azra's blog

Please provide you contact+picture to other LHE participants

Dear all,
as we continue to travel, the group is constantly shrinking and expanding and it is sometimes impossible to connect all the names with faces and emails. To better stay in contact, I suggest that everyone provides a picture and contact infornation for others. I have created an image gallery especially for this. Who knows, perhaps you find your dat this way as well :) You can post your information by going to the menu "image galleries".
Thanks,
Azra


Travel to Sarajevo

For those traveling from Podgorica to Sarajevo, there is a dayly bus Podgorica-Sarajevo: 12 euro, +381 81 620 430 busstation Podgorica. More information on traveling to Sarajevo can be found: http://aegee.org/euandeurope/wb_eu_transportation.html


Empire of Friendship

"U svetu postoji jedno carstvo,
u njemu caruje drugarstvo.
U njemu je sve lepo,
u njemu je sve nezno,
u njemu se sve raduje...
U njemu je sve lepo,
u njemu je sve nezno,
u njemu se sve raduje.

Tamo su kuce od cokolade,
prozori su od marmelade,
tamo svako radi ono sto hoce, tamo raste svako voce...
U svetu postoji jedno carstvo,
u njemu caruje drugarstvo.
u njemu caruje drugarstvo..."


Organizing Program in Sarajevo

SarajevoSarajevoI had a very productive meeting with Aida Kaleder, cultural manager from the Mediacenter in Sarajevo this morning, who was recommended by Asja Hafner. Aida and Asja had some great points, which I would like to share with you. The following email is too long, it contains the discussion update on the program in Sarajevo and a more detailed plan of action for the programming. The issues we discussed regard the city of Sarajevo, but they may be relevant for other cities involved in the LHE:

Aida stressed the importance of the discussion about the role of public space and public institutions in production of culture. She argued that there is an urgent need for a massive initiative that would animate public space in Sarajevo. Since the state funded cultural institutions 'collapsed' during and after the recent war, the bottom-up initiatives and NGOs have taken on the main role in the local cultural sphere. This is visible through a wide range of 'experimental islands' - as she called them - very


Share your content and help us make the expedition work

Dear LHE participant,

the Lost Highway Expedition is approaching very soon and we are very much looking forward to your coming. Our web page has been updated and we would now like to invite you to help fill its content. Our internet platform relies on activity and interaction of its members, who will shape its content with their own intellectual input, but also through their interaction with other LHE members. There you will also gradually find dates and times of some of the meetings along the highway, useful tips for travel, as well as announcements about emerging events along the way. You can also search for a travel buddy or offer to be one.


LHE News

News, project update, etc. Any upload sends out an automatic email to LHE participants (subscribed for news).


ELF To Do List

Establish a list of ToDos with the most urgent issues on the top. Executed tasks should be deleted by the person doing them.


ELF and LHE Project Archive

This could be info about project background, its developing stages, meeting reports, pictures and Skype meeting recordings...


LHE To Do List

Establish a list of ToDos with the most urgent issues on the top. Executed tasks should be deleted by the person doing them.


LHE Partner Organizations

Info about the 3 main partners and the participating institutions in the Host Cities (+Contact persons for each)


LHE Project Publication Possibilities

Here people could post call for papers and diverse competitions and project submissions.


LHE Food

This could be a personal recommendation of food and restaurants. It could become a mixture of commercial restaurant adver=tisement, over the personal rcommendations to "what is the best cevapcici imbiss" to the very exchange of grandma's recepies.


LHE Accomodation

This could be:

Private accomodation offerings
Recommendations of Hotels / Motels


LHE Transportation Possibilities

This could be:

Car-Sharing
Travel information (Buses, Trains, Flights)


Architecture Links for LHE

A4A Architecture Portal
http://www.a4a.info/


Mailing List for LHE

Either we wait with this that people sign in, or we place our address books, but people do not like spam. For now we can add people who are definitely in. Please keep alphabetical order and unified format, for instance:

Azra Aksamija, Sarajevo (BiH) and Cambridge (USA)
Artist and architect
Email: azra@mit.edu
Homepage: http://www.mit.edu/~azra/


LHE Events Calendar

This could be a list of happenings in the "Host Cities" and around.


LHE Project Organization Calendar

This could be a Exel File or a list of Dates with Deadlines


Art Institutions along the Highway

SARAJEVO:

ARS AEVI
www.arsaevi.ba/

PRO.BA
http://www.pro.ba/e_i_00_index.htm

SCCA - Sarajevo Center for Contemporary Art
http://www.scca.ba/e_main.htm

NOVI SAD:

KUDA
www.kuda.org

ZAGREB:
MAMA
http://www.mi2.hr/


Highway Attractions - Music

Belgradeyard Sound System - v 2.2!
http://www.belgradeyard.com/english/index.html

Balkan Beat Box
http://www.balkanbeatbox.com/index2.html