Right to Housing: The Production of Spaces of Everyday Life in Yugoslavia (1945-1991)

Descrizione del progetto

Indagine sulla politica abitativa in Jugoslavia

La costruzione di abitazioni in Jugoslavia rappresenta più della metà dell’attuale stock abitativo in Bosnia-Erzegovina, Croazia, Macedonia del Nord, Montenegro, Serbia e Slovenia. In passato, furono introdotte tre riforme politico-economiche e abitative per creare un quadro di riferimento per l’edilizia di massa, che sperimentarono i concetti di standard e proprietà, e furono influenzate dalle pratiche prebelliche e contemporanee dell’Est e dell’Ovest. Il progetto Housing.Yu finanziato dal CER, esaminerà gli spazi abitativi quotidiani in Jugoslavia dal 1945 al 1991. Per farlo, analizzerà le azioni del governo, l’urbanistica e la partecipazione della cittadinanza all’edilizia popolare in un contesto socialista, nonché lo scambio di conoscenze tra Europa occidentale e orientale. Secondo le attese, i risultati contribuiranno ad affrontare la crisi abitativa in corso in Europa e alle discussioni sociali e ambientali più ampie.

Obiettivo

Housing.Yu researches the production of spaces of everyday life in Yugoslavia (1945–1991), which still constitutes about 60–70% of the current housing stock of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, and Slovenia. The project will employ a comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and methodologically innovative approach to the government’s actions, urban planners, architects, contractors, and citizen-users. The project aims to understand the critical phenomena of mass housing in a socialist state, including its policies, estate development, citizen participation and related knowledge exchange between Western and Eastern Europe.
Housing policies were an essential part of the development of the self-management of socialist Yugoslavia, in which the workers decided on housing. Yugoslavia carried out three political-economic and housing reforms with an aim to generate legislation and implementation, as well as material and professional frameworks for mass housing, experimenting with different forms of standards, financing, organization of production, and ownership. In these overlapping processes, it relied on the inherited pre-war and then-contemporary practices from the East and the West, mediated by dynamic knowledge exchanges. Investigating the housing production through the relationship among social processes, construction and knowledge exchange, project transcends the traditional field of art history by using digital tools. It valorizes the housing project of socialist Yugoslavia and its contribution to the Pan-European Project Homes for all People, which ended with Right-to-buy.
Housing.Yu will generate a valuable, open-access repository of knowledge of interest to the scientific, educational and professional community, both in the countries where it is implemented and at the European level. The project’s results warrant a social impact at a time when Europe is facing yet another housing crisis and broader social and environmental challenges.