26-28. 08.2023 UNESCO heritage paths – the Split Symposium 2023 initiative+organisation, hosts: Neno Kezić, (FEAG, Split) + Davisi Boontharm, Darko Radović (co+re.partnership) Since 2010, the Faculty of Engineering, Architecture, Geodesy in Split and co+re.partnership have conducted a number of projects, perfecting art of heuristic design workshopping. Building upon those experiences, co+re 2023 kicks-off with a compact research Symposium in Split, an event designed to set-up standards for all that follows. The agenda of this symposium is generated by the city of Split itself and challenges facing urban heritage globally. The magnificent urban core was protected by UNESCO in 1986 because of a unique synthesis between uninterrupted inhabitation, the ways of life within the walls of Palace and mediaeval urban fabric – and those physical structures themselves. That precious area is experiencing intensive devastation and depopulation. The main aim of the Split co+re Symposium is to address such trends, from both the factual and creative critical perspectives. It brings together a small yet diverse group of experts and ways of thinking, which tend to be separated by established rules and uncritical practices – specialists from the fields of architectural and urban conservation and preservation, and those from production of space. While at both sides of that unsustainable divide there is a will to create a better world, the narrow, fragmented focusing on particular, short-term interests keeps them divided, severely reducing the scope and very possibility of any synthesis and positive, socio-culturally valuable outcomes. Our Symposium seeks to abolish such divisions, to freely hypothesise and explore synergies between diverse what-if scenarios, asking questions which get rarely, if ever, asked. The stage will be set for brave thinking of practice(s) which might produce spaces of the highest quality, the would-be legitimate contenders for UNESCO listing in 50-60 years.

28.08 - 03.07. 2023 UNESCO heritage paths – the Mostar Symposium and Workshop 2023 initiative+organisation, hosts: Senada Demirović (IDEAA, Mostar) + Davisi Boontharm, Darko Radović (co+re.partnership) The city of Mostar still recovers from unimaginable tragedies of its recent past. The Old Bridge and historic centre which it gathers on the sides of river Neretva have received due UNESCO recognition, but many more and diverse bridges are still needed to help heal and celebrate the precious and unique social fabric of the noble city. While the World Heritage core of Mostar is exposed to the challenges similar to those facing central Split, the Bridge (Most, original urbogenetic sparkle immortalised in the very name Mostar), designed and built by Mimar Hayrudin (1566) retains an extraordinary power, cultural charge to gather and re(de)fine again an overall urbanity of Mostar. In April 2023 another remarkable space of Mostar with an equally tragic history, the Partisan Memorial Cemetery, designed and built by Bogdan Bogdanović (1922-2010) in 1965, has been added to Europa Nostra list of the Most Endangered Heritage Sites in Europe. Despite sad reasons for inclusion, this listing is a formal recognition of the lasting value and exceptional importance of the Memorial – not only to Mostar, but to Europe at large. This nomination also reminds how architectural + urban projects of Modernist era are getting protected as heritage. “UNESCO Heritage Walk: from Old Bridge to the Memorial” will open with, and build upon the consolidated knowledge about Mostar, its heritage and lessons from other co+re events (e.g. Split Symposium 2023, Florence TPU 2023) and focus on desirable futures for the city of Mostar, based on recognition of its extraordinary heritage and capacity to prosper.

11-17.09.2023 UNESCO heritage paths – the Ljubljana Symposium and Workshop 2023 initiative+organisation, hosts: Tadej Glažar, (ULFA, Ljubljana) + Davisi Boontharm, Darko Radović (co+re.partnership) The “UNESCO Heritage Walk: from Ljubljanica to the Stadium” Workshop‘23 will open with, and build upon relevant knowledge about Ljubljana, its existing UNESCO heritage, and lessons from co+re events, including Split and Mostar. The city of Ljubljana is well known for its compactness and livability. The reasons of that fame are succinctly encapsulated in the World Heritage listing of “Jože Plečnik’s Human Centred Urban Design”. The Plečnik’s works in Ljubljana have been protected, all of them, but one – the Stadium. That space of unique value and potential for broader positive impact on the urbanity of Ljubljana and beyond is kept in a sorry state of disrepair. The opening position of “Ljubljana, UNESCO Heritage Walk" Workshop 2023 is that there should be no dilemma between the intended production of, at best, yet another example of generic “placemaking” and a very special preservation/activation project which would bring Plečnik’s Human Centred Urban Design sensibility back to his home town, not as a memory, but as a renewed sensibility for the 21st century. Heuristic design-research explorations will focus on brave definition of desirable futures, based on recognition of the existing, fragile yet extraordinary heritage of Ljubljana. The Workshop will seek and project into future synergies and links between the two sites of architectural and urbanistic excellence, Ljubljanica and the Stadium. As protection of the World heritage has to follow strict conservation and preservation rules, the Workshop will focus at spaces + practices connecting the two, a Michelangesque spacing pregnant with energies for positive change.