DR. TAMARA BJAŽIĆ KLARIN

PROJECT LEADER AND PRINCIPAL RESEARCHER
INSTITUTE OF ART HISTORY, ZAGREB

Tamara Bjažić Klarin is a senior research adviser at the Institute of Art History in Zagreb. She graduated in architecture and earned her PhD in art history at the University of Zagreb. Until 2015, she worked as an assistant and senior assistant at the Croatian Museum of Architecture of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Zagreb. She was a scholarship holder of the French Republic and the Swiss National Science Foundation. She was an academic guest at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture at ETH Zurich. She is the principal investigator of the ERC-CoG-Housing.Yu project The Right to Housing: Production of Spaces of Everyday Life in Yugoslavia (1945–1991) and a collaborator on the Croatian Science Foundation project Architecture and the Culture of Housing in Zagreb 1880–1940. Together with Andras Ferkai, she led the bilateral project Architectural Encounters between Croatia and Hungary: Models of Professional Knowledge Exchange, 1914–1945. She is the author of the books Ernest Weissmann: Socially Engaged Architecture, 1926–1939 (awarded the Neven Šegvić Award of the Croatian Architects’ Association) and For a New, More Beautiful Zagreb! – Architectural and Urban Planning Competitions in Interwar Zagreb, 1918–1941 (awarded the Charter of the Croatian Society of Art Historians). She is a doctoral mentor at the University of Zadar, the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb, and the Faculty of Architecture in Ljubljana. She was a member of the regional advisory team for the exhibition Towards a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980 (MoMA) and co-authored of several exhibitions in leading museum institutions in Croatia. She is also a co-screenwriter of several documentary films in the Croatian Television series on architecture. She is one of the founding members of Docomomo Croatia.

RESEARCH DESCRIPTION

The research focuses on the architectural and urban-planning discourse on housing construction produced by the Association of Architects of Yugoslavia and the Urban Planning Association of Yugoslavia, the leading professional authorities, and on its positioning within the intermediary space between the tasks set and the realized housing stock. Both of them are shaped by social and housing reforms, the organization of professional work, the profession’s position in society, and material conditions. The discourse analysis is conducted in relation to inherited practices, the work of international parent professional organizations, the International Union of Architects (UIA) and the International Federation for Housing and Planning (IFHP), as well as current trends in ten selected European countries with which there has been a continuous exchange of knowledge. Ultimately, the analysis of the theoretical discourse and what was actually achieved, together with the results of other research pathways within Housing.Yu, will make it possible to evaluate the authenticity and contribution of the SFRY to the pan-European “Housing for All” project of post-war Europe, which came to an end in the West in the 1980s and in the East in the 1990s.

PROF. DR. IGOR DUDA

LEADER OF RESEARCH DIRECTION HOUSING AND POLITICAL-ECONOMIC REFORMS
CENTRE FOR CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL RESEARCH OF SOCIALISM, JURAJ DOBRILA UNIVERSITY, PULA

Igor Duda is a Professor at the Department of History, Faculty of Humanities, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, and one of the founders of the university’s Centre for Cultural and Historical Research of Socialism. He graduated in history and Croatian language and literature (2000) at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, where he also earned his masters (2004) and doctoral (2009) degrees in history. Since 2011, he has been teaching at the doctoral programme in modern and contemporary history at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb; and since 2021 he is a Research Fellow at the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) in Regensburg. His research focuses on various topics in history of everyday life and social history of Croatia and socialist Yugoslavia. He is the author of four books and editor of several edited volumes. His latest book is Socialism on the Doorstep. Local Community and the Everyday Life of Social Self-management in Yugoslavia (2023, in Croatian). He is the initiator of the summer Doctoral Workshop in Pula, co-organiser of the conferences Socialism on the Bench, as well as the co-editor of the journal History in Flux. He was the principal investigator of two research projects (Socialist Man and Microsocialism, 2014-2023) funded by the Croatian Science Foundation (HRZZ). Within the project Housing.Yu he is in charge of the research strand Housing and Political-Economic Reforms, and supervises a doctoral and a postdoctoral researcher in the field of history.

