{"id":1575,"date":"2012-06-06T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2012-06-06T10:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stealth.ultd.net\/stealth\/updates\/?p=1575"},"modified":"2019-01-01T21:27:29","modified_gmt":"2019-01-01T19:27:29","slug":"kaludjerica-from-sklj-to-abc-a-life-in-the-shadow-of-modernisation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stealth.ultd.net\/?p=1575","title":{"rendered":"Kaludjerica from \u0160KLJ TO ABC &#8211; a life in the shadow of modernisation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Belgrade\u2019s suburb Kaludjerica (today with almost 30 000 inhabitants), is the remarkable by-product of the modernisation of Belgrade, Serbia and Socialist Yugoslavia that followed the establishing of the Federal People&#8217;s Republic of Yugoslavia in 1946 and took the country under the banner of self-management to an unprecedented phase of development. Kaludjerica however, stayed largely out of the reach of urban and financial planning and came up with its very own model of development. The publication&nbsp;<em>Kaludjerica from \u0160KLJ &nbsp;TO ABC &#8211; a life in the shadow of modernisation<\/em> writes&nbsp;its (unofficial)&nbsp;history, and contemplates if&nbsp;&#8220;justice&#8221; can be done to its still largely unresolved status.<\/strong><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n#foogallery-gallery-1920.fg-justified .fg-item { margin-right: 1px; margin-bottom: 1px; }\n#foogallery-gallery-1920.fg-justified .fg-image { height: 150px; }<\/style>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"foogallery foogallery-container foogallery-justified foogallery-lightbox-foobox fg-justified fg-ready fg-light fg-loading-default fg-loaded-fade-in fg-hover-fade\" id=\"foogallery-gallery-1920\" data-foogallery=\"{&quot;item&quot;:{&quot;showCaptionTitle&quot;:true,&quot;showCaptionDescription&quot;:true},&quot;lazy&quot;:true,&quot;template&quot;:{&quot;rowHeight&quot;:150,&quot;maxRowHeight&quot;:300,&quot;margins&quot;:1,&quot;align&quot;:&quot;center&quot;,&quot;lastRow&quot;:&quot;smart&quot;}}\" style=\"--fg-title-line-clamp: 0; --fg-description-line-clamp: 0;\" >\n\t<div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-idle\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stealth.ultd.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/11-kuce.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"View on Kaludjerica, drawing: Vahida Ramujki\u0107\" data-caption-desc=\"View on Kaludjerica, drawing: Vahida Ramujki\u0107\" data-attachment-id=\"1916\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"View on Kaludjerica, drawing: Vahida Ramujki\u0107\" height=\"300\" width=\"424\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" data-src-fg=\"https:\/\/stealth.ultd.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2016\/09\/11-kuce\/1660837828.jpg\" data-srcset-fg=\"https:\/\/stealth.ultd.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2016\/09\/11-kuce\/3966917023.jpg 2x,https:\/\/stealth.ultd.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2016\/09\/11-kuce\/2498217019.jpg 3x\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%22424%22%20height%3D%22300%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20424%20300%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" loading=\"eager\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">View on Kaludjerica, drawing: Vahida Ramujki\u0107<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">View on Kaludjerica, drawing: Vahida Ramujki\u0107<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-idle\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stealth.ultd.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/09-kolektivna_akcija.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"\u201cWe did not resemble any \u2018wild\u2019 settlement, but a community fighting for common interests.&quot;, drawing: Vahida Ramujki\u0107\" data-caption-desc=\"\u201cWe did not resemble any \u2018wild\u2019 settlement, but a community fighting for common interests.&quot;, drawing: Vahida Ramujki\u0107\" data-attachment-id=\"1918\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\u201cWe did not resemble any \u2018wild\u2019 settlement, but a community fighting for common interests.&quot;, drawing: Vahida Ramujki\u0107\" height=\"300\" width=\"424\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" data-src-fg=\"https:\/\/stealth.ultd.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2016\/09\/09-kolektivna_akcija\/745274301.jpg\" data-srcset-fg=\"https:\/\/stealth.ultd.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2016\/09\/09-kolektivna_akcija\/2820819045.jpg 2x,https:\/\/stealth.ultd.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2016\/09\/09-kolektivna_akcija\/3290519449.jpg 3x\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%22424%22%20height%3D%22300%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20424%20300%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" loading=\"eager\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">\u201cWe did not resemble any \u2018wild\u2019 settlement, but a community fighting for common interests.