Presenting the book "Krešimirac"

Dino Igrec, Sonja Leboš
Nov 5th 2024. - Nov 5th 2024.
Library "Bogdan Ogrizović"
Presenting the book "Krešimirac"

6 pm

Presentation of the book ”Krešimirac”

Next to the authors Dino Igrec and Sonja Leboš, the speakers are Zdenka Robić and Mirjana Gaura, former residents of King Peter Krešimir Sq.
 

Monograph „Krešimirac“

Authors: Dino Igrec, Sonja Leboš

Editor: Sonja Leboš

Assistent Editor: Petra Šarin

Reviewers: Tamara Bjažić Klarin, Reana Senjković

Proofreading: Maja Trinajstić

Design: Tessa Bachrach Krištofić

Publisher: Association for Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Research

Support: Endowment „Kultura nova“, City of Zagreb – Office for Culture and Civil Society, family of Zdenka Robić

The book presents Krešimirac, officially King Petar Krešimir IV Square in Zagreb, the greenest and one of the largest squares in Zagreb, which is also considered a park. The first part of the book describes the urban genesis of the square itself, while the second part of the book deals with the issue of social relations in the urban program of the square and the institutions that make it up. The book was largely created on the basis of archival research of texts from the Archives of the Božidar Adžija Library, State Archives in Zagreb, Croatian State Archives, Zagreb City Museum,  Museum of Contemporary Art, and on the basis of the testimonies of several citizens who lived in the vicinity of the square.
 

From the review of Reana Senjković:

"The book was created as a result of detailed archival and cultural-anthropological research. It offers an important contribution to the knowledge of the process of construction of one of the most interesting squares in Zagreb from an urban point of view, about the changes that have occurred over time and after the changes of state/city authorities/ideologies, and about the ways in which the square was used, and, finally, about the contemporary memories and observations of fellow citizens."

 

About authors

Dino Igrec was born in 1977 in Zagreb, where he attended primary and secondary school. He graduated from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Zagreb with a degree in art history and philosophy. He graduated with the thesis "Urban Development of Kvaternik Square in Zagreb". His interest in urban topics with a focus on architecture and urbanism of the city of Zagreb led him to collaborate with the Association for Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Research. The collaboration began in 2006 on the project Space of Identity, Space of Interaction, Space of Change. He is an employee of the Croatian State Archives. 

 

Sonja Leboš, Ph.D., defended her doctoral thesis under the title “City on Film, Film in the City: Zagreb 1941-1991, cultural-anthropological perspective” in November 2022. Cultural anthropologist, expert in cultural tourism, and art educator. She also studied set design and architecture in Prague and Zagreb. Her activities are in the domain of cultural and urban studies, education and production in culture and art, visual and urban anthropology, and discourse analysis, while her artistic, curatorial, and scientific work tends to merge the liminal fields of narrative urbanism and visual arts, design, theory and practice of performativity, film, and new media.