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Luka Skansi - The disappearance of symbols: Rijeka and it's capital cities

On Saturday, November 23, 2024, in the Moise Palace located in the old town center of the City of Cres, a symposium entitled Waves of Exchange: Navigating Port Cities of the Future was held. The symposium was organized by DELTALAB – Center for Urban Transition, Urbanism and Architecture of the University of Rijeka (UNIRI) and renowned architecture office SAAHA from Oslo, and was conducted as part of the interdisciplinary university specialist program Urban Studies. By bringing expertise from Oslo, Norway, the symposium aimed at fostering collaboration, knowledge exchange, and capacity building, in order to address the multifaceted challenges facing port cities. The initiative’s overarching topic is situated within the thematic focus of the new generation of Urban Studies titled “WATERWORLD FUTURES” in which the exploration and comparison of Rijeka and Oslo as port cities is situated. Lectures were held by Luka Skansi (POLIMI), Ellen de Vibe (former City of Oslo), Franziska Meisel (SLA) and Adnan Harambašić (SAAHA). The symposium demonstrated the potential for cross-border partnerships to address complex urban challenges and envision more resilient, inclusive, and vibrant port cities of the future. ______________________________________________________________________________________________ Luka Skansi is an architectural historian and associate professor at Politecnico di Milano (DASTU – Department of Architecture and Urban Studies). His research focuses on 20th-century Italian architecture, Socialist Yugoslav architecture, and Russian and Soviet architecture. He has been a visiting scholar at the CCA in Montreal and a visiting professor at architecture faculties in Belgrade, Ljubljana, and Venice. He participated in the 2014 Venice Biennale, curated by Rem Koolhaas–AMO, and curated the Streets and Neighbourhoods exhibition at MAO in Ljubljana, earning the Plečnik Medal in 2018. He also served on the curatorial boards for MoMA's Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia 1948—1980 (2018) and Fiume Fantastika: Phenomena of the City. Lecture brief: The port and railway are Rijeka's facial traits. Its tissue is made of infrastructure. Roads, industrial zones, warehouses, and service facilities are its organs, vital to its function as a port and industrial center, but also central pieces on its landscape. The infrastructure of gargantuan scale has set in and transformed the natural environment into artificial space designed to bring urban development. Some of it is fixed, like communications, junctions, and buildings. Some are mobile, like ships, trains, electrons, and bytes. ______________________________________________________________________________________________ Organized by: DELTALAB - Centre for urban transition, architecture and urbanism (Ida Križaj Leko, Filip Pračić & Josipa Laklija) / University of Rijeka Produced by: Filmerija Editor: Juraj Bačić Camera: Juraj Makarun Camera assistant: Omar Lović Design and visual identity: Maša Poljanec Special thanks to: Ellen De Vibe, Franziska Meisel and Luka Skansi for participation in the symposium; Adnan Harambašić, our partner from Oslo (SAAHA) as well; Ministry of regional development and EU Funds; University of Rijeka Center for Advanced Studies Southeast Europe / Moise Palace for hosting the symposium Bilateral initiative “Waves of Exchange: Navigating Port Cities of the Future” is financed through the Fundation for Bilateral Relations of EEA Grants and Norway Grants