RESEARCH DESCRIPTION

Construction of neighbourhoods and their daily lives: comparative microhistories

Apart from mentoring a doctoral student and a postdoctoral researcher in the field of history, whose research is set within the research strand Housing and Political-Economic Reforms, the personal research assignment focuses on the history of everyday life in new housing estates. The topic is explored through two case studies from the 1970s and 1980s – two housing settlements in Split and Pula, built to the same design and located within a similar urban framework. Drawing on the social, urban and demographic histories of the two cities, the research examines the relationship between housing policy and the construction sector, as well as between residential tower blocks and their tenants. It follows the process from making the initial decisions, through design and construction, to the allocation of tenancy rights, moving in, and the formation of micro-communities and everyday practices within the buildings and their surroundings. Using a wide range of historical sources, the research considers the activities of various actors: municipal authorities, self-governing interest communities, work organisations, local communities, housing councils, and individual tenants.

DR. LIDIJA BUTKOVIĆ MIĆIN

PROJECT TEAM MEMBER
DEPARTEMENT OF ART HISTORY, UNIVERSITY OF ZADAR

She graduated in Art History and Philosophy from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb in 2007. In 2023, she earned her PhD in the Humanities program at the University of Zadar, with a dissertation entitled The Typology of the Residential Tower in the Context of Housing Construction in Rijeka during the Socialist Period. Since 2017, she has been employed in the Department of Art History at the University of Zadar as an assistant, and since 2023 as a senior assistant. From 2014 to 2018, she was a collaborator on the project Architecture of Rijeka and the Rijeka Region as a Development Resource – History, Current State, and Possibilities for Revitalization (principal investigator: Prof. Nana Palinić, PhD, Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Rijeka). Since 2023, she has been involved in the Croatian Science Foundation project: Representation, Development, Education, Participation – Art in Society from the 19th to the 21st Century (principal investigator: Prof. Dragan Damjanović, PhD, Department of Art History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb). Since 2013, she has been an expert collaborator on the Motel Trogir project run by the Slobodne veze association in Zagreb, which focuses on the research, public valorization, and protection of modern architecture in Croatia and the wider region. She has curated around ten exhibitions in the fields of contemporary Croatian illustration, comics, design, and architecture, and publishes professional and scholarly works on national modernist architecture and art in public space. She is a member of the Croatian Association of Art Historians and a founding member of Docomomo Croatia.

RESEARCH DESCRIPTION

Citizen Agency in Housing: From Cooperatives to Socially Directed Housing

Within this research topic, the key question is whether, and in what ways, citizens’ aspirations were taken into account in the design of housing and neighborhoods. The cases of citizens’ involvement in the planning process will be examined, including opportunities to voice their opinions, influence plans, and provide feedback through sociological surveys conducted in the new housing estates. Special attention will be given to the role of architects in engaging with end users – particularly in shaping housing typologies, apartment layouts, and the design of shared spaces. In other words, the aim is to identify genuine examples of participatory design. The research will focus on two housing models that seemed to offer the greatest potential for citizen participation. The first concerns housing cooperatives, their organization, and their output. This model, inherited from the interwar period, was further developed and became widespread in the post-war decades, although with limited governmental and municipal support. The second is the mid-1970s housing reform known as the Model of Socially Directed Housing (DUSI), which sought to connect more closely all actors involved in housing production in order to improve housing quality and user satisfaction. Taken together, these two models raise broader questions about citizen agency and the system of socialist self-management, thus offering a bottom-up perspective on housing production in socialist Yugoslavia.

DR. MARTINA MALEŠIČ

PROJECT TEAM MEMBER
MUSEUM OF ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN, LJUBLJANA

Martina Malešič, PhD, is an art historian, currently employed as a curator for architecture in Museum of Architecture and Design in Ljubljana (MAO). For several years she worked as a teaching assistant and researcher at the Department of Art History at the Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana. Her research involves 20th century Slovenian architecture, design, and urban planning with an emphasis on housing culture. She organises and runs research projects aimed at popularising modern architecture. She has curated a number of exhibitions, among others Streets and Neighbourhoods – Vladimir Braco Mušič and large scale architecture (co-curated by Luka Skansi and Bogo Zupančič, Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana, 2016) and New Spaces, New Images. The 1980s through the Prism of Events, Exhibitions, and Discourses – Part 1 (co-curator Asta Vrečko, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, 2016). In 2021 she was a member of curatorial team for the exhibition in the Pavilion of Slovenia at the 17th biennial of architecture La Biennale di Venezia, titled The Common in Community. Seventy Years of Cooperative Centres as a Social Infrastructure.  

