The exhibition “HOW AND WHERE WILL WE LIVE? – Belgrade meeting the wave of new housing cooperatives in Barcelona“, which will be held from December 2 to 10 at the Faculty of Architecture, and the lecture that will open it is planned for December 2 at 7 p.m. in the Ceremonial Hall. This is an opportunity to get to know the experiences of the exciting and bold development of the new residential culture in Barcelona. Parts of this exhibition were premiered last year at the International Social Housing Festival (ISHF) in Barcelona – however, the Belgrade edition is a special, refined and supplemented version designed and prepared by the association Who Builds the City, and realized by the Center for New Housing Cooperatives from Belgrade . During the year 2024, the center presents, through exhibitions, lectures, discussions, contemporary examples of cooperative housing that can help us imagine and create the first examples of new housing cooperatives in Serbia, which carry broader, regenerative social imperatives.
We believe that this exhibition not only comes at the right time, but opens the door to new approaches to housing. Approaches based on the collective shaping of the residential environment, apartments that are designed to meet the changing needs of tenants, the application of different typologies of common life, common and collective spaces as the center around which the community is organized, the application of housing that cares for the environment. Whether you are dealing with modern housing in Serbia, you are interested in the professional innovations that the new housing cooperative model brings, or you simply want to live in a different way, this exhibition reveals a different housing reality – which is achievable!
The curatorial team consists of Ana Džokić, Marc Neelen, Milja Vuković, while Predrag Milić is in charge of the design. The exhibition is the result of a collaboration with the Barcelona City Council, the Institute for Housing and Renewal of Barcelona and the architectural cooperative Lacol.