Zorana Đorđević

• PhD
• Post-doctoral fellow at University of Barcelona

We are pleased to invite you to contribute to our Session #136, titled Aural and Visual Interactions in Medieval and Early Modern Sources: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Archaeology of Sound, which will take place at the 31st EAA Annual Meeting in Belgrade from 3–6 September 2025. This session welcomes researchers interested in the interdis...

Although past soundscapes have increasingly captivated the attention of researchers in recent decades, their exploration still significantly lags behind the study of the indoor acoustics of ancient monuments and sites. Therefore, this session aims to serve as a platform to stimulate discussion regarding the role of sound and music in past landscape...

In recent decades, the exploration of sensory experiences in the Middle Ages has attracted increasing attention across diverse scientific disciplines. This session is envisioned as a dynamic platform that fosters interdisciplinary dialogues, delving into the multifaceted sensory landscape of the medieval world. The central question addresses how me...

Religious practice in Serbia has taken place using both indoors and outdoors sacred sites ever since the adoption of Christianity in medieval times. However, previous archaeoacoustic research was focused on historic church acoustics, excluding the open-air soundscapes of sacred sites. The goal of this review paper is to shed light on the varieties...

This chapter investigates the role of Environmental Citizenship within the twenty-first-century societal issues of human activities – urban development, transport systems, tourism, and cultural heritage. The first part of the chapter analyses the relationship between Environmental Citizenship, urban development, and cultural landscapes. Cities are...

Archaeoacoustic research is closely related to the development of information and communication technology (ICT), generating digital data that could be further re-used. In this paper we argue that digitization of cultural heritage should include acoustic heritage in a systematic manner. We show how the sound of historical places could be researched...

The overall experience of religious practice is significantly affected by the acoustical properties of temples. Divine service is the most important act in the Orthodox Church, which equally demands intelligibility of speech for preaching and as well as adequate acoustics for Byzantine chanting as a form of a song-prayer. In order to better underst...

The acoustic analysis provides additional information on building tradition and related indoor practice that includes sound, thus deepening our understanding of architectural heritage. In this paper, the sound field of the Orthodox medieval church Lazarica (Kruševac city, Serbia) is examined. Lazarica is a representative of Morava architectural sty...

Ceramic vessels were inbuilt in the church walls in all parts of medieval Europe. They are often referred to as ,,acoustic vessels", although their acoustic effect was disputed even in the time of building. This paper questions the acoustic effect of ceramic pots inbuilt in the medieval church in village Trg (end of 13th century), as one of the mos...

THE PRINCIPLES OF SUSTAINABILITY IN SERBIAN VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE The principles of sustainability are inbuilt in the vernacular architecture, developed over centuries. In the last several years, it has been recognized that this traditional knowledge can be applied in the contemporary striving towards sustainable development. Although the wider...

In this paper, we present Milan Zloković’s theorisation of reciprocal concatenation and its application in his architectural design. For two decades architect Milan Zloković (1898–1965), one of the founders of Modern Movement in Yugoslavia, studied what he called “the science of proportions”. His findings have not received the attention they deserv...

Archaeoacoustics is a multidisciplinary field of research focused on the history of the relatedness of the field of sound and architecture. The architectural history of Europe, from Antiquity to the modern period, is abundant in the findings of vessels, which are considered to have an acoustic purpose. This paper addresses these acoustic vessels em...

Archaeoacoustics or archaeology of sound is a multidisciplinary field of research, focused on acoustics of historical places and argumentation of 'the continuity of creating the sound field from prehistoric caves, megalithic structures, ancient theatres and odea, Christian catacombs, all the way to the medieval and renaissance sacral architecture a...