RESEARCH DESCRIPTION

Housing Culture and Spaces of Everyday Life  

In addition to the research Citizen Agency in Housing, within the second strand of the project, citizens’ involvement and ways of presenting desirable models of contemporary housing standards will be examined also from the perspective of housing culture. The first part of the research focuses on housing research as a tool of rationalisation, as well as a means of helping users adapt to new environments. It addresses questions concerning the organisation of housing research, the main actors involved, the methodologies they employed, and their aims. The second part of the research focuses on the techniques through which the concept of modern dwelling was made more accessible to users, particularly through exhibitions, courses, and publications. Special attention is given to the role of the architect within this process. The study draws on a wide range of sources, including archival documents, general and professional journals, exhibition catalogues, and photographic documentation.

DOC. DR. MEJREMA ZATRIĆ-ŠAHOVIĆ

PROJECT TEAM MEMBER
INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SARAJEVO, SARAJEVO

An architect, architectural historian, and assistant professor at the International University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Her research focuses on the relationship between architecture and the environment, Yugoslav modern architecture, and the genealogies of modernist regionalism in the Western Balkans and beyond. Her PhD is earned at the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta) at ETH Zurich, and completed her master’s degree in architecture and urban culture in the Metropolis program at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona. She wrote several scholarly articles and is the editor of a special issue of the scientific journal Docomomo Journal. In 2018, she served as a member of the advisory board for the curators of the exhibition Toward a Concrete Utopia – Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980 at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and holds a Getty Institute certificate in the conservation of modern architecture in Los Angeles. She is the president of Docomomo Bosnia and Herzegovina, co-founder of the Archive of Modern Architecture of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and a member of the board of the Association of Architects in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

RESEARCH DESCRIPTION

Urban Planning, Housing and the Environment in the Socialist Yugoslav Industrial Cities and Mining Towns

Industrial cities and mining towns of Socialist Yugoslavia remained at the forefront of the country’s modernization campaign, with housing for the industrial worker being understood as both its powerful tool and one of its prioritized goals. While early Yugoslav functionalist planning of
housing famously gave way to more culturally sensitive and public space oriented approaches in the late 1960s, it was exactly in the industrial cities that a less documented and researched shift occurred at least a decade before: Yugoslav urban planning was compelled to rationalize housing in its environment. This study is concerned with describing and interpreting the circumstances, as well as both discursive and material consequences of this shift, including deterioration of urban environmental conditions, increase of planning scale to the one of the region and amendments to the rules and regulations of urban planning and governance. Based on analysis of planning documents and other relevant archival sources, as well as grounded research in a range of former industrial towns of the ex-Yugoslav region, this study asks how increasingly environmental understanding of housing on the urban scale impacted the terms and the standard of housing production in Yugoslavia.

EMIL JURCAN, PhD, M. ARCH.

SENIOR RESEARCH ASSISTANT
INSTITUTE OF ART HISTORY, ZAGREB

He was born in 1981 in Pula. He graduated at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Ljubljana in 2007. As an architect, he worked within the Pula Group, with which he represented Croatia at the Venice Biennale in 2012. During his career he completed several projects for the renovation and conservation of cultural heritage, such as the Leonardelli Palace in Galižana, the Roman theatre in Pula, the Loggia square in Oprtalj, the Šubićevac memorial park in Šibenik, and the tomb of Vladimir Gortan in Beram. He deepened his practical experience in the field of architectural reconstruction and conservation through research work within his doctoral dissertation under the supervision of prof. Maruša Zorec at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Ljubljana, entitled “Approaches and Methods of Conservation of Roman Monuments in Pula within the Process of Urban Modernization in the 19th and 20th Centuries”, which he defended in 2025.

He is co-editor of the Dobrolet architecture theory edition together with Luka Skansi, PhD. Within the Urban Studies program at the University of Rijeka he teaches the course Art and Society. He conducted his professional and social activities as president of the Society of Architects of Istria between 2015 and 2019 and as president of the Association of Croatian Architects between 2017 and 2019. Since December 2025 he has been employed at the Institute of Art History as a senior assistant and a member of the research team of the ERC project Housing.Yu.

