Osmače and Brežani
The International Carlo Scarpa Prize for Gardens 2014
edited by Domenico Luciani and Patrizia Boschiero, with Andrea Rizza Goldstein
cover price 18 euros
Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche-Antiga Edizioni
Treviso 2014
144 pages
122 illustrations in colour and 20 black and white
ISBN 978-88-97784-51-7
Italian edition: ISBN 978-88-97784-42-5
Bosnian edition: ISBN 978-88-97784-43-2
The aim of the volume is to acquaint the wider world beyond the borders of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and also among non-specialists, with Osmače and Brežani, the two small villages on the plateau above Srebrenica which together were awarded the Carlo Scarpa Prize for 2014.
This place in Eastern Bosnia and its geographical, historical and cultural context are described and evoked from different points of view, starting with those of people who have courageously chosen, after years of exile as refugees, to return and live there, reconstructing the fabric of individual and collective memory despite the grave difficulties and the fact that the signs of the devastation wrought by the 1991-1995 war are still all too visible.
The texts and the illustrations introduce us to the situations that have generated the energy required to take the decision to return and to choose working the land as the means to a revival of inter-ethnic dialogue and the co-existence of different cultures.
A further aim of the dossier is to help to raise awareness of the priceless network of ideal and practical assistance and support, stemming from the maieutic role played by the Alexander Langer Foundation, by Tuzlanska Amica and by Adopt Srebrenica, which underpins the efforts and hopes of the individuals directly involved. Other contributions provide accounts of projects to revive agricultural, forestry and stockbreeding activities in the Drina Valley (Podrinje) region.
The volume is a collection of contributions by Muhamed Avdić, Luigi Barbieri, Beatrice Barzaghi, Tatjana Bassanese, Anna Brusarosco, Valentina Gagić, Carla Giacomozzi, Filippo Giannone, Dževad Karahasan, Alexander Langer, Domenico Luciani, Luca Michieletto, Irfanka Pašagić, Francesco Penzo, Velibor Rankić, Gianbattista Rigoni Stern, Andrea Rizza Goldstein, Massimo Rossi, Piero Scapin, Antonella Schiavon, Safet Zec, Nemanja and Žarko Zekić.
Contents
The International Carlo Scarpa Prize for Gardens 1990–2014, 4
Regulations and Jury, 5
Osmače and Brežani. Jury report, 8
Muhamed Avdić, Going back, remembering, planning, edited by Patrizia Boschiero, 21
Velibor Rankić, Why we are returning to our villages, 27
Irfanka Pašagić, In spite of the evil, 30
Irfanka Pašagić, Adopt Srebrenica, 34
Bosnia and Herzegovina. Geographical features of the region, 37
Historical notes. From the origins to the Ottoman Empire,
edited by Andrea Rizza Goldstein, 46
Massimo Rossi, Hapsburg maps of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 52
Historical notes. From the dissolution of the Empires to the War of National
Liberation, edited by Andrea Rizza Goldstein, 62
Andrea Rizza Goldstein, The origins of the crisis, 64
Nemanja and Žarko Zekić, Srebrenica, 1992–1995, 69
Andrea Rizza Goldstein, Bosnia and Herzegovina since 1990, 73
Population and settlement patterns from Hapsburg times to 2013,
edited by Domenico Luciani, 77
Filippo Giannone, Sowing the return. Project for the development of buckwheat crops
and a rational agricultural plan for Osmače, 84
Luca Michieletto, Padua–Osmače: 800 kilometres, no distance, 93
Valentina Gagić, Food… as enjoyed in Osmače and Brežani, 95
Carla Giacomozzi, Four notes about Srebrenica, 98
Luigi Barbieri, Beatrice Barzaghi, Anna Brusarosco, Francesco Penzo,
Piero Scapin, Osmače for us, 99
Antonella Schiavon and Tatjana Bassanese, Raspberries for peace: cultivation,
reconciliation. The Bratunac case, 102
Gianbattista Rigoni Stern, Another experiment combining agriculture, woodland
management and livestock farming in the countryside around Sućeska, 107
Safet Zec, Bentbaša, 112
Dževad Karahasan, How do Sarajevans feel now?, 114
Alexander Langer, A tentative decalogue for the art of inter–ethnic togetherness, 117
Bibliography, 123
Maps, 137
Photographic references, 138
Associations, official bodies and groups, 139
Twenty–five, 141
International Carlo Scarpa Prize for Gardens 2014, 142