\", drawing: Vahida Ramujki\u0107<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">\u201cWe did not resemble any \u2018wild\u2019 settlement, but a community fighting for common interests.\", drawing: Vahida Ramujki\u0107<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-idle\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stealth.ultd.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/10-pevali_smo_iz_ocaja.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"\u201cWe sang out of desperation\u201d, drawing: Vahida Ramujki\u0107\" data-caption-desc=\"\u201cWe sang out of desperation\u201d, drawing: Vahida Ramujki\u0107\" data-attachment-id=\"1917\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\u201cWe sang out of desperation\u201d, drawing: Vahida Ramujki\u0107\" height=\"300\" width=\"424\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" data-src-fg=\"https:\/\/stealth.ultd.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2016\/09\/10-pevali_smo_iz_ocaja\/1509846111.jpg\" data-srcset-fg=\"https:\/\/stealth.ultd.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2016\/09\/10-pevali_smo_iz_ocaja\/1115112759.jpg 2x,https:\/\/stealth.ultd.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2016\/09\/10-pevali_smo_iz_ocaja\/2004257392.jpg 3x\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%22424%22%20height%3D%22300%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20424%20300%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" loading=\"eager\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">\u201cWe sang out of desperation\u201d, drawing: Vahida Ramujki\u0107<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">\u201cWe sang out of desperation\u201d, drawing: Vahida Ramujki\u0107<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-idle\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stealth.ultd.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/04-ulaz.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"The Office for Just Legalisation, drawing: Vahida Ramujki\u0107\" data-caption-desc=\"The Office for Just Legalisation, drawing: Vahida Ramujki\u0107\" data-attachment-id=\"1919\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"The Office for Just Legalisation, drawing: Vahida Ramujki\u0107\" height=\"300\" width=\"424\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" data-src-fg=\"https:\/\/stealth.ultd.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2016\/09\/04-ulaz\/4251518796.jpg\" data-srcset-fg=\"https:\/\/stealth.ultd.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2016\/09\/04-ulaz\/1944387863.jpg 2x,https:\/\/stealth.ultd.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2016\/09\/04-ulaz\/191929523.jpg 3x\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%22424%22%20height%3D%22300%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20424%20300%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" loading=\"eager\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">The Office for Just Legalisation, drawing: Vahida Ramujki\u0107<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">The Office for Just Legalisation, drawing: Vahida Ramujki\u0107<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fg-item fg-type-image fg-idle\"><figure class=\"fg-item-inner\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stealth.ultd.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/14-baltazar.jpg\" data-caption-title=\"Professor Balthazar calculates a fair legalisation fee, drawing: Vahida Ramujki\u0107\" data-caption-desc=\"Professor Balthazar calculates a fair legalisation fee, drawing: Vahida Ramujki\u0107\" data-attachment-id=\"1915\" data-type=\"image\" class=\"fg-thumb\"><span class=\"fg-image-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Professor Balthazar calculates a fair legalisation fee, drawing: Vahida Ramujki\u0107\" height=\"300\" width=\"424\" class=\"skip-lazy fg-image\" data-src-fg=\"https:\/\/stealth.ultd.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2016\/09\/14-baltazar\/815048143.jpg\" data-srcset-fg=\"https:\/\/stealth.ultd.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2016\/09\/14-baltazar\/3038980286.jpg 2x,https:\/\/stealth.ultd.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/cache\/2016\/09\/14-baltazar\/3490253342.jpg 3x\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%22424%22%20height%3D%22300%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20424%20300%22%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" loading=\"eager\"><\/span><span class=\"fg-image-overlay\"><\/span><\/a><figcaption class=\"fg-caption\"><div class=\"fg-caption-inner\"><div class=\"fg-caption-title\">Professor Balthazar calculates a fair legalisation fee, drawing: Vahida Ramujki\u0107<\/div><div class=\"fg-caption-desc\">Professor Balthazar calculates a fair legalisation fee, drawing: Vahida Ramujki\u0107<\/div><\/div><\/figcaption><\/figure><div class=\"fg-loader\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>[a life in the shadow of modernisation]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the enthusiastic phases of the modernisation of socialist Yugoslavia, not everybody shared the benefits and advantages of the state housing policy, which guaranteed the right to an apartment for each employee. Hence, thousands of citizens took the future into their own hands, and constructed thus their own housing. Looking at its simultaneously modern and traditional houses, its position in the city, its confusing status and negative public image, one can ask: is Kaludjerica the top or the bottom of the philosophy and practice of self-management, acclaimed in Yugoslav times?