AIDA MURTIĆ, PhD

SENIOR RESEARCH ASSISTANT
INSTITUTE OF ART HISTORY, ZAGREB

Aida Murtić is an architect and art historian, and a member of the research team of the ERC project Housing.Yu. She received her PhD in art history from Heidelberg University, where her dissertation on processes of urban transformation and heritage preservation in the historical city centre of Sarajevo (Čaršija) was awarded the August Grisebach Dissertation Prize by the Institute for European Art History (IEK). She also holds a joint MSc in urban development from TU Darmstadt and University Grenoble Alpes, as well as a diploma degree in architecture from the University of Sarajevo.

Her doctoral research was carried out with the support of the German Research Foundation (DFG) within the research program of the Cluster of Excellence “Asia and Europe in a Global Context” at the Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies (HCTS). She was a resident doctoral fellow at the Leibniz Institute of European History (IEG) in Mainz. She was also a visiting postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Modern Art and Theory (CMAT) at Masaryk University. As an architect, she worked on numerous projects of post-war reconstruction of architectural heritage in Bosnia and Herzegovina. She is a member of the ICOMOS National Committee of Bosnia and Herzegovina and formerly its Secretary General.

Her research spans the social history of architecture, theories and methods of heritage preservation, and the politics of memory.

SAŠA VEJZAGIĆ, PhD

SENIOR RESEARCH ASSISTANT
INSTITUTE OF ART HISTORY, ZAGREB

Saša Vejzagić was born in 1987 in Doboj, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He completed his undergraduate and graduate studies in history at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, in 2011, and earned a second master’s degree in 2013 from Central European University in Budapest. He received his PhD in 2021 from the Department of History and Civilization at the European University Institute in Florence with a dissertation entitled The Rise of a Business Class: Managerial Elites in Yugoslavia 1963-1978 (supervisor Professor Youssef Cassis).

Since 2016 he has been an external associate of the Centre for Cultural and Historical Research of Socialism at the University of Pula. Between 2018 and 2023 he worked as an associate researcher, and from 2021 as a postdoctoral researcher, on the project Microstructures of Yugoslav Socialism: Croatia 1970-1990, funded by the Croatian Science Foundation. In 2024 he was employed as a senior research assistant at the Strossmayer Gallery of Old Masters of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, where he participated in the project Provenance Research of Artworks in Zagreb Collections. He is currently employed at the Institute of Art History in Zagreb as a senior research assistant on the ERC project Housing.Yu: The Right to Housing: the Production of Space of Everyday Life in Yugoslavia (1945-1991), within the research strand Housing and political-economic reforms.

He has organised several international conferences and academic workshops, coauthored several exhibitions, and undertaken short research stays in Belgrade, Sarajevo, and Glasgow. He is a coeditor of the volume Socialist Entrepreneurs? Business Histories of the GDR and Yugoslavia (2025) and the author of several scholarly articles published in national and international journals, including Business History and Politička misao. His research interests include economic, business, political, labour, and social history of the twentieth century, with a particular focus on the period of Yugoslav socialism.

HANA BEČEIĆ

RESEARCH ASSISTANT
INSTITUTE OF ART HISTORY, ZAGREB

She earned her degree in Art History and Museology and Heritage Management at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb in 2022, along with a supplementary teacher education program. She gained experience working in museum institutions and at the Institute for the Research of the Avant-Garde, where she contributed to the conception and realization of exhibitions, authored scholarly and interpretive texts, and helped organize appearances at international art fairs.

She is the author of academic articles published in the journal Muzeologija / Museology, and her research focuses on visual arts, architecture, and urbanism of the 20th century. Her work explores the relationships between space, representation, and ideology, with a particular emphasis on everyday life and the cultural politics of modernization. She speaks English and Italian and is also pursuing additional training in UX/UI design. Since June 2025, she has been employed as an assistant on the ERC project Housing.Yu, within which she is preparing a doctoral dissertation on the development of housing estates and standards of urban planning in Yugoslavia.

