PARTNERI
Društvo arhitekata Istre
Società architetti dell’Istria
Smareglina 1, Pula
gsm 098 331 351
e-mail: dai-sai@dai-sai.hr
PARTNERI
Društvo arhitekata Istre
Società architetti dell’Istria
Smareglina 1, Pula
gsm 098 331 351
e-mail: dai-sai@dai-sai.hr
Building a Living Archive Between Matters of Fact and Matters of Heart — and Beyond
Planetary Solidarities is a transnational workshop and research programme developed within the LINA European Architecture Platform by DAI-SAI (Society of Istrian Architects), convened by Ana Dana Beroš and Mika Savela. Bringing together emerging practitioners working across architecture, artistic research, film, and experimental curatorial practices, the programme investigates how forms of care, knowledge, and solidarity can be rethought under contemporary planetary conditions.
Structured through online workshops, asynchronous exchanges, and collaborative archival practices, Planetary Solidarities approaches architecture not as a stable discipline, but as an expanded field of situated relations. The first cycle, Matters of Fact, focused on questions of bodily evidence, mapping, infrastructure, archives, and territorial transformation. Through collective reading, film analysis, diagrammatic thinking, and relational responses, participants explored how facts are constructed, mediated, and emotionally experienced.
Rather than producing finalized projects, the four-year programme (Planetary Solidarities I–IV) is developing a Living Archive: an evolving repository of unfinished texts, visual fragments, annotations, references, responses, sound recordings, diagrams, and situated reflections. The archive functions not as storage, but as a medium of thinking in motion — holding contradictions, overlaps, and unresolved positions.
An important methodological component of the programme is the inclusion of “Included Voices”: invited practitioners whose situated research expands the collective conversation. Contributions by artist Sonya Isupova and climate engineer Walaa Hajali introduced questions of hydro-electric imaginaries, river infrastructures, environmental transformation, and the politics of representation.
Participants in Planetary Solidarities I include:
• Tiphaine Bedel (Paris, France)
• Samanta Kajėnaitė (Vilnius, Lithuania)
• Galena Sardamova & Paris Bezanis (Berlin, Germany/Sofia, Bulgaria)
• Svitlana Usychenko (Paris, France/Kyiv, Ukraine)
The programme’s second cycle, Matters of Heart, will further explore emotional knowledge, care relations, exhaustion, attachment, and continuation as methodological and spatial questions.
Planetary Solidarities culminates in the ongoing development of the Living Archive platform — currently under construction in collaboration with artist and developer Mihael Giba — alongside future public encounters and convergences planned in Pula and beyond.
Curators and Conveners:
Ana Dana Beroš & Mika Savela
Conceptual Framework:
Ana Dana Beroš
Instagram Editorials and Visual Design:
Mika Savela
Living Archive Development:
Mihael Giba
Coordination and Administrative Care:
Tihana Nalić (DAI-SAI)
Organiser:
DAI-SAI – Društvo arhitekata Istre / Society of Istrian Architects
2025–2026
Supported by:
The LINA Architecture Platform: European Architecture Platform, co-funded by the European Union, and the Ministry of Culture and Media of the Republic of Croatia.
With thanks to:
Intermundia – Association for Spatial Praxis (Zagreb)
Selim Projects (Helsinki)