<\/p>\n<p>Most of Kaludjerica, since the late 1960s, has been self-constructed. So far, no state institution found the right way to engage in comprehensive inclusion of this settlement into the city structure and urban plans. The notions of illegality, lack of regulation (\u201cwildness\u201d), lack of hygiene etc. already early on got attached to the entire suburb, as well as to other parts of the outskirts of Belgrade where today hundreds of thousands of people live and work. Decades of confrontations and standoffs with the state and the city authorities have been inscribed in the cultural and political profile of the settlement. The ways of parcelling land, organising building lots and designing houses, the ways of establishing and maintaining streets and improvised infrastructure, like the water and sewage systems, trace the history of a negotiation between a rapidly urbanising and modernising society and its shadowed, even hidden back yard.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[an unofficial history]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The base for <em>Kaludjerica from \u0160KLJ to ABC<\/em>&nbsp;is a set of 15 interviews with inhabitants of Kaludjerica made during Summer 2011. They speak about different aspects of their arrival, settling down, life and future expectations in the neighbourhood. We tried to transfer this dense and vivid information into an illustrated narrative, in which, along with the experiences of a number of fictional characters, the unofficial history of Kaludjerica is sketched. However, understanding Kaludjerica\u2019s history implies delving into the housing policy of Socialist Yugoslavia. The dialectic between unplanned reality and model society gives rise to a moment of contemplation &#8211; what if &#8211; in which the characters investigate the possibility of (re-)writing the history and future of the settlement along a fair model of modernisation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[from Kaludjerica to the world?]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Looking at Kaludjerica today its disadvantages could also turn it into a pioneering position: \u201cWorldwide there are a lot of settlements and communities that face similar challenges, especially in fast developing regions and cities. Kaludjerica could become the centre of such grass-roots innovations for all infrastructural needs. From the sewage they could even produce biogas and energy for the neighbourhood! And the city could benefit as well from such expertise \u2013 to make a leap into the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>***&nbsp;\u0160KLJ is Serbian slang for a confusing, messy situation or thing whose colloquial equivalent in English could be SNAFU.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<ul>\n<li>[download ] <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/stealth.ultd.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Kaludjerica_STEALTH_Milikic.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Kaludjerica from \u0160KLJ TO ABC<\/a><\/strong> (pdf, in Serbian and English)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>[team ] STEALTH.unlimited (Ana D\u017eoki\u0107 and Marc Neelen) and Neboj\u0161a Miliki\u0107<\/li>\n<li>[research support ] Neboj\u0161a Kitanovi\u0107<\/li>\n<li>[drawings ] Vahida Ramujki\u0107<\/li>\n<li>[print of second, extended edition] Standard 2, Belgrade &#8211; May 2012, 1500 copies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>[background ] <em>Kaludjerica from \u0160KLJ TO ABC<\/em> is a part of the project <em>Unfinished Modernisations: Between utopia and Pragmatism<\/em> (2010-2012) a project envisioned by the Croatian architects&#8217; association, in collaboration with association of Belgrade architects (Serbia), coalition of sustainable development (Macedonia), museum of architecture and design, Maribor art Gallery (Slovenia) and Oris-house of architecture (Croatia).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>[timeline ] April 2011 &#8211; May 2012<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belgrade\u2019s suburb Kaludjerica (today with almost 30 000 inhabitants), is the remarkable by-product of the modernisation of Belgrade, Serbia and Socialist Yugoslavia that followed the establishing of the Federal People&#8217;s Republic of Yugoslavia in 1946 and took the country under the banner of self-management to an unprecedented phase of development. 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