RESEARCH DESCRIPTION

Housing Estates Development Standards in Socialist Self-managed Yugoslavia: Genesis, Models, and Influences

The research traces the development of housing estate standards in socialist Yugoslavia through approaches to their planning, design, and construction. Housing estates are understood as integrated entities that combine housing, public facilities, and infrastructure, shaped by inherited practices and international influences. Case studies from all six republics are examined across three reform periods – from centrally directed housing construction in the 1950s, through the market-oriented model after 1965, to the DUSI reform of the 1970s. The study draws on a wide range of sources, including archival documents, records of urban planning and architectural congresses, professional journals, exhibition catalogues, and photographic documentation, complemented by digital methods such as GIS and network analysis. Its aim is to reconstruct the genealogy of Yugoslav housing models, assess their contribution to European housing, and highlight their relevance in current debates on the right to housing and the contemporary housing crisis.

ANTUN DULIBIĆ

RESEARCH ASSISTANT
INSTITUTE OF ART HISTORY, ZAGREB

He graduated in 2023 from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, with a double major in Sociology and History (Modern and Contemporary History module, 19th–20th century). During his studies, he was a member of the Student Council of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. As a student, he was part of the editorial board of the journal Diskrepancija / Discrepancy, participated in several research projects, and published articles on the portal H-Alter. He has received multiple excellence scholarships from the University of Zagreb and was awarded the Dean’s Award for Excellence in 2020.

Since 2025, he has been employed at the Institute of Art History and is a doctoral candidate in the program Modern and Contemporary Croatian History in a European and Global Context at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. He is a member of the research team on the ERC project Housing.Yu – Right to Housing: the Production of Spaces of Everyday Life in Yugoslavia (1945–1991), led by Dr. Tamara Bjažić Klarin. His work focuses on the research strand Housing and Political-Economic Reforms. He is also an external associate of the Centre for Cultural and Historical Research of Socialism at the Juraj Dobrila University of Pula.

RESEARCH DESCRIPTION

Within the Housing.Yu project, the study examines the Standing Conference of Towns and Municipalities of Yugoslavia (SKGOJ)—an organization that from 1953 to 1991 served as a platform for articulating municipal interests and, among other things, coordinating efforts in housing construction and the governance of urban space. Founded in Belgrade in 1953 as a body with voluntary and non-binding membership, the Conference soon brought together around two hundred cities, encompassing numerous major and minor urban centres across Yugoslavia. In addition to functioning as a forum for the exchange of knowledge and experience, it developed a robust publishing activity and gained a reputation as the principal advocate of local self-government before republic and federal institutions. The research traces how the debates, recommendations, consultations, and knowledge networks facilitated by SKGOJ shaped housing policies and urban governance policies, especially during the frequent political-economic reforms of the SFRY and the accompanying transformations of housing-provision models. The empirical base consists of minutes, reports, correspondence, and other materials, held primarily in the Archives of Yugoslavia, and to a lesser extent in the Croatian State Archives and the National and University Library (Zagreb). The aim is to reconstruct the flows of ideas among local, republican, federal, and international actors in government and the professions, and to determine and describe SKGOJ’s role in shaping the spaces of everyday living.

FRANO PETAR ZOVKO

RESEARCH ASSISTANT
INSTITUTE OF ART HISTORY, ZAGREB

He graduated from the Faculty of Architecture, University of Zagreb, in 2013. He worked at the publishing house Oris Ltd. as editor of Oris magazine and other publications. He is the co-author of the radio show Stvarnost prostora / The Reality of Space on the Third Programme of Croatian Radio, for which he received the Neven Šegvić Award in 2019 for journalistic, critical, scholarly-research, and theoretical work in the field of architecture.

Since 2021, he has been the program director of the Croatian Architects’ Association (CAA), a member of the editorial board of the journal Čovjek i prostor / Man and Space, and a guest lecturer in the Master’s program at the Faculty of Architecture in Zagreb, teaching the seminars Research Architecture 1 and 2. Since 2023, he has served as an independent national expert for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award. He is a member of the Zagreb Architects’ Association and a founding member of the association Docomomo Croatia. At the Institute of Art History in Zagreb, he works as an assistant on the ERC project Housing.Yu – Right to Housing: the Production of Spaces of Everyday Life in Yugoslavia (1945–1991), within which he is pursuing doctoral studies at the Faculty of Architecture, University of Ljubljana.

