“Opacity – the state of being opaque, or the degree to which something is opaque”
English Dictionary
“Opa, opa, neka, neka…”
Ljubiša Stojanović Luis
The purpose of the project is to present an imaginary “curtain”, an image of our relationship to the absurd situations we face on a daily basis in urban space.
Opa!city at the same time alludes to the autism of the public and social consciousness in understanding the blurred social strategies, while on the other hand, it forms the Opa City coin, as a sarcastic view of the city that is the product of such social consciousness.
Important changes are happening in the appearance and functioning of the city and, in order to live with them, we look at them through the “curtain” on the level of transparency that suits us: some things we do not notice, some things we do not see intentionally. Life in the city becomes a time between two new spectacles, and the city – a place where spectacle is continually produced – becomes OPA!city.
As a final outcome, the spectacle is no longer awe-inspiring with new, lavish, or magnificent phenomena, but OPA … becomes a sigh of inertia of society and acceptance of phenomena that would be absurd to us in some other context.
Opa!city is the city we live in, and opacity is the way we survive it.
Tim8 is an association of young architects who began their joint work in 2014 at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Belgrade, with the aim of helping the endangered after the May floods.
Since then, the team has continued to work on projects that address social contexts with a focus on the issue of minimum housing, for vulnerable groups and others.
They have received numerous awards, of which the 2016 Salon of Architecture Award for the project and publication “Temporary Housing Model: From Idea to Realization on the Example of a Roma Settlement” stands out. They have been participants in the BINA program for many years as part of permanent and temporary exhibitions.
“Opacity – the state of being opaque, or the degree to which something is opaque”
English Dictionary
“Opa, opa, neka, neka…”
Ljubiša Stojanović Luis
Namera projekta je da prikaže imaginarnu “zavesu”, sliku našeg odnosa prema apsurdnim situacijama sa kojima se svakodnevno susrećemo u urbanom prostoru.
Opa!city istovremeno aludira na autističnost javnosti i društvene svesti u razumevanju zamagljenih društvenih strategija, dok s druge strane formira kovanicu Opa city, kao sarkastično gledište na grad koji je produkt takve društvene svesti.
U izgledu i funkcionisanju grada se dešavaju važne promene i, da bismo sa njima živeli, posmatramo ih kroz “zavesu” nivoa prozirnosti koji nam odgovara: nešto ne primetimo, nešto nam namerno promakne. Život u gradu postaje vreme između dva nova spektakla, a grad – mesto gde se spektakl neprekidno produkuje, postaje OPA! Grad.
Kao krajnji ishod, spektakl više ne izaziva zadivljenost novim, raskošnim ili velelepnim pojavama već to OPA… postaje uzdah inercije društva i prihvatanja pojava koje bi nam u nekom drugom kontekstu bile apsurdne.
Opa!city je grad u kojem živimo, a opacity je način na koji ga preživljavamo.
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Tim8 je udruženje mladih arhitekata koje je započelo zajednički rad 2014. godina na Arhitektonskom fakultetu Univerziteta u Beogradu, sa ciljem pomoći ugroženima nakon majskih poplava.
Od tada, tim nastavlja rad na projektima koji se bave pitanjima društvenog konteksta sa fokusom na temu minimalnog stanovanja, za ugrožene grupe i druge.
Dobitnici su brojnih nagrada, od čega se izdvaja nagrada Salona arhitekture 2016. godine za projekat i publikaciju „Model privremenog stanovanja: od ideje do realizacije na primeru romskog naselja”. Dugogodišnji su učesnici BINA programa u okviru stalnih i privremenih izložbenih postavki.