An impression of the Sarajevo Workshop
UTOPIAN CITY: SARAJEVO 23 APRIL 2009
PARTICIPANTS 18Danubians: Jan ter Burg,Thijs van Velzen and Wouter van den Bos
Jury: Sumeja Tulic – Kriterion Sarajevo (Sarajevo)
Miran Lazic – graffiti artist (Sarajevo)
Maja Grabovac – architect University of Sarajevo (Sarajevo)
Rainbow City is a collection of many places with different functions. There are places for leisure, concerts, carnivals, good food and drinks. Rainbow City is organized and structured, with buildings and housing of good quality, vast squares and ponds. However, as the name symbolically implies, the city represents the pluriformity of its population. All nationalities, religions, and ethnicities live in close harmony.
NO NAME
Littered with sugar No Name is sweet, and so good to living at it can not bare a name. There are no bad or unhappy people around, everyone feels and truly is united.
YOU MAY SAY I’M A DREAMER
The mirror in You May Say I’m a Dreamer shows people what the are and want to be. There is dark side and bright side, reflecting their own conception of happiness.
LIVING THE FUTURE – SATOPIA (wins)
Since Thomas More never had a chance to visit Sarajevo, a postcard is send with a blueprint for a pragmatic combination of Sarajevo and Utopia. The actual city as it is present today serves as a starting point. The current mix of illegally constructed buildings with grand capitalist projects is to make place for organized chaos, providing a platform for people to recreate their city.
The current two centres of Sarajevo will be connected by new high-tech modes of transportation. Herewith making travelling easier but also bringing people of the centres together. Most traffic will be banned from the centre, providing space for bikes and pedestrians. The current airport has been moved and replaced by a race track. NATO-forces are no longer present, since they’re not needed anymore.
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