Sarajevo Memories – the City of Sublime Disorder

Memory and Placemaking: Competing Memory, Forgetting and Distorted Rediscovery in Eastern European Cities

“…Change in a dialectic between memory contradiction and spatial division is a process asking for passive acceptance of the present socio-spatial setting, to be turned into active, coordinated transformation. Current gaps in the continuity of thought and space must be challenged in creative ways, filled with ideas, images and thoughts that are altogether more pleasant and less doubtful (Zejnilović & Husukić, 2020).…”

“…As contemporary Sarajevo struggles with the social production of space in the contexts of a divided city, it is affected by the dynamics between place and memory, remembrance and amnesia (Zejnilović & Husukić, 2020). The tension between remembering and forgetting, as a common denominator of many post-socialist cities, is in this case not directed towards erasure of the spatial and architectural layer of the socialist era.…”

“…Forms evolve, are deformed, or neglected, adapted or eradicated, affecting the material organization of the city and the flow of urban memory. (Zejnilović & Husukić, 2020). This chapter is concerned with these continuous processes, which disjoin city spaces and memory, making them struggle to attain spatial coherence and homogeneity, while integrating the existing urban legacy in the new space identity.…”