kvart-7[March 2009, Kvart magazine, Belgrade] First in a serie of articles that we will write for Belgrade based magazine KVART is out. The theme of this issue is Transformations. Our text “SurpriZerZ” is about importantly located vacant lands in the cities of the Western Balkans. Long ago meant to be important sites that never got realised, they are today on a verge of change – by adding more immense market driven no-brainers with little societal agenda: supermarkets, hotels, sell-out apartments, shopping malls, or corporate office buildings…

The catch embedded in these sites is not that they should remain empty, or that they should be treasured as relicts of their time. But it would be important that they catch us, inspire us – and yes, are ‘surprizerz’ that open futures, other than the currently so predictable ones.