The Department of Theory and History of Architecture and the Protection of Built Heritage from the University of Sarajevo – Faculty of Architecture has nominated the Sarajevo Roses memorial for inclusion in the World Monument Watch list, a program that intertwines local heritage conservation with global awareness and initiatives. Every two years, the Watch provides support to endangered heritage sites and the people who care for them and are facing key issues and pressures of our time, from climate change and underrepresentation to the process of recovering from crises.
WMW is a platform within the World Monument Fund, the leading independent organization dedicated to the protection of the world’s most valuable heritage sites, with a mission to enrich people’s lives and build understanding between diverse cultures and communities.
Heritage sites included in the World Monument Watch can benefit from collaboration with WMW’s expert staff on any part of the conservation action plan, including the joint development of promotion, conservation, and fundraising strategies.
“Roses bear a variety of social and societal values that are important in local, regional, and global contexts. In the local context, they have commemorative and symbolic value, acting as a reminder to today’s and future generations of citizens of Sarajevo and Bosnia and Herzegovina of the events that occurred during the Siege and the 1992–1995 aggression. Roses are commemorating individual victims, whose multi-ethnic/religious profile is testimony to the common resistance of Sarajevans.
They are also witnesses to urbicide. Sarajevo’s spatial destruction targeted almost everything, and the goal, in addition to comprehensive destruction, was ethno-cultural urban purification by erasing material evidence of the peculiarities and continuity of cultural identity, impacting the well-known diverse multicultural dynamics of BiH society. BiH, and particularly Sarajevo, has a rich and complex multicultural background, as well as a long legacy of cohabitation among various ethnic groups, which is reflected in the city’s layered urban fabric.
They also provide witness to immense physical, moral, and cultural resistance and resilience, as well as the adaptation of city and Sarajevans to new urban realities during the 1425 days of the Siege and their transformation into the “landscape of survival.”
As Sarajevo was thoroughly reconstructed after the war and all traces of the cultural urban landscape destruction were removed, Roses represent today the only surviving urban remnant of the described events.
They are significant as a platform for post-conflict reconciliation, but also in the global context as agents for broader societal changes related to conflict and genocide.”
From the nomination for inclusion of the Sarajevo Roses in WMW.
The Sarajevo Roses will also be the topic of the upcoming Public Art Inside Out Symposium in Milan, organized by the Getty Conservation Institute. https://www.getty.edu/projects/outdoor-sculpture/public-art-inside-out-symposium/
The nomination and symposium materials were prepared by Ass. Prof. Dr Lejla Džumhur and Prof. Dr Aida Idrizbegovic Zgonić.
Katedra za teoriju i historiju arhitekture i zaštitu graditeljskog naslijedja, ispred AF u Sarajevu, nominirala je memorijalna obilježja Sarajevske ruže za uvrštenje u World Monument Watch, program koji isprepliće očuvanje lokalne baštine s globalnom sviješću i inicijativama. Svake dvije godine Watch pruža podršku ugroženim baštinskim mjestima i ljudima koji se za njih brinu, a koji se suočavaju s ključnim problemima i pritiscima našeg vremena, od klimatskih promjena i podzastupljenosti do procesa oporavka od kriza.
WMW je platforma unutar Svjetskog fonda za spomenike (World Monument Fond), vodeće neovisne organizacije posvećene zaštiti najvrednijih svjetskih baštinskih mjesta, sa misijom obogaćenja života ljudi i izgradnje razumijevanja između diverznih kultura i zajednica.
Baštinska mjesta uključena na World Monument Wach mogu imati koristi od suradnje sa stručnim osobljem WMW-a u bilo kojem dijelu akcijskog plana očuvanja, uključujući zajedničko osmišljavanje strategija promoviranja, očuvanja i prikupljanja sredstava.
“Sarajevske ruže nose niz društvenih vrijednosti koje su važne u lokalnom, regionalnom i globalnom kontekstu.
U lokalnom kontekstu one imaju komemorativnu i simboličku vrijednost, podsjećajući današnje i buduće generacije građana Sarajeva i Bosne i Hercegovine na događaje koji su se desili tijekom Opsade i agresije 1992.-1995.
Ruže omogućavaju sjećanje na pojedinačne žrtve, čiji je multietnički i multireligijski profil svjedočanstvo zajedničkog otpora Sarajlija.
Ruže su svjedoci urbicida. Prostorna destrukcija Sarajeva bila je usmjerena na gotovo sve, a cilj je, osim sveobuhvatnog uništenja, bilo i etnokulturološko urbano pročišćavanje brisanjem materijalnih dokaza o posebnostima i kontinuitetu kulturnog identiteta, utječući na dobro poznatu vibrantnu i raznoliku dinamiku BiH društva. BiH, a posebno Sarajevo, imaju dugo naslijeđe suživota među različitim etničkim grupama, o čemu pripovijeda slojevitost urbanog tkiva.
Ruže također svjedoče o golemom fizičkom, moralnom i kulturnom otporu i otpornosti, kao i o prilagodbi grada i Sarajlija novim urbanim realnostima tijekom 1425 dana opsade i transformaciji grada u “krajolik opstanka”.
Kako je Sarajevo nakon rata temeljito rekonstruirano i uklonjeni gotovo svi tragovi destrukcije kulturnog urbanog pejzaža, Ruže danas predstavljaju jedinstveno materijalno svjedočanstvo opisanih događaja u urbanom prostoru.
One su značajne i kao platforma za postkonfliktno pomirenje, ali i u globalnom kontekstu, kao pokretač širih društvenih promjena povezanih sa sukobima i genocidom.” Iz nominacije za uvrštenje Sarajevskih ruža u WMW.”
Sarajevske ruže će biti i tema na predstojećem simpoziju Public Art Inside Out Symposium u Milanu, u organizaciji Getty Conservation Institute (Institut za konzervaciju). https://www.getty.edu/projects/outdoor-sculpture/public-art-inside-out-symposium/
Nominaciju i material simpozijia su izradile doc. dr. Lejla Džumhur i prof. dr. Aida Idrizbegovic Zgonić.