(IN)TANGIBLE HERITAGE(S)
Abstract
Digital information and communication technologies present during the last decades create complex relations between architectural heritage and modern technology. An innovative method of experiencing and understanding the architectural heritage is crucial for its preservation among modern generations. This research paper examines the advantage and importance of digital technologies for the revival of destroyed material heritage through virtual reconstruction of the lost life of a city’s space. A case study is the Bilećka Street in Trebinje, which was the commercial core of the city and connected architectural units from 17th century – the city (Kastel) and the settlement of Krš (Omanovića mahala). The Bilećka Street lost its importance and character when the majority of it was ruined due to the city’s urbanization in 1950s in order to build new city’s roads. It is impossible to physically reconstruct it completely, but the heritage values interpretation can be done by virtual reconstruction. A digital urban history project can give an insight into a former commercial core of the city of Trebinje and different tangible culture that was present before contemporary urbanization. In Bosnia and Herzegovina contemporary technology is not sufficiently present especially in the area of cultural heritage. This research emphasizes the importance and scientific justification for using digital innovations in order to protect architectural heritage and urban memory. The Bilećka Street proved to be good for the case study since it is kept in the citizens’ memory and younger generations are being acquainted with it through stories and tales about the city’s cultural life. It used to be important from its economic, social, cultural, historical aspect due to unique urban space, everyday life and physical movement in the historical core. Today the street lost its significance as an important urban space, however, it is still a reference point for the citizens of Trebinje.
Jasna Guzijan (PhD) works at Faculty of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geodesy of the University of Banja Luka where she obtained a doctoral degree in urban regeneration. Her professional engagement is focused on urban design and planning, urban regeneration and protection of architectural heritage. She has published dozens of papers in monographs, international journals and proceedings. In the period from 2005 to 2020 she worked at the Institute of Urbanism of the Republic of Srpska as a responsible planner and designer. She has participated in development and coordination of technical documentation and a number of strategic and implementing spatial planning documentation in the area of the Republic of Srpska and Bosnia and Herzegovina. As a member of the Union of Architects of the Republic of Srpska she has participated in organization of a number of exhibitions.
Prof. dr Aleksandra Đukić is full professor at Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade, Department of Urban Planning and Urban Design. Her field of professional activities and research is directed on urban design and planning, urban morphology, urban renewal and heritage. She has published four monographies, more than 180 articles and chapters in international and national scientific journals, books, proceedings. She has participated in numerous national and international research projects and workshops and she was a leader of one national research project with international cooperation and Project manager of two Interreg Danurb projects, Erazmus+ K203 CREDA project, CEEPUS project. She was a keynote speaker at three International conferences and she gave a lectures at Universities in Granada, Graz, Bar, Gdansk, Hong Kong and Torino. She is in the Editorial board of two international scientific journals in the field of architecture and urbanism, and in one national. As an architect and urban planner in practice, she has done more than 50 urban plans and designs, 10 realized buildings and 5 studies in Urban renewal and planning (for UNDP, Ministry, Local government). She is vice president of Town Planning Association of Serbia and representative in ECTP-CEU.
Prof. dr Eva Vaništa Lazarević is a full professor at Faculty of Architecture of the University of Belgrade, narrow scientific field: Urbanism and Spatial Planning. As a visiting professor, she held lectures at faculties in Paris, Gdansk, Sopot, Yekaterinburg and Turin. Out of around twenty architecture and urbanistic competitions in which she participated, she received a few international and nine national awards. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Cambridge Publications and Elsevier’s Energy and Building. She has participated in a few world congresses in the area of sustainable development and urbanism among which the congresses in Hong Kong and Dublin stand out. She is a founder and a director of an international conference Places and Technologies. She is a member of the Scientific Board of ISOCARP organization; a member of the National Board of UNESCO and Europa Nostra organization. She has written more than 50 scientific papers regarding international and national journals and conferences. Up to now she has published two monographs in the area of urban regeneration: Urban Regeneration (1999) and Regeneration of Cities in New Millennium (2003). She has participated in many national and international scientific research projects.
Siniša Cvijić (MSc) was graduated in 2004 at Faculty of Architecture University in Belgrade. He obtained his master’s degree in 2012 at Faculty of Technical Sciences in Novi Sad. Since 2014 he has been working on his PhD at Graz University of Technology, and he has been writing his PhD thesis Functionalism in Modern Architecture in Bosnia and Herzegovina between the two world wars. He has participated in a number of scientific and professional conferences in the country and abroad, and study visits to Belgium (2011) and Israel (2012). He has been an author and co-author of a large number of scientific and research papers in domestic and international journals as well as in other professional publications. He is a member of a number of expert and professional associations. He lives and works in Banjaluka.
Simo Radić graduated in history at Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Novi Sad where he also obtained a master’s degree in 2017. He worked as a curator historian – intern at Museum of Herzegovina in Trebinje from 2018 to 2019. Upon completion of the internship, he has worked as a museum educator at Museum of Herzegovina in Trebinje. He is the author of published feuilletons in local newspapers Glas Trebinje Trebinje and Popovo from 12th to 15th century and Development of Healthcare in Trebinje from 1944 to 1985 according to the manuscript of Dr Zvonimir Čarapina. He is a licensed tourist guide for the Republic of Srpska within Bosnia and Herzegovina.