Dubravka Sekulić facts for kids

Dubravka Sekulić is a professor, writer, and architect. She teaches at the Institute of Contemporary Art, which is part of the Graz University of Technology in Austria. She is known for her ideas about how cities change, especially when public spaces become private. She believes that public spaces should help everyone equally, not just be used to make money. Her main research looks at how modern cities grow and change based on rules about space, laws, and money.

About Dubravka Sekulić

Dubravka Sekulić was born in Niš, which was part of Yugoslavia at the time. She studied architecture at the University of Belgrade. She also studied design at the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht, Netherlands.

Early Career and Research

In 2003, Sekulić started working as a teaching assistant at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Belgrade. There, she worked on projects with architecture schools from different countries. She also helped to list and describe buildings in Belgrade.

In 2007, she joined a project at the "New Media Center_kuda.org" in Novi Sad, Serbia. The next year, she took part in an exchange program between this center and Germany's Akademie Schloss Solitude. She also studied how culture affected department stores in Serbia.

Exhibitions and Doctoral Studies

Sekulić has organized several architecture exhibitions in Belgrade and Zagreb. In 2012, she had an exhibition at Belgrade's Museum of Contemporary Art. This show was about how Yugoslavia helped with building projects in Africa. It was called "Three points of Support: Zoran Bojović, the Architect". This exhibition later became the basis for her doctorate degree.

The following year, she became a PhD student at the Swiss Institute for History and Theory of Architecture, which is part of ETH Zurich university.

Published Works

As part of her PhD project, Sekulić wrote a book in 2013 called "Constructing Nonalignment: The Work of Yugoslav Construction Companies in the Third World 1961-1989". This book looked at how companies from Yugoslavia built things in other countries between 1961 and 1989.

She also wrote another book, "Glotz nicht so romantisch! : on Extralegal Space in Belgrade", while she was living in the Netherlands. She helped write the book "Surfing the Black : Yugoslav Black Wave Cinema and its Transgressive Moments". She also contributed to a collection of essays called "Nadogradnje – Urban Self-Regulation in Post-Yugoslav Cities". This collection was named one of the top architecture books of 2016 by important design websites like Dezeen and ArchDaily.

Lectures and Public Speaking

Dubravka Sekulić often gives talks at different conferences. In 2017, she spoke at a meeting about the Austrian writer Ernst Fischer. In 2018, she gave a presentation called "How to Code Urban commons" at the Architectural Association in London, England. This talk was about how laws affect public spaces. She also spoke at the 2018 Venice Biennale of Architecture in Italy.

Sekulić also enjoys being an amateur librarian. She helps take care of books about feminism and the space race in public libraries.