Housing.Yu Team in Pula, Rijeka, Labin, and Raša

Members of the ERC project Housing.Yu – “The Right to Housing: The Production of Everyday Life Spaces in Yugoslavia (1945–1991)” stayed in Pula between 19 and 22 September 2025. The program included three project activities: participation in an international conference, a digital humanities workshop, and field visits to Rijeka, Labin, and Raša.

On the first day, the team attended the Seventh International Scientific Conference Socialism on the Bench (18–20 September 2025), organized by the Centre for Cultural and Historical Research of Socialism at the Juraj Dobrila University of Pula. During a thematic round table, project research segments were presented, while the closing part of the conference took place on the Brijuni Islands. More about the conference here.

On 22 September 2025, the Centre also hosted a digital humanities workshop led by Ljiljana Kolešnik, dedicated to digital research methodologies and the VANIS system.

Two days were devoted to field visits to Rijeka, Labin, and Raša. In Rijeka, the program, led by Lidija Butković Mićin, included visits to the residential neighborhoods of Podmurvice, Turnić, and Krnjevo, as well as selected examples of interwar architecture in the city center. In Labin, a shorter tour and a meeting with Stephanie Peršić, curator at the Labin City Gallery, took place. In Raša, under the expert guidance of Mladen Bajramović, head of the “Istrian Coal Mines Raša” Association, the program included a tour of residential architecture and a visit to the Arsia Centre – the Small Museum of Mining. The tour also featured the participation of curator Elis Gobo, director of the Labin National Museum Olja Višković, and the Mayor of the Municipality of Raša, Leo Knapić.

The activities were attended by project leader Tamara Bjažić Klarin and project team members Lidija Butković Mićin, Igor Duda, Ljiljana Kolešnik, Martina Malešič, Mejrema Zatrić-Šahović, Irena Šimić, Hana Bečeić, Antun Dulibić, and Frano Petar Zovko.