FORLORN HOPE (2010)
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2010 / intervention / Upper Town, Gornji Grad, Zagreb (HR)
What is the future of Upper Town, the old city centre of Zagreb, if its citizens are not able to finance its renovation according to the socially insensitive system of monument taxation? Could the use of radical methods be one of the possible scenarios for the frustrated citizens lacking a solution? Tenants who cannot renovate their living spaces through methods prescribed by law could set fire to the property to get rid of the real estate, which is expensive to maintain, while keeping the land where it was built. Are such radical methods a possible future for Upper Town? Those are the questions the piece Forlorn Hope asks through its interventions into the public space, inspired by the many fires in Upper Town’s history.
