The book The Art (of) Museums: Creating Contemporary Spaces of Identity; Ars Aevi Sarajevo, authored by Associate Professor Senka Ibrišimbegović PhD, represents the culmination of her many years of work in culture, education, and research. It emphasizes the importance of museums, architecture, and art in promoting social development. It discusses the transformation of the cultural landscape—from being a survival element during the siege of Sarajevo to becoming a key component of sustainable development over the past three decades. The book explores the architecture of contemporary art museums within various social contexts, highlighting their role in fostering cultural diversity and urban development. It concludes by advocating for socially responsible architecture in contemporary art museums, presenting a vision for the future of museum architecture, and emphasizing the need to construct the Ars Aevi Museum of Contemporary Art in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. This research offers a deep reflection on the intersection of culture, history, and architecture, providing insights into how cultural institutions can contribute to both the preservation of identity and the advancement of society. Case study in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Ars Aevi Museum of Contemporary Art in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.

This paper explores the evolving urban landscapes of the post-socialist residential quarters in the municipality of New Sarajevo (Novo Sarajevo), focusing on spaces designated for art and culture from the perspective of past, present, and future. By examining existing and potential venues for artistic expression, the study explores how these spaces contribute to fostering community cohesion, stimulating local economies, and enhancing quality of life. Simultaneously, the research delves into the adaptation and transformation of cultural spaces in post-socialist residential quarters following the dissolution of Yugoslavia and the socialist era. It investigates the factors influencing the dormancy or revitalization of cultural venues such as community centers, theaters, and memorials, considering the socio-political context and urban planning decisions that shape these spaces today. Using mapping methodology, site analysis and stakeholder interviews, the study aims to examine the possibilities of introduction of new arts and culture venues, as well as remodeling of the existing urban spaces for cultural and artistic purposes and their broader impact on neighborhood revitalization efforts. This exploration seeks to illuminate the synergy between urban policy, cultural vibrancy, and the aspirations of residents in the New Sarajevo municipality as well as in broader post-socialist contexts. By understanding these dynamics, the research contributes to the preservation of cultural heritage, the promotion of community engagement, and the strategic planning of future cultural developments in Sarajevo's evolving urban fabric.

This article addresses a sustainable approach to urban regeneration in post-communist residential neighbour-hoods in Sarajevo. The area explored is located in the municipality of Novo Sarajevo (literally, New Sarajevo), featuring well-known but somewhat controversial apartment buildings built after the Second World War, from the 1950s to the 1970s. At the time, this area epitomized the social and economic progress and expansion of the city from east to west, and it expressed the ideals of socialist modernist urban planning and architecture. More than seventy years later, following social, economic, and cultural transition after the war in the 1990s and new urban developments, this area and the city face multiple challenges, from decay to social bias. One key challenge is to adapt the residential architecture from socialist mod-ernism to meet contemporary requirements of functionality and sustainability. This research proposes the “new urban protocol” as a collaborative model combining tools and procedures for sustainable urban regeneration while focusing on reevaluating, retrofitting, and reprograming the architectural legacy of socialist modernism.

We are all online. We rarely leave our homes - only when necessary, even though, at times, the prescribed measures allow us to do so. Our daily routines are embedded in video calls and performed online. Household members are forced to stay together now more than ever, but at the same time, all of them need space to study and work. A sudden transition from classrooms to Zoom rooms is forcing us to rethink the entire educational system: New educational grammar is needed! The need for additional insulation inside apartments has become a reality. A wardrobe turns into a study, and nature becomes our balcony. How aware are we of the current changes in our living spaces? Can we use architecture to establish a dialogue with contemporary issues and events, and provide critical solutions that would make the spaces we live in better? New spatial grammar is needed! The Covid-19 pandemic and rapid digitalisation have impacted architecture that has traditionally been a very slow discipline which uses specific tools with manual designing and thinking processes. Architectural education has seen demand-driven changes in the learning process through the years. Following the switch from the system inherited from the socialist period to the Bologna system, the impact of the pandemic has called for the need to conform to changes in teaching methods and understanding of space.

Contemporary theoretical concepts in architecture are almost unimaginable without new perceptions of the importance of cultural identity. Today, this very sensitive question deserves careful attention, especially in small countries, in which transitional processes are still present. Importance of the architecture in this process is invaluable. Architecture visualizes values of a culture by its formal sensations. That characteristic guides us to perceive development and upgrade the cultural identity from two positions – through both the implications of place and time. In specific complexity the cultural identity of Bosnia and Herzegovina was created out of sources susceptible to the various influences as well as reshaped, embodying social awareness. In this context, an analytical model is constructed for the purpose of finding answers to burning questions in which way architecture and urban forms influence the shaping of the cultural identities of societies in transition and how this cultural identity becomes locally and globally sustainable.