In 2020, the year when first NONUMENT! Book is to be published, many recently still lively public spaces and city centers have been transformed into nonuments. In the past, Nonument was devoted to decaying, destroyed and abandoned monuments, buildings and public spaces of the twentieth century. At the third NONUMENT! Symposium, we will combine these thoughts with new thinking about the possible strategies of thought and intervention in a continually transforming contemporary city. Through the cases of transforming buildings, squares and cities, guests from Ljubljana and abroad will think about the open use of space as the condition of survival.

14:00 INTRODUCTION

14:10 PANEL 1: Nonument Spaces (chair: Miloš Kosec)

Elisa Sorrentino: Casa Albero, an architectural experiment. (1967-1971, Fregene, Rome)

Urška Jurman: Community garden Beyond Construction Site in the time of Coronavirus (post)epidemic

Miljena Vučković: Identity Fade Out

Peter Rauch: Guilty Objects

15:45 PANEL 2: Urban Discontinuity (chair: Nika Grabar)

Blaž Babnik Romaniuk: Hidden in Plain Sight – The Network of Cooperative Centres in Slovenia

Antonia Stanev: The Home as an Antithesis to the Communist City and the Monument: The Preservation of Tradition During Totalitarianism

Adam Knight: Cultural Monuments of GDR History

Helka Dzsacsovszki: The expanding scope of the heritage value of socialist architecture; The case study of the MOM Kultúrház

17:20 PANEL 3: Public Space in Extremis (chair: Neja Tomšič)

Mollie Brooks: The Landscape as Archive: Public Art and Conflicting Narratives of Past, Present

Andrea Elera: Alto transito: Notes on public space in the midst of traffic

Nika van Berkel: New City Park Model – Revitalisation of the Central Stadium

Antonio Grgić: Monuments as Indicators of 2020 Global Change: Violent Demolition of Political Monuments around the World and COVID-19 Virus Pandemic

19:00 NONUMENT! BOOK ROUNDTABLE (chair: Miloš Kosec)

Nika Grabar, Neja Tomšič, Alexei Monroe, Ljubica Slavković, Danica Sretenović

20:00 KEYNOTE

Branislav Dimitrijevič: “Egypt” rather then “October”: Incongruences in interpreting Yugoslav national-liberation monuments, then and now