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Collective Utopias of Post-War Modernism: The Adriatic Coast as a Leisure and Defence Paradise 2018 – ongoing Arts-based research project funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). Cooperation between Antonia Dika (project lead, Institute for Space and Design, University of Art and Design Linz) and Anamarija Batista (Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna)

See: leisureanddefence.org

During the time period defined as “modernism” the Adriatic coast of former Yugoslavia underwent a massive transformation. Especially the rise of (mass) tourism left a strong imprint, which characterizes the region until today. Almost unknown is that in the very same period of time the area was also prone to the establishment of one of the most important defence lines of the country. As a matter of fact a large number of military defence sites were built in strict secrecy along the mainland and island coasts, intended to protect the non-aligned country from a potential NATO attack.

The project “Collective Utopias of Post-War Modernism: The Adriatic Coast as a Leisure and Defence Paradise” examines these phenomena – military and tourism – as well as their impact on the Adriatic coast and the life of the local population. The project's aim is to gain, interrelate and visualize collective knowledge by bringing together different protagonists such as local residents, former military functionaries, urban explorers, local historians or tourists. Through especially developed and repeatedly redrawn mappings the projects tries to connect the past and the present as well as official information and individual stories. Based on exemplary case studies a methodological sequence is being implemented, which explores different levels of interaction between the tourism and the military and opens the possibility to put them into a relation. On the one hand, the interim research findings will be played back “onto the field” with site-specific interventions and exhibitions, while on the other hand they will be made accessible to a broad range of specialists, disseminating the information via conferences, blogs and social media, thus bridging the gap between low-threshold emotional and academic-scientific approaches. By incorporating several different voices the work highlights the absence of “official truths” in order to subsequently serve the collective processing of this special building heritage.

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Mapping the Croatian Coast. A Road Trip to Architectural Legacies of Cold War and Tourism Boom Antonia Dika & Bernadette Krejs (eds), jovis, Berlin, 2020

Selected as one of 20 internationally best architecture books at the DAM Architectural Book Award 2020

This book, conceived as a road trip, leads through the fascinating architectural heritage from the time of the tourism boom and of the Cold War in Croatia. Along the Adriatic highway, the picturesque coastal road from the 1960s, impressive hotel complexes and secret military posts emerged at the same time, which today share a similar fate: as ruins with a sea view. The authors from the research department of housing and design of TU Vienna outline routes to these hidden architectures, describe their development, their role in the non-aligned state of Yugoslavia, their decline and their transformation. Eight removable folding maps examine special phenomena of the coastal area and make the book a practical guide on the journey to the hidden gems of the Croatian Adriatic coast. (jovis)

With essays by: Nataša Bodrožić & Lidija Butković Mićin, Melita Čavlović, Antonia Dika, Bernadette Krejs, Michael Obrist and Michael Zinganel

With contributions by: Irena Atanasova, Carina Bliem, Diana Contiu, Magdalena Drach, Lucia de la Duena Sotelo, Aline Eriksson, Michaela Fodor, Sarah Gold, Raphael Gregorits, Joana Gritsch, Maria Groiss, Nina Haider, Pia Knott, Cristina Krois, Philip Langer, Michael Lindinger, Jakob Lugmayr, Nina Zawosta and Marija Živanović

Research Unit of Housing and Design, TU Vienna Photos by Paul Sebesta

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Hi, I’m Antonia Dika. This blog shows a selection of my work.  You can contact me via antoniadika(at)gmail(dot)com

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Our Stories. Absberggasse Vienna, 2020 with Daniele Karasz (Search and Shape), Hamida Sivac, Mark Scherner

Research project and installation within the community subsidised residential complex Absberggasse 40, Vienna. This is a follow-up project to ”Our Stories. Monte Laa” (2011)

