Apolonija Šušteršic

Operating across urban planning, environmentalism, activism, and academia, Šušteršič’s practice questions the relationship between public space and free-market politics in order to develop a contemporary notion of spatial justice and community. An example is The Hustadt Project: from 2008 until 2011, Šušteršič worked (and lived) in Hustadt, a translocal neighbourhood built in the 1960s framing the campus of the Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany. The project became a process that culminated in the building of a Community Pavilion – a never-planned public facility proposed by Aktionsteam, a group of Hustadt activists, relying on cooperation and user participation to create arguments for negotiation with local authorities.