RESEARCH DESCRIPTION

Individual Housing Construction in the Socialist Yugoslavia: Mechanisms of Planning, Regulation, and Production

The research examines the planning and regulation of individual housing construction in the Socialist Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1991, focusing on typification, prefabrication, and industrialized production. Because individual housing in the SFRY remains relatively under-researched, and most others has been focused on exceptional works or specific estates, this research centers on the underlying processes and systemic approaches to the production of individual housing, as well as on the outputs generated through planning, typification, prefabrication, and industrialized production. By re-examining the dominant view that in the SFRY (oriented ideologically, technologically, and design-wise toward collective housing) individual construction was left to chance and personal initiative. The research develops the hypothesis that individual housing, like other areas of the production of everyday living spaces, was in fact a dynamic, complex field of forward-looking, systemically framed innovative experimentation. The research overlaps chronological and thematic perspectives. Chronologically, it follows discourse and practice in individual housing (with emphasis on typification, prefabrication, and industrialization) from wartime and immediate post-WWII reconstruction, through the three housing reforms (1955, 1965, 1974), to the late socialist period. Thematically, it addresses several research subtopics: legislation and building regulation; individual housing and spatial planning; foreign influences and international knowledge transfer from ten European countries used as comparative material (Austria, Czechia, France, Hungary, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Sweden, United Kingdom); methods and results of typification, prefabrication, and industrialization in individual housing; housing provisions in crisis situations; and citizen participation. By overlapping these two perspectives, the project develops a main narrative about how Yugoslav spatial production actors—authorities, professionals, and users—approached the problem of individual housing construction and presents case studies on selected subtopics.

IRENA ŠIMIĆ

SENIOR ASSOCIATE IN SCIENCE AND HIGHER EDUCATION
INSTITUTE OF ART HISTORY, ZAGREB; ASSOCIATE FOR DIGITAL HUMANITIES AND APPLICATION OF OPEN SCIENCE CONCEPTS

Graduated in art history from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb in 2009. Since 2011 works as a Professional Associate in Science at the Institute of Art History (IAH), focusing on processing, cataloguing, preserving, digitizing and presenting IAH collections, including Photoarchives, Architectual Plans, Drawings and Records Collections and Personal Archival Collections. Contributed to several research projects funded mainly by the Croatian Science Foundation: ARHZAG (2023–), The Cycle (2020–2022), Ekspozicija (2020–2024), Globe Exchange (2020–2023), ARTNET (2014–2018) and DUCAC (2014–2017). In 2022 enrolled in doctoral studies History of Art, Cultural Heritage and Visual Culture at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Science, University of Zagreb.
Within the broad spectrum of topics, research interests include: research methodology; documentation and presentation of cultural heritage; photography and photographic archives; architectural history; digital humanities; open science; digitization; and copyright. Member of ICARUS Hrvatska, DOCOMOMO Croatia and board member of the Croatian Society of Art Historians.

MARIJA JURIĆ

PROFESSIONAL ASSISTANT
INSTITUTE OF ART HISTORY, ZAGREB

She graduated in Art History and Information and Communication Sciences, specializing in Museology and Heritage Management, at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. Her primary areas of interest include 20th century architecture, audience development, cultural awareness, and adapting museum practices to the contemporary age. During her studies, she participated in the ‘eKultura’ project for the digitization of museum, library, and archive materials at the Institute of Art History (2022) and the Museum of Arts and Crafts (2022–2023). At the Zagreb City Museum, she developed and led the original project Third Saturday (2023–2024), a monthly public lecture series covering a variety of topics.

She has attended several international and national training programs in museology, conservation, and cultural outreach. She also took part in an archaeological excavation and training led by Professor Jurković on the island of Rab, as well as in initiatives related to mental health, digital literacy, and methods of non-formal education. Since June 2025 works as a team member on the ERC project Housing.Yu – Right to Housing: the Production of Spaces of Everyday Life in Yugoslavia (1945–1991) as professional associate in science for documentation and information systems.

DR. LJILJANA KOLEŠNIK

EMERITA
INSTITUTE OF ART HISTORY, ZAGREB
EXPERT ADVISOR FOR DIGITAL HUMANITIES AND HEAD OF DEVELOPMENT OF THE VISART SYSTEM