Biljana Jovanovic, a spatial planner and researcher from Serbia, contacted us a while back to discuss a fascinating project she was involved with. She was a participant at the UniAdrion conference held recently on travel, tourism and cities of art (www.uniadrion.net ) where she worked on a paper with two architects. In it, they took the island of Kozada and ascribed meaning to certain places through excerpts from literature – a very different process to the way we develop our literary trails where we look for meaning that places already hold and then link them thematically.
In her own words:
"We developed the paper for a conference concerned sustainable tourism of Adriatic Ionian region. I chose this technique because it seemed appropriate for the work we wanted to do and the aim was that everyone could create their own meaning of the trip (in general and of my paper story in specific) stressing the individuality of aspects of observing the world and briefly criticizing the rigid government that seems to forgot this island and keeps putting people off from any possibility way to reach it. On the other hand there are symbols of unique and lonely spots of individuality of the place that I linked in my way to the individual story with symbolic literate pieces leaving the doors opened for every individual to build its own."
