---
_id: '1934'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: The Old Belgrade Fairground, a great example of the Early Modernism in Belgrade,
    underlined the modernization and Europeanization of the capital city of the Kingdom
    of Yugoslavia. The Fairground's construction in 1937 on the bare terrain of today's
    New Belgrade was the first step of urbanisation of Belgrade on the left bank of
    the Sava river and was followed by the construction of the modern city after WWII.
    During the 80 years long history, the purpose of the Old Belgrade Fairground has
    been changed several times creating multilayered identity of the urban complex.
    The Modern exhibition space of the inter-war period was transformed into the infamous
    concentration camp during WWII. Structures that survived the bombings were re-used
    as a habitat for youth brigades that participated in the construction of New Belgrade,
    while its previous purposes were suppressed. During the rebuilding of the city
    in the post-war period, the Old Belgrade Fairground was ignored. As forgotten
    place of memory it was partly adapted by artists into ateliers and partly became
    shelter for poor people. Despite its multileveled historical, cultural and architectural
    significance, the Old Belgrade Fairground today is neglected. Although a pioneer
    of Modern Movement in Belgrade, and at the same time an important memorial place,
    it is today a ruined structure that is decaying. Its multiple histories and "too
    much identity" created absence of any planned activity in order not to make a
    wrong one. After its ability to absorb different functions and adapt to huge transformations,
    its resilience is being contested by disability to balance the complex history.
    The paper investigates on the transformations and presents a concept of "dissonant
    heritage" as an instrument for renewal of the Old Belgrade Fairground that needs
    to use all of its complexity in order to truly recover from the past.
author:
- first_name: Anica
  full_name: Dragutinovic, Anica
  id: '68875'
  last_name: Dragutinovic
  orcid: 0000-0002-6962-5223
- first_name: Uta
  full_name: Pottgiesser, Uta
  id: '27166'
  last_name: Pottgiesser
  orcid: 0000-0002-8594-3168
- first_name: Michael
  full_name: Melenhorst, Michael
  id: '51438'
  last_name: Melenhorst
conference:
  end_date: 2017-11-24
  location: Detmold
  name: RMB Conference 2017, facade2017, ConstructionLab // Annual Report 2015-17
  start_date: 2017-11-23
corporate_editor:
- Hochschule Ostwestfalen-Lippe
date_created: 2019-04-25T12:25:45Z
date_updated: 2023-03-15T13:49:37Z
ddc:
- '720'
department:
- _id: DEP1000
- _id: DEP1055
doi: 10.25644/2412-8d28
editor:
- first_name: Michel
  full_name: Melenhorst, Michel
  id: '51438'
  last_name: Melenhorst
- first_name: Uta
  full_name: Pottgiesser, Uta
  id: '27166'
  last_name: Pottgiesser
  orcid: 0000-0002-8594-3168
- first_name: Christine
  full_name: Naumann, Christine
  last_name: Naumann
- first_name: Theresa
  full_name: Kellner, Theresa
  last_name: Kellner
keyword:
- Old Belgrade Fairground
- Modern Structure
- Multilayered Identity
- Resilience
- Dissonant Heritage
language:
- iso: eng
page: '9'
place: Lemgo
publication_status: published
status: public
title: 'Contested Resilience of a Modern Structure or “Dissonant Heritage”: Multilayered
  Identity of the Old Belgrade Fairground'
type: conference
user_id: '79260'
year: 2017
...