Ljubljana, Zagreb, Novi Sad, Belgrade, Skopje, Pristina, Tirana, Podgorica, Sarajevo
July 30 – August 24, 2006
Centrala Foundation for Future Cities and School of Missing Studies
LOST HIGHWAY EXPEDITION
Open call for participation register and open posting at:
http://www.europelostandfound.net/
Centrala Foundation for Future Cities and School of Missing Studies would like to invite you to participate in Lost Highway Expedition, a massive movement of individuals that will pass through Ljubljana, Zagreb, Novi Sad, Belgrade, Skopje, Priština, Tirana, Podgorica and Sarajevo, from July 30 to August 24 of 2006. Lost Highway Expedition (LHE) is about constructing and experiencing an experimental network-based civic society that navigates the new and dynamic territorialities of the Western Balkans and explores new modes of linking its different entities.
While on the road, Lost Highway Expedition will travel around the future of the Western Balkans and European Union and produce projects about:
a) borders as creative spaces,
b) citizenship and negotiation of citizens rights,
c) interactions between vertical authority and bottom-up initiatives,
d) architectural inventions coming from transition,
e) spatial instruments for new socio-political negotiations,
f) parallel systems which exist in the Western Balkans and European Union,
g) emerging networks between the cities in the Western Balkans,
h) other missing studies.
At each city along the route, Lost Highway Expedition will interact with the projects of local organizations and groups about the issues they find relevant for the future of their own contexts. In tandem with a wide international network, participating local organizations so far include: ŠKUC (Ljubljana); Platforma 9.81, Kuda.org (Novi Sad), Prelom kolektiv (Belgrade), Belgrade SMS, Missing Identity (Kosovo), Press to Exit (Skopje) and Pro.ba (Sarajevo), and more participants will be added to this preliminary network.
The expedition program and events will result from the interaction between the local and the traveling participants. The collaboration between these different cultural organizations, artist groups and individuals may include very different forms of participation, discussion or production. By blurring the boundaries between the roles of host and guest, LHE aims to examine and negotiate emerging territorial concepts and societal networks in the Western Balkans and their implications for the future of the European Union.
As the Lost Highway Expedition is a self-generating open source network, you are encouraged to invite other people, groups or organizations to join in. You are expected to self-organize, support, and realize your journey. You do not have to travel or stay together, and you can enter and exit the expedition for any length of time and at any point. To start creating our temporary community even before we meet along LHE, we invite you to register and contribute to the expedition’s exchange platform at: www.europelostandfound.net, There, you can find your possible project
partners, travel mates, or practical information, and you can also help construct the infrastructure and the content of the platform with your projects, skills and contributed information.
Lost Highway Expedition is about participation, education, self-organization, networking and exchange of knowledge and resources. Many traveling minds will build a traveling consciousness, in which people are connected while staying individually different. Aiming to locate or invent the future, we will be moving in order to discover where we are going. Our voyage to the unknown territories of the future implies that the future is not only to be found, but also constructed, and this is what we would like you to do….
Contact: info@europelostandfound.net
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