“Vse se je spremenilo. Ko sem odšla, se je že vse spremenilo. To je edini kraj, ki je ostal enak in povezuje dva dela mojega življenja,” mi reče, “Zagreb prej in Zagreb potem.” Med pojasnjevanjem me pelje v svojo oazo, majhno kavarno, lesketajočo se od ogledal in bleščečo od intimnosti. Utrip urbanega zagotavlja srečanja.
Ali obstaja boljši način, da spoznaš neko mesto, kot da ga gledaš skozi oči drugih? Zagrebški UrbanFestival, ki ga organizira Lokalna baza za osvežitev kulture (BLOK), mi je ponudil priložnost, da doživim mesto skozi oči Zagrebčanov. To čudno sinonimijo, ki se je razvila skozi stoletja, natančneje zvezo pomenov med metodo, rutino, slogom in načinom, sem vzela zares in teden dni metodološko hodila po Zagrebu.
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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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