The Serbian Government wants to redesign the Belgrade Waterfront. Their plans involve an investor from the United Arabic Emirates and spark of a discourse about urban participation. This podcast explores the citizen's initiative project "My Piece of Savamala".

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My approach to "Savamala - a microcosm" resulted from an interest in the variety of a city. Like a sponge I absorbed all the impressions, thoughts, knowledge, memories and experience of residents, like the old senior citizens or the 14 year old boy from the neighborhood, of passers-by, artists, activists, fishermen, barkeepers and so on - an endless list. I conducted Interviews and associative surveys, experimented with drawings and pictures, with the walk-and-talk method, I did my homework as participant observant: anthropological tools. My task as anthropologist then was to connect all the perspectives critically, to describe Savamala and the City guerilla in its social and historical context and as a phenomenon. The wider context of my question? „What ways do people, which politically don’t have a voice, find to take action in their city“. 


Music by: Gypsy Queen, Helluvah, Watcha Clan, Robin Grey, Wax Tailor




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