“Serbia: My Architecture“ is a project tackling sustainable development issues in the built environment. Led  by Dr Jelena Atanacković Jeličić, the project will be developed in three phases:  it will start with two workshops on different locations (Faculty of Technical Sciences in Novi Sad and Faculty of architecture in Skopje), followed by a design and production of the “Box” object, and completed by a public presentation of results and discussion. Two teams working on the project will consist of 5-8 students at Master 1 and Master 2 levels.

The idea of the project is to design the final product - the “Box” ("Chinese box" type with openings and drawers), with the aim to connect synthetic, artistic, symbolic and commercial aspects of sustainable development. The object itself will be produced in bio-degradable materials, preferably paper and other organic materials and products. Each team will design one box.

The “Box” will promote sustainable development in all of its possible meanings and levels, and some of them are:

• Psychological level - sustainable design of personality;
  The box will represent an idea of the "chosen reality" – with opening or removing of each small box, consisting of part of the bigger object structure, user opens her/his own "window" defined by the atmosphere and characteristics based only on parameters chosen. This principle Is based on the Occam's razor: “entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity" or "all things being equal, the simplest solution tends to be the right one";
• Cultural level -the box will represent and promote an atmosphere of each culture involved in the project through picture, aroma, scent, etc. The box is a micro-world of each of the national cultures;
• Architectural (sustainable design) level - the form of the box and its content will be juxtaposed: the envelope will represent a technological skin, hiding inner complexity;
• Technological level - The production of the box will be followed by a production of the web-site, as a symbol of technological development that is environmentally non-aggressive.

Workshop participants from Novi Sad

			Stanislav Grgić
			Emir Hadžiakmetović
			Bojana Miškeljin
			Ivana Miškeljin
			Marko Todorov

Workshop participants from Skopje

			Nina Karangelevska
			Ivana Kostovska
			Goran Mičkovski
			Dimitar Papasterevski
			Iva Pavlovik Latas
			Aleksandar Radevski
			Saša Tasić
			Nikola Tomevski
			Slobodan Velevski

Jelena Atanacković Jeličić

Jelena Atanacković Jeličić was born in 1977. She began her studies in 1996 with the first generation of students at the Department of Architecture and Construction in Novi Sad, and was the first student to graduate in June 2001 with an average mark of 9.76. She started MSc course in Contemporary Architecture and Urbanism in 2001/02 at the Faculty of Technical Sciences, and successfully defended her master’s thesis “Public spaces of the Vojvodina settlements river banks” in May of 2005. Later that year, she started working on the PhD thesis “Development and transformation of school buildings architecture in Vojvodina from XVIII century to 2005’’, completing it in May 2007. Full biografy of Jelena Atanacković Jeličić.