Lecture Series ‘Housing Cooperatives International’: Socialist Housing Stock in Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1990
6.30 PM – 8 PM
An event organized by B/IAS in cooperation with the S AM Swiss Architecture Museum.
Marčetić will explore the experience of self-managed, non-speculative housing in socialist Yugoslavia, focusing on the mechanisms of collective ownership, communal governance and the de-commodification of housing. She will examine how socialized housing stocks were organised and maintained by their residents, and how architecture, planning and housing policy were interwoven to secure stable, affordable and socially accessible housing beyond market logics. Building on these historical practices, she reflects on the role of cooperative and resident-led housing initiatives in shaping urban life under various political and economic conditions. She will also briefly touch on her current research in Zagreb, illustrating how ideas of self-managed and non-market housing continue to evolve in the post-socialist present.
Within the context of the S AM exhibition, the lecture demonstrates how historical models of self-managed housing can inform contemporary debates around affordability, collective ownership and social justice in housing, offering impulses for alternatives to today’s speculative housing systems.
With: Iva Marčetić - an architect and researcher at the University of Kassel. Her work focuses on non-speculative and self-managed housing models, with a particular interest in the socialized housing systems of socialist Yugoslavia and their relevance for contemporary debates on affordable, collective and just housing. She also conducts ongoing research on post-socialist housing transformations in Zagreb.
Location: S AM Swiss Architecture Museum, Steinberg 7, 4051 Basel
Admission: free
Photos: Ivo Balmer
