Mela Zuljevic

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• PhD
• Senior Researcher at Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography

This article looks at the landscape of the Old City of Mostar eighteen years after the reconstruction of its famous Old Bridge. The reconstruction project took place within broader international peace-building efforts, foregrounding the bridge as a symbol of multicultural reconciliation and initiating the development of tourism. We explore a landsc...

This dissertation explores the uses of the past in design in the context of heritage-development. In particular, it looks at how the past is mobilised in designing visions for the future of historical landscapes. These landscapes present sites where different expectations of development are confronted - for example, in negotiating between the inter...

In this article, we argue that an engagement with the uses of the past in the design space can support better situated participatory design approaches in the context of spatial development. We start from a case study where we explored how the redevelopment of a post-industrial site affected the local actors and their existing dynamics. By reflectin...

By engaging with a case study in the context of heritage-development, this chapter traces connections between participatory design (PD) and critical heritage studies (CHS) to explore a situated approach to designing the future of historical landscapes. In using heritage as a resource in spatial development, the conjunction of authorised heritage di...

This chapter looks at the site of the Old City of Mostar, twenty years after the reconstruction of the Old Bridge through international cooperation and follow-up inscription to the UNESCO World Heritage list. The reconstruction project, represented by the bridge as a symbol of reconciliation, involved a large number of international stakeholders wh...

In this article, we put forward the importance of engaging with the past in co-design projects. We argue that such an engagement helps situate and contextualise design projects, especially by tackling pre-existing assumptions and previous design legacies. In doing so, we reflect on the experience of setting up a project to explore and reactivate a...

In this paper we draw upon the articles included in this special issue to question how to re-politicise co-design and participatory design (PD). Many authors in these fields have recently made a plea to re-engage with ‘big issues’ as a way to address this concern. At the same time, there is an increased attention into the micro-politics of the rela...

This issue (4/2019) of IBC dossier (ISSN 1125-9876) fully covers the CHEurope project - MSCA ITN focuses on developing a new theoretical and methodological framework for critical cultural heritage studies and their application for training in heritage management and the development of the cultural industries in Europe.

Questo numero (4/2019) del Dossier IBC (ISSN 1125-9876) copre interamente il progetto CHEurope - MSCA ITN ed è incentrato sullo sviluppo di un nuovo quadro teorico e metodologico per gli studi sui beni culturali critici e sulla loro applicazione per la formazione nella gestione del patrimonio e lo sviluppo delle industrie culturali in Europa. Vers...

This visual essay presents a set of stories written for a performative walk in public space, complemented with a short reflection and documentary graphic material. The art intervention, titled ‘False stories from the history of Mostar’, was conceived and performed by Abart – an art production platform started in the city of Mostar in 2008 to work o...

This article explores the relations between participatory design (PD) and critical heritage studies (CHS) in the context of urban planning and development. In searching for a PD approach which can critically address the role of heritage in urban development, it problematizes the focus on economic viability in urban renewal practices and the lack of...

This paper explores how the concept of autonomous design, as proposed by Arturo Escobar (2012, 2017a, 2017b) and inspired by the global South, can inform socially engaged design practices in the North. The concept of autonomy is approached from a southern perspective, not (only) from a geographical standpoint, but in understanding autonomous design...

'WegenWerken' (RoadWorks) is an ongoing collaboration between multiple stakeholders, focused on the role of soft connections in the city of Genk (Belgium) and guided by the approach of participatory design (PD). Through this project, we engaged with different research and design activities on macro-(city- and region-wide and reflective) and micro-...

The aim of this workshop is to implement and evaluate an approach to transdisciplinary interaction, designed to address spatial planning in an inclusive manner. We propose to engage participants from different fields in an exercise of walking, recording and mapping as one combined participatory design (PD) methodology. Specifically, we reflect on t...

We are a group of 15 PhD students working on a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (ITN) project titled `Critical Heritage and the Future of Europe' (CHEurope). We are proposing a work-in-progress exhibition which will present our current research concerns and findings while critically engaging with different viewpoints on participation and participator...

The project1 (Re)collecting Mostar started in November 2010 when the Abart group began—under the auspices of OKC Abraševic (Abraševic Youth Cultural Center)—developing a collaborative project with students from the two universities in Mostar. On the one hand, the project aims to critically analyze the situation of public space in Mostar and, on the...