possible futures for more meaningful, appropriable and integrating built environments; where a diversity of citizens can understand the meanings contained in built form, project their hopes and ambitions on it, and integrate with others as an inclusive, democratic society. As a laboratory, the city of Skopje and the many tensions that define it are fertile grounds for the exploration, examination and discovery of architecture as a democratic practice.