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The divergent legacies of the Yugoslav architectural heritage: The afterlives of “mesna zaednica” in Taftalidže, Skopje Cover

The divergent legacies of the Yugoslav architectural heritage: The afterlives of “mesna zaednica” in Taftalidže, Skopje

Journal of Nationalism, Memory & Language Politics
Volume 17 (2023): Issue 3 (December 2023)
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Open Access
|Dec 2023
Figures & tables

Figures & Tables

Figure 1:

Skopje's City Center Plan 1965 – Kenzo Tange. Illustration: Jana Brsakoska

Figure 2:

Student dormitory “Goce Delchev,” Skopje – 1969–1977. Architect: Georgi Konstantinovski; Photo: Ilcho Ilievski, 2019.

Figure 3:

Main Post Office and Communication Center, Skopje – 1972–1981. Architect: Janko Konstantinov; Photo: Ilcho Ilievski, 2019.

Figure 4:

The local community building known as “mesna zaednica”, Taftalidze-Skopje – 1971. Photo: Jana Brsakoska, 2019.

Figure 5:

The local community building known as “mesna zaednica”, Taftalidze-Skopje – 1971. Photo: Jana Brsakoska, 2019.

Figure 6:

Diagram – Decomposition of local community building “mesna zaednica,” Taftalidze, Skopje – 1971. Illustration: Jana Brsakoska.

Table 1:

Table – Social discourses.

AudienceMedia coverageOutcomes
ACT.12: “URA!”

  • local citizens;

  • citizens

social media (Facebook event)reactualization
ACT.18: “Endangered species”

  • local citizens;

  • citizens;

  • professional public;

  • students

  • social media (Facebook event);

  • news portals;

  • web sites

  • reactualization;

  • raising questions about architectural aspects and survival of endangered buildings

ACT.20: “City Scope”

  • local citizens;

  • citizens;

  • professional public

  • social media;

  • web sites

  • promotion;

  • initiation;

  • research of architectural values

ACT.21-1: “Echoes on the walls”

  • local citizens;

  • citizens;

  • professional public;

  • social media;

  • news portals;

  • web sites;

  • television

  • promotion;

  • research of political and cultural aspects;

ACT.21-2: “Lost modernist utopias”

  • local citizens;

  • citizens;

  • professional public;

  • students;

  • artist;

  • cultural workers

  • social media;

  • news portals;

  • web sites;

  • television

  • storytelling;

  • initiation of activities for the building

ACT.22-1: “The city as a stage”

  • local citizens;

  • citizens;

  • professional public;

  • students;

  • artist;

  • cultural workers

  • social media;

  • news portals;

  • web sites;

  • television

  • storytelling;

  • activism;

  • initiation;

  • public place as a place for intervention and promotion

ACT.22-2: “Imaginary borders”

  • local citizens;

  • citizens;

  • professional public;

  • artist;

  • cultural workers;

  • international public

  • social media;

  • news portals;

  • web sites;

  • newspapers;

  • international television

  • International promotion;

  • storytelling;

  • addressing issues;

  • critical approach

ACT.22-3: “Skopje brutalism traces”

  • local citizens;

  • citizens;

  • professional public;

  • students;

  • artist;

  • cultural workers;

  • international public

  • social media;

  • news portals;

  • web sites;

  • international promotion;

  • storytelling and writings;

  • reestablishing social and cultural values

ACT.22-4: “These fragments I have shored against my ruins”

  • local citizens;

  • citizens;

  • professional public;

  • artist;

  • cultural workers;

  • international public

  • social media;

  • news portals;

  • web sites;

  • television

  • international promotion;

  • thinking about vulnerable places

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/jnmlp-2023-0010 | Journal eISSN: 2570-5857
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Language: English
Page range: 261 - 284
Published on: Dec 4, 2023
Published by: Charles University, Faculty of Social Sciences
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Keywords:
socialist architecture,
architectural heritage,
urban context,
local community (mesna zaednica),
collective memory
Related subjects:
Cultural studies,
Cultural theory,
Political theory,
Topics in cultural studies,
Memory,
History,
Topics in history,
Political ideologies and ideas,
Social sciences,
Political science,
Political science, other

© 2023 Jana Brsakoska, Danica Spasevska, Blagoj Daskalov, Ilcho Ilievski, published by Charles University, Faculty of Social Sciences
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

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