Idea Camp 2014_Ideas Booklet_low res

Antonija EremutCroatiaI graduated in Art History and Comparative Literature at the Faculty of Humanitiesand Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Croatia in 2012. I volunteered as a youngresearcher at the Institute of Art History, “Cvito Fisković” Center in Split (2012-2013)and I was a professional trainee at the Cultural Center “Zvonimir Solin” (2013-2014). Now I’m an external associate of the City of Solin advising on EU funds and a manager of the cross-bordercooperation project “Connecting Separated” with Bosnia and Herzegovina, based on the revitalisation of the existing,but almost unknown Roman road as a joint cultural and tourism artifact.Creating an interactive park and an urban garden on the unused 5 hectare green area inthe City of Solin.The idea is to create an interactive park and aparticipatory urban garden on the underdeveloped5 hectare surface near the spring of the Jadro river(City of Solin). It is conceived as an open platformwith direct design outputs that aim to stimulate social,ecological and artistic changes in the local community.The main feature is a productive dialogue betweeninstitutions, experts, artists, non-governmentalorganisations (NGOs) and the local community(especially pre-school/elementary schoolchildren andunderprivileged people), the lack of which is one ofthe major problems in Croatia. Since the target siteis a fusion of archaeology, important ecosystemsand outdated industrial facilities, the project willtackle the relationship between urban advantagesand disadvantages, creating an experimentalpublic field for revitalisation practices. The guidingprinciple is to initiate the use of the public space toraise environmental awareness and broader publicengagement in urban policies and development.25