Street Revisionism: Power, Politics and Public Space in Belgrade and Sarajevo

Source: Tandem for Culture – Western Balkans   Author: Daniela de Lorenzo   In collaboration with Hostwriter, we have asked the Tandem Western Balkans participants to share their stories. In this story, Daniela De Lorenzo reports on Lejla Odobašić Novo’s and Aleksandar Obradović’s collaboration.   Imagine waking up one morning and finding out you live in a new street. …

Belgrade and Sarajevo – 30 Years Later

This project is the result of a one-year research project funded by Tandem Western Balkans as an initiative of European Cultural Foundation and MitOst e.V. The Tandem consists of a collaboration between Aleksandar Obradović from Philopolitcs, based in Belgrade, and Lejla Odobašić Novo from International Burch University, based in Sarajevo.     The project maps …

The Golden Cage of the Myanmar Army

Since its foundation, a decade and a half ago (2005), the capital of Myanmar – Naypyidaw – has been a great mystery. Located in the center of the country, among dense tropical forests and rice fields, this city is shrouded in a veil of secrecy and illogicality. Until now, when the military coup carried out …

Policies of Conquest and Integration in Tawantinsuyu

The Four-Piece Empire (in Quechua Tawantinsuyu), better known as the Inca Empire, originated from the small mountainous Kingdom of Cusco. From the city of the same name, it will expand and create the largest pre-Columbian state in both Americas. The Incas used the knowledge, technology and skills of many cultures and civilisations that existed before …

Yanantin and Masintin

Andean civilisation is unique in many ways. It is the only great civilisation that originated on the mountain range – the Andes, after which it got its name. Also, it is the only one in which an empire of continental proportions was created, but which did not have a script, a wheel, riding animals, or …