A newly built residential complex does not yet have its own history. It arises only from the stories of its inhabitants. The project wants to show that the history of the district is written by the residents themselves. Before moving into the housing estate, future tenants were interviewed and their personal histories were collected. Three topics were discussed: everyday life before moving in, expectations on living in Absberggasse, and the personal ideal housing situation. Anonymised excerpts from the interviews were presented in the form of an installation in the common rooms of the housing complex: as mappings of previous residential paths of individual residents, each subtitled with one quote from their interview.

https://www.montelaa.at/unseregeschichten

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Banlieue, Volkertmarkt Vienna, 2019 Antonia Dika for Banlieue Delicatessen GmbH

Reconstruction & interior design of a market stand at Volkermarkt, 1020 Vienna

www.banlieue.at

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Of Soldiers and Tourists / Pearls of the Adriatic 2007 – ongoing Research project on Cold War military facilities on Adriatic islands

Intermediate steps of the project were presented at the group exhibitions Unortnung VI, Vienna, 2010 and Desertmed, NGBK Berlin, 2012 (with Daniele Ansidei) and at the conferences The Journal for Northeast Issues Vienna Meeting, Depot, Vienna, 2011, Between Architecture of War and Military Urbanism, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, 2013 and Anatomy of an Island, Centre for research and development, Vis, 2015

See more: Von Soldaten und Touristen, Reiseführer zur Militärhinterlassenschaft Vis & Lastovo, 2008

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Kaffemik Vienna, 2014 Antonia Dika for A Bunch of Nerds KG

Interior design Kaffemik, Zollergasse 5, 1070 Vienna

https://www.kaffemik.at/

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Stadtteilspeicher, Herbststraße 15 Vienna, 2014 – 2018 Antonia Dika for/with the Vienna Urban Renewal Office GB*7/8/16

The project ‘Stadtteilspeicher’ (neighborhood storage/neighborhood memory) collects and communicates informal knowledge of a neighborhood in Vienna’s 16th district and is part of the common space ‘Herbststraße 15’, run by GB*7/8/16, Caritas and Leihladen, in cooperation with the Austrian Academy of Sciences, project ICEC - Interethnic Coexistence in European Cities

GB*7/8/16 on Herbststraße 15

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Desertmed A project about deserted islands of the Mediterranean /Perlen der Adria 2012 Antonia Dika with Daniele Ansidei

Contribution to the interdisciplinary research project by Giulia Di Lenarda, Giuseppe Ielasi, Armin Linke, Amedeo Martegani, Giovana Silva, Renato Rinaldi

Exhibited at Museo di Arte Contemporanea Villa Croce, Genova, 2014 and NGBK Berlin, 2012

http://desertmed.org/

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Quellen Quiz Championship Vienna, 2012 Antonia Dika with David Lemmerer

Contribution to the Wiener Festwochen series Into the City, as part of the project Poste es! by Michael Hieslmair and Thomas Wolkinger

Quellen Quiz Championship went in quest of the often proclaimed ‘parallel societies’ of Vienna’s urban area Favoriten. It did not find them in the form of ethnic enclaves, but in countless neighborhood pubs and their social milieus.

As a contribution to the Wiener Festwochen series ‘Into the City’, the format of the ‘pub quiz’ was adapted in such a way that not only teams competed against each other, but whole pubs. The mobile jury, on bicycles, toured between the pubs and distributed and collected questions and answers revolving around the urban area Favoriten. Regular guests competed for the great Quellen Quiz challenge cup. Using the joker call, the teams could call the rivalling pubs and ask for help. The jury’s evaluation was simultaneously streamed live on the screens of all participating pubs.

http://quellenquiz.tumblr.com/

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Balkanmeile. 24 Stunden Ottakringer Straße. Lokale Identitäten und globale Transformationsprozesse. Ein Reiseführer aus Wien Ed. by Antonia Dika, Barbara Jeitler, Elke Krasny, Amila Širbegović Turia + Kant, Vienna, 2011

