“Sve se promijenilo. Kad sam otišla, sve se već bilo promijenilo. Ovo je jedino mjesto koje je ostalo isto. Ono povezuje dva dijela mog života,” govori mi. “Zagreb prije i Zagreb poslije.” Dok mi objašnjava, vodi me u svoju oazu, malenu kavanu sjajnu od zrcala i blještavu od intimnosti. Puls urbanog jamči susrete.
Postoji li bolji način da se upozna neki grad nego kroz oči drugih? Zagrebački UrbanFestival, u organizaciji Lokalne baze za osvježavanje kulture (BLOK), pružio mi je priliku da doživim grad kroz oči Zagrepčana. Uzevši zaozbiljno čudnu sinonimiju koja se razvila tijekom stoljeća, točnije savez značenja između metode, rutine, stila i načina, tjedan dana sam metodološki obilazila Zagreb.
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“Everything changed. In the time I was gone, it all changed. This is the only place that is still the same. This place connects the two parts of my life,” she says. “The Zagreb before and the Zagreb after.” In explaining this, she takes me to her personal oasis, a small cafe shining with mirrors and sparkling with intimacy. The pulse of urbanity is that of guaranteed encounters.
What better opportunity could there be to get to know a city than through the eyes of others? The Urban Festival in Zagreb, organized by the BLOK, the Local Base for Culture Refreshment, afforded me the opportunity to experience the city through the eyes of Zagreb people. In taking seriously a strange synonymy that has evolved over the course of centuries, namely the alliance of meaning between method, routine, manner and way, I methodologically walked Zagreb for a week.
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