The project reached many important conclusions and outcomes.
Semantic data modelling proved to be an effective method to investigate the complexity and ambiguity of built environment in post-war setting because it led to a methodological and disciplinary stratification of the scientific landscape. More importantly, it opened up some interesting possibilities how to develop this method further that were not so obvious at the beginning of the project. For example, one option would be implementing annotation system so other users could use it, but also making the platform more attractive to scholars and historians who operate with oral semantic narratives (i.e. telling and collecting compelling stories about buildings). Inviting researchers to construct their own narratives, but also making the data “consumable” by the general public, in the long run can turn the platform from semantic data-based to linked data-based.
Furthermore, the effort to build a web-archive, digitalize various sources and document these often-hidden processes, significantly increased the visibility of local actors and instigated an academic discourse on a local intellectual scene that, before this project, was practically non-existing. An extensive online archive of documents related to war and post-war changes of urban morphology of Belgrade was created in the process that otherwise would have been lost or scattered among many actors. As the platform continues to develop, other researchers and scientists will also have an option to add their own and comment existing material, which will fine-tune even more the links between various actors and related sources/documents. This emphasizes the specific agency of the platform, namely, giving voices to underrepresented architects, researchers, artists and other stakeholders that seek to participate in post-conflict reconstruction of built environment.
Dissemination of project’s results was designed to engage the wide spectrum of actors, many of whom were witnesses or active participants in both destruction and reconstruction processes – architects, artists, city officials, investors, politicians, members of the media, veterans and victims’ families. The very success of the project depended on effective communication with broad scientific/general public and early engagement with various actors and stakeholders. Communication strategy was therefore tailored to inspire collaboration on national, regional and international level, raise awareness of damaging tendencies in urban renewal and planning in transitional, post-war societies; open dialogue and active participation of citizens and the scientific community that will ultimately lead to making informed decisions and concrete action in the form of new policy-making. The result is an extensive list of organized and attended scientific events, as well as published work. In total, the action will have resulted in 1 monograph (in progress), 2 edited volumes, 2 special issues in respected academic journals, 3 peer-reviewed journal articles, 4 peer-reviewed book chapters, 5 conference proceedings articles, 3 events organized, 2 exhibitions, 8 conference talks and 13 invited public talks and lectures.
