Studio Resilient Futures 21/22
Sarajevo 1992-2050; A Laboratory for Resilience against Global Crises
It is 29 years since the start of the Siege of Sarajevo, and 29 years until 2050, a notional idea of ‘future’ and the EU’s climate neutral
deadline. Sarajevo is our starting point; learning from the extraordinary civilian lead resistance during The Siege (1992-1996). We
investigate how ordinary civilians and architects overcame scarcity by inventing and up-cycling resourceful, transient, covert and often
surreal devices, architectural interventions and urban infrastructures for survival. We create and imagine new architectures of resilience
against the local and global crises facing the City today, as well as predicting future crises and trends: political division, water shortage,
unregulated development, global warming, social injustice, waste mountains, air pollution, erasure of public space and Covid-19.
We draw Sarajevo in relation to its current and future environmental and social crises. Developing individual and collaborative propositions
through collage, drawing, and modelling, to create an ‘Exquisite Corpse’ of diverse propositions, allowing space for multiple visions of
resilient futures to co-exist.
Throughout the year we work at various scales; from the ‘Device’ to Buildings and the City, in both past and future. Each student explores
their own personal interests and representation techniques. Inventing ad-hoc visionary devices, either drawn or made, as manifestos for
resilience. Using speculative drawing games and narratives; imagining futures in which to site our projects. Real, fictional or semi-fictional.
As agents we have a Residency in the City. We engage in a hyper-state of being both in Sarajevo, and in Sheffield. Developing and using the
Studio’s growing digital archive and website for collective and individual explorations. We use our energy and opportunity in the post-covid
context as architect activists to cultivate a presence in the City.
TYPE / MArch Design Studio YEAR / 2020- Continued LOCATION / University of Sheffield
5th Year Students
Grace Byrne, Mae Ghali, Jasmine Howarth, Razvan Ioan Ivanov
6th Year Students
Andrei Calin, Jamil Dossa, Eve Duggan, Vincent Las Marias, Luke Morris ,Lucy Stittle, Chenbo Zhao
With special thanks to:
Prof. Robert Mull, Global Free Unit, David Bickle, Hawkins\Brown, Prof. Kenneth Morrison (DMU), Dr. Paul Lowe (UAL), Association of Architects Bosnia and Herzegovina, History Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina, War Childhood Museum, Sarajevo, Stanislava Pinchuk, Ennis Cehic, Melika Konjicanin, Rebecca Acheampong, Joseph M Mwaisaka, Georgina M Scott, Eleanor Wells, Garret Patrick Kelly, SEE Change Network, Dr. Vedad Islambegovic, University of Sarajevo.