MOSTARSKA PORATNA ARHITEKTURA Kako urbanističke intervencije u jednom gradu pokušavaju pobrisati jedno sjećanje te nametnuti drugo
MOSTAR WAR ARCHITECTURE How urban interventions in one city try to erase one memory and impose another

Summary/Abstract: Interpersonal communication in divided cities is particularly specific, sometimes challenging but also risky. In such an environment, public space is often undefined, indeterminate, or undergoing constant changes and transformations. This is proven by the stories of the central zones in Berlin, Belfast, Mitrovica and many other cities. In the last three decades, the Mostar city center was first destroyed, then the newly created centers “wandered” from one place to another. The original idea of the European Community that the so-called district should be a new city within the city, the center of the awakening of a sleeping, sleepy Mostar, has absolutely failed. Unfortunately, that did not happen. Today, Mostar has several central zones, urban plans were neglected for decades, all sorts of things were built as anyone liked. Some old buildings that survived the war were later demolished and new “modern” buildings were built in their place. With the demolition of those buildings, many stories and memories of the people who lived and stayed there were erased. Although the centers of power try to convince us that these buildings were dilapidated, dysfunctional or unprofitable, there is a lot of evidence that they were demolished because they belonged to a different time, a different way of thinking, a different ideology. They belonged to a city where everyone lived together.

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