Bihać Week of Architecture (6 – 11 May 2024), themed Memory in Transition brings together urban planners, architects, artists, designers, historians, and activists who, through their practices, contemplate the question of monuments and monument heritage in the specific socio-political context of Bihać, its surroundings, and beyond. Building on events from 2022 (Week of Architecture: Urbanism in Motion), the intention is to initiate a discussion on the plasticity of memory and the politics of public space in an environment marked by political decentralization, failed transition, and undefined legal regulations. The intention is to establish a comparative reflection on monument heritage from the People's Liberation War, as well as through recent examples from the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the broader area of the former SFR Yugoslavia, by reinscribing memory through examples from narrower and broader contexts, emphasizing critical topography as a model for questioning ideological, conceptual, administrative, and cultural aspects of more recent monument production. Monuments are understood as the most powerful emitters of memory and, as such, shape public space and become places where the culture of remembrance is embodied in physical form within space.

In addition to formal and aesthetic parameters, this year's Bihać Week of Architecture themed Memory in Transition, organized by the Bihać City Administration, KRAK Center and Museum of Una-Sana Canton, also includes perspectives related to legal and administrative aspects that entail moral and ethical aspects regarding initiatives to build a monument. On the other hand, the partnership between public institutions and the non-governmental sector expands the perspective and affirms tools for learning, unlearning, and relearning, initiating attempts to envision things differently.

Overall, the second Bihać Week of Architecture serves as a commitment to engaged and responsible involvement with spatial issues in the local environment, where collaboration between different parties, individuals, and groups represents and affirms sustainable models of collaboration, mutual learning, and exchange.

Detailed program is available in a pdf-document.