"Die Ottakringer Straße in Wien, auch als Balkanmeile bekannt, ist der Ausgangspunkt für dieses zeitgenössische Stadtbuch in Form eines Reiseführers. Das Stadtforschungsprojekt »Reisebüro Ottakringer Straße« untersucht Globalisierung sowie die Folgen von Arbeitsmigration und Balkankriegen im lokalen Kontext. Transformationen zwischen redefinierter Einkaufsstraße und nächtlicher Turbo-Folk-Clubszene, zwischen Kollektivereignis Fußball und konfliktuöser Agonalität und Vorurteilen prägen die Balkanmeile. Im Rahmen des Reisebüros Ottakringer Straße diskutierten ExpertInnen, wie u. a. Barbara Liegl, Diederich Diederichsen, Cornelia Kogoj, Thomas Radovan, Regina Haberfellner und Slavooy Zhizheq Jr die Fragen der Straße. Die Diskussionen sind ebenso Teil des kritischen Reiseführers wie Porträts lokaler Geschäftsleute von Uwe Mauch, ethnografische Mappings von Daniele Kárász, ein Essay zur Straße von Elke Krasny und ein Interview mit Martin Reisigl zu Sprache und Diskriminierung. Tag und Nacht der Ottakringer Straße dokumentieren zwei künstlerische Fotoserien von Paola di Bello und Daniele Ansidei." http://www.turia.at/titel/ottakr.html

dastandard.at and oe1.orf.at on the book book review in dérive magazine

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Reisebüro Ottakringer Straße Vienna, 2009 – 2013 With/for the Vienna Urban Renewal Office (GB*7/8/16 and GB*9/17/18)

Influenced by long-term, biased media coverage, Vienna’s Ottakringer Street – also known as ‘Balkanmeile’ (Balkan mile) – became to be publicly perceived nearly exclusively in association with negative incidents. Because of the association between ‘the other’ and danger and threat, the street became to be recognized by many Viennese as ‘Vienna’s most dangerous street’. The interdisciplinary project ‘Reisebüro Ottakringer Straße’ (Travel agency Ottakringer Street), initiated in 2009 and developing until 2013 in various formats year after year, used a differentiated analytic gaze in order to counter the street’s stigmatisation. The ‘Reisebüro’ considered itself to be a platform for street-communication, which did not want to obsessively bring together but rather inform and create a differentiated awareness between the various groups. These temporary ‘travel agencies’ served as starting points for guided tours, spaces for neighborhood initiatives, public discussions, exhibitions, film screenings, or as neighborhood bars.

GB* on Reisebüro Ottakringer Straße Freunde des Reisebüros Ottakringer Straße

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Our Stories. Monte Laa Vienna, 2011 Antonia Dika, Daniele Kárász and Amila Širbegović

Research project and exhibition on oral history as an identity-shaping and community-supporting element in residential building Comissioned by the Vienna Housing Research

http://www.montelaa.net/unseregeschichten

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Betting Office in the Massage Parlor … or defeating the enemy with his own dice Vienna, 2010 With/for the Urban Renewal Office GB*16

Intervention in a former massage parlor discussing the problem of shop vacancy in the Neulerchenfelder Street in Vienna

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Life and Death of Neulerchenfelder Straße Vienna, 2010

Study on shop vacancy for the Vienna Urban Renewal Office GB*16

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Kreuzberg Reloaded: Youtoo Berlin, 2005/06 Antonia Dika, Cagla Ilk, Ariane Mielke, Nina Pawlicki and Markus Schütz (as part of a project at TU/HU Berlin, with raumlaborberlin)

Basing upon the ethnographic investigation of Berlin’s urban area Kreuzberg a play was developed, which deals with the topics of the area’s past urban planning and future development. Under the title ‘Youtoo’, a time travel through Kreuzberg was performed at three stations in the context of the programme ‘Xberg-Reloaded’ at Hebbel am Ufer Theatre, Berlin.

The 'taz' on the project