Landscape of Change: War Destruction and Resilience
- Submitting institution
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The University of Sheffield
- Unit of assessment
- 13 - Architecture, Built Environment and Planning
- Output identifier
- 6484
- Type
- K - Design
- Open access status
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- Month
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- Year
- 2018
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- “Landscape of change: war, destruction and resilience”, is part of a wider research initiative, ‘Un-war Space’, which explores the entanglements of the Sarajevo war and pre-war urban context. This includes the violent aspects, but also the non-violent spaces: the ‘un-war’ zones and their attributes during the military siege of Sarajevo (1992-1996).
The destructive powers of war are well documented, but this research explores how war also acts as a catalyst for new processes of ‘normalization’, i.e. how these conflict zones are altered to enable ‘everyday life’ to continue for the citizens of the city. The research does this by: (1) building on the theoretical and art practice of Krzysztof Wodiczko on the Un-war concept; (2) proposing participatory research practices that aim to collectively discuss and transform the trauma of war; and (3) documenting the resilience of humans and their capacity to adapt to war, by creating a specific archive that highlights the resourcefulness of citizens during war, and particularly how landscapes and architecture can be utilised and modified to help ensure survival.
This project proposes transversal relationships between collection of research data about site-specific war destruction and open archival processes relying on the digital technologies and public dissemination of the research through interaction between the academic and non-academic public. Dissemination occurred on TV programs on culture including contemporary exhibitions in Slovenia, radio interviews in Zagreb in Croatia, and in Mostar in Bosnia & Herzegovina, academic, non-academic on-line and printed journals, public exhibitions, social-media (Facebook and Instagram), academic, non-academic conferences, public lectures and site-specific installations.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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